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CONTENTS. 



Notes:— Page 



Autograph of Edward of Lancaster, Son of Henry "VI., 



by Sir Frederic Madden - - - - 33 



Robert Bloomfield, by George.Daniel - - - 34 



Note for London Topographers, by Lambert B. Larking 34 



Sermons by Parliamentary Chaplains, by R. C. Warde 34 

 A Perspective View of Twelve Postage-stamps, by 



Cuthbert Bede, B.A 35 



Minor Notes : — Cremona Violins — Prices of Tea — 

 Coleridge a Prophet — Lord Bacon's Advice peculiarly 

 applicable to the Correspondents of "N. & Q." — 

 Etymology of Molasses —A Sounding Name - 



Queries : — 



Roman Sepulchral Inscriptions, by Rev. E. S. Taylor - 

 Chapel Plaster, by J. E. Jackson - - - - 



Minor Queries :— Martha Blount —Degree of B.C. L. 

 — The Word " anywhen " — Shoreditch Cross, &c — 

 Winchester and Huntingdon — La Bruyere— Sir John 

 Davys or Davies — Fleshier of Otley — Letters U, V, 

 W— Heraldic Queries — " Drengage " and " Berewich " 



— Sidney as a Female Name — " The Brazen Head" 



— Portrait of Baron Lechmere — " Essay for a New 

 Translation of the Bible," and " Letters on Prejudice" 

 — DavidGarrick—Aldiborontophoskophornio— Quota- 

 tions wanted — Arago on the Weather — " Les Veus 

 du Hairon," or " Le Voeu du Heron" — Insciiption on 

 a Dagger-case — Hallet and Dr. Saxbyj 



Replies : — 



Descent of the Queen from John of Gaunt, by W. Hardy 

 Uncertain Etymologies : " Leader" ... 



Lines on Tipperary _ . . . _ 



Shakspeare Emendations, by Thomas Keightley 

 Statues represented on Coins, by W. H. Scott - 

 Judge Jeffreys, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault, &c. 

 Dutch Allegorical Pictures, by Dr. J. H. Todd 

 The Reprint, in 1808, of the First Folio Edition of 



Shakspeare .... 



Photographic Notes and Queries : — Le Grey and the 



Collodion Process — Ready Mode of iodizing Paper — 



After-dilution of Solutions — Stereoscopic Pictures 



from one Camera — Camera for Out-door Operations 



•"Twas onthe Morn" ..... 



Alleged Reduction of English Subjects to Slavery, by 



Henry H. Breen ...... 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Royal Assent, &c.— Can 

 Bishops vacate their Sees? — "Genealogies of the 

 Mordaunt Family," by the Earl of Peterborough — 

 Ni^ara, or Niagara ? — Maudlin— Spiritual Persons 

 employed in Lay Offices — Passage in Burke— Ensake 

 and Cradock Arms — Sich House — Americanisms so 

 called — The Folger Family— Wake Family— Shak. 

 speare's " Twelfth Night"— Electrical Phenomena — 

 Daubuz Family — Lord Nelson — Robes and Fees in 

 the Days of Robin Hood — Wray— Irish Rhymes ,, - 

 Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. ..... 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted .... 



Notices to Correspondents .... 



Advertisemeuts ..... 



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VoL.VIL~No. 167. 



AUTOGRAPH or EDWARD OP LANCASTER, SON OP j 

 HENRT VI. 



In the Museum of Antiquities at Rouen is pre- 

 served an original document, thus designated, 

 " Lettre d'Edouard, Prince de Galles (1 47 1 ) ." It 

 is kept under a glass case, and shown as "an un- 

 doubted autograph of the Black Prince," accord- 

 ing to the testimony of the gentleman who has 

 very obligingly placed a transcript of this interest- 

 ing relic at my disposal. It is as follows : 



" Chers et bons amis, nous avons entendu, que 

 ung nostre homme lige subject, natif de nostre pays 

 de Galles, est occupe et detenu es prisons de la 

 ville de Diepe, pour la mort d'un homme d'icelle 

 ville, dont pour le diet cas autres ont este executez. 

 Et pour ce que nostre diet subject estoit clerc, a 

 este et est encores en suspens, parce qu'il a este 

 requis par les officiers de nostre tres cher et aime 

 cousin I'archevesque de Rouen, afin qu'il leur fut 

 rendu, ainsi que de droict ; pourquoy nous vous 

 prions, que icelui nostre homme et subject vous 

 veuillez baiUer et delivrer aux gens et officiers de 

 mon diet cousin, sans en ce faire difficulte. Et 

 nous vous en saurons un tres grant gre, et nous 

 ferez ung essingulier plaisir. Car monseigneur le 

 roy de France nous a autorisez faire grace en 

 semblable cas que celui de mon diet subject, du- 

 quel desirons fort la delivrance. Escript ^ Rouen, 

 le onziesme jour de Janvier. t 



(Signed) Eduard. 

 (Countersigned) Martin." 



The error of assigning this signature to Edward 

 the Black Prince is sufficiently obvious, and some- 

 what surprising, since we here have an undoubted, 

 and, I believe, unique autograph of Edward of 

 Lancaster, Prince of Wales, only son of Henry VI. 

 by Margaret of Anjou. He was born at West- 

 minster, October 13th, 1453, and was therefore, in 

 January, 1471 (no doubt the true date of the 

 document), in the eighteenth year of his age. He 

 had sought refuge from the Yorkists, in France, 

 with his mother, ever since the year 1462, and in 

 the preceding July or August, 1470, had been 

 affianced to Anne Neville, the youngest daughter of 

 the Earl of Warwick. At the period when this 



