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PICTURE. BY BRIGGS IN THE ROYAL HOSPITAL, GREENWICH. In 1827 Henry Perronet Briggs, R.A., painted a picture entitled "His late Majesty George the Third after the splendid victory of June 1, 1794, presenting Earl Howe with a sword richly set with diamonds, on board the Queen Charlotte at Spithead on the 26th June in the same year."

It was painted for the British Institution, exhibited there in 1829, and presented by the Institution to the Royal Hospital Greenwich, where it new hangs in the Painted Hall.

There are many figures in this picture, and all are evidently portraits of various members of the Royal family, the Howe family, other prominent personages, and probably of the Board of Admiralty, or of some of them, but as the picture was painted thirty-three years after the "Glorious First of June," and as most of the people represented were dead, some of them many years before, the portraits must have been copied from other pictures.

Is there a key to this picture, or is there any means of tracing whom the different figures represent ?

It is known that the King and Queen, at least three of the princesses, Prince Ernest, Lord and Lady Howe and their daughter, Lady Mary Howe (but not their eldest daughter, Sophia, the Hon. Mrs. Penn Ashton Curzon, nor the youngest, Louisa, Countess ,of Altamont, my great -grand- mother), Lady Courtown, Lady Caroline Waldegrave, Lady Frances Howard and Lord Harrington, amongst others, were there. John Earl of Chatham, Chas. Geo. Lord Arden, Admiral Samuel Lord Hood, Rear Admiral Alan Gardner, V.- Admiral Philip Affleck, V.- Admiral Sir Charles Middleton, Bart., were members of the Board of Admiralty at the time.

SLIGO.

DOMESDAY BOOK OF THE CINQUE PORTS.

Can any of your readers tell me when the

Domesday Book of the Cinque Ports was

lost and what was the nature of its contents ?

JOHN BAVINGTON JONES.

1 Salisbury Road, Dover.

GHEERAERTS. I am anxious to trace the present whereabouts of a small (20 in. by 14| in) panel version of Gheeraerts's picture of ' Queen Elizabeth at the Marriage of Lord and Lady Herbert.' In 1881 the painting was in the possession of the 'Rev. Thomas Livesey, Rector of Sale, near Manchester. I am given to understand that it was sold at the dispersal of his collection, after his death some years later. Any information on the subject would be gratefully acknow- ledged. ILCHESTER.

"WIDOW "AND "RELICT." Will some expert say whether the following statement is correct, with special reference to the use of the words in old legal documents of (say) the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries ?

I take it that "relict " is a relative term while "widow" is absolute, expressing a status. Thus Jane White marries John Brown. When John Brown dies Jane is a- widow, and relict of John Brown. Jane marries, secondly, Thomas Green ; now she is no longer a widow, but she is still relict of John Brown. Thomas Green dies ; Jane is again "widow," and is now "relict of Thomas Green, and previously of John Brown," or "relict successively of John Brown and of Thomas Green."

So far as I know, the 'N.E.D.' has not yet reached W A. M. B. IRWIN.

49 Ailesbury Road, Dublin.

XIV. -CENTURY EFFIGY IN STREATHAM PARISH CHURCH. In this church there is a mutilated effigy of a knight of the four- teenth century which originally formed part of an altar tomb. Arnold in his ' History of Streatham,' p. 40, suggests that it repre- sents the benefactor who rebuilt the church at that period, and that this person may be identified with Sir John Ward of Surrey. The ground of identification rests upon a sketch made in 1623. According to this the blazon on the armour of the effigy and on two shields below was " Argent, 2 martlets and one on 2 bends or." On a third shield, " Sable on 2 chevrons or, between a bend or." On p. 65 Arnold gives an illustration of the figure and shields.

It is said that the former arms are recorded in the Heralds' College as those of Sir John Ward of Surrey in 1367. Can any one give me confirmation of this ? I have doubts as to the description which places metal upon 'metal and gives no tincture for the martlets and am quite sure that the description of the second coat