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Westminster Hall, the only part of the royal palace now standing,is marked with Richard the Second’s badge of the hart couchant.

Herstmonceaux Castle, in Sussex , has a paneled compartment overthe gateway, sculptured with the alant or wolf-dog, holding a bannerof the arms of Fiennes, round the staff of which is entwined a scroll,with the motto le roy le vevt.

South Winfield Manor-house, in Derbyshire , built by Ralph, LordCromwell, treasurer to Henry VI. , is enriched with purses—diis badgeof office.

On the Gate-house of Maxtoke Castle, in Warwickshire , built bythe Duke of Buckingham in the same reign, are the arms of Staffordand Neville, with the antelopes derived from the family of Bohun,the burning nave, and Stafford knot, his own peculiar badges.

Hertford Castle had the arms of King Edward IV. , with the bullof the house of Clare as a supporter on the dexter side, and the lionof Mortimer on the sinister.

A Gate-house of Carisbrook Castle, Isle of Wight, built by LordWidville in the same reign, bears his arms, with the rose of York*on each side.

* Dr. Warburton, on that passage in Shakspeare’s Henry VI .

“ From off this briar pluck a white rose with me,”

says,_“ This is given as the original of the two badges of the houses of York and Lancaster;

whether truly or not, is no great matter. But the proverbial expression of saying a thing isdone under the rose, I am persuaded came from thence. When the nation had ranged itselfinto two great factions, under the white and red rose, and were perpetually plotting andcounterplotting against one another; then when a matter of faction was communicated byeither party to his friend in the same quarrel, it was natural for him to add, that he said itunder the rose; meaning, that as it concerned the faction, it was religiously to be kept secret.

A fanciful and pleasing theory; but the bishop was no herald, or he would have known