Now if Charles had conferred a pension on Quarles, is it not exceedingly
probable that the publisher and dedicator, Richard Royston, would have
recalled so honourable a circumstance to the memory of his "most
gratious sovereign King Charles" in this "Epistle Dedicatory," when he
had so excellent an opportunity of doing so?

T.M.B.

_Collar of Esses_ (Vol. ii., p. 140.).--MR. J.G. NICHOLS, in his reply
to the Query of [Greek: phi]., says, that "the judges" are among those
who are _now_ privileged to wear these collars. Allow me to suggest to
him that the privilege among them is limited to the _chiefs_ of the
three courts. The other judges certainly now never wear them, and I am
unaware that they ever did so. I have a large, though by no means a
perfect collection of legal portraits, and there is not one puisne judge
or baron so distinguished. The earliest legal worthy who is represented
with this collar is in the reign of Henry VIII., and it adorns not a
chief justice, but a chancellor, viz. Sir Thomas More; and he is the
only chancellor upon whose shoulders it appears. This collar is formed
by continuous Esses, without any ornament between them. It is united in
the front by two portcullises, with a rose pendant. The print is from
Holbein's picture, and presents him as chancellor, with the purse. The
first chief justice wearing the collar is Sir James Dyer, Ch.C.P. in the
reign of Elizabeth. The only difference between it and Sir Thomas More's
is, that the rose is placed between the portcullises. I have another, in
a later period of the same reign, of Sir Christopher Wray, Ch.K.B., in
which the Esses are alternated with ornamental knots. I am not aware of
any portrait of a chief baron before Sir Thomas Bury, in the first year
of George I.; so that I am uncertain whether the collar was previously