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Communicated to Notes and Queries, Fourth Series, XI, 499, 1873, by Mr J. P. Morris, as taken down by him from the recitation of a woman nearly seventy years of age, at Ulverston, North Lancashire.

1

The king wrote a letter to my lord Derwentwater,

And he sealed it with gold;

He sent it to my Lord Derwentwater,

To read it if he could.

2

He sent it by no boy,

He sent it by no slave,