lly fall in with
the object of my search, will give my fellow-labourers the benefit of my
explorations. Mr. Vanbrugh sen. died at Chester, and was buried with
several of his children at Trinity Church, July 19, 1689.

T. HUGHES.

Chester.

_Portrait of Charles I._--The portrait of Charles I. by Vandyke (the
subject of MR. BREEN'S Query, "N. & Q.," Vol. viii., p. 151.) is no less
than the celebrated picture in which the monarch is represented standing,
with his right hand resting on a walking cane, and his left (the arm being
beautifully foreshortened) against his hip; and immediately behind him his
horse is held by an equerry, supposed to be the Marquis of Hamilton. The
picture hangs in the great square room at the Louvre, close on the left
hand of the usual entrance door, and is undoubtedly one of the finest in
that magnificent collection. As a portrait, it is without a rival. It is
well known in this country by the admirable engraving from it, executed in
1782, by Sir Robert Strange.

The description of this picture in the Catalogue for 1852 _du Musee
Nationale du Louvre_, is as follows:--

"Grave par Strange; par Bonnefoy; par Duparc;--Filhol, t. 1. pl. 5.

"Collection de Louis XV.--Ce tableau, qui a ete execute vers 1635, ne
fut paye a van Dyck que 100 livres sterling. En 1754, il faisait
partie, suivant Descamps, du cabinet du marquis de Lassay. On trouve
cette note dans les memoires secrets de Bachaument," &c.

Then follows the passage quoted by MR. BREEN. I can find no mention of a
Dubarry among the ancestors of the monarch.

H. C. K.

_Burial in an erect Posture_ (Vol. viii., p. 59.).--

"Pass, pass, who will yon chantry door,
And through the chink in the fractured floor
Look down, and see a grisly sight,
A vault where the bodies are buried upright;
There face to face and hand lay hand
The Claphams and Mauleverers stand."
Wordsworth, _White Doe of Rylstone_, Canto I.,
p. 5., line 17., new edition, 1837.

See note on line 17 taken from Whitaker's _Craven_:

"At the east end of the north aisle of Bolton Priory Church is a
chantry belonging to Bethmesley Hall, and a vault where, according to
tradition, the Claphams were buried upright."

F. W. J.

_Strut-Stowers and Yeathers or Yadders_ (Vol. viii., p. 148.).--The former
of these words is, I believe, obsolete, or nearly so. It means
bracing-stakes: _strut_, in carpentry, is to _brace_;