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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2«« S. VII. June 11. '59. 



words used commonly upon low and trivial occasions, de- 

 based by vulgar mouths, and contaminated by inelegant 

 applications." 



Against this is written : " Lxither and Wesley 

 thought the contrai-y, and were right." 



Is this an opinion derived from their works 

 generally, or supported by express dicta ? 



M. E. N. 



Kniglits created by Oliver Cromwell. — Is there 

 to be found any list of knights made during the 

 Interregnum, and were any of them recognised 

 after the Restoration? I annex the following 

 passage as recording one of the number : — 



" 1656, May 3. This day the Lord Protector gave the 

 honor of knighthood to Mons. Coyett, the Kg of Sweden's 

 resident here, who is now S'' Peter Coyett, and gave him 

 a fair jewell with his highness's picture, and a rich gold 

 chain : it cost about 400Z." 



I have been informed that there is such a list 

 in the British Museum, but am unable to find any 

 reference to it. -f «ja. /b. S^l (* Ithubiel. 



Tooth and Egg Metal — I bought in Wardour 

 Street some candlesticks in an old metal, which 

 the man — a very respectable middle-aged man, 

 who has been there many years — called tooth and 

 egg metal. I cannot think what it is. He told 

 me they were rare, only found in old houses, and 

 prized. They are white like silver, but not bright ; 

 the model and workmanship good. What is the 

 metal so called and so described ? T. J. 



Irish banished by Cromwell to West Indies. — 

 We have it on record that Cromwell banished a 

 large number of the Irish to the West Indies. To 

 what island or islands, and from what part or 

 parts of Ireland, did he chiefly send them ? 



Abhba. 



Chevalier Pierropaint, or Pierpoint. — I remem- 

 ber in my youth seeing in my father's library 

 a book called by this title, but I cannot now 

 find a copy of the work in any of our public li- 

 braries. Can any of your readers refer me to a 

 copy of the work, or tell me who the Chevalier 

 was ? N. H. R. 



Numbers of Words used by different Classes. — 

 In p. 379. of the new number of the Edinburgh 

 Bevieiv, children are said to use only a hundred 

 words, uneducated people 350, and learned men 

 about 700. Where is the proof of this statement 

 to be found ? Tbiptolemds. 



Lucas of Whitto7i, a Painter. — At Brickwall, 

 Northiam, are two second-rate portraits in the 

 style ofKneller, on which are inscribed " Lucas, 

 Whittonus pinxit, 1736 :" as Kneller had a coun- 

 try seat at Whitton, and is buried there, it is pre- 

 sumed that this unknown artist was an inhabitant 

 of Whitton patronised and instructed by Kneller, 

 whose style he partly succeeded in imitating, and 

 then set up as a portrait-painter on his own ac' 



count. Where is this Whitton, where Sir Gr. 

 Kneller resided, and is interred ? * Also, can any- 

 thing farther be ascertained respecting this Lucas, 

 artist ? The portraits are, John Knight of Slap- 

 ton, in Northamptonshire, aged seventy-two ; 

 Catherina, his wife, aged thirty-seven. F. 



• 



Anecdote of Dr. Fuller. — I have searched 

 through Fuller's Wo7'ks in vain for the following 

 passage. Can any of your readers tell me where 

 it occurs ? 



" None alive ever heard rae pretend to the art of me- 

 mor}', who in my book [ Holy State'] have decried it as a 

 trick and no art ; and indeed is more of fancy than me- 

 mory. I confess, some ten years since, when I came out 

 of the pulpit at St. Dunstan's East, one (who since wrote 

 a book thereof) told me in the vestry before credible peo- 

 ple, that he in Sydney College had taught me the art of 

 memory. I returned unto him that it was not so, for I 

 could not remember that I had ever seen him before, 

 which I conceive was a real refutation." 



N. N. T. 



PoM^.f— What? 



" Ne let Hobgoblin, ne the Ponk, profane 

 With shadowy Glare the Light, and mad the bursting 

 Brain." 



(^Poems on several Occasions, by William 

 Thompson, Oxford, printed at the Thea- 

 tre, MDCCLYii., vol. i. p. 173.) 



At the fobt of the page there is the following 

 note : — 



"The Lemuria, or Rites sacred to the Lemures, were 

 celebrated by the Romans in May. See Ovid, Fast. 1. v., 

 &c. They imagined the Lemures (in English, Fairies') to be 

 like Ghosts of deceased Persons: but our traditional Ac- 

 counts are very different in Respect to the Nature of 

 Fairies. Sha/iespear''s Midsummers Night's Dream, Dray 

 ton's Fairy Tale, and a celebrated Old Ballad, are Mas- 

 ter- pieces in their Kind." 



What the " old ballad ? " + R. W. 



Maltese Galleys. — Can any of your correspon- 

 dents oblige by giving me information respecting 

 the build, tonnage, size, or number of slaves who 

 were employed on the galleys of the Order of St. 

 John of Jerusalem, from 1300 to 1520; or of the 

 Maltese galleys, from 1535 to 1700, when the 

 ships of war were built? Any information re- 

 specting the English knights, who might have 

 distinguished themselves in naval engagements at 

 any period of the history of the Order, would also 

 be most acceptable. William Wintheof. 



Malta. 



The Black Prince. — I have somewhere seen in 

 some old author, a notice of a victory gained by 

 the Black Prince, and the observation on it that 



[* Whitton is a hamlet in Twickenham parish. Sir 

 Godfrey Kneller erected his mansion about tlie year 1711, 

 and resided there during the latter part of his life.] 

 [t This is clearly a misprint for Poak or Puck.] 

 [ j Ben Jonson's Pranks of Puc/i, from the original 

 ballad in the Roxburghe collectiou. See also Percy's 

 lieliques.—T.v. «N. & Q."] 



