J.T.  HAMMACK.

{485} Nicholas Ferrar (Vol. ii., pp. 119. 407. 444.).—­The libellous pamphlet, entitled The Arminian Nunnery at Little Gidding, is printed entire in the Appendix to Hearne’s Preface to Langtoft.  One of the Harmonies of the Life of Christ is in the British Museum, and another at St. John’s College, Oxford (Qy.) (See the list of MSS. once at Gidding, Peckhard, p. 306.) N. Ferrar published and wrote the preface to Herbert’s Temple, 1633,—­and translated Valdesso’s Divine Considerations, Camb. 1646.

W.P.

Butchers’ Blue Dress (Vol. ii., p. 266.).—­A blue dress does not show stains of blood, inasmuch as blood, when dry, becomes of a blue colour.  I have always understood this to be the explanation of this custom.

X.Z.

Chaucer’s Portrait by Occleve (Vol. ii., p. 442.).—­This portrait is engraved in Strutt’s Regal and Ecclesiastical Antiquities.

J.I.D.

    [And we may add, in the edition of Tyrwhitt’s Canterbury Tales,
    published by Pickering—­ED.]

Chaucer’s Portrait (Vol. ii., p. 442.).—­His portrait, from Occleve’s poem, has been engraved in octavo and folio by Vertue.  Another, from the Harleian MS., engraved by Worthington, is in Pickering’s edition of Tyrwhitt’s Chaucer.  Occleve’s poem has not been printed; but see Ritson’s Biblioth.  Poetica, and Warton’s H.E.P. A full-length portrait of Chaucer is given in Shaw’s Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages; another, on horseback, in Todd’s Illustrations of Gower and Chaucer.

W.P.

Lady Jane of Westmoreland (Vol. i., p. 103.).—­I think your correspondent Q.D. is wrong in his supposition that the two following entries in Mr. Collier’s second volume of Extracts from the Registers of the Stationers’ Company refer to a composition by Lady Jane of Westmoreland:—­

    “1585-6.  Cold and uncoth blowes, of the Lady Jane of Westmorland.

    1586-7.  A songe of Lady Jane of Westmorland.”

My idea is, that the ballad (for Mr. Collier thinks that both entries relate to one production) was merely one of those metrical ditties sung about the streets of London depicting the woes and sufferings of some unfortunate lady.  The question is, who was this “unfortunate lady?” She was the wife of Ralph, Earl of Westmoreland, who was attainted about the year 1570, and died in Flanders anno 1584.  I learn this from a MS. of the period, now before me, entitled Some Account of the Sufferinges of the Ladye Jane of Westmorlande, who dyed in Exile.  By T.C. Perhaps at some future time I may trouble your readers with an account of this highly interesting MS.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

Gray and Dodsley.—­As the HERMIT OF HOLYPORT has repeated his Queries on Gray and Dodsley, I must make a second attempt to answer them with due precision, assured that no man is more disposed than himself to communicate information for the satisfaction of others.