_Vandyking._--In a letter from Secretary Windebanke to the Lord Deputy
Wentworth (_Strafford Papers_, vol. i. p. 161.), P. C. S. S. notices this
phrase, "Pardon, I beseech your lordship the over-free censure of your
_Vandyking_." What is the meaning of this term, which P. C. S. S. does not
find in any other writing of the period? Had the _costume_, so usual in the
portraits by Vandyke, become proverbial so early as 1633, the date of
Windebanke's letter?