_Portrait of Sir John Poley._--Perhaps some of your numerous
correspondents can answer whether the portrait of Sir John Poley in
Bexstead Hall, alluded to No. 14. p. 214., has been engraved.

J.

February 5.


"_Tace is Latin for a candle._"--Whence is this expression derived,
and what is its meaning? I met with it, many years ago, in a
story-book, and, more lately, in one of the Waverley Novels, in which
particular one I do not just now recollect. It seems to be used as an
adage, coupled with an admonition to observe silence or secrecy.

W.A.F.


_Poins and Bardolph._--Can any of your correspondents skilled in
Shakspearian lore inform me whence Shakspeare took the names _Poins_
and _Bardolph_ for the followers of Prince Hal and Falstaff?

C.W.S.


_Flemish Work on the Order of St. Francis._--Can any of your
correspondents tell me any thing about, or enable me to procure a
copy of, a book on the order of St. Francis, named, _Den Wijngaert van