_Collar of SS._ (Vols. iv.-vii. _passim_).--At the risk of frightening you
and your correspondents, I venture to resume this subject, in consequence
of a circumstance to which my attention has just been directed.
In the parish church of Swarkestone in Derbyshire there is a monument to
Richard Harpur, one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in the reign
of Elizabeth; on which he is represented in full judicial costume, with the
collar of SS., which I am told by the minister of the parish is "distinctly
delineated." It may be seen in Fairholt's _Costumes of England_, p. 278.
As far as I am aware, this is the only instance, either on monuments or in
portraits, of a _puisne_ judge being ornamented with this decoration. Can
any of your correspondents produce another example? or can they account,
from any other cause, for Richard Harpur receiving such a distinction? or
may I not rather attribute it to the blunder of the sculptor?