Viewing Previous Notifications

I know that there is a way to view old notifications in 4.3 upwards, without using third party software however,*

I'm running 4.1.2 and there's no chance of an upgrade soon (HTC 500).


I hope that there's someone who can answer the following questions:


Would there be any way of retrieving the notification


Has the notification been saved somewhere that I just can't access because I'm running an older version of Jellybean or not?

It was an Instagram notification that the user since deleted or cancelled, does anyone know of a hack to retrieve this?

I have 'Notification History' but that only goes back to when I installed the app can it go further back?