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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. i. FEB. 19, 1910.

quoted by Beckford is in Act I. sc. i. : " I have bought me a hawk, and a hood, and bells, and all ; I lack nothing but a book to keep it by. n

M. A. M. MACALISTER.

Cambridge.

[PROF. BENSLY, MR. H. W. GREENE, and PROF. SKEAT also refer to Ben Jonson.]

HOLBEIN'S * DUCHESS OF MILAN ? : A " SPENCER n (11 S. i. 105). MB. E. W. ANDBEWS'S note on this subject calls for a reply from me.

The loose use of the word "spencer" is easily explained. The article I contributed to The Connoisseur last July was written in less than t\vo hours from exhaustive notes compiled previously. Being pressed for time, I turned up the official Catalogue of the Old Masters' Exhibition held at Burlington House in 1880 as well as the National Gallery Annual Report for the same year, since when the picture has been on exhibition at Trafalgar Square. As the lady was described in each of these authoritative publications as wearing a " black satin gown, over which is a long black spencer lined with sable," I made use of the same word. The painting has, of course, not been tampered with since then.

MATJBICE W. BBOCKWELL.

WABD, WBIGHT, AND DAY FAMILIES (11 S. i. 66). My collection of Day family history does not, I regret to say, contain anything likely to help MB. McPiKE, as it refers almost wholly to matters concerning Days, Deys, and Dees anterior to 1650, or the tune of the Great Rebellion.

GEOBGE SHEBWOOD. 227, Strand, W.C.

Wards were lords of the manor of Guils- borough, Northamptonshire, in the eigh- teenth century. The principal inn in the village is still known as " The Ward Arms." There are various Ward tablets, displaying arms, in Guilsborough Church, of which I can give MB. McPiKE particulars if desired.

JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

CLOTHES AND THEIB INFLUENCE (10 S. xii. 468 ; 11 S. i. 76). There is a passage much to the point in the ninth volume of ' Tristram Shandy ? (vol. vi. chap, xxxiii. in the edition of 1782), where Sterne says :

" In ordinary cases, that is, when I am only stupid, and the thoughts rise heavily and pass grumous through my pen Or that I am got, I know not how, into a cold unmetaphorical vein of infamous writing. . . .if a pinch of snuff or a

stride or two across the room will not do the business for me I take a razor at once .... This [i.e., shaving] done, I change my shirt put on a better coatr send for my last wig put my topaz ring upon my finger ; and, in a word, dress myself from one end to the other of me, after my best fashion...,.^ man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloth'd at the same time ; and if he dresses like a gentleman, every one of them stands presented to his imagination, genteelized along with him so that he has nothing to do, but take his pen and write like himself."

EDWABD BENSLY.

METBICAL PBAYEB AND PASSION EMBLEMS (11 S. i. 67). I have often come across similar framed copies of this production hanging on the walls of houses in North- amptonshire. One such used to hang in my father's house at West H addon, in that county, during all the time I lived under the parental roof. It was executed as a specimen of penmanship by my father when at school, and bore date some time in the eigh teen-forties. A companion frame contained an illuminated copy of the Lord's Prayer, the work of the same hand.

I know the possessor of a beautifully executed copy of the Crucifixion metrical prayer worked by a lady in coloured silks and worsted. A written copy lies before me now, but it bears no reference to its origin. I have never seen this alluded to, but I always believed it to be a monkish effusion. JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

I have on a card the same design and words as J. T. F., but without the embellish- ments. They are said to be seen on a stone tablet in a wall at the Vicarage, Walsall.

M. W. THOBNBUBGH. Short Heath, Farnham.

The words " WHy hast n in the third inscription in my query should have been printed " why HAst." The H and A come in the words witH and S Aviour in the lines above. J. T. F.

Winterton, Doncaster.

EPICUBUS IN ABT (10 S. xii. 347, 433). May not the " 1 " in " Ericl Puteani," which MB. PIEBPOINT assumes to be an error, have been intended for the extra-tall I so frequently employed by Puteanus himself to denote the contraction from ii ?

PBAND!, LIPS!, GEN!, OT!, &c., are examples of such use, while the genitive case of the author's name figures as EBYC! PVTEANI on the title-pages of five of his tracts which lie before me, among them being the first edition (Louvain, 1608) of his ' Comvs, sive Phagesiposia Cimmeria. Som-