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debruised, with a bendlet, as may be seen on the 

 roof of Canterbury Cloisters. G. E. C. 



" The Cangle." — What is the meaning of this 

 name, applied to a farm-house in the parish of 

 Maplestead, Essex ? J. Y. (2) 



Curious Paintings. — I am possessed of a very 

 beautiful painting on copper, which there is 

 reason to believe to be the work of one of the 

 great Italian masters of the fifteenth or sixteenth 

 century. It is a portrait, admirably drawn and 

 richly coloured, representing the half length of an 

 aged man, of regular and delicate features, the 

 eyebrows and moustaches being brown, and the 

 hair and beard white. He wears the papal tiara, 

 to which ear-guards, or a peculiar form of golden 

 glory, are attached. On the breast of his white 

 vest is a red cross, more elongated, and having 

 more acute angles than the Maltese. His violet- 

 coloured mantle is flowered, and has a broad 

 collar of gold plate, which does not meet, but is 

 united by a wide clasp, on which some resemblance 

 of letters may be traced ; a broad green girdle 

 .passes under the left hand, which rests upon folds 

 of the mantle, and bears a palra-branch. The 

 right arm is raised, and the hand in the posture of 

 blessing, but easy and graceful. The sleeves are 

 close, white, and edged with lace, and the hands 

 are remarkably fine, and very carefully painted. 



Should any of your readers be able to give me 

 information regarding the person whom this por- 

 trait represents, or the artist by whom it is 

 painted, an obligation will be conferred on 



I. W. Y. 



57. Sloane Street. 



" Metal " and " Symbol." — Jeremy Taylor is 

 in the habit of using metals for mines, and symbol 

 in the sense of contribution to a common stock. 

 I am desirous to know whether these are severally 

 a Latinism and a Graecism peculiar to him, or 

 whether examples of the same usages could be 

 found in other writers of the seventeenth century. 



T. 



The Effect of Cannon- Shot and Shells at the 

 Siege of Sebastopol. — A few Queries as to the 

 damaging effects of round shot and shells in this 

 memorable siege, may elicit interesting Replies. 



What is the greatest number of men said to 

 have been killed and wounded by a round shot ? 

 The weight of the shot should be given. 



What is the greatest number killed and wounded 

 by the bursting of a shell ? The diameter of the 

 shell should be given. 



What is the greatest known range of any shot ? 

 Stated in yards. 



There have been some extraordinary instances 

 of destruction, and also of escape, in the Crimea. 

 Eighteen men of the 18th Kegiment were put 



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horg de combat by the bursting of a thirteen-inch 

 shell ; seven of the wounded lost limbs, nine were 

 killed on the ground. On June 7, a colonel, a 

 senior captain, and two sergeants, were killed by 

 a shell in the Quarry trench ; the same sliell sub- 

 sequently burst and did no further injury. 



The " wind " of a cannon-shot doing injury is 

 proved to be a myth. There have been hundreds 

 of instances where cannon-shot have grazed the 

 clothing and person of men, doing no serious 

 injury. The writer was grazed by a forty- two 

 pound shot fired from the Garden Battery ; the 

 wind of this shot did no injury. R. 



BoiseTs " Voyage d'Espagne." — There is a 

 passage in Boisel's Journal du Voyage d Espagne^ 

 Paris', 1669 (p. 298.), in which the French travel- 

 ler describes his presence at a play of Calderon's, 

 and afterwards his visit to the Spanish dramatist, 

 with whom he has a discussion upon the Unities. 

 I am anxious, and not out of mere curiosity, to 

 possess the passage in the original ; but never 

 have been able to meet with Boisel's book. If 

 any of your readers, possessing the work, would 

 count it not too much trouble to copy out the 

 passage (it cannot exceed ten lines), and would 

 enclose it to your care, or would allow me, through 

 the same channel, the use of the book, I should 

 feel much obliged. T. 



Frances Grey., Duchess of Suffolk. — Charles 

 Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, married Mary Tudor, 

 widow of Louis XII. of France, privately, at Paris, 

 March 31, 1515. Their daughter Frances was 

 wife, first to Plenry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, who 

 was beheaded Feb. 23, 1553-4, and married, se- 

 condly, Adrian Stokes, Esq. Can any of your 

 readers afford information respecting Adrian 

 Stokes, or, as he is sometimes called, Adrian 

 Stock, when he died, and whether he left any 

 issue Ijy the Duchess of Suffolk ? ' T. S. Y. 



[The Duchess of Suffolk, after the death of her first 

 husband, enjoyed much domestic happiness at Beaumanor, 

 in a second matrimonial connexion with Mr. Adrian 

 Stokes, who had been her Master of tlie Horse. This 

 alliance was censured by some as beneath her dignity; 

 and afforded the politic Cecil an opportunity of hazarding 

 a biting jest to Queen lilizabeth on her undisguised par- 

 tiality for the handsome Dudley, when he told her of the 

 misalliance of her cousin Frances, Duchess of Suffolk, 

 with her equerry, Adrian Stokes. "What!" exchiimed 

 her majestj', "has she married her horse-keeper?" 

 "Yes, madam," replied the' premier, "and she saj's yon 

 would like to do the same with yours." Bapin states 

 that the duchess had no children by Adrian Stokes ; but 

 according to Cole's Escheats, vol. v. p. 355., she had one 

 daughter Elizabeth, who died an infant, Feb. 7, 1555-6, 

 The duchess died in 1559 ; in three years after which 

 Mr. Stokes obtained from Elizabeth, by letters patent, 

 March 12, 1562-3, a new lease of twenty-one years of her 



