1805.]  Extraés from the Port Folio of Alay of Letters, 
p- 85). InHollar’s print of the Tryal of 
Archbifhop Laud, prefixed to. Prynne’s 
Hidden Workes of Darknels, printed 1645, 
among the people and auditors many feem 
to have perukes on their heads ; and p.209, 
Dr. Grey’s Hudibias, vol. 2. p. 72. 
See Monthly Review for 1779, p- 3072 
where bob wigs are mentioned, in Mr. 
Niebuhr’s Voyages, to have been worn by 
the antient Parfi. In a letter from Sir 
Fr. Knollys, to Secretary Cecil, 1568, 
printed in the Antiquarian Repertory, vol. 
2. p. 168, mention is made of a pere- 
wyke worn by tie Queen of Scotts, at 
Carlifle. 
LORD ORFORD’S ALTAR TABLETS. 
Strawberry Hill, Fune 4, 1779+ 
-I am forry, dear Sir, you could not 
let me have the pleafure of your com- 
pany: but IT own you have partly, not 
entirely, made me amends, by the hight of 
the curious manufeript, which I return 
you with your other book of Inaugura- 
tions. 
The fight of the M. S. was particu- 
larly welcome to me, becaufe the long 
vifit of Henry VI. and his uncie Glou- 
cefter to St Edmund’s Bury, accounts for 
thofe rare altar tablets that I bought 
at Mr. Ives’s fale, on which are incon- 
teftably the portraits of Duke Humphrey, 
Cardinel Beaufort, and the fame Arch- 
bifhop that is in my Marriage cf Heary VI. 
I know the Houfe of Lancafter were pa- 
trons of St. Edmund’s Bury: but fo 
Jong a vifit is demonfration. 
The fourth perfon on my pannels is 
unknown: over his head is a coat of arms. 
It may be that of W. Curteys the Abbot 
—or the Alderman, as he is in {carlet. 
His figure, and the Duke’s, are far {upe- 
rior to the other two, and worthy of a 
good Italian mafter. The Cardinal and 
the Archbifhop are in the dry hard man- 
ner of the age. I wifh you would call 
and Jook at them; they are at Mr. Bo. 
- mus’s in Oxford Road: the two prelates 
are much damaged. [ peremptorily en. 
joyned Bonus to repair only, and not re- 
paint them; and thus by putting him 
out of his way, I put him fo much out of 
humour too, that he has kept them thefe 
two years, and not finifhedthem yet. Ide- 
fign them for the four void !paces in my 
chapel, on the fides of the fhrine. The 
Duke of Gleucetter’s face is fo like, tho’ 
younger, that it proves [ gucfled right at 
his figure in my Marriage. The tablets 
came out of the Abbey of Bury; were 
procured by old Peter le Neve, Norroy, 
and came by his widow’s marriage to 
Tem Martin, at whole fale Mr. Ives 
al9 
bought them. We have very few prince. 
ly portraits fo antient, fo authentic, and 
none fo well painted’ as the Duke and 
the fourth perfon. Thefe were the tnfides of 
thedoors which I had {plit into two, and va- 
loe them extremely. ‘T’his account will, 
Tthink, be more fatilactory to you than 
notes. 
Pray tell me how you like the pi&tures 
when you have examined them. [I fhall 
fearch in Ecmunton’s new Vocabulary of 
Arms for the coat, which contains three 
buli’s heads on fix pieces; but the colours 
are either white and black, or the hatter is 
become fo by time. JI hope you are not 
going out of town yet; I fhall probably 
be there fome day next week. 
I fee advertifed a book fomething in 
the way cf your Inaugurations, called Le 
Cofiume: do you know any thing of it? 
can you tell me who is the author of the 
Second Anticipations, on the Exhibition? 
Is not it B the painter? 
Your moit obliged 
HOR. WALPOLE. 
‘¢ To the Rew. Mr. Lort.”” 
Original Letter from Bifbop Reynolds to Dr. 
Zachary Gray. 
’ Buckden, May 15. 
“© GOOD DR. CRAY. 
Tam very much for making the letter 
of the canons my rule in all my adminil- 
trations, efpecially in the article of con- 
ferring orders. And as the thirty-third of 
our canons exprefsly forbids the admii- 
fion of any one to holy orders, unlefs he 
hath a title, as is therein deferibed; and 
as the reafon of ths limitation was not 
barely for fecuring the church or the Bi- 
fhop from the burthen of an indigent un-= 
provided clergy, but alfo and moreover | 
: for guarding againf& the {candals that 
might be apprehended from the extrava- 
gations of a fupernumerary and unim- 
ployed clerzy, I have varely, if ever, ad- 
mitted any upon the title of an elate, as 
it is fometimes called. 
Indeed J have of late, at the folicitation 
of fome of the beads in the Univeriities, 
made a favourable conftru€tion of one 
claufe in this canor, with refpett to exhi- 
bitioners from Chritt’s Hofpital, the Char- 
treufe,and Merchant Taylors'Schole, &c. 
But I have done this under perfuation that 
theie exhibitions had the nature of fellow- 
fhips; as they not only fuftained their 
proprietors, but employed, and, in fome 
fort, confin’d "em too; which, as expe- 
rience informs us, is more than ean be 
faid for that maintenance, which arifes 
from an hereditary effate. So tnat, if f 
might, without citence, offer you my ad- 
. VICE, 
