2»<» S. VII. Feb. 26. '69.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Sir H. W. Barnard, K.C.B. — Will any of your 

 subscribers kindly inform me of the armorial bear- 

 ings of this General, who died before Delhi of 

 dysentery, July 5th, 1857? He was son of the 

 Rev. W. Barnard, LL. B., of Water Stratford, 

 Bucks, nephew of the late Sir Andrew Barnard, 

 Lieut.- Governor of Chelsea College, and great- 

 grandson of Dr. Barnard, Bishop of Derry. There 

 must, therefore, be easy means of a reply to my 

 Query, though I have not myself access to them. 



E. H. M. S. 



Sir Thomas Lawrence. — There is a portrait, in 

 crayons, of one of the family at Stanford Court, 

 with an inscription on the back — " Thomas Law- 

 rence, 1785 ;" and a tradition it was the work of a 

 young painter resident in the neighbourhood, I 

 have been told. Sir Thos. Lawrence resided at 

 Tenbury in his youth. Is there any published 

 Life of that painter ? and if so, does it mention 

 a residence at Tenbury, Worcestershire, about 

 1785.* T. E. W. 



Stanford Court, Worcester. 



Doctor of Laws. — Can any of your readers in- 

 form me whether the degree of Doctor of Laws 

 entitles to the rank of Esquire ? I believe bar- 

 risters have that distinction by virtue of their 

 office ; and as, according to the table of prece- 

 dency, a Doctor of Laws precedes a Barrister (and 

 I believe also a Queen's Counsel), I presume the 

 dignity can be assumed by one who, though a 

 D.C.L., is not entitled to it by birth. 



An Oxford M.A. 



" Alas for thee, Jerusalem," ifc. — I have heard 

 a poem quoted of which the following lines form 

 part : — 



" Alas for thee, Jerusalem, how cold tliy hearPto me, . 

 How often in these arms of love would I have gathered 



thee: ' 

 My sheltering wing had been thy shield, my love thy 



happy lot, 

 I would it had been thus with thee j I would, but ye 



would not. 



Those tears are told, that hour is fled, the agony is 



past — 

 The Lord has wept, the Lord has bled, but he has not 



loved his last," &c., &c. 



Can any of your readers inform me who is the 

 author ? or in what book, or with whose works, it 

 is published ? H. L. L. 



Liverpool. 



Quicksilver in the Back of a Sword. — In the 

 " Address to the Reader," in the 2nd edition of 

 Henry More's Poems (Cambridge, 1647), sig. B 2 

 (there is no paging), I find the following : — 



" For if we can but once entitle our opinions and mis- 



[* It is probable Sir Thomas may have visited Ten- 

 bury, as his father's romantic marriage with Miss Lucy 

 Read, " the beauty of Tenbury," took place at its vica- 

 rage,] 



2>«i S. Vn. NO. 165.] 



takes to Religion, and God's Spirit, it is like running 

 quicksilver in the back of a sword, and will enable us to 

 strike to utter destruction and ruin." 



I take this to mean, that running quicksilver 

 into a cavity prepared for it in the back of a 

 sword would render the sword heavy enough to 

 inflict a mortal blow wherever it fell. Can any of 

 the readers of " N". & Q." supply farther informa- 

 tion on the subject ? S. C. 



" Chap" and ^^ Wench." — I should be glad to 

 know the derivation of these two terms, as applied 

 to a lad and young woman. Edward King. 



Wet Sheets at Malvern eighty Years Ago. — 

 The present practice of hydropathy, wrapping the 

 patient up in wet sheets, is generally supposed to 

 be modern ; but Horace Walpole, in a letter to 

 Cole dated June 5th, 1775, says: — 



" Dr. Heberden (as every physician to make himself 

 talked of, will set up some new hypothesis) pretends that 

 a damp house, and even damp sheets, which have ever been 

 reckoned fatal, are wholesome. At Malvern, they cer- 

 tainly put patients into sheets just dipped in the spring." 



Is anything known of the establishment at this 

 time ? A. A. 



Poets' Corner. 



" Soon as the Morn," Sfc. — Who is the author 

 of the following hymn ? — 



" Soon as the Morn salutes your eyes, 

 And from sweet sleep refreshed you rise, 

 Think on the Author of the light, 

 And praise Him for the glorious sight : 

 Take not at night the least repose. 

 Ere you to Heaven your soul disclose ; 

 Consider how j-ou spent the day, 

 And for divine protection pray." 



P. B. 

 Early Woodcuts. — I feel interested in learning 

 the names of the engravers of figures in books 

 printed in the sixteenth century. I do not know 

 the Typi in Apocalypsi Johahnis depicti, SfC. no- 

 ticed by J. C. J. (2""* S. vii. 65.), but I have a copy 

 of Egenulphus Lnaginum in Apocalypsi, Johannis 

 descriptio, &c., printed at Frankfort, 1540. Tho 

 work contains twenty-six cuts of subjects, well 

 executed, but without any monogram. They 

 are not in the style of H. S. Beham, and I shall 

 be glad if J. C. J. can inform me who the artist 

 was, and if they are reduced from plates by Al- 

 bert Durer ? My copy has the name of " Henry 

 White Lichfeld," and is marked by him Ra?iss. 

 I have also a copy of Polydore Vergil's Adagia, 

 with his De Inventoribus Rerum, printed by Fro» 

 benius in 1521. The woodcuts are finely exe- 

 cuted, and there is the monogram ^^ on the first 

 cut. 



D'Israeli, in his Curiosities, says in a note to 

 his chapter called " the Philosophy of Proverbs," 

 that "these cuts seem to him executed with ini- 

 mitable delicacy, resembling a pencilling whicU 



