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examined, but contain no notice of the baptism of 

 the future knight. I will, however, continue the 

 chace ; and should I eventually fall in with the 

 object of my search, will give my fellow-labourers 

 the benefit of my explorations. Mr. Vanbrugh 

 sen. died at Chester, and was buried with several 

 of his children at Trinity Church, July 19, 1689. 



T. Hughes. 

 Chester. 



Portrait of Charles I. — The portrait of Charles I. 

 by Vandyke (the subject of Mk. Brees's Query, 

 "N. & Q.," Vol. viii., p. 151.) is no less than the 

 celebrated picture in which the monarch is repre- 

 sented standing, with his right hand resting on a 

 walking cane, and his left (the arm being beauti- 

 fully foreshortened) against his hip ; and immedi- 

 ately behind him his horse is held by an equerry, 

 supposed to be the Marquis of Hamilton. The 

 picture hangs in the great square room at the 

 Louvre, close on the left hand of the usual en- 

 trance door, and is undoubtedly one of the finest 

 in that magnificent collection. As a portrait, it is 

 without a rival. It is well known in this country 

 by the admirable engraving from it, executed in 

 1782, by Sir Robert Strange. 



The description of this picture in the Catalogue 

 for 1852 du Musee Nationale du Louvre, is as 

 follows : — 



" Grave par Strange ; par Bonnefoy ; par Duparc ; 

 — -Filhol, t. 1. pi. 5. 



" Collection de Louis XV. — Ce tableau, qui a etc 

 execute vers 1635, ne fut paye a van Dyck que 100 

 livres sterling. En 1754, il faisait partie, suivant 

 Descamps, du cabinet du marquis de Lassay. On 

 trouve cette note dans les iriemoires secrets de Bachau- 

 ment," &c. 



Then follows the passage quoted by Mr. Breen. 

 I can find no mention of a Dubarry among the 

 ancestors of the monarch. H. C. K. 



Burial in an erect Posture (Vol. viii., p. 59.). — 



" Pass, pass, who will yon chantry door, 

 And through the chink in the fractured floor 

 Look down, and see a grisly sight, 

 A vault where the bodies are buried upright ; 

 There face to face and hand by hand 

 The Claphams and Maulcverers stand." 



Wordsworth, White Doe of Rylstone, Canto I., 

 p. 59., line 17., new edition, 1837. 



See note on line 17 taken from Whitaker's 

 Craven : 



" At the east end of the north aisle of Bolton Priory 

 Church is a chantry belonging to Bethmesley Hall, 

 and a vault where, according to tradition, the Claphams 

 were buried upright." 



r. w. J. 



Strrit-Stowers and Yeathers or Yadders (Vol. viii., 

 p. 148.). — The former of these words is, I believe, 

 obsolete, or nearly so. It means bracing-stakes : 



strut, in carpentry. Is to hrace ; and stower Is a small 

 kind of stake, as distinguished from the " ten 

 stakes " mentioned in the legend quoted by Mb. 

 Cooper. 



The other word, Yeather or Yadder, is yet In use 

 In Northumberland (vid. Brockett's Glossary^, 

 and is mentioned by Charlton in his History of 

 Whitby. The legend referred to by Mr. Cooper 

 Is, I suspect, of modern origin ; but Dr. Young, 

 in his History of Whitby, vol. i. p. 310., attributes 

 it to some of the monks of the abbey ; on what 

 grounds he does not say. The records of the 

 abbey contain no allusion to the legend ; and no 

 ancient MS. of it, either In Latin or English, has 

 ever been produced. The penny-hedge is yearly 

 renewed to this day ; but it is a service performed 

 for a different reason than that attributed In the 

 legend. (See Young and Charlton's histories.) 



F. M. 



The term strut Is commonly used by carpenters 

 for a brace or stay. Stower, in Bailey's Dic- 

 tionary, is a stake ; Halliwell spells it stoure, and 

 says it is still in use. Forby connects the Norfolk 

 word stour, stiff, inflexible, applied to standing 

 corn, with this word, which he says Is Lowland 

 Scotch, and derives them both from Sul.-G. stoer^ 

 stipes. A yeather or y adder seems to be a rod to 

 wattle the stakes with. In Norfolk, wattling a 

 live fence is called ethering it, which word, evi- 

 dently with yeather, may be derived from A.-S. 

 ether or edor, a hedge. The barons, therefore, 

 had to drive their stakes perpendicularly Into the 

 sand, to put the strut-stowers diagonally to enable 

 them to withstand the force of the tide, and 

 finally to wattle them together with the yeathers. 



E. G. E. 



Arms of See of York (Vol. viii., p. 111.). — It 

 appears that the arms of the See of York were 

 certainly changed during Wolsey's time, for on 

 the vaulting of Christ Church Gate, Canterbury, 

 Is a shield bearing (in sculpture) the same arms 

 as those noAV used by the IMetropolItan See of 

 Canterbury, impaling those of Wolsey, and over 

 the shield a cardinal's hat. This gateway was 

 built in 1517; yet in the parliament roll of 

 6th Henry VIII., 1515, the keys and crown are 

 impaled with the arms of Wolsey as Archbishop 

 of York (see fac-simile, published by Willement, 

 4to. Lond. 1829), showing that the alteration was 

 not generally known when the gateway was built. 



Although the charges on the earlier arms of the 

 See of York were the same as on that of Canterbury, 

 the colours of their fields differed ; for In a north 

 window of the choir of York Minster is a shield 

 of arms, bearing the arms of Archbishop Bowett, 

 who held the see from 1407 to 1423, impaled by 

 the pall and pastoral staff, on a field gules. The 

 glass is to all appearance of the fifteenth century. 



T. Wt. 



