e heralds'
places, in lieu of all travelling expenses and allowances. The
Painters' Bill, as they call it, is fixed for the Bath, and
might, I should think, reasonably be given to him at the same
rate.

He is making out copies of the drawings; one or two alterations
he has suggested which strike me. The first is the knots in the
Collar. If they are gold, and the harp likewise, the whole will
look, I think, too like a Lord Mayor's gold chain, and will make
no show; nothing being more dull to the eye than plain gold. He
wants to have them enamelled, so as to be like the strings and
tassels of the mantle.

He will also send a drawing of the Badge, with the wreath of
trefoil drawn in single leaves, instead of the full wreath,
which looks, as he says truly, like a civic crown or oak
garland. But this you will see in the drawing, and which looks
best.

I wish that there was a statute to fix the plates of the Knights
to remain in the stall in which they were first installed. In
the chapel at Windsor they are obliged now to put them up loose,
in order to their being removed; the consequence is, that they
are frequently lost. Besides, the plates of the first sixteen
might then be fixed in the centre of each stall as a mark of
distinction for the founders.

In the Garter there are no plates in the Sovereign's stall. I
should think that the Grand Master at each installation might be
allowed to put up his, as the banner must of course always be
the Sovereign's.

Edmonson proposes that he should have one of each article of the
Painters' Bill made here, to carry with him as a pattern. If you
see no objection, he might do Mornington's for this purpose. An
advantage might be given to Edmonson by authorizing him to
publish an account of the ceremony, with the arms and pedigrees
of the Knights, &c., &c., to which they would of course
subscribe.

Is the jewellery--I mean collars and badges--to be done in
Ireland? I believe there is no workmanship at all of that sort
there.

Townshend will, I believe, send the approbation to-night. It has
waited upon an idea of the Prince of Wales, who gave it out to
everybody that he had sent in to the King to ask for it.[1] This
was the day after the King had given his approbation to the
list, and named Prince Edward. I thought