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On the Tuesday the crowd was far greater. The people had come with the full intention of welcoming their favourite, and escorting him with full honours to Westminster. When the gates remained closed, the rough faces grew darker, and the clamour greater. A paper of verses written by a poetical Wilkite being torn down from the prison gate, the cry was "Give us the paper," and the people would not be pacified. The soldiers (most unfortunately a detachment of the 3rd Foot Guards, a Scotch regiment, and nearly all hot-blooded Highlanders or Lowland Scots, whom the mob detested as being countrymen of Bute), commenced to push back the people with their muskets, and to force them away with rough threats. The rioters' fists began to close, their sticks to brandish. Showers of blinding and stinging gravel were thrown, and then the rioters took to stones and brickbats. In vain the Surrey magistrates read the Riot Act as the soldiers advanced, and the people for a time gave way. A young fellow in a red waistcoat was seen by the soldiers, as they thought, urging on the stone throwers. Three Scotch soldiers, breaking from the ranks, made at him, and chased him, as they imagined, into a cow-house, 500 yards distant, in St. George's Fields. In the cow-house they found a man in a red waistcoat, and he fell from an intentional or accidental discharge of one of their muskets. He turned out, however, unfortunately, to be an entirely innocent spectator, the son of Mr. Allan, landlord of the Horse Shoe, an inn in Blackman-street, in the Borough. The ball had passed through his collar bone, and come out at his back. His hand also was pierced.

noisy, and the Colonel's guard was accordingly doubled. A afternoon, she was returning from Spring Gardens in Char. charge was at last made, and eight of the ringleaders cap-ing Cross, on foot, with one Mrs. Goodbine, and, on their tured and committed to the new gaol at Southwark (Horse- arrival at the Asylum in St. George's Fields, some Horsemonger-lane), by two Surrey magistrates-Daniel Ponton Guards passed by at full speed, on which a gentleman, a and Samuel Gillam. stranger to both, came up to Mrs. Egremont and offered his service to conduct her and Mrs. Goodbine along the road, saying it was dangerous walking on account of the crowd and the Guards coming up; that instantly Mrs. Egremont heard the discharge of fire-arms, and afterwards, being near the middle of the New Road, near the Windmill, and endeavouring to cross, to avoid the next firing, she heard a second firing, and the gentleman with her desired her to look across the road, whereupon she discovered a woman lying upon the ground, appearing to be wounded; and, at the same instant, a ball passed under her left arm, the gentleman with her having his arm about her waist in order to protect her. She then cried out she should be killed, and he immediately said he was a dead man; that she fainted away, and, on coming to herself, found she was bloody, but not wounded; that she desired the people at the sign of the Windmill, a public-house, to let her in, but they refused, alleging that they were in danger of their own lives, and could not open the door, but somebody handed a tumbler of water to her out of window; that, being feeble, she went to the second hay-cart in the Haymarket there, and sat down upon one of the shafts, where she had not been above a minute before there was another discharge of fire-arms, and the deceased William Bridgeman being upon the hay in the same cart where she was sitting, said, They are firing away,' on which the deceased directly dropped to the ground, saying, 'Lord Jesus Christ!' then, in a low voice, My wife and children!' and uttered some words, but not to be understood. The deceased then put his hand to his side, where he had received a shot, and a stranger unbuttoned his waistcoat and said the man was shot with a ball; that the people about him, as well as her tion, and seemingly in great pain; and in about twenty self, on account of the danger, left him in a helpless condi minutes afterwards he was carried along the road upon the shoulders of several men, when he seemed to be dead, and she heard that he died soon after receiving his wound.

In the meantime, the riot had grown so alarming that the soldiers had received orders to fire. At the first volley six persons fell dead, and fourteen or sixteen were seriously wounded. Two pregnant women were trampled to death. The mob then dispersed, reassembling in different places in the Borough to force persons to illuminate their houses; but they were by degrees scattered by patrols of light horse. The next day there was a second attempt at a riot, although the Foot Guards had barracks erected for them in the outhouses of the prison.

On May 17th two inquests were held in the Borough, the evidence in which enables us to describe the details of the

riot with more minuteness.

"The first was at the parish of St. Saviour, on the body of Mary, the wife of William Jeffs. It appeared that last Tuesday, about eleven in the forenoon, the deceased and her daughter were attending close to the Haymarket, in St. George's Fields, with a double-handled basket, with oranges, in order to sell them; that about two that afternoon they heard that the soldiers were going to fire, upon which they and several other persons were removing to avoid the danger; and as the deceased and her daughter were carrying away the basket between them, some of the soldiers fired, and the deceased fell down directly, and when taken up said she was only frightened, but not hurt; that she was soon after speechless, was let blood immediately, and then carried to St. Thomas's Hospital, where she expired about an hour after the firing. On her being undressed at the hospital, a large gun-shot wound was discovered a little below her navel, which she received about two hours after the proclamation had been read. The jury brought in their verdict, that she was accidentally and by misfortune killed by a soldier unknown, in endeavouring to suppress the rioters.

"The second inquisition was taken at the parish of St. George the Martyr, on the body of William Bridgeman. Mrs. Elizabeth Egremont, the wife of a surveyor, living in Weston Street, in St. Olave's parish, appeared as a witness, and swore that last Tuesday, a little before three in the

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"The coroner, in summing up his evidence to the jury, observed, that every unhappy case of this kind was attended with its particular circumstances, which were to be the im mediate subjects of their attention and enquiry; that young Allen's case was in no manner to bias them, nor were they to regard any reports; that they were to lay aside all popular resentment or prejudice, and to give a verdict according to the evidence, without any fear, favour, affection, hatred, or ill-will; in doing which they would act consistent with their oaths, and discharge their consciences.

"The jury, after some time consulting, brought in their verdict, chance medley, in which they confirmed the verdict of the jury at St. Saviour's, Southwark."

of wilful murder against Donald Maclean, the Scotch soldier
The jury at the inquest on poor Allen returned a verdict
who fired the shot, and his companion Donald Maclaury, as
also arrested for aiding and abetting. As for Maclean he
an accessory. Ensign Murray, the commanding officer, was
Wilkites. As usual in these street riots, the innocent
narrowly escaped being torn in pieces by the enraged
spectators suffered most. Allen was attended to the grave
by 50,000 mourners, and on his monument in Newington
Churchyard the following patriotic epitaph was engraved :—

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
WILLIAM ALLEN,

An Englishman of unspotted life and amiable
Disposition:

who was inhumanly murdered near St. George's
Fields by an officer and two soldiers, on the 10th
day of May, 1768, at a massacre of several of his

countrymen by Scottish detachments from the army, on the pretence of supporting the civil power, which he never insulted, but had through life obeyed and respected.

His disconsolate parents caused this stone to be erected to an only son, lost to them and to the world in his twentieth year, as a monument of his virtues and their affection.

THE CASTLES,

(To be continued.)

HALLS, AND
HOUSES OF ENGLAND.

LEEDS CASTLE, KENT.

(Continued from page 41.)

MANOR

prisoners confined there in the reign of Charles II. The of them had been hung with tapestry, and on the floors were remaining rooms formed three sides of a quadrangle; some carved chess-boards, probably the work of the Dutch prisoners.

way across, when the moat was cleared out in 1822, there appeared to be a small island, the water being very shallow and the bottom hard. It is the part of the bridge between this island and the building that is presumed to have been movable. The staircase was probably constructed by Henry VIII. in a more peaceful age than that in which the fortress was first erected. From this staircase a door leads into a kind of cellar or store. In the corner, on the left of the entrance, was a spacious room, with a handsome chimney-piece, now destroyed, of the period of Henry VIII., carved with the arms of Sir Henry Guldeford, at that time constable of the castle, quartering those of Colepeper. The principal floor of the keep contains three good fireplaces, with the arms of Henry VIII. in the spandrels. The rose and pomegranate also occur in them, together with the castle of Castille, by which it would seem they were executed before Katharine of Aragon fell into disfavour. The interior wall, as left by Henry VII. and VIII., was of timber and plaster, and the JUST by the drawbridge leading to the keep was a kitchen oak or chestnut cornices were richly moulded. In the alterconstructed of timber, from which it is probable that the hall ation and repairs that were affected in this part of the castle may have been over, or nearly over, the cellar. This is the in 1822, much of the old material was made use of in the more probable as there was in this kitchen an ancient new walls. The interior of the keep, prior to the above date, oven, built in the thickness of the wall, part of which pro-mains of it, for nine of the rooms were burnt by some Dutch consisted of Sir Henry Guldeford's work, or rather the rejected from the outside on a bold corbel, still remaining. An archway of freestone led to the drawbridge which originally supplied the means of communication between the keep and the other part of the building. The quadrant, carefully executed in the stonework, in which it traversed, when raised or lowered, is still perfect, under the openings of the stone arch erected in 1822. This drawbridge was long ago replaced by a timber erection of two stories boarded over, and the passages enclosed by side walls of lath and plaster; and this again, at the date just mentioned, was superseded by the stone bridge of two stories as it now stands. In the ministers accounts, temp. Edward III., the ancient drawbridge is called the Pons Glorietta, from the fact of its leading to the tower called the "gloriette," which now contains the clock, &c. The entrance to the lower story of the keep is a flat trefoil or shouldered arch, similar to the one noticed in the gate house; above the arch is part of the Retracing our steps over the bridge which connects the keep work of Henry VIII., who restored the whole of the upper to the central island, we enter the principal domestic apartstory. On the left of the entrance was the chapel. Three of ments. In this portion of the castle, which was erected by the original windows remain, together with the arch which the grandfather of the present owner in 1822, some of the old contained the rich tracery of a fourth. These windows are work has been introduced, especially a handsome oak of the period of Edward I., about 1280, as is also the outer chimney-piece in the dining-room of the time of James I., arch of the richer one; but new tracery was put in about several of the oak spandrels of Henry VIII.'s time, and a 1314-15, as the survey then taken states that the original curious chimney-back (brought from an old manor house on tracery was destroyed by a hurricane. The design of this the estate), which appears to have been cast at the latter window is of that peculiar geometrical kind called termination of the Wars of the Roses. It is divided "Kentish tracery," examples of which are to be found only into two compartments by a pattern in the shape of two in that county and in a small part of Sussex. The interior arches; each arch contains a crown, of the period of Henry subdivision of the keep is modern; but it is evident that the VII., with a rose beneath it, and the two panels are united chapel, when used as such, was divided into two stories at by what seems intended for a cord. The andirons or firethe end opposite to the altar. The step to the raised altar dogs in the same fireplace were found in the room used as is indicated by a difference in the level of the bases of the the withdrawing-room over the banqueting-room of Henry shafts with which the jambs of the windows are em-VIII. already mentioned and have also the rose and crown bellished. The chapel, which has for many years served and fleur-de-lis among their decorations. From this it is for domestic purposes, is now (1873) in process of restora- almost certain that they belonged to the king. tion, in order to be converted to its original use. beyond the chapel, Henry VIII. seems to have pulled down a part of the outer wall, for the purpose of inserting two large windows; one of them a bay-window, of octagonal character, is in what was probably his banqueting-room. Over the banqueting-room was a withdrawing-room, and beyond it, where the larder is now situated, was probably a second kitchen, as there is an unusually large opening for a chimney without any carving or hearth, and the flue divides itself into two in the upper story.

A little

On the eastern side of the keep is a newel staircase, which leads to a postern, opening on the moat. It has been conjectured that there was formerly a wooden footbridge across the moat at this point, of which the portion next the building, at the least, was movable. About half

Quitting the keep, the visitor ascends the winding staircase of the clock-tower. The bell which this tower contains is one on which the curfew has been rung for many generations, the custom being kept up to this day it bears date 1435. There is also an ancient clock, supposed to be of the same date, which strikes on the same bell, but which has no dial or hands. A pendu'um has been substituted for the original balance, and within the last few years some new wheels have been added to facilitate the work of winding it up.

The whole of the rooms in this part of the castle are very lofty and imposing, and admirably adapted for comfort and convenience. Amongst the paintings that adorn the walls may be mentioned: Thomas, second Lord Colepeper, by Hanneman; Margaret, his lady, daughter and heiress of Prince Jean de Hesse; the Prince of Hesse Bergen, her father; two portraits of Thomas, third Lord Fairfax, the celebrated Parliamentary General (several MSS. of his are also preserved here, together with his doublet and shoes); Mary, his only daughter and heiress, Duchess of Buckingham, which, in the eyes of Walpole, when he visited Leeds Castle in 1752, was "the only recompense for all the fatigue he had undergone" in getting there; George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, her husband, and a series of portraits of the Fairfax family. There are also several interesting curiosities,

ncluding a valuable casket formerly belonging to the unortunate Anne Boleyn, several ancient stone cannon-balls, and a very curious key.

Concerning the history of this interesting structure, we learn from Hasted, and other Kentish historians, that Leeds was part of the possessions given by William the Conqueror to Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, by whom it was subsequently confiscated to the crown. The family of the Crevequers, or Crevecœur, soon afterwards had a grant of Leeds from the Conqueror; and by one Robert of that name, the castle appears to have been erected. In conjunction with Adam, his son, he founded a priory dedicated to St. Mary and St. Nicholas, at a short distance west of the castle. He had previously fitted up a chapel in the fortress, and in it had

France, he settled them, with other premises, as part of her dower. She survived the king, her husband, who died in 1307; and in the fifth year of the next reign, namely, that of Edward II., by the recommendation of the crown, appointed Bartholomew de Badlesmere, a nobleman of considerable power and eminence, and steward of the king's household, as governor of this castle. Upon her demise, five years later, the estates again reverted to the crown, when the manor of Leeds, together with the advowson of the priory, were granted to Lord Badlesmere, in fee, in exchange for the manor of Adderley, in Shropshire. The ambition of this nobleman, combined with his immense wealth-for he was possessed of great estates, more especially in Kent, from which circumstance he was invariably styled the "rich Lord

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placed three priests, whom he removed thither upon his founding the priory. Leeds continued in the possession of the Crevequeis until the fifty-second year o. the reign of Hery Ill., when the manor was exchanged with Roger de Leyburne for the manors of Trottesclyve and Fiete. At his death, Roger left a son and heir, William de Leyburne, who, in the reign of Edward I., had possession granted him of the manor of Leeds; as well as of the rest of the inheritance of which his step-mother, Eleanor, Countess of Winchester, was not endowed. However, it is said that, finding the king regarded the strength of this fortress with great jealousy, William de Leyburne reinstated the Crown in the possession of both the manor and castle; and on the king's marriage with Margaret, sister of Philip, King of

Badlesmere of Leeds "-led him to forget his allegiance, and he joined with the Earl of Lancaster and the discontented barons who had taken up arms against the king's great favourite, Piers de Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall. Upon this, the king resolved, if possible, to gain possession of this strong fortress, and in 1321 a somewhat curious stratagem is said to have been adopted to effect that purpose, for it is recorded how, under the pretence of the queen's performing a pilgrimage to Canterbury, she set forward, accompanied by a large train of attendants, and, with the secret intention of surprising the castle, sent her marshal, with others of her suite, to order lodgings for herself and her servants. Lady Badlesmere, her son, and four daughters, were at that time in the fortress under the care of Sir Thomas Colepeper, the

castellan, who was directed to refuse the queen's servants land during the civil wars. The castle remained in the admittance, which, upon the arrival of the queen in person, Fairfax family until the death of Robert, last Lord Fairfax, he still peremptorily persisted in, without having received in 1793, when it devolved on his nephew, the Rev. Denny express orders to that effect. Force was thereupon resorted Martin, D.D., who, before his uncle's death, had taken the to, and in the skirmish which ensued several of the queen's name and arms of Fairfax. On the death of Dr. Martin-Fairattendants were slain, and, being thus repulsed, she re- fax the estate passed to his brother, General Philip Martin, linquished her design, and was compelled to seek a lodging R.A. It subsequently passed by bequest to Fiennes Wykeelsewhere. To resent the indignity thus offered to the ham, Esq., grandfather of the present owner, who, in 1821, queen, a force was despatched, under the Earls of Pembroke assumed, by royal licence, the additional surname of Martin. and Richmond, to take the castle by storm; when those He died in 1840, and was succeeded by his eldest son within, finding no hopes of relief, were soon compelled to Charles, some time M.P. for West Kent and for Newsurrender. A scene of great confusion quickly followed: port, in the Isle of Wight, and who died in 1870, Lady Badlesmere, with her children, were sent as prisoners leaving by his first wife, Lady Jemima Isabella, daughter of to the Tower of London; Sir Thomas Colepeper, the castel- the fifth and last Earl of Cornwallis, a son and heir, Philip, lan, was hanged on the chain of the drawbridge, and the king M.P. for Rochester, who has inherited the estate of Leeds took possession of the castle and all the treasures it con- Castle, and other property belonging to this ancient family. tained. Lord Badlesmere was subsequently taken prisoner Within the last fifty years, in fact, since the accession of in Yorkshire, and being sent to Canterbury, was there Mr. Fiennes Wykeham-Martin, great care has been taken executed, and his head set on a pole on Burgate in that to preserve, as far as possible, all that remains of the original city. fabric from the unavoidable ravages of time; and thus to hand down to posterity one of the most perfect examples of the military architecture of our ancestors to be met with in this kingdom.

W. D.

Leeds Castle was now suffered to fall into a most ruinous condition, continuing, meantime, in the possession of the Crown till 1359, when Edward III. constituted that eminent architect, William de Wykeham (afterwards Bishop of Winchester), its chief warden and surveyor, and invested him with power to appoint workmen, provide materials, and order everything requisite for building and reparations. ANCIENT NEEDLEWORK AT THE SOUTH

Under his direction the castle is said to have been restored in a very skilful manner. Richard II. was induced to visit the place on several occasions, more particularly in his nineteenth year, at which period many of his public documents were dated "from his castle of Leeds." The building was also the residence of Henry IV. during the month of April, in the second year of his reign (1406), when he retired thither on account of the plague which was then raging in London. Towards the close of the fourteenth century, Archbishop Arundel procured a grant of Leeds Castle; he frequently resided there, and on his death, in 1413, it again reverted to From this date many of the principal gentry of Kent have been at different periods entrusted with its custody.

the crown.

KENSINGTON MUSEUM.

(Continued from page 47.)

THE most ancient specimens of embroidery in this extensive collection are the two small pieces contained in frame 51, and dating from the ninth century. One of these has indeed a pedigree of sanctity, as it is said to be a portion of the cushion-cover upon which was laid the finger of St. Luke, presented by Charlemagne to Archbishop Magnus of Sens. It is a small square of red silk, embroidered with heraldic lions in gold. The other is also an embroidery of gold on red silk, and represents St. Martin sharing his cloak with a beggar. These examples are marked as probably French, and are lent by Mons. Henry Esminger. The astonishing age of these relics of antiquity is indeed a fit subject for wonderment, and it could only be the purity of the gold used in their fabrication, which has enabled it to stand the test of a thousand years and retain much of its brilliancy even in the present day. The gold used anciently in instances of this kind was the genuine metal beaten out into thin strips, which were then worked into the material with which the precious substance was to be combined. The work next most remarkable in point of antiquity is a "Band of Linen," embroidered in silk by the Countess Ghilsa, wife of Guifred, Comte de Cerdagne. It is, according to Mons. Jubinal's description, French, and dates from the 11th century. But there is nothing in its style in the least approaching French art; and not only the arabesque inscriptions, but the remainder of the design denotes equally a Moorish or Oriental origin. Either the Countess had borrowed her pattern from an Arab or Moorish source, or she was possibly herself of such extraction. It is so rich and beautiful in its gem-like kaleidoscope effect, so different from, and superior to the European handicraft of the kind, that the Prophet must enlist the gratitude of all lovers of true art in design for having, by his religious ordinances, instituted regulations which have had so admirable an effect upon the artistic productions of his followers. It was with a view to prevent the possibility of a recurrence to

In the seventh year of Henry V., Joan of Navarre, the second queen of his predecessor, was committed as a prisoner to Leeds Castle for having conspired against the life of the king, but was afterwards delivered into the custody of Sir John Pelham, and was by him conveyed to Pevensey Castle, in Sussex. In 1440, Archbishop Chichele presided at Leeds Castle over the process instituted against Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester, for alleged sorcery and witchcraft. During the reign of Henry VIII. a great portion of the fortress was rebuilt at the king's expense, by Sir Henry Guldeford, who at that time held the office of constable of Leeds Castle and ranger of the park. The manor and castle remained in the possession of the Crown till the reign of Edward VI., when they were granted to Sir Anthony St. Leger, lord deputy of Ireland, to hold in capite by knight's service. The castle was subsequently alienated to Sir Richard Smyth, who rebuilt the southern portion of the edifice, and died possessed of it in 1628, and on the death of his son and successor in 1632, it passed by sale into the hands of Sir Thomas Colepeper, of Hollingbourne. During the exile of Charles II., Leeds Castle seems to have been in the possession of the usurping powers, and to have been used by them for assembling the committee men and sequestrators, and also as a prison for the ejected ministers. From the Colepepers the estate passed, by marriage, to Thomas, fifth Lord Fairfax, a relative of the famous general of that name so noted in Eng-idolatry that the founder of Islâm forbade the representa

During the alterations which were made at the castle in 1822, the skeletons of several of the soldiers slain in this conflict were dug up; one of them, which had its skull smashed in, must have been of colossal proportions, for it measured no less than six feet two inches, not merely without its shoes, but without its feet.

tion of animated beings. Thus, in most Oriental ornamentations, we are spared the hideous attempts at the portraiture of living things by the art of the needle. In no Turkish or Moorish divan is there any danger of walking into the open jaws of a lion or tiger; no fear of an uneasy seat upon garlands of fruit or flowers. Natural objects are submitted to

scientific rules of decoration, and the results are beauty, moderation, and adaption to the uses intended; while portraiture, whether of animated or still life, is left to the professed picture-maker or sculptor. This special example, we are told, belonged to the Abbaye de St. Martin de Canigon, and a fragment of an altar-cloth, the other part, has been offered to the Musée de Cluny by Mons. Achille Jubinal, the lender of that exhibited in the present instance. There is no example of the embroidery of the twelfth century, and the only one given of the thirteenth is ecclesiastical, and in a state of great dilapidation. It consists of a velvet chasuble with orphreys, nine panels complete, and apparently represents Biblical scenes. The Marquis of Bute, Baron Davillier, Mons. Spitzer, the Fishmongers' Company, and Mr. Frederick Leighton, R.A., appear to be the only contributors of needlework of the fourteenth century. The example belonging to Lord Bute is an or hrey recently mounted on a church vestment of white satin and bearing the "arms of John Grandison, who died Bishop of Exeter, in 1369." The embroidery, which is specified as English, has been partially restored, and is enclosed in a series of medallions, containing portraits of holy personages worked in silk and gold. The faces of these figures are executed in a similar manner to the other examples of the fourteenth century, but they display considerably less skill. Part of an ecclesiastical vestment, lent by Baron Davillier, represents eight saints, and is particularized as a rare specimen. It is of German nationality, as indeed, from its strongly marked Teutonic style, would be at once inferred. Apparently, the work is executed upon coarse linen or canvas, covered over with crimson silk, or possibly upon the silk itself; but being in a very ruinous state, patches of the ground or lining are everywhere visible through the embroidery. Monsieur Spitzer's rich and elaborate cover for a cloister desk, in embroidery on red velvet, displays on one side a large "mystical bird with outspread wings, the Trinity worked in silk on its chest, and the inscription In principio erat verbum, &c," on scrolls at each side. A border of gold and silk, ornamented with small convex metal studs in imitation of pearls, encloses the work and the central portion of crimson velvet and gold filagree. On the other side is the representation of an apostle, worked in gold and coloured silks, and holding a scroll upon which the same inscription is traced, while a vision of the Virgin and Child appears in part of the picture. The faces are executed in the finest silk embroidery, the original tracing of the lineaments being in some instances apparent beneath the subsequently-added needlework. This embroidery is stated to be French, and was a present from Charles V. to the Monastery of Yuste, in which he passed the latter days of his life.

The interesting antique pall belonging to the Fishmongers' Company, and illustrating English work of the fourteenth century, consists of embroidery in silk and gold on coarse linen. We learn that it was used at the funeral of Sir William Walworth, in the time of Richard II., 1381. The head and foot of the covering are ornamented with a design representing St. Peter on a throne; an angel with the traditional, fair, gold-coloured hair assigned to feminine saints, and with wings of peacock's plumage kneels at each side. The faces of these groups possess considerable expression and are treated in the same manner as the last example, the use of gold being very profuse. The sides of the pall are decorated with scriptural subjects alternating with the arms of the Fishmongers' Company.

The remaining example of the industry of the fourteenth century is in a very different style of needlework from that of the grand and stately ecclesiastical robes. It is a girl's jacker, such as some Esmeralda or Preciosa might be imagined to have worn, and is specified as of "green silk network, golden embroideries worked into it in arabesques.' This designation, however, upon nearer examination, appears to be a misnomer, for the work is not by any means

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either "net-work" or what ladies understand under the title of needlework, except such as was patiently constructed by the good old-fashioned knitting-needles of our grand. mothers, a specimen of which sort of industry the jacket undoubtedly is, with the gold knitted into the fabric in the ordinary fashion when silk or thread of two or more different colours is employed. A gallant Indian officer, whom we once knew, and boasting the manly stature of six feet with breadth to correspond, would have detected the inaccuracy of description with a glance as sharp as that of even à feminine critic, for having been taught as a child to knit, by his mother, a lady of title, but of exceptionally domestic habits, when a storm, on one of his voyages to the Peninsula, carried away his woollen vest, he immediately set to work and knitted a new one, to the immense entertainment and edification of his brother officers, who expected nothing less than such an accomplishment from the military Adonis of their regiment. The jaunty little jacket from which we have digressed, is certainly picturesque and artistic, but it is not possessed of any specially distinguishing characteristics of the fourteenth century, and might have been produced in the Germany of to-day, or any day since the quaint art was invented. Otherwise is it with the works involving more deliberate consideration and preparation, and where the real embroidery needle has essayed to imitate the results of the painter's brush, or draughtsman's pencil. In such cases, the style indicative of each age may be distinctly traced.

Queries.

SIR WILLIAM HAWKSWORTH.-The following singular story was quoted by Dr. Kenealy, towards the close of his address for the Tichborne defence :

"There is a singular thing related by Lord Chief Justice Hale in the records of the Crown. He relates the case of Sir William Hawksworth, who being weary of his life, wanted to get rid of it by another hand. He blamed his park-keeper for losing his deer, and told him to shoot the man who refused to stand and speak. Sir William came in the park at night, and refusing to stand or speak, was shot and killed. That is about as astonishing a thing as ever happened in the course of human life." (Vide Daily Telegraph, August 22.)

In Foss's "Judges of England" (Vol. iv. 325) I find the following related of Chief Justice Sir William Hankford (the successor of Sir William Gascoigne) who died December 20 1422:

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A very improbable account of his death is given by his biographer. He is stated to have become weary of his life, and, with an intention of getting out of it, to have given strict orders to his keeper to shoot any person found at night in his park who would not stand when challenged; and then to have thrown himself in his keeper's way, and to have been shot dead in pursuance of his own commands. The cause of this suicidal conduct is represented to have been his direful apprehensions of dangerous approaching evils;' which could only have arisen from a diseased imagination, as there was nothing at that time in the political horizon to portend the disasters of thirty years' distance. Holinshed introduces this event as happening in 1470, very nearly fifty years after the death of the Chief Justice. The story, however, was long believed in the neighbourhood of his seat at Annery, in Monkleigh, and an old oak bearing his name was shown in the park, where it was said he had fallen."

I assume "Sir William Hawksworth" to be identical with "Sir William Hankford." If not, who was the former? Is this "astounding " and improbable story related of any. one else besides the Chief Justice? W. D. PINK.

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