^{page 11 note a} In the Mémoirs of the Society of Antiquaries of Picardy (tome x. pl. 3), is a representation of the elaborate Tombeau de F. de Lannoy, on the basement of which appear the four cardinal virtues, the third of which is Temperance holding a clock.

^{page 17 note a} New-year and birth-day presents, a relic of the Roman strenœ, were very unscrupulously exacted in those times, in all the European courts. In my former letter, I mentioned the drawing of a clock by Holbein, which Sir Anthony Denny presented to Henry VIII. as a new-year's gift; and in December, 1756, a large roll was exhibited before this Society, containing a schedule of the moneys, caskets, trinkets, brocades, and rich wearing apparel, which were received by Queen Elizabeth on the 1st of January, 1584 (See Archæologia, vol. i. no. 3). It is printed at length, as are some other similar rolls, in Nichols's Progresses, &c. of Queen Elizabeth. Not only were peers, peeresses, bishops, and officers of state amerced, but the royal retainers—even to the apothecaries and cooks—were expected to make their offerings. On the occasion in question, her Majesty made returns in gilt-plate to the amount of 4809 ounces, exclusive of what she presented to the foreign ambassadors. The new-year's gift she received from the Earl of Leicester in 1571 was a richly-jewelled armlet, having “in the closing thearof a clocke, and in the forepart of the same a faire lozengie dyamond without a foyle, hanging thearat a rounde juell fully garnished with dyamondes and a perle pendaunt.”