and he looks like a man who had been more accustomed to rule than to obey. His wife's portrait on panel, by Zucchero, represents her in “1593 at. 58.” The features are large, the nose prominent, and the eyes full and black, whilst the hair, partly concealed by the lappets of a velvet quoif or French hood, called a bonne-grace, retains its original dark colour without any intermixture of gray. A few years earlier in life she would be distinguished by the embonpoint, which appears a little shrivelled by the hand of time. Her dress is of black silk with a small running pattern upon it, fits close to the throat, which is encircled by a huge ruff scarcely inferior to the royal standard, the sleeves being puffed and of point lace. A large cameo is pendant in front, and in one hand she holds a small handsomely bound book, and in the other a honeysuckle. On the little finger of the left hand she wears a brilliant, and another on the right hand. She appears to have paid great attention to luxurious decoration and ornament, and to have had no fear of the sumptuary laws. In one corner of the picture are the three lions, gules, of the Talbots; and there is none of the traditional infirmity1 of that great family discernible in this lady's strongly marked and sensible countenance. In modern times a lawyer of Mr. ffarington's acute and vigorous mind would have risen high in his profession, and having been Secretary, Comptroller, and Receiver to noblemen of great influence, would have been brought into parlia 1 Hist. of Whalley, p. 473. ment and have reasonably looked for public promotion. There were, however, two offices which he avoided, both of which he might have been expected to fill, and in which his enlarged knowledge and experience would have been eminently useful, but he avoided the cumbrous office of Sheriff of the County, so well sustained by several of his descendants, and he did not assist in the deliberations of the senate. Patronised by at least three Earls of Derby, and their ever faithful friend, he lived many years to see a fourth enjoy the curtailed, though still princely, estates and honours of his ancestors, and died when James, afterwards the seventh Earl and the greatest of them all, was in his boyhood. It is clear that these distinguished noblemen entertained so high an opinion of his capacity and habits of business that he was consulted by them on occasions of the greatest importance, and his judgment was sometimes relied upon with a degree of implicitness which proves how entirely they confided in him. He lived also to see the marriage of his grandson and heir with a lady whose large inheritance in Notts would be duly appreciated; and he had the satisfaction to know that however fiercely and intolerably he had been bearded in his hall of Worden by the wife of one son, and disappointed in all his children, his honours and manors, his six mansions in the county, and all his feudal distinctions and traditional family influences, would descend to a gallant and high-minded successor, who, happily for himself, was not embroiled in lawsuits with his neighbours, and involved in unceasing warfare with his children, but whose unswerving devotion and loyalty to the altar and the throne, and whose grateful attachment to the house of Derby, are indelibly inscribed in the records of the Siege of Lathom, and whose chequered life- domestic, political, and military thoroughly realised the great fact contained in his grandfather's favourite motto, "DONAT OMNIA VIRTUS." F. R. R. Household Expenses OF EDWARD, EARL OF DERBY, IN 1561. A DECLARATION of the Expences of the Howseholde of the Right Honable Edward Erle of Derbie, Lord Stanley, Lord of Mañe and Thiles and of the moste noble Ordre of the Garter, knight, Wth his Ridinge Charges, Apparell and other fforren expences ffor one hole yere, Eudynge the xviiith day of July in the ffourthe yere of the Reigne of ou? Solaigne Lady Quene Elizabethe. [1561.] a Wheat spent in bread price of cclvjli euy qrt iiiili at vs the Windlea.. Windle, an old Lancashire measure containing a mett, or two bushels. It is still known in B In Lent stuffe bought this yere at Sturbruge} xxviii viiis iid ffeared and in the Countrey ... * The Peel windle may have been the measure used in the Isle of Man, which seems to have varied from that of Lancashire. b Qu. £124. 16s. 8d. € Qu. £81. The Lenten-stuff bought in 1576 for the household of Lord North of Hacking, consisted of "3 barrels |