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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Sir Humphrey Gilbert. — In Cockrem's Tourist's 

 Guide to Torquay and its Neighbourhood, on the 

 82nd page, it says : 



" His portrait v/as to be seen at Compton (castle, in 

 Devonshire), in the time of Prince, who says : ' this noble 

 knight's lively efHgies is yet remaining in his grand- 

 nephew's house at Compton, Humphrey Gilbert, Esq., 

 which I have there seen, in this figure, the one hand 

 holding a General's truncheon, and the other is laid on 

 the globe of tlie world. Virginia is written over ; on his 

 breast lies the golden anchor with the pearl at peak.' " 



Can any one tell me if this portrait is still to be 

 seen, or give me any other information respecting 

 it ? 2,0. 



Torquay. 



Players Carted. — When the players were 

 carted did that imply discipline at the cart's tail ? 

 Allen's wife was carted. See his letter to her. 



Did not a carted w — e mean one who had been 

 whipped at the cart's tail ? G. B,. L. 



Lancashire Churches, doggrel Description of. — 

 There is a doggrel description of the churches of 

 Lancashire, of which I remember only one verse : 



" The next is little Winwick that stands upon a sod, 

 And when a maid is married there tlie steeple gives a 



nod : , 

 Alas! how many ages their rapid flight have flown. 

 Since of that lofty spire there moved a single stone." 



Can any of your readers inform me where the 

 poem is to be found, or the name of the ungallant 

 author ? Kurm. 



^^Cervus." — I shall be glad to learn author's 

 name and any other particulars of the following 

 book now before me : 



"Cervus, hoc est, Qua3 per Cervum significata fuere 

 Sacris iEgyptiorum Uteris [then idem in German and 

 vignette of stag, with a hunter taking aim]. Augsburg; 

 bey Johan Shultes. Im Yahr Christi 1602." 



Then the arms of the Duke of Saxony, and a 

 Latin dedication to him. Then, after the pr«- 

 Jatio auctoris in Latin and German, a series of 

 plates with descriptions in Latin and German 

 verse. Thus, " L Ab Adulatoribus Pessundatus" 

 (the stag standing comfortably enough). "II. 

 Prsecipitantia " (the stag fleeing from a serpent). 

 The copy is bound in illuminated vellum, each 

 side of the cover being thicker than the printed 

 book, which consists of 38 pages of coarse paper. 



TlIRELKELD. 



Vergubretus, Manduhratus, Cassivelaunus. — Can 

 you give me the derivation of the following words, 

 which occur in Cicsar's Britannia: — Vergubretus, 

 Mandubratus, Cassivelaunus ? P. M. 



BobarCs Letters. — In Dr. Richardson's Cor- 

 respondence by Dawson Turner, there is inserted 

 a letter of Mr. Jacob Bobart, Professor of Bo- 

 tany to the University of Oxford from 1683 to 



1719, the year of his death. Underneath it is the 

 following note by Mr. Turner : 



" There are preserved from him (Jacob Bobart) in the 

 Richardson Correspondence three letters, of which I only 

 extracted this." 



Can any of the readers of " N. & Q." tell me 

 where I can see these three autograph letters, or 

 where the Richardson Correspondence now is ? 



Jacob Bobart had a brother named Tilleman. * 

 Can any one supply me with any particulars con- 

 cerning him ; the date of his death ? From an 

 old document in my possession, purporting to be 

 an account of work done for his Grace the Duke 

 of Marlborough, at Blenheim House, in October, 

 November, and December, 1709, it appears that 

 Tilleman Bobart had to examine the accounts, for 

 it is countersigned by him as well as Henry Joynes 

 and J. Vanbrugh. 



I should be glad to know what are the family 

 coat of arms. H. T. Bobart. 



Ashby de la Zouch. 



Ecclesiastics employed in State Affairs. — John 

 Robinson, Bishop of Bristol, was Privy Seal in 

 Lord Oxford's administration, and one of the 

 plenipotentiaries who negotiated the Treaty of 

 Utrecht. Is not this one of the last instances of 

 an English ecclesiastic being openly employed in 

 state affairs ? Are any later instances known ? 



W. 



R. G. Lee. — Who was R. G. Lee, author of 

 The Ransom of Manilla, or England's Ally, 8vo., 

 1793. Where was this play printed ? X. 



[The title-page states that it was "Printed and Sold 

 by T. VVilkins, 23. Aldermanbury, London." On the 

 back of the preface is an advertisement of another work 

 by this author, entitled Political Essays, addressed to 

 Philo, price 2s., noticed in The Critical Review for Jan. 

 1793.] 



Old London Conduits. — An old English Herbal^ 

 speaking of winter rocket, or cresses, says : — 



" It groweth of its own accord in gardens and fields, 

 by the way-side in divers places, and particularly in the 

 next pasture to the Conduit Head, behind Gray's Inn, that 

 brings water to Mr. Lamb's Conduit, in HolbornJ" 



Is either of these conduits now in existence, 

 and when last used ? Quest. 



[" The fields around Lamb's Conduit formed a fa- 

 vourite promenade for the inhabitants of St. Andrew's, 

 Holborn, and St. Giles-in-the-Fields. They were first 

 curtailed in 1714, by the formation of a new burying- 

 ground for the parish of St. George's, Bloomsbury, and 

 again in 1739, by the erection of the Foundling Hospital. 

 The conduit was taken down in 1746." — Cunningham's 

 London. ] 



Oliver Cromwell. — Can you inform me who is 

 the publisher of a pamphlet or work entitled His- 



