of Queen Elizabeth. It seems to have come into his family by 

 the marriage of his ancestor, Wingate Pulleine, in 1721, to 

 Catharine Frances, daughter and co-heir of Philip Babington, 

 Esq., of Babington, in Northumberland. 



I was at Clifton on the occasion of the visit of the Royal 

 Archaeological Society to York, when I carefully examined it, and 

 have written to Mrs. Pulleine for the loan of it for this meeting, 

 but have not received any reply. She must be abroad, because 

 I know that if possible she would have acceded to my request. 



A Note on Anthony Babington. 



Sir Walter Scott describes him as a young gentleman of good 

 parts, large fortune, and an amiable disposition, but addicted to 

 romantic ideas on the subject of love and friendship, and an 

 unhesitating zealot in the cause of the Roman Church. The 

 plot for which he was attainted originated with three Romish 

 priests, two of the name of Gilford, and the third Hodgson, and 

 it contemplated the death of Elizabeth, with the consequent 

 exaltation of Mary Queen of Scots. It was first determined that 

 Savage, an English Romanist, holding a commission in the 

 Spanish service, should put Elizabeth to deatli with his own 

 hand ; but it being considered afterwards as rash in the extreme 

 to entrust an object so important to a single arm, Babington 

 undertook to carry the plot into execution with a band of ten 

 gentlemen, with whom he was connected with the closest bonds 

 of community in studies and amusements. The names of these 

 persons were Windsor, Salisbury, Tilney, Tichbourne, Gage, 

 Travers, Bamewall, Chaswick, Dunn, and Jones. The number 

 was more than double that which was requisite, but the rash and 

 romantic mind of Babington totally unfitted him to lead such a 

 band of conspirators. His imagination (excited in an extra- 

 ordinary degree) displayed by one single act his utter incapacity. 

 He caused to be painted a picture, representing six of his 

 principal associates, with his own portrait in the centre, the whole 

 bearing a motto expressive of some hazardous undertaking 



