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at the Uffizi, at Venice, and at the British Museum, were probably studies for other parts of the cartoon, but it is not possible to locate the groups. The dire stress of combat of the central group fighting for the Standard, and the vigour of its execution are best surmised from the drawing by Rubens in coloured chalk in the Louvre, although this can only have been a copy of a copy of the original. A drawing in pen and bistre, tinted, in the British Museum is an early copy of the horse and rider on the right hand of the group. There are also early copies of the group in the Depot of the Uffizi and in the possession of Mme. Timbal, at Paris, and Mr. H. P. Home. These are original studies for ihe heads of three of the group of combatants at Buda-Pesth. On the same sheet are drawings in black chalk of the face furthest from the spectator, and the head of the figure with raised scimitar, seen almost full, with open mouth and face drawn with frenzy. A red chalk study of the head of the horseman on the right, in the same collection, even surpasses it in dramatic intensity. M. Thiers possessed a sketch for this picture, in which the horsemen are shown as skeletons. See J. P. Richter's ' Leonardo ' (1884) ; and Edward McCurdy's 'Leonardo da Vinci ' (1904).

A. R. BAYLEY.

B. N. M. may be interested in the follow- ing extracts from ' Leonardo da Vinci,' by Edward McCurdy (London, Bell & Sons, 1904), in reference to the unfinished Battle of Anghiari, formerly in the Sala del Con- siglio of the Palazzo della Signoria, Florence :

" This group figured in the foreground of the composition, and the evidence of the ' Anonimo Florentine,' and the fact that it alone is the subject of such copies as presumably derive their origin from the picture, render it probable that it was the only part of the composition painted in colour on the wall. Raphael made a hurried sketch of the Battle of the Standard, now in the University Galleries at Oxford .... [At Windsor is] a copy of part of the cartoon made by Cesare da Sesto .... The dire stress of combat of the central group fighting for the Standard, and the vigour of its execution, are best surmised from the drawing by Rubens in coloured chalk in the Louvre, although this can only have been a copy of a copy of the original."

Refe ence is also given to an early copy in pen and bistre, tinted, in the British Museum, of the horse and rider on the right hand of the group, and to early copies of the group in the Uffizi, and in the possessions of Mme. Timbal and Mr. H. P. Home.

F. GORDON ROE.

PRINCE CHARLES IN NORTH DEVON (12 S.. vi. 36, 150, 193, 214). I have only lately seen the third reference. I think there can be no doubt that Lady Russell is quite correct in suggesting that Prince Charles's "nurse" was Christabella, the wife of Col. Edmund Wyndham, the Governor of Bridgewater,. and not Anne (nee Gerard) the wife of Col. Francis, a younger brother, of Trent,. as, I think now, erroneously stated by me,. ante, p. 151.

As I have stated, my article at that reference was taken from a paper of mine ' Charles II. in the Channel Islands,' printed in the Dorset Field Club's Proceedings in 1904, founded on Dr. Elliott Hoskins's work with a similar title, which was based upon John Chevalier's 'Chronicles' of events occurring in Jersey during the Civil. Wars. Dr. Hoskins had no doubt been misled, judging from the foot-note he has affixed to vol. i, p. 315, in speaking of the Mrs. Wyndham, the Prince's nurse, whose husband was Governor of Bridgewater. He there speaks of her as " Anne, daughter and co -heir of Thomas Gerard, of Trent, Somer- setshire. ' Pepys,' vol. i. p. 250."

And I, in writing that paper, and in my article in ' N. & Q. ', have followed him too- implicitly. That this is a mistake I think there can be no doubt. In the Appendix to Mr. Allan Fea's book, ' After Worcester Fight ' a supplement to and complement of his 'Flight of the King,' which appeared 1 in 1897 which was not published (1904), I believe, until after my Dorset paper had been written, and of course long after Dr.- Hoskins's work this is made quite clear. At p. 239, in a note on ' Mrs. Wyndham and the King's Nurse,' Mr. Fea, speaking of the confusion which had sometime existed, between the two brothers Col. Ednumd i and Col. Francis Wyndham mentioned'' that there had been similar confusion; between their wives, and that some writers had stated in error that Mrs. Anne Wynd- ham, the wife of Col. Francis, had been the King's nurse. Whereas it was her sister- in-law, Christabella, the daughter of Hugh Pyne, of Cothanger, co. Somerset, a hand- some and, as it would appear, a dangerous woman. He refers to Clarendon ('History of Rebellion,' xii. 60 ; xiii. 97) and to- Hughes' "Boscobel Tracts ' (1858), p. 387, where is exhibited a pedigree of the Wynd- hams. But Mr. Hughes in the "Diary" part of his book (p. 65) also states in* speaking of Col. Edmund Wyndham, and?