"King Charles also, ever since his coming to the Crown, hath amply testified a royal liking of ancient Statues, by causing a whole army of foreign Emperors, Captains, and Senators, all at once to land on his coasts, to come and do him homage and attend him in his Palaces of Saint James and Somerset House. A great part of these belonged to the great Duke of Mantua; and some of the old Greek marble bases, columns, and altars were brought from the ruins of Apollo's temple at Delos, by that noble and absolutely complete gentleman, Sir Kenelm Digby, Kn^t. In the garden of St. James, there are also _half a dozen brass statues_, rare ones, cast by Hubert le Sueur, his Majesty's servant, now dwelling in St. Bartholomew's, London; the most industrious and excellent statuary, in all materials, that ever this country enjoyed. The best of them is the Gladiator, moulded from that in Cardinal Borghesi's Villa, by the procurement and industry of ingenious Master Gage. And at this present, the said Master Sueur hath divers other admirable moulds to cast in brass for his Majesty, and among the rest, that famous Diana of Ephesus. But the great Horse with his Majesty upon it, twice as great as the life, and now well nigh finished, will compare with that of the New Bridge at Paris, or those others at Florence and Madrid, though made by Sueur, his master John de Bologna, that rare workman, who not long since lived at Florence." The bronze statue of the Gladiator originally stood (according to Ned Ward's _London Spy_) in the Parade facing the Horse Guards. Dodsley (_Environs_, iii. 741.) says it was removed by Queen Anne to Hampton Court, and from thence, by George the Fourth, to the private grounds of Windsor Castle, where it now is. Query, What has become of the other five "famous statues in brass?" EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. * * * * * BISHOP JEWELL'S LIBRARY. What became of Bishop Jewell's library? Cassan mentions (_Lives of Bishops of Salisbury_, vol. ii. p. 55.) that "He had collected an excellent library of books of all sorts, not excepting the most impertinent of the Popish authors, and here it was that he spent the greatest and the best part of his time," &c. Bishop Jewell died Sept. 22. 1571. In the Account Books of Magdalen College, Oxford, I find the following items:-- "A. D. 1572. Solut. D^{no} Praesidi equitanti Sarisbur. pro libris per billam, iij^{li} xvi^s. "Solut. pro libris D^{ni}, episcopi Sar., c^{li}. "A. D. 1574. Solut per Dom. Praesidem pro libris M^{ri} Jewell, xx^{li}." Whether these books were a portion only, or the whole of the library of Bishop Jewell, I am unable to discover; nor am I aware at present whether Bishop Jewell's autograph is in any of the books of Magdalen College Library. The president was Lawrence Humphrey, author of a Life of Jewell. MAGDALENENSIS. {55}