Is this well still known, and can any of your correspondents vindicate its situation, and give any particulars relating to it? The pamphlet in which it is mentioned is curious, for it is "an attempt to prove the motion of the earth [in its orbit] from observations." It will be observed that the work was written in the year 1674. W. S. G. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 235. _Upton Court._--About nine miles from Reading, on the road to Newbury, and removed about two miles from the high road, is an ancient manor house called Upton Court. It is most curious as to architecture, and is a most interesting specimen of the houses of the gentry of former days. It belonged to a Catholic family of the name of Perkins. The chapel, in the house, and the hiding-place for priests, can still be seen. It is said that Pope wrote the _Rape of the Lock_ there. I should be glad to know if any of your correspondents can confirm this fact from authentic evidence. A. E. 236. _Derivation of Prog._--In Vol. iv., p. 175., _Pirog_ is stated to be the Russian custom of the mistress of a family distributing on certain occasions bread or cake to her guests. Query, Is this the origin of our slang word _prog_, meaning provisions? J. SS. 237. _Metrical History of England._--I am nearly an octogenarian, consequently I ought to have something better, and humbly hope I have something better, to employ my thoughts than relics of old ditties and forgotten rhymes. Still the recurring questions of numerous grandchildren compel one to resort to long forgotten lore, and to request those whose memory still survives to compensate for the deficiencies of my own. I am particularly anxious to recover my lapsis in the following metrical, yet _logical_, history of England, which I have long ago forgotten: "William and William, and Henry and Stephen, And Henry the Second, _to make the First even_." If either MR. HALLIWELL, or DR. RIMBAULT, will favour me, they will confer a great obligation, and add much to the hilarity of my ensuing Christmas table. MÆRIS.