in the gallantries of the court of King James, or rather of his son Prince Henry, retired and lived more honorably in the country than he ever had done before. These rich appliances of falconry are in most perfect preservation; they are of such rarity and beauty that we need plead no excuse for placing again before our readers the accompanying engravings, beautifully executed by Mr. H. Shaw. A representation of the leather hawking glove may be seen in this Journal, vol. x. p. 86. A similar pouch and lure appear in the portraiture of James VI. (king of Scots) with his courtiers engaged in hawking, to be found in the "Jewell for Gentrie," 1614, and copied in Strutt's Horda, vol. iii. pl. xix. The Chancellor's Purse for the Great Seal; the official insignia of Francis North, who, on the death of the Earl of Nottingham, in 1682, was appointed by Charles II. lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and created in the following year Baron Guildford. The life of this eminent lawyer was written by Roger North, his youngest brother. Mr. Foss has given in Notes and Queries, vol. x. p. 278, some account of the Chancellor's Purse at various periods; and various particulars relating to the same subject have been collected by Mr. Syer Cuming, Journal Brit. Arch. Ass. 1858, p. 343. By the Rev. J. FULLER RUSSELL, F.S.A.-An embroidered hood of a cope, a remarkably well preserved example of French or Flemish work, early in the sixteenth century.-A pair of gloves of thin leather, embroidered. They were worn, according to tradition, by James I., and were in the museum of Ralph Thoresby, and subsequently at Strawberry Hill, as mentioned in Walpole's Description, p. 75, and in his Letters, vol. ii. p. 429 (May, 1769).-A purse worked with beads, formerly belonging to Charles I.; it had been in possession of Gen. Elphinstone with a number of letters in cypher relating to the king's attempt to escape from Carisbrooke. It is inscribed thus,-TH GVIFT OF A FRIEND. 1623. By Mr. OCTAVIUS MORGAN, M.P.-A curious specimen of worsted-work, executed in tent stitch, and representing the wife and mother of Darius at the feet of Alexander. Date, about 1730.-A kerchief of white lawn embroidered in silks with flowers, and edged with gold passament; probably English work of the seventeenth century.-A collar of Flemish point lace, as worn by gentlemen in the reign of James I.-Two purses, one of them of tissue of gold with representations of Venus, Endymion, &c., the other of green silk, woven in like manner as a stocking, and enriched with gold and silver.-A letter book, covered with white satin and embroidered with silk and spangles, about 1775, by the late Lady Morgan, of Tredegar. By Mr. JOHN GOUGH NICHOLS, F.S.A.-A piece of Swiss embroidery upon crimson silk, probably part of the valance of a bed or of a dais; length, 6 ft. 8 in., depth, 10 in. In the centre are two escutcheons:1. Zilly; Az. two human-faced moons addorsed or; crest, on a coronated helmet a wing charged as the arms; accompanied by the initials I. Z. 2. Zollicofer; Or, a quarter or canton sinister az; crest, on a coronated helmet the bust of a man, clothed or, crined az., with the initials A. Z. or R. Z. The arms of the Swiss families of these names are thus given by Spener, pars gen. pp. 181, 271; and their crests in Wap. vol. i. pp. 201, 202. Below are in larger characters the initials E. S. with the date 1599. The other subjects seem partly allegorical, or possibly from fables and imprese, or capricious devices. These are,-part of a bed, an angel driving a demon, a female with a candle (?) coming to two persons in bed, hunting the hare and deer, an angel visiting an old man and woman seated |