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NOTES AND QUEElES. 



[2M S. X. July 21. '60, 



IsRAEUTiSH Costume. — What was the form 

 and colour of the dress usually worn by the Is- 

 raelites of the middle class about 1491 b.c, or at 

 the time of their departure from Egypt? Had 

 the outer garment sleeves, and what was the 

 covering for the head ? and which are the best 

 illustrated works on the subject ? Antiquarian. 



RoTAL Archers : Queen's Body Guard of 

 ScoTXiAND. — Can you inform me when this regi- 

 ment was first embodied ? what was its origin ? 

 what its duties, and privileges are ? and how 

 members are admitted ? Judging from the full 

 dress uniforms of the present members, it must 

 have been a crack corps once of a time. 



Sherwood. 



Signs at MonAsheath, Cheshire, and Lang- 

 tree, NEAR WiGAN. — There is a long story about 

 the sign at Monksheath in Cheshire, which does, 

 or did, represent a monk, a countryman, a white 

 horse, and a cavern. Will some correspondent 

 give it ? There is, I presume, also a tradition 

 (though I never could get at it) about a sign at 

 Langtree, near Wigan, which represents a smart 

 mnn in a tight suit of green, on a white charger, 

 apparently pulling his plumed hat very reveren- 

 tially off to a Spanish dog in the foreground. 

 The subject of signs since the establishment of 

 beershops has become a hopeless one. There is 

 no end to the quaint and curious devices which 

 record some evanesc^ent and purely local interest 

 of the day, and which even the next landlord who 

 takes the house and keeps the sign is often quite 

 unable to explain. P. P. 



John Keyse Sherwin, Engraver. — Where 

 may I find a complete list of the works of J. K. 

 Sherwin, "engraver to his Majesty and the Prince 

 of Wales, an artist of the most uncommon abili- 

 ties," who died 20th September, 1790 ? In a bio- 

 graphical sketch in Walker's Selection of curious 

 Articles from the Gentleman s Magazine, vol. iv. 

 p. 365., fourteen historical subjects and twelve 

 portraits are enumerated ; but certainly the list 

 (which, as the writer of the article observes, "will 

 perhaps prove useful to amateurs and collectors of 

 prints ") is not complete, inasmuch as no mention 

 is made of the portrait (painted by Hamilton) of 

 " David La Touche, Esq., of Bellevue, county 

 of Wicklow, a gentleman whose well-known cha- 

 racter and conduct, through a long and active 

 life, makes any eulogium on either unnecessary," 

 I possess a very fine impression of the portrait in 

 question. Abhba, 



Lady Frances Brandon. — What is the date 

 of this lady's marriage with Henry Grey, 3rd 

 Marquis of Dorset. The dates of the births of 

 their children, Jane, Katherine, and Mary ? On 

 what ground was Dorset's first wife Catharine 

 Fitzalan repudiated ? P. R, 



Robert Redmayne, of Richmondshire, was ad- 

 mitted a pensioner of S, John's College, Cam- 

 bridge, 12 Oct, 1572, and a scholar on the Lady 

 Margaret's Foundation 6 Nov. 1573. He pro- 

 ceeded B. A. 1575-6 ; was elected a Fellow on the 

 Lady Margaret's Foundation, 1577 ; commenced 

 M. A. 1579 ; was appointed sublector of his col- 

 lege 12 Oct. the same year, and philosophy lec- 

 turer 6 July, 1582. In 1586 he was created 

 LL. D., and in 1588 became chancellor of the 

 diocese of Norwich. He died 5 Aug. 1625, £et. 

 seventy-four, and was buried at Hitcham in Nor- 

 folk, where is a monument with an inscription 

 terming him a native of Lancashire, At the same 

 place was buried Dorothy, his widow, who died in 

 Oct. 1645, aet, eighty. It appears to us exceed- 

 ingly probable that he is the author of Henrici 

 Quinti Illustrissimi Anglorum Regis Historia, MS. 

 Trin. Coll. Camb., O. I. 47., printed with other 

 pieces by Mr. Charles Augustus Cole, Lond., 8vo. 

 1858. We think also that the nobleman to whom 

 that work is dedicated was Henry Hastings, Earl 

 of Huntingdon, K.G., Lord President of the North, 

 who died at York 14 Dec, 1595, 



C, H, & Thompson Cooper, 



Cambridge. 



Fragment of an Old Romance. — On re- 

 cently examining a copy of the Sarum Ordinale, 

 edited by Master Clerke, Chantor of King's Coll. 

 Cambridge, and printed by Pynson in 1501, 1 found 

 three fly-leaves of a book of earlier date, respect- 

 ing which I should be glad to be informed ; and, 

 therefore, I subjoin a passage by which it may or 

 not be identified with the romance of Sir Guy. 

 The type is of the Gothic character : — 



" Wyth that the lumbardis fledde away 



Guy Guy and heraude and terrey pfay, 



Chased after theym gode wone, 



They slowe and "toke many one. 



The Lumbardis made sory crye. 



For they were on the worse party e. 



Of this toke duke otton gode hede. 



And fledde to an hyll gode spede ; 



That none sued of theym echone, 



But syr heraude of arderne alone, 



Heraude hym sued as an egyr lyon 



And ever he cryed on duke otton, 



Heraude had of hym no doubte, 



Nor he sawe no man ferre aboute 



But only theymselfe two." 



E. F, B. 

 The Oxford Act. — Can any of your Oxford 

 correspondents oblige me by explaining what is 

 the meaning of " The Act at Oxford ?" What is 

 the origin of the term ? Was it formerly applied 

 to what is now called "The Commemoration?" 

 and if so, when did the appellation fall into dis' 

 use ? Ignoramus. 



"Aunt Sally." — Who is " Aunt Sally ? " It 

 has been suggested that she is nearly related to 

 " My Uncle." Vedette, 



