[The brass is engraved in Harding's _Antiquities of Westminster Abbey_; but it appears that one half of the following inscription, which was formerly round the verge of the brass, has now been torn away:-- "Hic fuit expertus in quovis jure Robertus, De Waldeby dictus nunc est sub marmore strictus; Sacre Scripture Doctor fuit, et geniture Ingenuus Medicus et plebis semper amicus Presul Adurensis posthoc Archas Dublinensis Hinc Cicestrensis, tandem Primas Eborensis Quarto kalend. Junii migravit cursibus anni Sepultus milleni ter C. septem Nonies quoque deni. Vos precor, Orate quod sint sibi dona beate Cum sanctis vite requiescat et hic sine lite." Weever, in his _Funeral Monuments_, quotes the following description of him from a MS. account of the Archbishops of York, in the Cottonian Collection:-- "Tunc Robertus ordinis fratris Augustini Ascendit in cathedram primatis Paulini, Lingua scientificus sermonis latini Anno primo proximat vite sue fini, De carnis ergastulo presul evocatur Gleba sui corporis Westminstre humatur."] * * * * * _Verstegan._--Will any of the contributors to your valuable miscellany be kind enough to inform me if there are any engraved portraits of the quaint old antiquary Richard Verstegan, the author of a curious work, entitled _A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence_? The portraits may be common, but living in the country, and at distance from town, I have no friend from whom I can glean the required information. Can my informant at the same time acquaint me with the best edition of his work? There was one printed at Antwerp in 1605. J. S. P. (a Subscriber.) [Our correspondent will find a notice of Verstegan's work in page 85. of this volume. The first edition was printed at Antwerp in 1605, and was reprinted at London in 4to. in 1634, and in 8vo. in 1655 and 1673. The first edition is deservedly reckoned the best, as well on account of containing one or more engravings, afterwards omitted, as also for the superiority of the plates, those in the subsequent editions being very indifferent copies. No portrait of the author is noticed either by Granger or Bromley.] * * * * * _Royal Library._--In the new edition of Boswell's _Life of Johnson_ (published by the proprietors of the _Illustrated London News_), in the _National Illustrated Library_, the editor, in reference to the library of King George III. (which is generally understood to have been presented to the nation by George IV., and which is recorded to have been given, in an inscription placed in that magnificent hall), has appended the following note:-- "It has recently transpired that the government of the day bought the library of George IV., just as he was on the eve of concluding a sale of it to the Emperor of Russia."