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forth to supply wjiat had hitherto been a deside- 

 ratum in English pictorial history, viz. a collec- 

 tion of the most exact likenesses of the monarchs 

 of this country. The price of these thirty-six 

 portraits was very high, varying from 31. I2s. to 

 12Z. 12«., according to the state desired ; but this, 

 I suppose, was owing to the great care and time 

 taken in procuring portraits that for correctness 

 should be indisputable. 



It is well known that the publishers of histories 

 of England, a century ago, and even later, were 

 not very particular in the representations of our 

 early sovereigns ; and as long^as the pictures gar- 

 nishing their books were expressive of the popular 

 character given to our kings and queens, they 

 were satisfied, and so were the readers. 



May I ask if this painting at St. James's has 

 received any attention of late ? Jno. C. Hotten. 



Piccadilly, London. 



Lady Chichester (2"'* S. iv. 169.) —Mr. Mac- 

 lean is correct in stating that Frances, Lady 

 Chichester, was the only sister of Lucy, Countess 

 of Bedford. She married Sir Robert Chichester, 

 who is described in Wright's History of Rutland 

 as K. B., and of Rayleigh in the county of Devon, 

 a place I never heard of. They had issue an only 

 daughter, Anne, who became the wife of Lord 

 Bruce, ancestor of the Marquises of Ailesbury. 

 The old lady about whom Me. Maclean inquires, 

 must have been the widow of the first Lord Har- 

 rington, who had recently lost her only son, who 

 survived his father only a few months. 



Braybeooke. 



The Cake and the Lotos (2"'^ S. iv. 16L) — The 

 transmission of the cake throughout the Indian 

 regiments may very possibly have a direct con- 

 nection with some high act of worship towards the 

 Baai. Keishna. The lotos, self-generating by 

 means of its bean (the Pythagorean myth), appears 

 in the Hindoo mythology of various colours. If 

 dark blue be the colour in which it travelled, it 

 would probably refer to Krishna again, but it may 

 be rather assigned to the goddess Kali, and hence 

 the horrible mode by which our English residents 

 in India have been put to death. I take the 

 Indian outbreak to arise from the ancient cause, 

 Baal-Peor against the Lord of Hosts, or the 

 Linga against the Logos, the Yoni against the 

 Dove, Tammuz (Adonis) and Astoreth (Venus), 

 the God of the Grove and High Place, and the 

 Queen of Heaven, are in India, by whatsoever 

 names called, as powerfully fascinating to hu- 

 manity as in the days of Judah and Israel, when 

 the calf and the cow, the abomination, the horror, 

 and the unclean thing, led aside the holy nation to 

 their utter destruction. I believe at this period 



of England's history the Deitt was never more 

 worshipped by the nation or more outwardly ho- 

 noured. The feeling has touched all classes, and 

 of course it is apparent in our army. The annals 

 of the Crimean war test the truth of the observa- 

 tion. Our soldiers in India have probably given 

 much graver ofience than we are aware of in this 

 matter to the high-caste natives, and the rising in 

 defence of Baal-Peor has been the result. I shall 

 be glad if this note stirs up Mr. Pote, who is, I 

 know, well able to give the readers of " N. & Q." 

 certain information touching the tangled web of 

 Hindoo mythology. Henry John Gauntlett. 



I have an impression that some time before the 

 outbreak of the Mutiny in Bengal there appeared 

 in one of the newspapers a detailed account of the 

 mysterious transmission of these cakes and lotos 

 flowers throughout the whole length and breadth 

 of India, accompanied by speculations as to the 

 object of their circulation. A reference to the 

 article in question would oblige L. F. 



Hay-Lifts (2"* S. iv. 164.) —Will your corre- 

 spondent J. D. D. accept the following case of 

 hay-lift for his portfolio ? Many years ago I was 

 journeying from London to Edinburgh, not with 

 the volant speed of a modern aerial-like flying 

 train, but in the ancient stage coach, yclept the 

 Royal Charlotte, in honour of the consort of our 

 noble king, and which, although It was announced 

 to accomplish the journey in a shorter time, did it 

 in 78 hours. We left the George and Blue Boar, 

 Holborn, at 6 p. m., and the following day I got 

 outside to ride with the coachman, and to gain 

 some instruction in charioteering. Arriving at 

 Wandsford, Northamptonshire, we pulled up at a 

 public-house, where there was a sign of a man on 

 a heap of hay, and inquiring the origin of such de- 

 lineation, I was told, that un beau matin a hay- 

 maker fell asleep upon a haycock, when a storm 

 arose attended with an inundation of rain, and he 

 was floated away a considerable distance. After 

 a time he awoke from his profound sleep, and in- 

 quiring from the bystanders where he was ? they 

 answered at Wandsford. What Wandsford In all 

 England ? To which they replied, Yes. And this 

 wonderful transmigration was celebrated by the 

 sign in question. It is now so long since that I 

 only recollect the prominent parts of the story, 

 but no doubt some reader of " N, & Q." can 

 supply a fuller detail of this strange Incident. 



Olim. 



JEnvelope (Engl.) : Enveloppe (Fr.), feminine 

 (2""^ S. iv. 170.) — The practice of using covers 

 in epistolary correspondence most probably ori- 

 ginated with the French. I find it in the Gil 

 Bias of Le Sage, when he speaks of Aurora de 

 Gusman, and says she took two billets, " les cacheta 

 tous deux, y mit une Enveloppe et me donnant le 



