_Lines on English History._--_The Sword Flamberg._--I shall be greatly
obliged to any of your correspondents who can inform me where I can procure
a copy of some lines on English history, commencing:
"William the Norman conquers England's state--
In his own forest Rufus meets his fate," &c.
They are said to be written by a Roman Catholic gentleman named Chaloner.
I also wish to know something about the old German sword called the
"Flamberg." I have seen it represented as twisted like a column of flame,
and should like to know its history, and whether there was any allusion in
it to the flaming sword that kept the gate of Paradise.