If this charter was granted by William I., under whom Dugdale has placed it in his _Chronica Series_, p. 1., _nomine Baldric_, the argument is so much the stronger; but I have endeavored to prove by internal evidence (_Judges of England_, vol. i. p. 67.) that it is a charter of William II. EDWARD FOSS. _Thruscross_ (Vol. ii., p. 441.).--In a sermon preached at the funeral of Lady Margaret Mainard, at Little Easton, in Essex, June 30, 1682, by Bishop Ken, he says: "The silenced, and plundered, and persecuted clergy she thought worthy of double honour, did vow a certain sum yearly out of her income, which she laid aside, only to succour them. The congregations where she then communicated, were those of the Reverend and pious Dr. Thruscross and Dr. Mossom, both now in heaven, and that of the then Mr. Gunning, the now most worthy Bishop of Ely, for whom she ever after had a peculiar veneration." "My last son Izaak, borne the 7th of September, 1651, at halfe an houre after two o'clock in the afternoone, being Sunday, and he was baptized that evening by Mr. Thruscross, in my house in Clerkenwell. Mr. Henry Davison and my brother Beacham were his godfathers, and Mrs. Roe his godmother."--_Izaak Walton's Entry in his Prayer Book._ Peckhard, in his _Life of Nicholas Ferrar_, p. 213., quotes Barwick's Life, Oley, Thruscross, and Thorndike. W.P. _Osnaburgh Bishopric_ (Vol. ii., pp. 358. 447.).--The succession to this bishopric was regulated by the Treaty of Westphalia, in 1648. By virtue of that treaty the see of Osnaburgh is alternately possessed by a Romish and a Protestant prince; and when it comes to the turn of a Protestant, it is to be given to a younger son of the house of Hanover. The _Almanach de Gotha_ will most probably supply the information who succeeded the late Duke of York. Looking at the names of the titular bishops of Osnaburgh, it may be inferred that the duties attached to the see are confined to its temporalities. J.T. HAMMACK. {485} _Nicholas Ferrar_ (Vol. ii., pp. 119. 407. 444.).--The libellous pamphlet, entitled _The Arminian Nunnery at Little Gidding_, is printed entire in the Appendix to Hearne's Preface to Langtoft. One of the Harmonies of the Life of Christ is in the British Museum, and another at St. John's College, Oxford (Qy.) (See the list of MSS. once at Gidding, Peckhard, p. 306.) N. Ferrar published and wrote the preface to Herbert's _Temple_, 1633,--and translated Valdesso's _Divine Considerations_, Camb. 1646. W.P. _Butchers' Blue Dress_ (Vol. ii., p. 266.).--A blue dress does not show stains of blood, inasmuch as blood, when dry, becomes of a blue colour. I have always understood this to be the explanation of this custom. X.Z. _Chaucer's Portrait by Occleve_ (Vol. ii., p. 442.).--This portrait is engraved in Strutt's _Regal and Ecclesiastical Antiquities_. J.I.D.