Some years have elapsed since the Earl of Verulam obliged the Society ofAntiquaries by the exhibition of a remarkable portrait of Edward Grimston, aneminent English diplomate of the fifteenth century. Achromo-lithograph of this picture was subsequently published in theArchæologia, accompanied by a valuable biographical sketch of the personrepresented, from the pen of the Director, Mr. Augustus W. Franks, who there setdown all the particulars of Grimston's life and connections which he had beenable to collect.