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In October, 1792, The Bon Ton Magazine, giving a summary of the life of Dick Eng- land, declares that she is practising a system of gambling in France. On 22 June, 1799, The Morning Post announces that she has put on mourning for the late Chevalier St. George, " once her favourite "~ ; and on 2 Jan., 1800, says that she is living at Brompton.

Sir .Richard Worsley died in August, 1805, and a jointure of 70,OOOZ. is said to have reverted to his wife (Gent. Mag., Ixxv. pt. ii. 781). On 12 September of the same year Lady Worsley, who had taken the name of Fleming by royal grant, married J. Louis Couchet at Farnham in Surrey.

I have explained the association of Lord Deerhurst with Lady Worsley in ' A Story of a Beautiful Duchess,' pp. 288-9 ; and there is a reference to her friendship with Grace Dalrymple Eliot on*p. 222 of ' Ladies Fair and Frail.'

Of course Horace Walpole has something to say about her, and I believe there are plenty of allusions in contemporary memoirs. HORACE BLEACKLEY.

ST. MARGARET'S, WESTMINSTER, EAST WINDOW : PRINCE ARTHUR (10 S. xii. 269, 357, 453). Authorities appear to differ considerably as to the identity of the figures intended to be portrayed in this window.

1815), p. 100, has the following :
 * Pennant's London Improved ' (about

" The east window is a most beautiful com- position of figures. It was made by order of the magistrates of Dort, and by them designed as a present to Henry VII. The subject is the Cruci- fixion ; a devil is carrying off the soul of the hardened thief ; an angel receiving that of the penitent. The figures are numerous and finely done. On one side is Henry VI. kneeling ; above him his patron saint, St. George ; on the other side is his queen in the same attitude, and above her the fair St. Catherine with the instruments of her martyrdom. This charming performance is engraved at the cost of the Society of Anti- quaries." x

There is a fuller description of the window in Hughson's ' Walks through London,' 1817, p. 228, where an altogether different version of the figures is given. The two kneeling ones are said to represent Henry VII. and his consort Elizabeth. Mr. Walcott's account of certain portions of the history of the window agrees with that of Hughson, who says :

" This beautiful window was originally intended as a present from the magistrates of Dort in Holland to Henry VII. ; but the King dying before it was completed, it fell into the hands of the Abbot of Waltham, who kept it in his church

till the Dissolution. To preserve it, Robert Fuller, the last Abbot, sent it to New Hall, a seat of the Butlers in Wiltshire. From this family it was purchased by Thomas Villars, Duke of Buckingham : his son sold it to General Monk, who caused this window to be buried under

ground After the restoration Monk replaced

it in his chapel at New Hall. Subsequent to General Monk's death, John Olmius, Esq., demolished this chapel, but preserved the window, in hopes of selling it for some church. After laying a long tune cased up, Mr. Conyers bought it for his chapel near Epping : here it remained till his son built a new house ; and this gentleman finally selling it to the Committee appointed for repairing and beautifying St. Margaret's, Westminster, after a lapse of nearly three hundred years it occupies a place imme- diately contiguous to that for which it was originally designed."

I should be glad to know if any or all of the statements contained in this circum- stantial account are accepted as accurate by the authorities of to-day. Is it known why the magistrates of Dort made this handsome gift for Henry VII. ?

With regard to the figures, four persons have already been described by various authorities as being represented by the male kneeling figure (Henry VI., Henry VII., Prince Arthur, and Henry VIII. ), and a corresponding variety of ladies. How many more are there ? WM. NORMAN.

St. James' Place, Plumstead.

Mr. Lewis F. Day in his ' Windows ' (1902), p. 395, speaking of the two great transept windows and those in the Chapel of the Holy Sacrament at St. Gudule in Brussels, says :

" They are at once the types, and the best examples, of the glass painter's new departure in the direction of light and shade. On the other hand, the large east window at St. Margaret's, Westminster (Dutch, it is said, of about the same date), has not the charm of the period, and must not be taken to represent it fairly."

In the north window of the Jesus Chapel (north transept) of Great Malvern Priory Church is to be seen the fine kneeling figure of Prince Arthur (who is buried in Worcester Cathedral), together with that of Sir Reginald Bray. In Habington's time the figures of the king and queen also were perfect, but have since been destroyed.

A. R. BAYLEY.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY : THE WESTERN TOWERS (10 S. xii. 64, 217). It is exceed- ingly probable that J. T. Smith or his in- formant " old Gayfere, the Abbey mason," rendered Flitcroft as " Fleetcraft. n Henry Flitcroft (1697-1769) was the architect of Hampstead Church. Park relates (' The