_Gloves.--Prince Rupert._--In your First Vol., pp. 72. 405., and in other places in Vol. ii., there are notices with respect to the presentation of _gloves_. If what is contained in the following {221} paper be not generally known, it may claim an interest with some of your readers:-- "At the Court of Whitehall, the 23rd of October, 1678. Present The Kings most excellent Majesty, His Highness _Prince Rupert_, Lord Archbp. of Canterbury," [with twelve others, who are named.] "Whereas formerly it hath been a custom upon the Consecra[~c]on of all [~B]ps for them to make presents of Gloves to all Persons that came to the Consecra[~c]on Dinners, and others, w^{ch} amounted to a great Su[~m] of Money, and was an unnecessary burden to them, His Ma^{tie} this day, taking the same into his considera[~c]on, was thereupon pleas'd to order in Council, that for the future there shall be no such distribu[~c]on of Gloves; but that in lieu thereof each Lord B[~p] before his Consecra[~c]on shall hereafter pay the Su[~m] of 50l. to be employ'd towards the Rebuilding of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul. And it was further ordered, that his Grace the Lord Archb[~p] of Canterbury do not proceed to consecrate any B[~p] before he hath paid the s[~d] Su[~m] of 50l. for the use aforesaid, and produced a Receipt for the same from the Treasurer of the Money for Rebuilding the said Church for the time being, w^{ch} as it is a pious work, so will it be some ease to the respective B[~p]s, in regard the Expense of Gloves did usually farr exceed that Sum. "PHI. LLOYD." _Tanner's MSS._ vol. 282. 112. al. 74. One of your correspondents, I think, some time back asked for notices of _Prince Rupert_ posterior to the Restoration. Besides the mention made of him in this paper, _Echard_ speaks of his having the command of one squadron of the English fleet in the Dutch war. J. SANSOM. _Inscription on a Gun_ (Vol. iii., p. 181.).--Your notes on "the Potter's and Shepherd's Keepsakes" remind me of an old gun, often handled by me in my youth, on the stock of which the following tetrastick was _en-nailed_:-- "Of all the sports as is, I fancies most a gun; And, after my decease, I leaves this to my son." Whether this testamentary disposition ever passed through Doctors' Commons, I know not. C. W. B. _Richard III._ (Vol. iii., pp. 206-7.).--The statement by MR. HARRISON, that Richard was not a "hunchback," is curiously "backed" by an ingenious conjecture of that very remarkable man, Doctor John Wallis of Oxford, in his _Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae_, first published in 1653. The passage occurs in the 2d section of chapter 14, "De Etymologia." Wallis is treating of the words _crook_, _crouch_, _cross_, &c., and says: