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 12 8. III. FEB. 3, 1917.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Then follow four stanzas in praise mainly of the Union.

In both editions the initials at the end =are R.R.

The words " recently deceased " concern- ing the author of the thirty stanzas in the earlier edition suggest a doubt as to R. R. having been the author of the additional six.

It may be conjectured that some one other than R. R., and his possible con- tinuator, wrote the supplementary stanzas, some of which are quoted by A. B. at the first reference, bringing the history to the Teign of Queen Victoria.

I may perhaps give a few of the variations, taking A. B. s version first and R. R.'s second, as given in the dated third edition of the ' General Armory ' :

A. B. When Second Henry came to reign,

The first Plantagenet. H. B. When Hal secundus came to reign,

Primus Plantagenet. -A.. B. For where the Royal Banners, &c., four

lines not'given by B. B. A. B. With laurels, &c. R. B. With laurels verdant as the sea,

And fadeless as renown. JL. B. King James the First to England brought

The Arms her might had braved. R. B. has "shield" for "Arms."

With Queen Anne the two poems begin to be quite different. The last four stanzas of R. R. concern the Union. The Burkes give ample notes concerning the changes in the royal arms, referred to by R. R.

But for such variations as I have noted, And a few other verbal ones, the two versions, as far as the extracts given by A. B. go, are practically identical up to Queen Anne.

I drew attention to R. R.'s verses at 11 S. xii. 75, where are many references to metrical histories of England. Add to these references p. 329 of the same volume.

I should, perhaps, say that my copy of the ' General Armory,' dated 1844, is " Third Edition, with a Supplement."

ROBEBT ETEBPOINT.

PORTRAITS EST STAINED GLASS (12 S. ii. 172, 211, 275, 317, 337, 374, 458, 517; iii. 15, 36, 76). I am the possessor at Hard- irick House, Bury St. Edmunds, of a very- fine thirteenth-century window from the church of Bexhill in Sussex, which was taken thence by the then Lord Ashburnham and given to Horace Walpole, who had much admired it. This window he set up in his chapel at Strawberry Hill, and there it remained till the famous sale in 1842, when at was purchased by my grandfather, the

late Rev. Sir Thomas Gery Cullum, Bart., who set it up in a corridor at Hardwick, with the inscription which Horace Walpole had placed beneath it, and which runs as follows :

" This Window was brought from the church of Bexhill in Sussex. The two principal figures are | King Henry III. and Eleanor of Provence his Queen, the only portraits of them extant. King Henry | died Mccxxxn. and wejknow of no painted glass more antient than the Reign of his father King John."

The window has been alluded to several times in ' N. & Q.,' and a reproduction from a photograph contributed by me appears in a Bexhill local guide. It is my intention eventually to restore it to the church, whence it should never have been taken. Horace Walpole reproduced the two figures of the King and Queen as a frontispiece to his ' Anecdotes of Painting.'

In the east window of East Harling, Norfolk, are two very fine examples re- presenting Sir William Chamberlain and his wife. In the windows of the church at Stambourn, Essex, are portraits probably of the Mac William family, date about 1520. The Rev. Edmund Fairer of Rickinghall, Suffolk, the author of the valuable work on the ' Heraldry of Norfolk Churches ' and that on the ' Family Portraits in the Houses of West Suffolk,' tells me he considers these as " quite the best in the Eastern Counties." There is, the same friend informs me, a nice modern example at Upper Rickinghall. Many years ago Bishop Wilkinson was curate there, and when he left, he took with him to Africa a youth named Samuel Spear, who worked as a missionary among the natives and died there. On his return to England, the Bishop erected this window to his memory. It is by Clayton & Bell, and represents young Samuel with a censer in his hands, and the family state it is an excellent likeness. There is also at Oakley Church, Suffolk, in the tower, a window to the memory of the Rev. G. M. Paterson, late rector. The chief figure in the window, Cornelius, represents him.

In the church of Great Barr, Staffordshire, is a window representing the Crucifixion, in which a knight in armour at the foot of the Cross represents my friend Sir Arthur Bateman and Scott (double Baronet), who died in 1884. This window was erected by his mother, Minnie, Lady Bateman and Scott- daughter of Sir John Hartopp, Bart.).

In the church of St. Mary, Bury St. Edmunds, is a window to the memory of Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Duchess of Suffolk, erected by Queen Victoria. The