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In Part II. the Hampton Court catalogue, are, s.v. Frederic Zuccaro : 243. Queen Elizabeth, holding a feather fan. To

the waist ; less than life. When about 50. 658. Queen Elizabeth, full length, in a fantastic

dress.

As to the latter, an extract from Walpole, i. 271, is given.

In the 1871 reprint of the 1786 edition of Horace Walpole' s 'Anecdotes of Painting in England,' p. 91, s.v. Frederick Zucchero, is the following, which differs very slightly from Mrs. Jameson's version :

" She is drawn in a forest, a stag behind her, and on a tree are inscribed these mottoes and verses. which, as we know not on what occasion the piece was painted, are not easily to be interpreted: ' Injusti justa querela ' ; a little lower, ' Mea sic mihi'; still lower, ' Dolor est mediciria ed tori' (should be, ' dolori '). On a scroll at the bottom The restless swallow fits my restlesse mind, In still revivinge, still renewinge wrongs ; Her juste complaints of cruelty unkinde Are all the musique that my life prolonges."

Ten more lines follow. Walpole adds :

" Tradition gives these lines to Spenser : I think we may fairly acquit him of them, and conclude they are of her majesty's own composition, as they much resemble the style of those in Hentznerus, p. 66 of

the English edition."

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

ROGER, BISHOP OF ST. ANDREWS, AND ERMENGARD, QUEEN OF SCOTLAND. In the ' D.N.B.' life of Roger, Bishop of St. Andrews (d. 1202) a younger son of Robert de Beau- mont, 3rd Earl of Leicester it is said that "the marriage in 1186 of his relative Ermengarde, daughter of Richard, Viscount de Beaumont, with William the Lion, King of Scotland, probably accounts for the description of him as cousin of the king."

I do not know how "the queen could be related to the bishop, and suspect that the writer may have confused Ermengard's family with the great Norman house of Beaumont, of which Roger was a scion. In any case no such explanation is required, as the king and the bishop were undoubtedly cousins, both being descended from Isabel, daughter of Hugh the Great, Count of Vermandois, younger son of Henry I., King of France. The bishop was great- grandson of her first marriage, with Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan and (after- wards) 1st Earl of Leicester ; whilst the king was grandson of her second marriage, with William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey.

As Roger died in 1202, and he was one of the witnesses to the charter of his brother Robert, 4th Earl of Leicester, to the monks

of St. Andrew of Gouffern ( ' Cal. Documents in France,' No. 607), we can reduce the date- limits of this charter from "1198-1204" to 1198-1202. G. H. WHITE.

St. Cross, Harleston, Norfolk.

FRANK BUCKLAND AND RICHARD BELL. A few weeks ago I had occasion to consult an article in The Bankers' Magazine concern- ing the forgery of bank-notes by the French prisoners of war during the conflict with Napoleon which marked the opening years of the nineteenth century. The subject, though of interest in one way, is foreign to this note, with one exception, which

?erhaps is worth recording in ' N. & Q.' he forgeries at the best were somewhat clumsy, but circumstances favoured their circulation.

The gentleman for whom I made the con- sultation, though a native of Scotland, has resided many years in the Midlands, and told me that he paid his entrance University fees with Scotch bank-notes ; the recipient closely scanned the new ones, but accepted the dirty ones which had been in circulation without looking at them. A hundred years ago coin was scarce, and one-pound notes were the ordinary means of circulation for small amounts, and the circulation of forged notes was facilitated by the dirty appearance and state of the notes. As a piece of evi- dence I showed the gentleman the following extract :

" The total value of the lot of sheep on the Scars was very great. The money transactions take place seldom by cheque, generally by notes and gold. Mr. Bell showed me the money he had received for his lambs. I not only saw, but smelt the money from afar. It consisted of a roll of Scotch bank one-pound notes, nasty, dirty, ragged pieces of paper, looking only fit for the fire. These notes, I understand, are sometimes quite intolerable ; the notes from Wick are the worst, there is a charming odour of fish about them. Mr. Bell's notes smelt of sheep."

This is from an article in Frank Buckland's ' Notes and Jottings from Animal Life,' ed. 1882, pp. 37-48, entitled ' Carlisle Cattle Market.' Buckland says his guide was a Mr. Bell of Langholme, who took him to his house, and showed him the " Hand-fasting place " (p. 45). Parenthetically, it may be stated that this bit of folk-lore has already been discussed in ' N. & Q.' (see 1 S. ii. 151, 282, 342), and it was usually assumed to be a Scottish betrothal custom, but from Hone's ' Year-Book,' p. 525, we find the custom was in vogue near Weymouth as late as 1817.

On showing the extract to my Scottish friend, he at once spoke of a Mr. Richard