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[2nd s. No 61., Feb. 28. '57. 



information whether they have heard or read of 

 such a work being in existence ? If so, by whom 

 it was painted ? 



It has been suggested that the painting is either 

 by Richardson, Kneller, or Dobson, artists who 

 were in celebrity at that time. The writer in- 

 clines to its being the work of the former, on 

 account of the magnificent development of the 

 several heads, that artist being celelDrated in that 

 particular. Any item of information which any 

 of your esteemed correspondents can furnish me 

 with respecting either the subjects in this picture, 

 or the artist, will be thankfully received. 



Thomas Timothy. 



147. Castle Street, Reading. 



Anonymous Portraits. — A portrait collector 

 would feel obliged to be informed for whom the 

 portraits with the lines written underneath were 

 mtended ? there being no name of painter or en- 

 graver, nor anything but the verses to indicate 

 them. 



No. 1. is rather an old print bust on a pedestal, 

 melancholy face, with the lines under, viz. : — 



" Attack'd by Sickness, and to Pain a Prey, 

 I keep my humour cheerful still and gay, 

 With sour grimace and magisterial pride 

 These canting Sots the Stoicks Pain defied, 

 Yet fell beneath the burthen, when 'twas try'd : 

 None but myself did e'er that Pitch attain, 

 To sport with Misery and jest in Pain." 



No. 2, No names of engraver, &c. : — 



" Behould the man whose Wordes and Workes were one, 

 Whose life and labours have few equals known ; 

 Whose sacred Laj-s his Browes with Bayes have bound, 

 And him his age's Poet-laureate crown'd. 

 When Envy scarce could hate whom all admir'd, 

 Who lived beloved, and a Saint expir'd." 



Signed in the original " John Vicars." 



No. 3. With IZ. WA. underneath the lines ; 



<* This was for j'outh strength, mirth and Avit, that time 

 Most count their golden age ; but 'twas not thine. 

 Thine was the later ye^res so much refin'd 

 From youth's dross, mirth and wit ; as thy pure mind 

 Thought (like the Angels) nothing but the praise 

 Of thy Creator, in these last, best Dayes. 

 Witnes this Booke (thy Emblem), which begins 

 With love ; but endes with sighes and teares for Sins." * 



M. (4.) 



" Carrenare" — Will you, or one of your readers, 

 have the kindness to explain the two lines in 

 Chaucer, in one of which this word occurs ? — 



" Go hoodlesse into the drie see. 

 And come home by the Carrenare." 



The lines are in col. i. p. 327. of the 1st volume 

 of Chalmers' edition of the English Poets. The 



[* No. 3. is that of Dr. John Donne, engraved by 

 Marshall, and prefixed to Donne's Poems, edit. 1654, and 

 probably to other editions. ThQ lines are by Izaak 

 Walton.] 



poem is there called " Chaucer's Dream," but in 

 some other editions it is called " The Boke of the 

 Duchesse." W. H. W. T. 



Somerset House. 



Bullman: Miner. — Can any one inform me if 

 there are at present in England any descendants 

 of one Bullman, who, being possessed of much 

 mining land in Cornwall, rendered Edward III. 

 efficient aid in his French wars. 



The monarch changed his loyal subject's name 

 from Bullman to Miner, or Myner. 



I will be much obliged if any one will give me, 

 or tell me, where I can get any account of him or 

 his family. 2 p. 



Poman Measures. — In II Vaticano of Pistolesi 

 the measures are given thus, 201 3/4, 6 1/3, &c. ; 

 the first whole numbers are Koman palms, but 

 what are the others, and what is the meaning of 

 the italic/? The numbers cannot be "oncie," 

 because they are subdivisions of the foot, and not 

 of the palm. Architkctus. 



" Lorcha" Meaning of. — What is the meaning 

 and derivation of Lorcha. The word has become 

 familiar to us by the debates on the Chinese war 

 arising out of the afiiiir of the Lorcha Arrow. 



M. O. B. 



Hengist and Horsa. — As many writers now 

 assume that Hengist and Horsa have lost their 

 historical character, and can only be regarded as 

 myths, may I ask where I can see this question 

 fully treated ? and who was the first English writer 

 who denied their historical existence ? Scotus, 



^^Ezehiers Wheels." — Can you give me any in- 

 formation concerning the author of the following 

 work ? 



" Ezekiel's Wheels : a Treatise concerning Divine Pro- 

 vidence, very seasonable for all Ages, bj' Tho. Duresme, 

 &c. London, printed by J. G. for Kichard Royston, at 

 the Angell in Ivie-lane, 1653." 



I have looked in Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica, 

 both authors and subjects, in vain. The work is a 

 very curious one, and replete with much learning. 



K. C. 



Cork. 



[Our correspondent is fortunate in possessing a work 

 not to be found in the libraries of the Bodleian or the 

 British Museum. A copy of it was knocked down to the 

 late Mr. Pickering, at the sale of the Rev. H. F. Lyte's 

 library in 1849, bound with some other pieces hy the 

 same author. JEzekieVs Wheels was the last production 

 of that wise and good man. Dr. Thomas Morton, succes- 

 sively Dean of Gloucester and Winchester, Bishop of 

 Chester, Lichfield and Coventry, and Durham. Izaak 

 Walton, who emphatically styles him " My friend," has 

 left us, in the second edition of his Life of Dr. Donne, the 

 following beautiful sketch of bis character: "God hath 



