any other shape? As the Query of DRAMATICUS is now answered, perhaps he
may be able to reply to this question from

T.J.L.

I should have sent this note sooner, had I not waited to see if any body
else would answer the Query of DRAMATICUS, and perhaps afford some
additional information.

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ANCIENT TAPESTRY.


Sir,--I believe I can answer a Query in your Third Number, by N.,
respecting the whereabouts of a piece of ancient tapestry formerly in
the possession of Mr. Yarnold, of Great St. Helen's, London, described,
upon no satisfactory authority, as "the Plantagenet Tapestry." It is at
present the property of Thos. Baylis, Esq., of Colby House, Kensington.
A portion of it has been engraved as representing Richard III, &c.; but
it is difficult to say what originated that opinion. The subject is a
crowned female seated by a fountain, and apparently threatening two male
personages with a rod or slight sceptre, which she has raised in her
_left_ hand, her arm being stayed by another female standing behind her.
This has been said to represent Elizabeth of York driving out Richard
III, which, I need scarcely say, she did not do. There are nineteen
other figures, male and female, looking on or in conversation, all
attired in the costume of the close of the 15th century, but without the
least appearance of indicating any historical personage. It is probably