NOTES ON SOME RELICS OF KING CHARLES I. 237 



I may mention here that the spelling of Benett in the old days 

 seems to have been very erratic. I have one letter dated 1643, 

 the address being "JOHN BENNETT, Pyt House, near Shaftes- 

 bury." The first words in the letter are "Dear Brother BENETT," 

 and the signature is spelt BENET. 



The gloves belonged to the Seymers, of Handford, near 

 Blandford, and were presented by His Majesty on the scaffold to 

 Bishop Juxon, who accompanied the King from St. James' Palace 

 to Whitehall. Bishop Juxon's only daughter married a Seymer, 

 of Handford, in whose possession the gloves have been until a 

 few years ago. In the year 1884 my father exchanged with 

 Mrs. Gertrude Clay-Ker-Seymer a letter and a picture of His 

 Majesty by Vandyke for a glove, and about eighteen months 

 ago I purchased the second glove from that lady. 



The cast of the King's head came into my father's family 

 through the Fanes, and is one of the five that were taken shortly 

 before the burial at Windsor Castle ; Mildmay, Earl of Westmore- 

 land, being its lucky recipient. 



