122 NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[No. 8. 
He who draws upon a joint-stock bank of litera- 
ture as rich as yours, Mr. Editor, already is, should 
bring a something to its capital, though it be a 
mite. Allow me, then, to throw in mine. At 
p. 77. “A Suxscriser” asks, “if William de Bolton 
was an ecclesiastic, how is it that his wife is openly 
mentioned?” For one of these two reasons: Ist. 
By the canon law, whether he be in any of the four 
minor orders, or in any of the three higher or holy 
orders, a man is, and was always, called “Cleri- 
cus,” but clerks in lower or minor orders did, and 
still do, marry without censure; 2d. The Church 
did, and still does, allow man and wife to separate 
by free mutual consent, and to bind themselves by 
the vows of perpetual continence and chastity, the 
man going into a monastery, or t ang holy orders, 
the woman becoming anun. Such, I suspect, was 
the case with Sir William de Bolton (“ Sir” being 
the ancient title of a priest) and his wife, whose 
joint concurrence in the “transfer of property by 
charter would be legally required, if, as is likely, 
she had an interest in it. 
Your correspondent “ Musarrr,” while on the 
subject of the Flemish account, p.74,, is in error, in 
assigning to a Count of Flanders the “old story” 
of the cloaks ; it belongs to Robert, Duke of Nor- 
mandy, who played off the joke at Constantinople 
in the court of the Greek emperor, as Bromton 
tells us (ed. T'wysden, i. 911.) CEPHAS. 
THE POETS. 
Many years ago a Sonnet, by Leigh Hunt, 
characterising the} poets, appeared in the Examiner. 
Can any of your readers inform me whether the 
following, which I quote from memory, is correct ? 
C. Day. 
“ Were I to name, out of tlie times gone by, 
The poets dearest to me, I should say, 
Pulei for spirits, and a fine, free way, 
Chaucer for manners, and a close, silent eye ; 
Spenser for luxury and sweet sylvan play, 
Horace for chatting with from day to day; 
Milton for classic taste and harp strung high, 
Shakspeare for all—but most, socicty. 
But which take with me could I take but one ? 
Shakspeare, as long as I was unoppress'd 
With the world’s weight, making sad thoughts 
intenser ; 
But did I wish out of the common sun 
To lay a wounded heart in leafy rest, 
And dream of things far off and healing—Spenser.” 
MR. POORE’S LITERARY COLLECTIONS —INIGO JONES 
—MEDAL OF STUKELEY — SIR JAMES THORNHILL, 
Sir, — with thanks for the insertion of my 
former letter, I proceed to submit a few literary 
queries for solution through the medium of your 
pages. 
In connection with the county of Wilts, I will 
first mention the Literary Collections of the late 
Edward Poore, Esq., of North Tidworth, which I 
examined, with much satisfaction, on my visits to 
him there, i in the years 1798 and 1799. Mr. Poore 
was a man of considerable attainments, and cor- 
responded with many distinguished characters, 
both at home and abroad. He travelled over 
many parts of the continent, and his letters and 
notes relating to public and private occurrences and 
persons were remarkably curious and interesting. 
I have long lost all trace of them, and should be 
glad to ascertain where they are likely to be 
found. 
An immense boon would be conferred on the 
cause of Architecture and Archeology by the re- 
covery of Inigo Jones’s Sketches and Drawings of 
Ancient Castles. These, together with his Plans, 
Views, and Restorations of “Stonehenge, probably 
descended to his nephew, Webb. The latter were 
engraved, and published in Webb’s volume on 
Stonehenge; but the Sketches of Castles have 
never yet been published. On the ground of 
Inigo Jones's intimacy with Lord Pembroke, I 
was referred to the library at Wilton as a probable 
depository of his drawings, but without success ; 
as I am informed, they do not form a part of that 
valuable collection. Perhaps I may be allowed to 
correct the error which so commonly ascribes the 
erection of Wilton House to Jones. In the Na- 
tural History of Wiltshire, by John Aubrey, which 
I edited in 1847 (4to.), it is clearly shown that 
the mansion was built in 1633 by, or from the 
designs of, Solomon de Caus, architect, who was 
probably aided by his brother Isaac ; ane that it 
was rebuilt in 1648, after an extensive fire, by 
Webb, who, as is well known, married a niece of 
Tnigo Jones. The latter celebrated architect re- 
commended the employment of these parties, and 
probably approved of their designs, but had no 
further share in their production. Tis advice, 
however, to the Earl of Pembroke, was the means 
of preserving the famous Porch at Wilton, ascribed 
to Hans Holbein, which gives him a peculiar 
claim to the gratitude of all architectural anti- 
quaries. 
I pessess a large collection of the manuscript 
journals, papers, drawings, and correspondence of 
Dr. Stukeley. To the kindness of my old friend 
Dr. Ingram, President of Trinity College, Oxford, 
I also owe a large Bronze Medal, with a medallion 
portrait of Stukeley on the obverse, and a view of 
Stonehenge on the reverse. ‘This is evidently a 
cast from moulds, and rather crudely executed, 
and I am induced to regard it as unique. I shall 
be much gratified if any of your correspondents 
can furnish me with a clue to its histor y, or to the 
name of its maker, I would here venture to 
suggest some inquiry into the biography of 
Charles Bertram, of Copenhagen, who furnished 
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