A few years ago, upon visiting Cambridge, I went purposely to St. Michael's Church to see this picture, which had been so familiar to me in my boyhood. The clerk told me it had been taken down, and was in the vestry. In the vestry I found it, on its side, on the floor against the wall. {138} 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 Richard Gloucestre "Souente me souène Harre Bokingh'a'm." A fac-simile is engraved in _Autographs of Royal, Noble, Learned, and Remarkable Personages in English History_, engraved by C.J. Smith, and edited by Mr. John Gough Nichols, 1829, 4to., where the editor suggests that this slip of parchment was "perhaps a deceitful toy," or it may have been attached to some present offered by the Duke of Gloucester to his royal nephew Edward the Fifth. The meaning of Gloucester's motto is perfectly free from misapprehension; but he asserts his fidelity to the crown, which he soon so flagrantly outraged--"Loyalty binds me." In the work above mentioned, the motto of Buckingham is interpreted by these words, in modern French:--"Souvent me souviens." This does not appear to me perfectly satisfactory; and I have to request the opinions of such as are conversant with old manuscripts, whether the true meaning, or even the true reading, of the Duke of Buckingham's motto has as yet been ascertained? H. * * * * * NOTES IN ANSWER TO QUERIES.