You are probably aware that this St. Michael's Church was nearly destroyed by fire not many weeks since; that a committee is established to arrange its restoration.
Would it not be worth while that some inquiry should be made about the fate of this picture?
R.O.
Dec. 17. 1849.
P.S.—I may add, that there was affixed to the bottom of the frame of the picture a board, on which was painted, in conformably large letters—
"LORD, remember David and all his trouble."
Psalm cxxxii. 1.
The italics in part of the Note above quoted are mine.
Autograph Mottoes of Richard Duke of Gloucester, and Henry Duke of Buckingham.—In the volume of the Cottonian MSS. marked Vespasian F. XIII., at fol. 53., is a slip of parchment, upon which is written by the hands of Richard Duke of Gloucester, and Henry Duke of Buckingham, the following couplet:—
"Loyaulte me lie