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respecting portraits of the once celebrated Kitty 

 Fisher, afterwards Mrs. Norris, I should feel 

 obliged by any of yonr correspondents informing 

 me whether she ever appeared upon the stage, and 

 how early, and in what characters, or where any 

 particulars of her life could be obtained ? my ob- 

 ject being to identify, if possible, what is reputed 

 to be a portrait of her in a theatrical character. 



G. S. 



Chess-hoard of King Charles I. — Capt. Richard 

 Symonds, an ofRcer in the army of King Charles L, 

 in one of his Diaries now in the library of the 

 British Museum (Add. MS. No. 17,062.), says 

 (p. 23.) : 

 " Round about y® king's chess-board this verse : 



" * Subditus et Princeps istis sine sanguine certent. 

 1643.' " 



This would be a very interesting relic if it still 

 exists. Is it known among the chess-players ? 



F. A. Carrington. 



Ogbourne St. George. 



Tripe Tu?'ner. — In The Dependant, an Epistle 

 to the Honourable Sir George Oxenden, Bart., 

 one of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, 

 London, folio, 1734, we have the following allu- 

 sion : 



" As well may we expect to meet 

 At Ttir — r^s House a generous treat ; 

 In Pedro's face a comely feature. 

 From Alexander Fope good nature." 



And in a foot-note referring to Tur — r we read : 



" Of Gray's Inn, vulgarly known by the name of Tripe 

 Turn — r, which he acquired by his penurious way of 

 life." 



Can any reader of " N. & Q." furnish additional 

 particulars of, or references to, a fuller history of 

 this worthy ? T. T. 



WhitelocKs '■'■Diary." — I have before me a 

 copy of the Diaries of Sir James Whitelock and 

 his son Sir Bulstrode, occupying 255 foolscap 

 pages. The first, from 1609—1631, is "Liber 

 Famelicus : " " In It I intend to set downe memo- 

 rialls for my posterity of thinges most properly 

 concerning myself and my familye." It contains 

 many interesting particulars political, legal, and 

 genealogical. 



Sir Bulstrode's Memoir commences with his 

 birth in 1605, "in the house of S"^ George Croke, 

 my mother's uncle, in Fleet Street, London," and 

 ends with his twenty-third year, and with a tour 

 into Cornwall ; and from thence " to the house of 

 S'' Thomas Mostyn, my brother-in-law, which 

 they call Place Thae," in Flintshire. This latter 

 Memoir was once in possession of Dr. Morton of 

 the British Museum, to whom it was given by 



Major Whitelock, of Prior's "Wood, near Dublin. 

 The copy before me is fairly written, and has 

 many editorial notes. 



My Query is, Has it ever been printed ? 



J. S. BUBK. 



[The "Liber Famelicus" of the Judge, Sir James 

 Whitelock, has never been published in extenso; but 

 several interesting passages, extracted from it, are in- 

 serted in Mr. Basil Montagu's edition of Bacon's Works, 

 vols. vii. and xvi. See " N. & Q.," l»t S. xi. 341. ; xii. 

 16.] 



" Noscens omnia, et notus nemini." — Can I be 

 informed, through "N. & Q.," what may have 

 been the name of a statue, well-known in Eome, 

 some centuries ago, from having the above Latin 

 words engraven upon it ? I have read it was 

 called Pasquin, because the Romans were accus- 

 tomed to post upon it during the night any squibs, 

 scurrilous notes, or libels, which they wished to 

 have read by the public, and without being known 

 as the authors : in a word, Pasquin being made 

 to father them all. W. W. 



Malta. 



{^Piazza del Pasquino, close to the Braschi Palace, de- 

 rives its name from the well-known torso called the statue 

 of Pasquin, a mutilated fragment of an ancient statue, 

 considered by Maffei to represent Ajax supporting Mene- 

 laus. It derives its modern name from the tailor Pas- 

 quin, who kept a shop opposite, which was the rendezvous 

 of all the gossips of the city, and from which their sati- 

 rical witticisms on the manners and follies of the day 

 obtained a ready circulation. Evelyn, in his Diary, Feb. 

 20, 1645, says, "Returning home, 1 passed by the stumps 

 of old Pasquin, at the corner of a street called Strada 

 Pontificia: here they still paste up their drolling lam- 

 poons and scurrilous papers." The statue of Marforio, 

 which formerly stood near the arch of Septimius Severus, 

 was made the vehicle for replying to the attacks of Pas- 

 quin, and for many years they kept up a constant fire of 

 wit and repartee. Consult Nibby, Itinerario di Roma, 

 ii. 409.; and Murray's Hand-Book for Central Italy, 

 p. 333.] 



Samuel Gorton. — Might I ask what is known 

 of the above- named person ? He was banished 

 from England in 1646 ; and going to the New 

 "World, founded a sect known as the Gortinians. 

 I have read that his form of worship was not un- 

 like that of the Quakers. Never having heard of 

 this sect in the United States, I am inclined to 

 believe it died with its founder. "W. W. 



Malta. 



[Samuel Gorton left London for Boston, U. S., in 1636, 

 and from that place removed in a short time to Plymouth, 

 then to Rhode Island, where he was whipped for his hete- 

 rodoxy. In 1641 he settled at Providence, where the 

 followers of Roger Williams, to prevent a schism in the 

 colony, fined and imprisoned him and his followers. His 

 treatment is minutely detailed in his work, Simplicity's 

 Defence against Seven-Headed Policy, republished in 

 vol. ii. of Collections of the Rhode Island Historical So- 

 ciety. After his imprisonment Gorton, in company with 

 Randall Holden and John Greene, sailed for England in 

 1644. Gorton left England the second time in 1648, and 



