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cupied. The popular account of the matter is, 

 that these unpleasant peculiarities of the mansion 

 are owing to the woodwork having been formed 

 out of the timber which composed the scaffold on 

 which Cliarles I. was executed. Is there any good 

 reason for believing that the said timber was so 

 used, and what are the particulars as to the alleged 

 haunting and ill-luck ? Tompion. 



Works printed by Plantin and the StepJtenses. — 

 Where can I find an accurate list of the works 

 printed by Plantin and the Stephenses ? I have 

 many copies which I do not find mentioned either 

 in Harwood, Dibdin, or Moss. I am forming a 

 collection solely for the purpose of showing the 

 works of the Elzevirs, Stephenses, Plantin, Morell, 

 and the Aldi, but I am incessantly embarrassed by 

 the difficulties attending the collation of copies 

 printed at a later period after the respective 

 offices had passed into other hands. This is 

 especially the case with the works illustrating 

 antiquities, chronology, &c. As these specimens 

 of old typography are now very rarely to be met 

 with in any well-arranged series, any information 

 bearing on the above points will greatly oblige 



C. W. Staunton. 



Fotheringay Castle. — This was anciently the 

 residence of the great House of York, and the 

 birthplace of Richard III. According to the 

 Rev. H. K. Bonney, M. A., who published a his- 

 tory of the place in 1821, — 



" Edmund of Langley, on taking possession, found it 

 so much dilapidated as to induce him to rebuild the 

 greater part of it. He pai<l particular attention to the 

 keep, the ground -plan of which was in the form of a 

 fetterlock. The fetterlock enclosing a falcon was after- 

 wards the favourite device of the family." 



Again : — 



" Whilst that powerful family was contending for the 

 crown, the falcon was represented as endeavouring to 

 expand its wings, and force open the lock. When it had 

 actually ascended the throne, the falcon was represented 

 as free, and the lock open." 



Query. How was the fetterlock represented, 

 and where is such representation to be found ? 

 Also, where is a view of Fotheringay Castle to he 

 found ? as I have searched several topographical 

 works to no purpose. C. W. Staunton. 



Britton on Shalispeare's Bust. — In what work 

 can I find the following reference : — Britton^ s 

 Ilemarks on the Monumental Bust of Shakspeare, 

 published in 181G. Charles Knight makes refer- 

 ence to the work in his Biography of Shakspeare, 

 but does not specially mention the title of the 

 book in which the remarks are to be found. 



Also can I be referred to an engraving of the 

 bust, which has been published of late years, and 

 illustrates the monument very clearly. I do not 

 refer to that published in Boydell's edition, but 

 a much lighter print, almost square, and giving 



the inscription on the tomb, &c. very distinctly. 

 I saw the print some few months since at an old 

 book-stall, and would gladly find that which I 

 then omitted to secure. I should feel greatly 

 obliged for a clue to this print, which, as nearly 

 as I can recollect, would be about folio size. 



Edwd. Y. Lowne. 

 ^^ An Autumn near the Rhine." — Will any of 

 your correspondents acquaint me with the name 

 of the author of An Autumn near the Rhine, and 

 Sketches of the Courts and Society of some of the 

 German States, &c.," published by Longman & 

 Co. in 1818. J. E. T. 



The Blaster of the Game. — Can you or any of 

 your readers tell me anything about an old vellum 

 manuscript I have now before me, called 



" Ye Boke off huntyng, why eh ys clepyde the Maystre 

 oflfGame." 



It commences (after a table of contents) with a 

 dedication — 



" To the honour and Reverence of vow my R3'ght 

 WyrshypfFull and Dredde Lord, Henry (?) b3' the grace 

 of Gode eldest sone and heyr unto the hygh excellent & 

 Cristen Prvnce Hery (?) the iiij'«. By ye fforsayde the (?) 

 Kynge of Ingelonde and off Ffraunce, Prynce of Wales, 

 Duke of Guvene, of lancastre, off CornwavU and Erie of 

 Chestre." 



E. H. K. . 



" Pizarro." — I have two versions of Pizarro, 

 regarding which I seek information : — 



" Pizarro, or the Death of Rolla, from Kotzebue, by 

 Richard Heron." Lond. 8vo. n. d. 



This, in the List of Plays in Biographia Dra- 

 maticn, is, agreeably to the title, assigned to 

 Richard, but in the Lives it is given to Robert 

 Heron. The latter certainly is known as a dra- 

 matist, and until I obtained the play I believed it. 

 to be his. How is this ? and who was Richard 

 Heron ? 



" Pizarro, a Tragedy in Five Acts ; differing widely 

 from all other Pizarros, by a North Briton." 8vo. Lond. 

 n. d. 



Can any correspondent supply the name of the 

 North Briton ? J. 0. 



'■'■Avon." — Who was the author of — 



" Avon, a Poem in Three Parts, Birmingham, printed 

 by John Baskerville, and sold bv R. and J. Dodsley in 

 P'all Mall. 4to. 1758 " ? 



It is not mentioned by Mr. Ilalliwell, though 

 the allusion to the poet in the first canto would, I 

 think, justify its appearing under the above head- 

 ing. I would also inquire, whether it might not 

 be desirable that the pages of " N. & Q." should 

 record the " Suakspeariana " that have appeared 

 since Mr. IlalliweU's publication, which ends with 



