tower itself may be said to be divided into several compartments. The lowermost, having a groined roof, the arches springing from illuminated corbels terminating in a plain circle, is the meeting place of the presbytery, and session of Brechin; and in the upper part the great bell is suspended. In the latter compartment rises the base of the spire of the tower, and the four corbels, on which the base rests, bear beautiful carvings in high relief. The sculptures are about seven inches in height, and from ten to twelve inches in length. Three of the ornaments are floral, and bear no particular peculiarity, excepting the broad and effective manner in which they are executed; but the fourth, here represented, is more remarkable

It abuts from the north-east corner of the tower, and, as will be seen, represents-a whimsical freak in design -a dog with its tail strangely turned over the back, picking a bone, and supported by a ram's head and horns-it is the only corbel of this description I have yet seen.

THE TREATY OF PEACE PEN.

So, after all the high-flown descriptions of eaglewinged pride, that the pen with which the Plenipotentiaries were to sign the Articles of Peace was being richly jewelled by the jeweller of the Emperor's household, the incident simply solves itself into these particulars.

The pen with which the Treaty of Peace was signed, was made from a quill taken from the wing of an eagle, at the Jardin des Plantes. Immediately after the signatures, it was placed on a sheet of white paper, and the seals of all the Powers represented at the Congress, accompanied by the signatures of the Plenipotentiaries, were attached about it, and below it was written the attestation :

I certify that this pen was taken by me from the Imperial Eagle, at the Jardin des Plantes, and that it served for the signature of the Treaty of Peace of the 30th of March, 1856.

FEUILLET DE CONCHES,
Chef de Bureau du Protocol.
The whole was then placed in a gilded frame, and a
glass fixed over it, to be presented to the Empress.
Athenæum Club, April 4.

CLERICAL BELL FOUNDER.

M.

In Bowen's Manuscript Collections for Shropshire, among Gough's Topographical books, deposited in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, is the following extract from reigns of Henry VIII., Edward VI., Mary and Elizabeth. the register of Thomas Botelar, vicar of Wenlock, in the

1546. May 26, buried out of tow tenements in Mardfoldstreet, next St. Owen's well, Sir William Corvehill, priest of the seruice of our lady in this church, which 2 tenements belonged to the said seruice; he had them in his occupacōn in part of his wages, which was viij marks and the said A deed in the Registrum Ecclesiæ Cathedralis de houses in an ov.'plus. He was well skilled in geometry, Brechin, now in the press, may be said to afford some not by speculation but by experience: could make organs, data for believing that the square tower or steeple, in clocks and chimes; in keruing in masonry, and silkwhich this singular corbel is found, was either built or weauing and painting, and could make all instruments of repaired by Patrick de Leuchars, bishop of Brechin, musick, and was a uery patient and gud man, borne in this from 1354 to about the year 1373, and who for sometime brethren he had, called dopne John, monk in said monasborowe, and somtyme monk in the monastery; two held the office of Chancellor of Scotland. This is the tery; and Sir Andreu Corvehill, a secular priest, who died only deed having any reference to the building or restoring any part of the Cathedral. Possibly some reader at Croydon in Surry; on whose souls God haue mercy. All this country had a great loss of sir William, for he of Current Notes may have seen a similarly devised was a good bell founder and maker of frames. corbel elsewhere; if so, the date of the building in which it appears might be useful in ascertaining the exact period of the erection of the square tower at Brechin, which, notwithstanding the passing notice in the deed referred to, is as yet an unauthenticated surmise. Brechin, April 10.

A. J.

CHIFNEY.-Are there any particulars known of the death of the once celebrated jockey Samuel Chifney; whose volume entitled-Genius Genuine, and published at Five guineas! occasioned no little stir in its day? Newmarket, April 5.

M. He died in January, 1807, in the rules of the Fleet prison.

Wenlock olim Wimnicas was first a nunnery erected about 680 by St. Milburga, daughter to King Merwald, who presided over it. It was destroyed by the Danes, but restored by Leofric, Earl of Chester, in the time of King Edward the Confessor; but being abandoned, and falling into decay, it was in 1080 rebuilt and endowed for a prior and convent of Cluniac monks, by Roger of Montgomery, dedicated to St. Milburg, who was said to have been buried Earl of Arundel, Chichester, and Shrewsbury. It was here; and upon the dissolution of all monastical institutions in 1537, was granted by King Henry VIII. to Augustine de Augustinis. William 'somtyme monk,' appears on the suppression to have conformed to the new faith.

The shadow'd livery of the burning sun. Merchant of Venice, Act ii. sc. 1.

Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun has looked upon me. Song of Solomon, ch. i. v. 6. I took by the throat the circumcised dog, and smote him thus. Othello, Act. v. sc. 2.

I caught him by his beard, and smote him. 1 Samuel,

ch. xvii. v. 35.

An old manuscript in my possession, has with many more, the following lines :

While night's black muffler hoodeth up the skies,
The silly blind man misseth not his eyes;
But when the day summons to worke againe,
His night eternall then hee doth complaine

That he goes groping, and his hand, alas!

Is faine to guide his foot and guard his face. They are margined thus-Du Bartas, Impost., page 263. Are they original, or from any translation of Du

Bartas?

H. J. LITTLE.

These lines commence a simile in The Imposture, a poem printed in Du Bartas His Diuine Weekes and Workes, translated by Josvah Sylvester, 1641, folio, p. 94, col. 1.

Letter from Richard Grenville, first Earl Temple, K.G., but second in the Earldom of Buckingham; addressed to the Right Honourable Hans Stanley.

Norwich, March ye 8th, 1768.

My dear Stanley. You will excuse my reminding you of your kind engagement to lend me a thousand ponuds from Lady-day for six months. If not inconvenient I would wish it might be paid into Mr. Drummond's hands, and that his receipt might be accepted as a voucher till my return to London.

My Friends have made a handsome figure in our County Battle; Mr. Coke would have succeeded as well as Sir Edward Astley, if he had been supported by those from whom he had an indisputable right to expect it.

An account which has just reached me of Lady Buckingham's having brought me a third daughter, a circumstance

Possibly some of your readers may be both able and which distresses me upon account of my own feelings, and willing to add to the above passages? Thornhill, April 8.

T. B. G.

PEPYS. In some notices of Parliamentary representatives, 1677, it is stated, SAMUEL PEPYS, the member for Castle-Rising, was originally a taylor, then servingman to Lord Sandwich, now Secretary to the Admiralty; has got by passes and other illegal wayes 40,000l.

much more from my knowledge of her's, will I hope
apologise for my not adding more than that assurance,
which flows naturally from my pen, of the regard and
affection, with which I am,

Your most faithful and obedient servant,
BUCKINGHAM.

Lady Buckingham was Anne, da. and coheir of Thomas Chambers, of Hanworth, co. Middlesex, Esq.; a lady of some celebrity, whose poems were printed in 1754, at Strawberry Hill. The Earl, born in 1711,

ANGEL'S VISITS.-In what writer or poem occurs the died without surviving issue, Sept. 11, 1779. line commencing

In Campbell's Pleasures of Hope, in the second part.
The lines are-

What though my winged hours of bliss have been,
Like Angel's visits, few and far between.

Campbell, however, seems to have been indebted for this poetical expression to Blair, in whose admirable poem entitled the Grave, first printed in 1748, are the linesThe good he scorn'd

Stalked off reluctant like an ill used ghost,
Not to return; or if it did, its visits

Like those of Angels, short and far between.
English Poets, by Chalmers, 1810, vol. xv. p. 67, col. 2.

66
THE FORGET ME NOT" FLOWER.
Bishop Mant gives the traditionary creed for the
name of this flower. Where are the complete verses
to be found, and by whom were they written?

Then the blossoms blue, to the bank he threw,
Ere he sank in the eddying tide;
And Lady I'm gone, thine own Knight true,
Forget me Not! he cried.

The farewell pledge the Lady caught,

And hence, as legends say-
The flower is a sign to awaken thought
Of friends who are far away.

Crakemarsh, April 15.

M. A. C. S.

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