rounded by some of the principal officers of his court. In a MS. in the Lambeth library also he is depicted on his throne receiving a volume from the hands of Lord Rivers and Caxton his printer; and by his side stand his queen, the young Prince Edward, and another royal personage, similarly attired with the prince, who is supposed to be either Richard Duke of Gloster or George Duke of

Clarence. The Monk of Croyland informs us that "the new fashion " Edward IV. " chose for the last state-dresses was to have very full hanging sleeves like a monk's, lined with the most sumptuous furs, and so rolled over his shoulders as to give his tall person an air of peculiar grandeur. Of Louis XI. King of France there are several authentic portraits in Montfaucon. A drawing of the famous king-making Earl of Warwick exists in the Warwick Roll, College of Arms, (see

Part II., p. 127,*) as does also one of George Duke of Clarence, Earl of Warwick in right of his wife, Isabel Nevil, eldest daughter and co-heiress of the king-maker. In the additional MSS. at the British Museum (No. 6298), presented by the late Miss Banks, is a most interesting drawing which we believe has been hitherto overlooked. It represents the tomb and effigy of King Henry VI., which were formerly in St. George's Chapel at Windsor, and destroyed, it is supposed, during the civil wars temp. Charles I., as Sandford in 1677 says, “ He (Henry) was interred there under a fair monument, of which there are at present no remains." It is quite clear Sandford did not know of the existence of any drawing of it, or he would have caused it to be engraved for his Genealogical History, or at least have alluded to it. The drawing in Miss Banks's collection, of which an engraving is here given, was made apparently in the year 1563, a memorandum affixed to another drawing by the same hand of some arms in the chapel being dated the 29th of August in that year. Over the tomb hangs the tabard of arms, the sword, gauntlets, and shield of the deceased monarch, and underneath some later hand has written, "Quære, if not the figure of Henry VI. because of the angel," alluding to the figure of an angel supporting the royal arms which appear on the side of the tomb, as, although the royal supporters during this reign were usually antelopes, the arms of Henry appear supported by an angel on the counter-seal engraved in Sandford's General History,' p. 240, edit. 1677. At the same page in Sandford will be found the seal of Edward Prince of Wales, son of Henry VI., on which is the figure of the Prince on horseback and in armour, his tabard, shield, and the caparisons of his horse, emblazoned with his arms, quarterly France and England, over all a label of three points argent.

As the arms on the shield of that figure do not correspond with those we have given him in the heraldic border to the Dramatis Personæ in this Part, it may be necessary to explain that the latter, viz. gules, a saltire argent, a label of three points gobony argent and azure, are his paternal arms of Nevil, and that those on his shield, viz. quarterly Montacute and Mouthermer, are the arms of his maternal grandfather, Thomas Montacute Earl of Salisbury, whose daughter and heiress, Eleanor, his father married, and through whom he became Earl of Salisbury, being already in right of his wife Earl of Warwick.

[Battle of Barnet.]

In illustration also of the military costume of the time, we refer to the engravings which we give from the illuminations of a MS. in the library at Ghent, written by a follower of Edward IV. in 1471, and presented to Charles the Bold Duke of Burgundy. The first represents the Battle of Barnet. Edward IV. is seen on a white charger, with crimson caparisons, lined with blue and embroidered with golden flowers; his bascinet is surrounded by a crown, and he is in the act of piercing with his lance a knight, presumed to be meant for the Earl of Warwick. The second is the battle of Tewkesbury, wherein Edward is depicted on a brown horse, a crown round his helmet, and the arms of France and England quarterly on his shield. The subject of the third is the execution of Edmond Beaufort Duke of Somerset after the battle of Tewkesbury. The figure in the long black robe, with the white cross of his order, (now Maltese,) is that of John Lanstrother, Prior of St. John of Jerusalem, who suffered with the Duke.

The decoration bestowed by Edward IV. upon his followers was a collar composed of suns and roses, (badges of the house of York,) to which was appended the white lion of March. Vide Effigies of Sir John Crosby and Lady, engraved in Stothard's Sepul. Mon.'