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I send them for preservation in "N. & Q.," both on account of their historical interest and because it may easily happen in these times of restoration that future visitors to Haarlem may find the stalls newly scraped and varnished, and those "trumpery old coats of arms" obliterated by those who are ignorant, or careless, of their interest to the genealogist and historian. The brass grille which separates the choir from the nave is supported by a carved base of oak, of which the principal feature is a fine series of shields, each with its single tenant or supporter, but the bearings, which no doubt once adorned the escutcheons, have all disappeared. SOUTH, OR GOSPEL, SIDE; EAST TO WEST. 1. Quarterly of four grand quarters :-1. and IV. Quarterly, 1 and 4, Castile, quartering Leon; 2 and 3, Arragon, impaling Sicily: the whole enté en point Grenada. II. and III. Quarterly, 1, Austria; 2, Burgundy modern; 3, Burgundy ancient; 4, Brabant: over all an escutcheon of Flanders. The whole escutcheon is ornamented with an open crown, and is surrounded by the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece. These are the arms either of Philippe le Bel, King of Spain, Archduke of Austria, Count of Holland, Flanders, &c. (d. 1516), or of his son Charles V., afterwards Emperor. 2. Quarterly, 1 and 4, Or, a lion ramp. sa. (Flanders); 2 and 3, Or, a lion ramp. gu. (Holland). The arms of the Counts of Holland. The escutcheon is here surrounded in base by the palisade, or hedge, with its gate, which appears on the seals of some of the Counts of Holland (see the seals of William, Duke of Bavaria, Count of Holland, and of his daughter Jacqueline, heiress of Holland, &c., in Vree, Gén. des Comtes de Flandre, plate 60). There is an interesting notice of Jacqueline and her four husbands, among whom were the Duke of Gloucester, brother of Henry V., and François de Borsele (whose arms appear on the Epistle side), in Beltz, Memorials of the Order of the Garler, pp. 341-342. 3. Quarterly, 1 and 4, Or, a lion ramp. gu., armed az. (Brederode); 2 and 3, Arg., a lion ramp. gu. (queue fourchée), crowned or (Valkenberg). The arms are surrounded by the collar of the Golden Fleece, on a field seme of flames; on either side of the shield in base is placed a boar's bead couped sa., tusked arg. These are the arms of Regnauld, Lord of Brederode, elected a knight of the Golden Fleece at the chapter held at Tournay in 1531 (Chifflet, Insignia Gentilitia Equitum Ordinis Velleris Aurei, clxxiii.). The Brederodes claimed the highest place among the nobility of Holland, and had attributed to them in common parlance the epithet of "die Edelste," as the Wassenaers had that of "oudste" (=most ancient), and the Egmonts that of "die ryckste." They descended from the old Counts of Holland (Spener, Op. Herald., p. spec., p. 395). The boars' heads were used to accompany the shield in memory of the Order of St. Anthony en Barbefosse, which was in great estimation in Hainault. For the same reason John of Burgundy, Duke of Brabant, another of the husbands of Jacqueline, Countess of Hainault and Holland, assumed two boars as supporters. 4. Gu., ten lozenges conjoined (3, 3, 3, and 1), on the first a lioncel rampant of the field for of the Order of the Golden Fleece. The arms of difference; the shield surrounded by the collar Philippe de Lalain, Count de Hochstraten (or Hoogstraaten), the head of the younger line of the great house of Lalain, elected at Utrecht in 1546 (Chifflet, No. cciii.). 5. Quarterly, 1 and 4, Gu., three crescents arg. (Wassenaer); 2 and 3, Az., a fess or (Leide). Around the shield are four crescents arg., the badges of the family of Wassenaer (see No. 7 on the Epistle, or north, side). 6. Az, three vine shoots fessways, 2 and 1, from each a leaf pendant or. Behind the shield is a pastoral staff erect in pale, proper, and above the whole an episcopal hat tasselled vert. 7. As No. 3. 8. A lozenge-shaped shield, containing the arms in No. 3, impaling Or, an eagle disp. sa. (probably for the Counts Nieuwenaar; the Dutch family of Honthorst bore the same). semé of flames, with the boars' heads in base, as in No. 13. This completes the series on the south, or Gospel, 16. Quarterly, I. and IV. Quarterly, 1 and 4, Barry of six, gu. and arg. (Querfurt); 2 and 3, Arg., six lozenges gu. (3,3), conjoined in fess (Mannsfeld). II. Sa., an eagle disp. arg., crowned and armed or (Arnstein). III. Az., a lion ramp. or; over all a bend goboné gu. and arg. (Heldrun gen.). The shield is ensigned with a count's coronet and with 9. Or, a lion ramp. gu., over all a label az. (Brederode). The shield is placed on a ground the collar of the Golden Fleece. These are the arms semé of flames, and is ornamented with the collar of the Counts of Mannsfeld. Two of these were of the Golden Fleece. These are the arms of Reg-knights of the Golden Fleece-Hoier, elected nauld de Brederode, probably the elder of the two 1516, and Pierre Ernest, elected in 1546 (Chifflet, Nos. cxxx. and ccv.). knights of the Golden Fleece who had the same name (vide supra, No. 3). This knight was pro-side of the choir. bably the one elected at Ghent in 1445 (Chifflet, Insig. Gent. Equit. Aur. Vell., No. xli.). The label is here given which was used by the Brederodes as a brisure to indicate their descent from the old Counts of Holland. About the year 1476 the Brederodes discontinued the use of the label, probably as an indication that they claimed to be the heirs male of the old counts. But when in 1494 the Archduke Philip claimed the homage of the nobles of Holland as count of that country, he insisted that the Brederodes should resume the use of their former brisure, which was accordingly done (v. Spener, Op. Her., p. spec., p. 396). 10. A lozenge-shaped shield bearing the quartered arms of Brederode and Valkenberg (as in No. 3), impaling, Or, a fess chequy arg. and gu., in chief a lion issuant of the third; the arms of the Counts von der Marck. 11. As No. 3. 12. Arg., three mill-rinds (zuilen) gu. The arms of one of the several great Dutch families of Zuylen, whose arms, otherwise called chess-rooks, are allusive to the name. 13. Zuylen, as No. 12, impaling Lalain (see No. 4), but without the lioncel brisure. 14. Arg., a cross gu., in each quarter five barrulets wavy az. ; over all, on an escutcheon arg, three horseshoes gu. Behind the shield is placed a pastoral staff erect, and the whole is surmounted by a bishop's hat, as in No. 4. As it was only in 1559 that the see of Haarlem was constituted, by the bull "Supra universas," I naturally expected that the three ecclesiastical escutcheons would be those of bishops of Utrecht, to which see Haarlem belonged before it was made a bishopric. But I have looked carefully through the list of bishops, afterwards archbishops, of Utrecht, given in the Supplement to Potthast, Wegweiser durch die Geschichtswerke des Europäischen Mittelalters, and to none of the prelates of the fifteenth or sixteenth century can I attribute the arms. 15. Brederode, as in No. 3; on the lion's shoulder is a small escutcheon of Zuylen, as in No. 12. The shield is placed on the usual ground Montrose. THE TRUE STORY OF THE CENCI FAMILY. (Continued from p. 23.) THE EXECUTION. Shortly before the confession of her brothers Beatrice had addressed a petition to Cardinal Aldobrandini, nephew of the Pope, from which an extract was given in the last note. It is dated July 20, and is found in D'Albono. passage is worth quoting :— Another "Shut up in prison, and unable to see my brothers or relations, I betake myself to your eminence...and be seech you to consider my miserable position, to be delivered from which there is nothing I would not do, whether it were bodily or spiritual punishment or deprivation to be endured.......In my wretched position I submit to whatever sentence the Holy Father may decree on my property and person, pledging myself to dispose of the said property...for the repairs of any building, bridge, or road, or for the glory of our holy religion for the benefit of the holy souls in purgatory....... Torre Savella, 20 July, 1599." The Pope, as we have seen, had, in his horror at the confession of the prisoners on August 11, ordered punishment to be at once inflicted. But advocates and friends wrung from him a delay of fifteen or twenty-five days for the defence. Several advocates appeared for the Cenci besides Farinacci. Giorgio Diedi ought to go down to posterity as the prisoners' friend, as he was actually imprisoned by order of the Governor of Rome, after having pleaded their cause too boldly, and a memorial exists in which he begs his Holiness not to think more of his foolish talk. He was instantly released. Farinacci's defence was fatal to the whole family, assuming Beatrice's guilt as originatrix delicti, yet not proving the provocation on which he rested her claim to mercy, the charge being articulatum sed non probatum. One more despairing appeal was made to the Cardinal by Beatrice on August 20. It is found in D'Albono, and also in a Venetian MS., where I find no less than four memorials in favour of Lucrezia : |