Queen of Hearts

Permit me to request some explanation of a passage in Miss Strickland's *Life of Queen Elizabeth* (vol. vii. p. 292.), where we are told that— "Lady Southwell affirms that the two ladies in waiting discovered the *Queen of Hearts*, with a nail of Iron knocked through the forehead, and thus fastened to the bottom of the chair: they durst not pull it out, remembering that her like thing was used to the old Countess of Sussex, and afterwards proved a witchcraft, for which certain persons were hanged." The author moralises upon this, but does not refer us to any authority, or tell where the affirm…