6 OCTOBER 1917, Page 11

(To THE EDITOR OP THE " SrcersTog."3 Ste —The line quoted

by your correspondent "A. C. B." is from a poem by the poet Cowper on what he calls the Yardley Oak. The tree, still green and flourishing after more than a hundred years since the poem was written, stands in Yardley Chase, the property of Lord Northampton, and close to the county boundary. The perish of Yardley Hastings was granted to the Countess Judith by her father William the Conqueror. and the tree has from Brno immemorial borne the name of "Judith."—! am, Sir, dc., RICHARD G. STRIVEN.

Castle Ashby Estate Office, Northampton.