226 Letter to the Editor. 



TODDXNGTON. 



" 9 Oct. Given a footman brought worde to my La. to St. Alban's 



that my La : Arrondale was brought bedde of a son 10. 0." 



St. Alban's. 



"9 Oct. Soper and dyner at St. Albans 8. 15. 6. 



Horse meat for xx tie of my La : and x of Sir Henry Grays 2. 9. 4." 



London. 



[10th Oct. To the house of her aunt, the Countess of Shrewsbury, 

 in Broad Street.] 



The whole expenses of the Progress were £323 18s., besides a few 

 bills that followed, and interest of money borrowed for the journey 

 on the security of jewels. 



To the Editor of the Wiltshire Magazine. 



Dear Sie, 



I lately made a pilgrimage to Wulfhall and found an interesting relic 

 of the palmy days of the Lord Protector's residence there. In the upper part of 

 the existing farm-house, close by the old barn, but certainly not in its original 

 position, are some well-preserved portions of a stained glass window relating to 

 Jane Seymour and her son, Edward VI., when Prince of Wales. It is divided 

 into two parts, each having three subjects. The upper consists of the imperial 

 crown ; in the second is the badge of Jane Seymour, Queen of Henry VIIL, a 

 crowned eagle or phoenix rising from a bed of flowers consisting of pinks and 

 roses and resting on a castle. In the lower division are, on the dexter side, the 

 Prince of Wales's feathers, and on the other side the Tudor Rose. 



This glass must have been made at some period when Edward VI. was called 

 Prince of Wales, that is, between 1537 and 1546. 



Sandford says that Queen Jane Seymour " who is said to die willingly, to save 

 the life of her son, did bear a Phoenix in his Funeral Fire, with this motto 

 nascatue ut altee," and subsequently adds in a note, " This Edward VI. bare 

 (as did the Black Prince) three feathers in a crown, while his father lived, as 

 Prince of Wales, with ich dien. Albeit he was never so created." Mr. Planche 

 remarks that the ostrich feather was originally a badge, and not a crest as now 

 erroneously regarded. Plumes of feathers were not worn until the reign of 

 Henry V., and then as portions of costume, not as personal crests. The Black 

 Prince's feather was a single ostrich feather only. 



