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Dean Fleshmonger. Similarly, Leach sug- gested (loc. cit. ) that it was a gift from a yet higher ecclesiastic, Archbishop Warham. For my own part, while the reason why we have the picture here remains unknown, I prefer to imagine that at the outset it was a schoolboy's production, and to find a parallel for it in those heads in '' Second Chamber " which we owe to Sir Wilmot Parker Her- ringham's youthful skill.

9. The Minstead ' Servus ' has a terrific head of hair, which our courtier, as repainted by William Cave, cannot boast ; yet the inn's signboard was evidently derived from the College picture, for it also bears the arms of Wykeham. But when I saw it, about eighteen months ago, I noticed that its painter or re-painter had given to Wykeham's sable chevrons an azure tint.

10. Cave did more than repaint ' The Trusty Servant.' He was employed to repaint the recumbent figure of our Founder upon his tomb in the Cathedral, and was " led into mistakes by copying too closely the costume of a Romanist bishop of his own day." So at least said R. C. Lucas, the sculptor, in a pamphlet on ' Wykeham's Chantry ' (London, D. Nutt) which he published in 1847. H. C.

Winchester College.

CLIVEDEN HOUSE : DUEL BETWEEN BUCKINGHAM AND SHREWSBURY (11 S. xii. 302). According to Pepys, ' Memoirs of Samuel Pepys,' edited by Lord Braybrooke, 2nd ed., 1828, vol. iv. pp. 15, 16, the duel "between the Duke of Buckingham, Holmes, and one Jenkins, on one side, and my Lord of Shrews- bury, Sir John Talbot, and one Bernard Howard, on the other side,"

took place in a close near Barne-Elmes on 16 Jan., 1667/8. Lord Shrewsbury was "run through the body, from the right breast through the shoulder ; and Sir John Talbot all along up one of his armes ; and Jenkins killed upon the place, and the rest all in a little measure

wounded

" It is said that my Lord Shrewsbury's case is to be feared, that he may die too."

January 19th. " Lord Shrewsbury is likely to do well." Ibid., p. 17.

A foot-note, p. 15, says that the Earl of Shrewsbury " died of his wounds March 16th following. ' '

That he did not die until Icng after the duel is made clear by the King's proclama- tion of pardon to the combatants, and against duelling in the future, dated 24 Feb., 1667/8. In this the death of William Jenkins and no other is mentioned. See ' Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London. . . .to

the Year 1700,' by James Peller Malcolm, 2nd ed., 1811, vol. i. pp. 307, 308. Yet Grammont in his ' Memoirs ' (Bohn's ed. r 1859, p. 299) says that Shrewsbury was killed " upon the spot." Grammont, however, devotes only some two lines to the duel.

" It has been said that during the combat she [the Countess of Shrewsbury] held the Duke's horses in the habit of a page." See foot-note to line 308 of Pope's third ' Moral Essay ' (' The Works of Alexander Pope,' 1753, vol. iii. p. 274). This story is also given in the ' Works of Horatio Walpcle,' 1798, vol. i. p. 419, similarly qualified by " is said."

If Pepys is correct, the story that the duel took place at Clrveden House is a fiction. Indeed, assuming that the legend about Lady Shrewsbury is true, it would appear to be very unlikely that the Duke of Buckingham should have had any horses to be held while he fought in a duel just outside his own house. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

The following, from a note of Mr. Austin Dobson on John Evelyn's ' Diary,' 21 Oct., 1671, may be of help to ENQUIRER:

" ...Francis Talbot, eleventh Earl of Shrewsbury, who died (16th March, 1668) after a duel fought in January near Barn Elms with George Villiers, second Duke of Buckingham his wife, it is asserted, holding Buckingham's horse meanwhile, in the disguise of a page. For the credit of woman- hood it should, however, be added, on the authority ot Lady Burghclere's careful and impartial study of Dryden's very various ' Zimri,' that, in 1674, Buckingham distinctly stated, when arraigned by his Peers, ' that at the time of the duel the Countess was living in a " French monastery," ' and the statement was not controverted (' George Villiers,' 1903, p. 195)."

Pope's note, in both editions consulted, 1757 and Elwin, speaks of the Countess holding the Duke's horses, not " their horses."

In Spence's ' Anecdotes,' ed. Singer, 1820, p. 164, Pope is represented as saying :

" His [Buckingham 'si duel with Lord Shrews- bury was concerted oetween him and Lady Shrewsbury. All that morning she was trem- bling for her gallant, and wishing the death of her husband ; and, after his fall, 'tis said the duke slept with her in his bloody shirt." Does not the " 'tis said," and " it has been said " in Pope, point to gossip as the ulti- mate source for the story ?

Mr. Wheatley in his edition of Pepys's ' Diary ' (17 Jan., 1667/8) points out that Pope's lines in the ' Moral Essays,' iii. 307, are incorrect as Clieveden was being built at the time of the duel. It is curious that he refers to Walpole for the story about holding the horse. EDWARD BENSLY,