THE facsimile of a document preserved among the Public Records, will be interesting to all Kentish men, to say nothing of the ladies of that county. It relates to one of the two women of Kent who had the honour to become Queens of England; being the receipt of Elizabeth, the widow of King Edward IV., for the sum of £30, the arrears of her half-year's pension.
   The connexion of this illustrious lady with the county of Kent, through her father, Sir Richard Woodville, is too well known to need recapitulation; but her courtship and marriage with the King are so quaintly described in " The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre and Yorke," as to excuse the introduction here of an extract from that old Chronicle.—

   "The King being on huntyng in the forest of "Wychwood besyde Stonnystratforde, came for his recreacion to the mannor of Grafton, where the duches of Bedford soiorned, then wyfe to syr Richard  Wooduile, Lord Ryuers, on whom then was attendyng a doughter of her, called dame Elizabeth Greye, wydow of syr Jhon Grey, Knight, slayn at the last battell of saincte Albon's, by the power of Kyng Edward. This wydow hauyng a suit to yo Kyng, either to be restored by hym to some thyng taken from her, or requyring hym, of pitie, to hare some augmentaoion to her liuyng, founde such grace in the Kynges eyes, that he not onely fauored her suyte, but muche more phantasied her person, for she was a woman more of formal countenaunce, then of excellent beautie, but yet of such beautie & fauor, that with her sober demeanure, louely lokyng, and