tains some highly interesting and
important information, was in the possession of a gentleman named Broke, of
Nacton in Suffolk, a descendant from the Bowes family; but I have not been
able to trace it further.

4. "The Negotiations of Thomas Wolsey, Cardinall." This valuable MS. was in
the collection of Dr. Farmer, who wrote on the fly-leaf,--

"I believe several of the Letters and State Papers in this volume have
not been published; three or four are printed in the collections at the
end of Dr. Fiddes' _Life of Wolsey_, from a MS. in the Yelverton
Library."

If I remember rightly, the late Richard Heber afterwards came into the
possession of this curious and important volume. It is lamentable to think
of the dispersion of poor Heber's manuscripts.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

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Minor Queries.

_Chantrey's Sleeping Children in Lichfield Cathedral._--In reference to a
claim recently put forth on behalf of an individual to the merit of having
designed and executed this celebrated monument, Mr. Peter Cunningham says
(_Literary Gazette_, June 5.),--"The merit of the composition belongs to
Chantrey and Stothard." As a regular reader of the "NOTES AND QUERIES," I
shall feel obliged to Mr. Cunningham (whose name I am always glad to see as
a correspondent) if he will be kind enough to inform me on what evidence he
founds the title of Mr. Stothard to a share of the merit of a piece of
sculpture, which is so generally attributed to the genius of Chantrey?

PLECTRUM.

_Viscount Dundee's Ring._--In the _Letters of John Grahame of Claverhouse,
Viscount of Dundee_, printed for the Bannatyne Club in 1826, is a
description and engraving of a ring containing some of Ld. Dundee's hair,
with the letters V.D., surmounted by a coronet, worked on it in gold; and
on the inside of the ring are engraved a skull, and the posey--"Great
Dundee, for God and me, J. Rex."

The ring, which belonged to the family of Graham of Duntrune
(representative of Viscount Dundee), has for several years been lost or
mislaid; perhaps, through some of the numerous readers of the "NOTES AND
QUERIES," information {71} might be obtained as to the place where that
ring is at present preserved, and whether there would be any possibility of
the family recovering it by purchase or otherwise.

W. C. TREVELYAN.

Duntrune, near Dundee.

_The Kilkenny Cats._--I would feel obliged if any of your correspondents