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tall hats, riding between large trees in pursuit of game, accompanied by
leaping dogs.
Mrs. Baker sent the writer a piece of the wedding dress of Hannah
Lynde, who married Rev. George Griswold. It is much faded and worn,
but has been a heavy, twilled silk, with green stripes on a white ground.
A tablecloth, or tablecover, inherited by Mrs. Elizabeth (Griswold)
95 Raymond, went to her granddaughter Nancy 19 Billings who married
Joseph Otis of Chicago ; then to Mrs. Otis's daughter Elizabeth (90)
who married Nathan Gould Sherman ; from whom it came to her daughter
Mrs. B. A. Hayes, who wrote as follows :
"The tablecloth which we think was embroidered by Queen Elizabeth came
into the family through Lord Willoughby. This 'surnap ' is of fine linen, embroid-
ered, across both ends, in a beautiful close pattern. I will enclose some rubbings to
you of the embroidery. The work is over-hand-stitch, not openwork. The whole is
solid embroidery, saving here and there an eyelet. On the edge is a very narrow
hemstitched hem, and in one corner is what I have been told was her crown, although
to me it little resembles one. I will draw it just the shape and size. This is done in
the embroidery-stitch with white linen. There is a strip of embroidery across each
end of the cloth, and the cloth measures forty-four by fifty-three inches."
Miss Sherman sent us an exact copy of this mark, which can only be
described as a closed padlock. It is of the precise square form given in
Edmondson's "Complete Body of Heraldry" (vol. ii., Plate vi., Fig. 9, in
base), with the remark that it is "the most ancient of any form borne in
armory."
Tower."
Mrs. Mary Anna Chappell wrote :
" I have always been told that Queen Elizabeth worked that tablecloth in the
Mrs. Vincent made a similar statement.