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(winch were four stars on the left breast) were 

 embroidered on the coat worn on oi'dinary occa- 

 sions. To those of your readers who may not 

 have referred to the Dispatches and. Letters, the 

 following extracts from that work may supply an 

 interesting correction of a popular error ; 



" Lord Nelson came upon deck soon after daylight ; 

 he was dressed as usual in his Admiral's frock coat, 

 bearing on the left breast four stars of different orders, 

 ■which he always wore ivith his common apparel" — Dr. 

 Bcattie's Narrative. 



On the morning of October 21, 1805, Nelson 

 " dressed himself in the same coat which he had 

 commonly worn since he left Portsmouth." 



The above statement, made on the authority of 

 Sir Thomas Hardy, and other officers of the Vic- 

 tory, is quoted from the United Service Magazine 

 (No. CLXiv., July, 1842) : 



" While walking the deck, and after the firing had com- 

 menced. Hardy remarked that the badge might draw 

 attention from the enemy's tops; to which the hero 

 coollj' replied, — 'He was aware it might be seen, but it 

 was now too late to be shifting a coat.' " — Ibid. 



"The facts," says the editor, "are simply these: — 

 Lord Nelson Avas entitled to wear four stars" — those of 

 the Orders of the Bath, St. Ferdinand and Merit, the 

 Crescent, and St. Joachim. It was then the custom to 

 embroider the stars of Orders on the coat, instead, as now, 

 of occasionally fixing them on it b}' a clasp like a brooch ; 

 so that when the coat was worn, the decorations being 

 sewn upon it were necessarily worn at the same time, ft 

 was also usual, before and long after 1805, for knights to 

 wear their insignia at all times ; and, conformably with 

 that practice. Lord Nelson never appeared without them. 

 This is an answer to the assertion that he purposely put 

 on his decorations on the eventful day, and to the in- 

 sinuation that his vanity caused him to wear his Orders 

 more frequently than was then usual." 



The following is from a letter from Nelson's 

 Flag-lieutenant at Trafalgar (Captain Pasco) to 

 the editor : 



"The coat Lord Nelson wore on the 2Ist of October, 

 1805, was such as he always wore while I had the honour 

 and happiness of serving under his Flag (nearly three 

 years). It had four stars on the left breast, and certainly 

 no additional Order or alteration of dress was used on 

 that day." 



From Captain Sir George Wesphal (a midship- 

 man of the Victory, who served at Trafalgar,) to 

 the editor : 



" From the period of his Flag being hoisted at Spit- 

 head, at the commencement of hostilities with France in 

 1803, to the hour of his death, 1 have no recollection of 

 ever seeing him wear a full-dress unifonn coat on hoard the 

 Victory, or elsewhere; and I am most positive that the 

 coat which his Lordship wore on the day the battle was 

 fought was an old undress uniform, the skirts being lined 

 with white shalloon or linen. The four orders that he 

 invariably wore were embroidered on the breast of every 

 coat I had ever seen him wear from his first hoisting his 

 Flag. They were placed thus **• on the left breast of 

 his coat, the Order of the Bath being uppermost. I feel 

 persuaded that you cannot have better authority than 

 my own fcr the truth of this disputed question ; because, 



when I was carried down wounded, I was placed by the 

 side of his Lordship, and his coat was rolled up and put 

 as the substitute for a pillow under my head, which was 

 then bleeding very much from the wound I had received ; 

 and when the battle was over, and an attempt was made 

 to remove the coat, several of the bullions of the epaulette 

 were found to be so firmly glued into my hair, by the 

 coagulated blood from my wound, that the bullions, four 

 or five of them, were cut' off, and left in my hair; one of 

 which I have still in mj-^ possession.',' 



The coat and waistcoat worn by Lord Nelson 

 when he fell at Trafalgar were, in a very handsome 

 manner, purchased by H. R. H. Piince Albert, 

 and presented to Greenwich Hospital, — where 

 lies the precious relic worn by the great hero at 

 the battle of the Nile. A cheque for 150/. was 

 placed in the editor's hands to effect the above 

 object, who had examined the coat, then in the 

 possession of Mrs. Smith (June, 1845), and found 

 the "stars" all "firmly sewn on it." 



No sword was worn by Nelson at the battle of 

 Trafalgar, the only action in which he ever ap- 

 peared without it. The sword had been laid on 

 his table, and was never called for — a memorable 

 omission ! F. Phillott. 



DEED RELATING TO ARNCMFFB, CO. YORK. 



As I believe deeds of the time of Henry VI. in 

 the English language are matters of antiquarian 

 curiosity, I send you the following verbatim copy 

 of an award of partition dated May 4, 1440, by 

 which the estate of ArnclitFe, in the North Riding 

 of Yorkshire, and other estates, came to Sir Wil- 

 liam Mauleverer in right of his'Wife, the sister and 

 co-heir of Sir John Colville. 



The original deed, along with many other curi- 

 ous and ancient evidences, is in the possession of 

 the present Mr. Mauleverer at ArnclifFe Hall. 

 There are two seals attached to the deed, of which 

 one is too much worn and injured to be decy- 

 phered, and the other bears the impression of a 

 greyhound passant, with "R" above and "M" 

 below the animal. This is evidently the seal of 

 Robert Mauleverer, one of the arbitrators. 



DOUGL.AS BeOAVN. 



G. Pump Court, Temple. 



"This indente beds witenes that S' John Colvj-le dyed 

 seisyd of c'tayne man's, landes, te'ments, rents, and s'vis 

 wyth thare app'ten'ntj in ye counte3 of Yorke and 

 Northumberl', That is to saj-'of ye man's of Heslerton, 

 Lutton, Thymelby, West Rownton, ArneclyfF, with ye 

 towne of Ingylby, Dale in Blakamore, Syggeston, w* ye 

 app'ten'nce in ye counte of Yorke. And ye man's of 

 liodyll and Spyndelstone in ye counte of Northumberl', 

 eftyr whose dede these saj'd man's, landes, ten'ts, rents, 

 and s'vices Avyth ye app'ten'nts dissendyd to Isabell and 

 Jonet, sisters and heirs to ye sayd S' John. The p'titioii 

 of ye saj'd man'rs, landes, ten'ts, rents, and s'vices w' 

 thare app'ten'nce, be assent and grement of Will'm ffen- 

 cots and ye sayd Isabell his wyfe, tone \_sic'\ of ye heirs of 

 ye sayd S' John And of Will'm Mauleverer chr' and Jonet 

 his wyfe, tother of ye heirs of ye sayd S' John, is put in 



