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[2'"J S. K» 58., Feb. 7. 'bl. 



doctor's patronage by contracting an affection for 

 a young lady that ended in matrimony. Thrown 

 upon liis own resources, the early artist soon ob- 

 tained employment, embracing lOOZ. per annum 

 from an association called the Polygraphic Com- 

 pany, who were to print in oil-colours all the cele- 

 brated pictures by the old masters, — works that, 

 after touching by hand, should make art patent to 

 all, showing that chromatic printing on a large 

 scale is no novelty : but it did not pay ; so Mr. 

 Baynes, after shifting from the company's offices 

 at Woolwich, settled in Castle Street, Oxford 

 Street (a near neighbour to Barry), where he re- 

 mained for forty ^ears, until his death in 1837. 



The works of Baynes are gentle and pleasing 

 transcripts of home scenery, being more vigorous 

 than Paul Sandby, though not so dashing as Girtin 

 or John Varley, allowing for fading and difference 

 of style. As a sketcher he was free, and his oil 

 pictures are complete, and show power, and in 

 their day attracted attention at " the Exhibition " 

 (for then there was but one show of the kind in 

 London), and to that Exhibition Baynes adhered 

 to the last, though solicited at the formation of the 

 Old Water-Colour Society to be a founder. Of 

 his pupils may be named Sass, who established 

 the Art School in Bloomsbury, still maintained by 

 Mr. Carey, the son of the translator of Dante, Mr. 

 John Wood the painter, and James D. Harding, 

 whose works, vigorous and bold as ihey are, are 

 yet in some degree indebted to the early gentle 

 master. Luke Limneb, F. S. A. 



Eegent's Park. 



Trafalgar Veterans (2"* S. iii. 18. 76.) — I no- 

 ticed in the obituary of the Gentleman s Magazine 

 last year, the death of Don Xavier Ulloa, the last 

 survivor in Spain of the battle of Trafalgar. Pie 

 died at Madrid, aged eighty- four. 



To the list of survivors in England may be 

 added the name of a gallant officer, Capt. West, 

 now residing in the neighbourhood of Newcastle- 

 upon-Tyne, who was in the " Africa," and being 

 master's mate, and having charge of the signal 

 department, was severely wounded. E. H. A. 



Vicar General Cromwell (2°* S. iii. 15.) — 

 Under the article "Rhubarb," Mb. Denton says : 



" In 1554, the eccentric physician Andrew Boorde sent 

 to Mr. Vicar-General Cromwell the seeds of reuberbe, the 

 which came owtt of Barbary." 



This date may mislead many of your readers, 

 since Cromwell was beheaded in June, 1540. It 

 is probably a misprint for 1534, when Cromwell 

 was Secretary of State and Master of the Rolls. 

 He was created a peer in July, 1536. R. L. 



Anti-Cromwellian Song (2"^ S. iii. 68.) —Your 

 correspondent Royalist will probably get a better 

 answer than I can give him, but as be has touched 



a chord of memory that has not been awakened 

 these forty years or more, I am inclined to give 

 him the benefit in return for the pleasure it is to 

 be carried back to childhood's days. This is what 

 I, in Norfolk, learned to say : 



" We'll bore a hole thro' Cromwell's nose 

 And put therein a string, 

 And drag him up and down the town 

 For killing Charles our King. 



" And when we thrice have dragged him so. 

 And made his nose full sore. 

 We'll pull the same string out again. 

 And serve him so no more." 



Edinburgh. 



A.J. 



Gordon of Auclduchries : Gordon of Haddo 

 (2"'* S. ii. 344.) — J. M. is right in repudiating 

 the fabulous descent of the Gordons of Haddo, or 

 Haldoch, from Bertrand de Gourdon. Neither is 

 there any evidence in support of their acquiring 

 the lands of Methlic from an alliance with the 

 family of De Citharista, as has been asserted. 

 It is rather to be presumed, agreeably to the 

 opinion of family historians and genealogists of 

 credit, that they had a common origin, as cadets, 

 with numerous Gordons in the north, who claim 

 as their ancestors two brothers, John Gordon of 

 Essie and Scordarg, and Thomas Gordon of Ruth- 

 ven, concerning Avhom certain disputed questions 

 have been raised by antiquaries. In particular, 

 in Memoh-s of Scotch Affairs from 1624 to 1651, 

 from sundry Gordon MSS. published by Mann of 

 Aberdeen, John of Scordarg is explicitly stated to 

 have been the ancestor of " the houses of Straloch 

 or Pitlurg, Carnburrow, Haddo or Methlick," &c. 

 Such has formerly been the tradition and beliefj 

 excluding the modern notion of a southern Gor- 

 don origin — similar to that of the old historical 

 and knightly Lochinvars — first broached on the 

 ennobling and great elevation of the Haddo fa- 

 mily in the person of the Lord Chancellor, created 

 Earl of Aberdeen in 1682. 



With respect to the Gordons of Aucliluchrlos, 

 it is more probable that they are sprung from one 

 of the brothers, familiarly called Jock and Tam, 

 than from the very distinguished and ancient 

 stock of Seton Gordon, from which descended the 

 Lords Gordon, Earls and Marquisses of Huntley, 

 Dukes of Gordon, Earls of Aboyne, &c., and whose 

 cadets are in general well known and defined ; 

 while some circumstances point out Scordarg or 

 Pitlurg as their ancestor. The fiiraily of Pitlurg . 

 was first designed of Auchluchrie, as is prove<l, 

 inter alia, by a charter under the Great Seal, con- 

 firming to John Gordon of Auchluchrie a charter 

 by Alexander Glaster of Glack, May 18, 1486, of 

 the lands of Lungar and Hilltoun. He, or his 

 son of the same name, acquired the lands of Pit- 

 lurg, by which designation their descendants have 

 been distinguished. The estate of Auchluchrie, 



