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auoient fait la dite fraunchise par les dites Justices fut seisi en la Main le Roi par quei le dit Thomas prie qil pleise a nostre seignur le Roi qil pusse de sa grace ou par fin faire sa franchise reauoir. \Dorso] Habeat breue ad Cancellariam de venire iaciendo recordum et processum habita super con- tentis in ista peticione coram consilio." And so the puzzle is solved. I record the result in the hope of saving the time of some future investigator. Q. V.

SlMON DE MONITOBT AND LEWES (11 S.

viii. 308). 1. Henry III., who seems to have commanded the left or southern wing of the royal army, fled into the Priory on his rear, where he was captured.

2. I suppose no authentic portrait of Earl Simon is extant, or, indeed, is ever likely to have existed. His fine seal may possibly give an idealized portrait.

A. R. BAYLEY.

After the Battle of Lewes the King is reported to have surrendered his sword to Gilbert of Clare (i.e., the Earl of Glouces- ter), and not to Simon de Montfort, " quo- mam dominus S. ejus animo displicuit," as quoted from the ' Annals of Waverley ' by Ch. Bemont, ' Simon de Montfort,' p. 213, in a foot-note (Paris, 1884). H. KBEBS.

The manner of man Simon de Montfort was can, perhaps, be gathered from the illustration in Green's ' History of the English People ' (Newnes's illus. ed., vol. i. p. 289), which is reproduced from a window in Chartres Cathedral. See also p. 106, ' History of the British Nation,' by A. D. Innes. It shows De Montfort in armour, mounted, and holding banner and shield containing his arms : Gules, a lion rampant, queue fourchee argent. His seal in the British Museum is also reproduced on p. 291 (Green). De Montfort was buried in the abbey at Evesham. A monument com- memorates the site of this battle. I cannot .say whether there is any representation of him upon it. G. H. W.

At Leicester, on the site of the old Hay Market, is erected a clock tower. Incor- porated in the structure at the base are four pedestals which contain as many life- size statues of Leicester worthies, one of whom is Simon de Montfort. It would be interesting to know if this statue is con- sidered to be a portrait of Earl Simon.

In 1899 it was proposed to erect an equestrian statue of De Montfort at Eves- ham. I fancy the attempt proved abortive, but shall be^glad of reliable information on the subject.' JOHN T. PAGE.

SCHOOLBOYS IN THACKEBAY (11 S. viii. 309). The lines which G. V. L. wishes to find have, I suppose, eluded his search because Thackeray playfully prints them as a continuous piece of prose. See ' Pen- dennis,' vol. i. chap, xviii. :

" Here is Bob, of the Circuit, who has made

a fortune in Railroad Committees, bellowing out with Tancred and Godfrey, ' On to the breach, ye soldiers of the cross, Scale the red wall and swim the choking foss. Ye dauntless archers, twang your cross-bows well ; On, bill and battle-axe and mangonel ! Ply battering-ram and hurtling cata- pult, Jerusalem is ours id Deus vult.' After which comes a mellifluous description of the gardens of Sharon and the maids of Salem, and a prophecy that roses shall deck the entire country of Syria, and a speedy reign of peace be established all in undeniably decasyllabic lines, and the queerest aping of sense and sentiment and poetry."

Thackeray is, of course, speaking not of schoolboys, but of undergraduates. The undergraduate mind in all ages runs to the obvious. I remember that when the First Crusade was the subject set at Cambridge for the Chancellor's Medal for English Verse, the friend whose exercise I copied out (he was proxime accessit) insisted on choosing for his motto " Id deus uolt."

Thackeray had already made fun of Prize Poems in his lines on ' Timbuctoo ' (the subject when Tennyson was successful) that appeared in The Snob in 1829 : In Africa (a quarter of the world) Men's skins are black, their hair is crisp and curl'd, &c.

EDWABD BENSLY.

[B. B., MR. FRANCIS P. MARCHANT, and G. W. E. R. also thanked for replies.]

SIB SAMUEL WHITE BAKEB (11 S. viii. 265, 314). Dr. Grosart furnished a 'Me- morial-Introduction ' to Sir Richard Baker's ' Meditations and Disquisitions upon Certain Psalms,' 1639-40, as reprinted in 1882, wherein, on pp. xxxix-xl, is a list of the worthy knight's descendants, including Sir Samuel White Baker. Possibly your corre- spondent has not seen this.

CHABLES HICHAM.

COLOUB OP LIVEBIES (US. viii. 190, 295). Davies, is one of the heraldic works which I searched together with Clark's, Cussans's, and Boutell's, all in my library ; and, as I said in my query, it gives no information as to the proper colours for liveries for those who have erminois or vair for the field of their coat of arms. In fact, the above- named authorities carefully avoid what I ask for. Will some other authority kindly reply ? CUBIOUS.
 * The Complete Heraldry,' by A. C. Fox-