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 132 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2S.ix.AuG.i3.i92i. Prince Eegent with respect to a progressive encrease of Pension for Wounded Officers of the i Army, and granting other advantages to the j Subalterns and Soldiers who were engaged in the j Battle of Waterloo, or in the Actions which! immediately preceded it, communicated in a letter from the Secretary at War dated 31 July! 1815 to Officers Commanding Regiments of the [ Line to be extended to the Military Corps of the Ordnance. I have the honor by the Boards Commands to | acquaint you therewith and to signify their j desire that you will communicate the same in , Public Orders to the Royal Regiment of Artillery. | I have the honor, &c. (Signed) 0. A. OUVRY. Lieut. Genl. Macleod. &c., &c., &c. J. H. LESLIE, Lieut. -Colonel. THE IVORY GATE OF VIRGIL : ENGLISH MISCONCEPTION (12 S. ix. 84). Even although some English writers imperfectly acquainted with Greek and Latin literature have confused the two gates of sleep, their knowledge of standard English authors ought to have prevented their making the mistake to which V. R. refers. Spenser, in canto i. of his "Faerie Queene,' alludes! correctly to the gate whence issue the false dreams. Archimago sends one of his " sprites " to Morpheus for a " fit false dreame that can delude the sleepers " : He making speedy way through spersed ayre, And through the world of waters wide and deepe, To Morpheus house doth hastily repaire. Whose double gates he findeth locked fast, The one faire fram'd of burnisht Yvory, The other all with silver overcast. The dream obtained, the sprite returns by ! the " Yvorie dore." It will be noticed that the other gat e is described as being of " silver overcast," not I of horn. Sir Thomas Browne concludes his essay ' ' On Dreams " as follows : That some have never dreamed is as im- | probable as that some have never laughed, j That Children dream not in some countries, with many more, are unto me sick men's dreams ; dreams out of the ivory gate, and visions before ; midnight. S. BUTTERWOBTH. MANOR OP CHURCHILL, OXON (12 S. | vii. 47). I can suggest an answer to my query under this reference, at least as re- gards the fate of the Court Rolls before 1689. It appears from a Chancery suit (Bridges, 318/79) that the manor house at Sarsden, where the Churchill memorial records were presumably kept (for the Walters of Sarsden purchased that manor at Easter, 1689), was burnt down towards the close of the seventeenth century. Sir John Walter, the complainant, under date 1704, states that he has not got the counter- part of one of his leases "as it was burnt about 20 years since when your orator's father's house was burnt at Sarsden." A reference to Anthony a Wood's diary shows that the correct date was 1689, just after the purchase of the manor, the entry being "Nov. 6, 1689, the house of Sir William Walter, baronet, at Saresden neare Churchill was burnt. His losses 20 thou- sand pounds. Rebuilt in 1693." Sarsden is about a mile from Churchill, so it can hardly be the same fire (though the date " shortly before 1690 " is about the same) which is mentioned in another Chancery suit (Bridges, 165/65) which speaks of the "late dreadful fire that happened in the said town of Churchill, where above half the town and the houses there standing were at that time consumed and burnt." E. ST. JOHN BROOKS. STATE TRIALS IN WESTMINSTER HALL (12 S. viii. 371, 455). In The Universal Magazine for April, 1776, is a " Summary of the Trial of her Grace the Duchess of Kingston,' 2 preceded by A plan of the Inner Court in Westminster Hall, as settled by the Board of Works, and ap- proved by his Grace the Lord Great Chamber- lain, for the Trial of the Duchess of Kingston, April 15. In my copy of 'The Trial,' published by order of the House of Peers, 1776, a former owner has inserted a carefully drawn plan of the " Inside of the Building for Trial of Peers in Westminster Hall, as on 16th April, 1765." (This Was the date of the trial of William 5th Lord Byron for killing William Chaworth in a duel.) Following this plan is a written descrip- tion of the order of procession from the steps leading up to the lobby of the Court of Requests to the House of Lords, and, after prayers, to the Court iri West- minster Hall, followed by instructions ending with " The Clerk of the Crown in the King's Bench opens the Commission and reads it." There are very few differences between the two plans. Perhaps the most interest- ing is that in the plan of the Kingston trial a bench or box appears as provided for