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of the clouds, holding a hammer, resting on the 

 top of the pinnacle, from which issue flames, as 

 the effect of a blow of the hammer : and, on the 

 left hand, a human face comes from the clouds, 

 blowing on and exciting the flames. 



No. 3 — Is the mark or emblem in the title- 

 page of Bartholomew Kechermann's (of Dantzic) 

 Systema Ethicce, 12mo. " Hanovife apud Petrum 

 Antonium, md.cxix." It is inclosed in an oval 

 frame which bears the motto, " nvlla est via — 

 invia virtvti ; " and represents a steep rocky 

 hill, on which stands a pelican feeding her young 

 with blood from her breast — the old emblem of 

 maternal love ; — and below is a man with a sword 

 by his side attempting to climb up the mountain 

 by a very steep road or ravine which winds up it. 



No. 4 — Is on the title-page of a very small 

 volume, entitled " Galliese Linguae Institutio, 

 Latina sermone conscripta. Per Ioannem Pil- 

 lotum, Barrensem. Antwerpias apud Joannem 

 Withagium. 1558." The colophon reads, — 

 " Antwerpias Typis Amati Calcographi." 



This mark or emblem represents an old blind 

 man with a beard, walking, and carrying astride on 

 his shoulders a lame man, who holds a crutch in 

 his right hand, and points to the road, or to the 

 monogrammic mark, with his left. The blind 

 man has a long staff in his right hand, and what 

 seems to be a basin (as in the act or habit of 

 begging), in his left, and a kind of musical instru- 

 ment hanging at his left side. The blind man's 

 dog, loose, walks a little in advance on one side. 



In a vacant space in front is, probably, the 

 printer's monogrammic mark, consisting of the 

 united letters xw, from which rises a line which 

 is crossed above, and is surmounted with a figure 

 of four, having its tail crossed. 



The whole is within an oval frame, bearing the 



motto, " MVTVA DEFEN8IO TVTISSIMA." 



No. 5 — Is on the title-page of a copy of Pliny's 

 Epistles, &c. : — 



" Lugduni excusura " (as the colophon says), " pa?- 

 clarum hoc opus in aedibus Antonii Blancbardi Limoui- 

 censis : suraptu honesti viri Vicentii de Portonariis, de 

 Tridino, de Monteferrato. Anno Millesimo quingenteaimo 

 xxvii." 



It is surrounded by a quadrangular border, 

 which contains the words " vicentivs . de por- 



TONAHIIS . DE TRIDINO . DE MONTE FERRATO ; " 



and represents a draped female figure with ex- 



Eanded wings, holding before her breast an empty 

 ox or shrine, upright, with open doors on its 

 sides and bottom ; on the borders of which doors 

 are the words " gra plena— plvs ovltre — ave 

 Maria." The figure stands between the letters 



P I M 



The emblem is repeated on the back of 



the last leaf; but is from a larger block, in which 

 the attitude of the figure and the position of the 

 four letters are reversed. 



No. 6 — is the large and handsome mark of Peter 

 Chouet on the title-page of Petri Ravanelli's 

 Bibliotheca Sacra, folio. " Genevae, M.DC.C." 



In the centre is an aged male figure, with a 

 glory round the head ; from behind which rises a 

 spreading palm-tree. He is sitting on a covered 

 table or long bench, on each end of which is an 

 urn or jug. Immediately before him is a square 

 pit or well, having an open arched frame-work 

 rising from within it, in the centre of which is a 

 tube. A staff rests in his left arm, in the hand 

 of which he holds a vase, from which his right 

 hand seems to be taking something, in a line with 

 the tube. There are upright water-urns on each 

 side of the well, and in the front of it one over- 

 turned, and the fragments of others. 



In the distant background (on the observer's 

 left hand), are the sacrifices of Cain and Abel ; 

 and in the middle ground, Cain slaying Abel. On 

 the right hand is the destruction of the Egyptians 

 in the Red Sea, and Moses and the Israelites on 

 the opposite shore. 



The whole is surrounded with an oval frame 

 and grotesque border, in which, at the top, are 

 sitting two female figures, with palm branches, 

 bearing water-urns on their heads ; and below, 

 two satyrs pouring water from urns, and having, 

 in a bottom compartment, the motto, " Sola Dei 



MENS . IVSTITLffi NORMA." P. H. FlSHER. 



GUNPOWDER-PLOT PAPERS. 



The house adjoining the Parliament House, 

 which, at the beginning of this conspiracy, was 

 chosen by Catesby for the purposes of the plot, 

 belonged to one Mr. AVynniard, the Keeper of the 

 King's Wardrobe. Mr. Wynniard, however, did 

 not reside in it at that time, but had let it to a 

 gentleman of the name of Ferrers, in whose occu- 

 pation it was at the commencement of the year 

 1604. In that year the conspirators, finding the 

 house very advantageously placed, resolved to 

 hire it, their intention being, as is well known, to 

 undermine the adjoining foundations of the House 

 of Lords. Though this intention was ultimately 

 abandoned, by reason of the discovery of a cellar 

 more convenient than the mine, yet the excava- 

 tions were commenced in earnest and under many 

 disadvantages. Afterwards, when the plot was 

 discovered, and many of the conspirators known 

 to the Council by name, some agents of the govern- 

 ment, whilst searching their residences and the 

 hiding-places and resorts of the Romanists, dis- 

 covered the following document. It is the agree- 

 ment between Henry "Ferrers and Thomas Percy, 

 who was deputed by his companions to obtain 

 possession of Mr. Wynniard's house, as to the 

 terms on which Ferrers would part with his in- 

 terest in it, he being at that time, as previously 

 stated, the lessee of Mr. Wynniard, and the oci'u- 



