curs in the patterns recently discovered upon the robes of her effigy in Westminster Abbey, as published in Hollis's Monumental Effigies. With regard to the Rosemary branches, we find that Richard's second Queen had, in his 22nd year, a gown prepared for her at the feast of

white clothristmas, which was of

embroidered in Cyprus gold and silk, with branches of Rosemary and Broom."

The collar of this livery, occurring in same Inventory, was of gold enamelled, and weighed five ounces.

[231.] Item i. livere de Duc' de Everwyk' ove vii. linkettz et vi. faucons blancz, d'or aymellez pois. v. unc. (Inv. of the Exchequer, iii. 346.)

The word "linkettes" (which I have compared with the original MS.) I take to be a clerical error for lokets, that is, fetterlocks, one of the badges of the House of York. The former word, though it might possibly be used in the sense of links, I do not find in any French dictionary, but the word locquet, answering to the English lock, occurs in the Dictionary of Ménage. In the will of Edward Duke of York, a word very similar occurs for the fetterlocks, though not quite the same, if it has been correctly printed. The Duke bequeathed to his wife "mes tapitz blanks et rouges ove gartiers lokers et faucous," and also some "basains couverts ove les lokers et faucons en mye lieu sur bloy champ."

The Duke of York, who had given this Livery Collar, was Edmund of Langley, the fifth son of King Edward the Third, and who died in 1402, just before the Inventory was made. On the eve of King Richard's fatal journey to Ireland, a tournament was held at Windsor, in which the forty knights and esquires, the challengers, were apparelled in green, with a White Falcon," probably in compliment to the Duke of York, who was then constituted Lieutenant of the kingdom.

The said Edmund of Langley," says Camden in his Remaines, "bore also for an Impress a Faulcon in a fetterlock, implying that he was locked up

Anstis, i. 115, from the Wardrobe Account of that year,

from all hope and possibility of the kingdom, when his brethren began to aspire thereunto. Whereupon he asked on a time his sons, when he saw them beholding this device in a window, What was Latin for a fetterlock? whereat when the young gentlemen studied, the father said, Well, if you cannot tell me, I will tell you: Hic, hæc, hoc, Taceatis, as advising them to be silent and quiet, and therewithall said, Yet God knoweth what may come to pass hereafter. This his great-grandchild King Edward the Fourth reported, when he commanded that his younger son, Richard Duke of York, should use this devise with the fetter-lock opened, as Roger Wall, an herald of that time, reporteth."

With master Roger Wall + I have not the pleasure to be acquainted, but I find the same story given, somewhat differently, by Anstis, from a MS. of Francis Thynne in his possession. In this version the King himself is not brought forward as relating the anecdote of his great-grandfather, nor, perhaps, if we knew it to have actually proceeded from the royal mouth, could we entirely rely upon its historical accuracy. Our concern,

however, is rather with the actual form in which the Falcon and the Fetterlock were borne by the first Duke of York. In Thynne's MS. it is not stated that they were united or combined at that period, and from other evidence we may conclude that this was a mistake of Camden, and that such union did not take place until the time when Edward the Fourth made provision for the heraldic insignia of his second son, the infant Duke of York, which was on St. George's day, in the 17th years of his reign, 1477.

In the same inventory in which the Collar is described, occur also a great

There was a Thomas Wall who arrived at the dignity of Garter in the reign of Henry VIII. having been originally Calais Pursuivant in that of Richard III. Noble's College of Arms.

Register of the Garter, vol. ii. preface, p. vii.

§ Anstis, ubi supra. In Sandford's Geneal. History, 1677, p. 393, where some account of the same occurrence is given, this date is misprinted 7 E. 4. By another error, too, the Falcon is said to have been "membred with two sewells," instead of sonetts, i. e. bells.

brooch of a white falcon* on a perch, without a fetterlock; and two brooches in the form of fetterlocks, accompanied by white greyhounds.

[181.] It'm xi. graunt Nouche ove j. faucon blanc steant sur un perche garnis dun rubie xij. baleys xij. saphirs v. dyamants xij. grosses perles et xxx. meyndres perles, pois. j. lb. vij. unc.

[222.] ii. Nouches à guise de fetrelokkes ove ii. leverers blancz, dont un Nouche apparelle de ij. saphirs un doublet rouge et iiij. troches chescun contenant iiij. perles et un diamonde et lautre Nouche dun baleys febles, un saphir et iiij. troches chescun de iiij. perles et un deamant, pois.

vij. unc. et di.

In the seal of Richard Duke of York (grandson of Edmund) a Falcon appears as the dexter supporter, the Lion of Mortimer being the sinister; and around are three distinct badges, the ostrich-feather and scroll, the Fetterlock alone, and a rose branch.Sandford's Geneal. History.

No monumental effigy is known, wearing the Collar of the livery of the Duke of York; but the Falcon alone is found as a badge on the statues of Sir Edmund de Thorpe and his Lady, at Ashwelthorpe, co. Norfolk, engraved in Stothard's Monumental Effigies.

These statues are among the most remarkable extant for Collars and Badges. They both wear the Collar of Esses. The knight has the badge of the Falcon on his left shoulder, and

the lady has it upon both shoulders, and she displays it also in the centre of the wreath of jewellery placed on the summit of her head-dress. It may be supposed that she was intimately connected with the House of York. By birth she was the daughter and heiress of Sir John de Northwood, and she was the widow of Roger Lord Scales, who died in 1386.

The Falcon is here represented with wings erect, and gorged with a coronet, but there is no fetterlock.

Another Collar, which is described in the Inventory of the 1st Hen. IV., might be thought to be a livery of the House of York, if the badge of the White Rose was adopted at so early a date. It was composed of twelve White Roses, each having a baleys in the middle, linked together by mascles, each of which was adorned with a sapphire and five pearls.

[308.] Item i. coler d'or ove mascles ove xii. overages, en chescun overage des masculs i. saphir v. perles, et xij. roses blancz, chescun ove i. baleys en my lieu, pois. iii. unc. iii. quart'. (Ibid. p. 354.)

The consideration of the Livery of the Duke of Lancaster, involving that crux criticorum of the present subject, the origin of the Collar of Esses, must be again deferred, lest I should occupy as unreasonable a space as I did last month. J. G. N.

IN pursuance of this subject,† a view is now given of an ancient House at Coventry, a city, which, as we before remarked, was formerly exceedingly rich in its Timber Architecture. It is a specimen of an over-hanging structure, formed by a deeply plastered cove with oak ribs. From the style of the tracery of the windows, and the beautiful gable board, it appears to have been erected about the time of Henry VII.

*The Falcon, it is believed, had been a royal badge from an earlier period than that with which we are here concerned. Froissart mentions a herald called Faucon, employed in the English army in France in 1359.

† See our Magazine for last August, p. 149.

The continued series of windows along the whole front of a house is very common in the modern houses in Norwich, to give light to the manufactories, and was probably originally copied from windows of this kind, which often prevail in old timber houses. At Knole in Kent, the long narrow gallery, now called the Reformers' Gallery, has a long continued window, and was a room formerly used for embroidery, when that art was usually carried on by the ladies of a great household.

A few remarks may be added on roofs. When Grecian architecture was introduced into this country-the carpentry of roofs underwent a great change, but whether for the better