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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd S. No 73., May 23. '67. 



Prickett's Bridlington. We are desirous of ascer- 

 taining the names of his parents, and of his wife or 

 ■wives and children. C. H. & Thompson CooptiR. 

 Cambridge. 



[Our correspondents will find some valuable notices of 

 the parentage and family of Sir Marmaduke Constable in 

 the Gentkmari's Magazine for Feb. 1835, p. 152, &C.3 



rORTRAITS OF CROMWELL. 



(2"'J S. ii. 468. ; iii. 73.) 



In reply to the Query of your Manchester cor- 

 respondent T. P. L. regarding a portrait of Crom- 

 well, attributed to General Lambert, I have to 

 state that a small painting, precisely correspond- 

 ing to the description given of the portrait in 

 question, and supposed to have been from an 

 original painted by Lambert, exists in the pos- 

 session of the Duke of Richmond, at Goodwood 

 House. By his Grace's permission it was ex- 

 hibited, with many historical reliques and ex- 

 amples of art from Goodwood, in the museum 

 formed during the annual meeting of the Archteo- 

 logical Institute at Chichester in 1853, The 

 portrait is noticed in the Catalogue of the Mu- 

 seum, given with the Report of the Proceedings of 

 the Meeting, published for the Institute by Mr. 

 Russell Smith, p. 96. 



This curious little picture was at that time re- 

 garded as the original, but that supposition seems 

 questionable, on reference to the description given 

 in the Catalogue Raisonne of the pictures at Good- 

 wood, by his Grace's librarian, Mr. W. Hayley 

 Mason, in his volume descriptive of Goodwood 

 and the objects of interest in its vicinity : * 



"No. 151. A portrait of Oliver Cromwell, 13 in. by 

 11 in. The original of this portrait, which is a small full 

 length, has always been ascribed to the pencil of General 

 Lambert, taken before the battle of Naseby. It repre- 

 sents the interior of a village ale-house ; Cromwell, who 

 appears smoking a pipe, is dressed in a buff jerkin, over 

 which descends a steel cuirass. On his head is a broad 

 hat turned up on one side with a feather in it." — Good- 

 wood, by W. II. Mason, London, 1839, 8vo., p. 107. 



General Lambert, it is well known, was a pa- 

 tron of art, and it has been stated that he was 

 himself — 



" a good performer in flowers ; some of his works were at 

 the Duke of Leeds' at Wimbledon, and it was supposed 

 that he received instructions from 13aptist Caspars, whom 

 he retained in his service. The General's son, John 

 Lambert, painted portraits." — IValpok's Anecdotes, Dal- 

 laway's edit., vol. ii. p. 362. 



It would appear from Mr. Hayley Mason's ac- 

 count of the Goodwood picture that he considered 

 it to be a copy, and it is to be regretted that he 

 has given no notice where the original was pre- 

 served. Your correspondent T. P. L. has like- 



wise omitted to mention the authority on which 

 he notices the reported existence of such a por- 

 trait. The little painting at Goodwood is a work 

 of merit, and may be by the hand of John Lam- 

 bert, the general's son. It appeared to have been 

 executed without any studied attempt at por- 

 traiture, although a general resemblance to Crom- 

 well might be recognised in the figure. 



Albert AVay. 



JAMES HOWELL. 



(2"'^ S. iii. 167. 212. 315.) 



Your correspondents, in their desire to com- 

 municate information respecting the intelligent 

 old author, have made several mistakes which 

 they will thank me for correcting. Mr. Wm. 

 Sidney Gibson says : — 



" Howell was emploj'ed by King James I. in a nego- 

 ciation at the Court of Madrid, and that he was secretary 

 to Lord Scrope, President of the Council of the North." 



This statement is correct ; but the authority is 

 Anthony Wood, and not the editor of llie British 

 2'heatre. Wood furthermore tells us the occasion 

 of Howell's going to Spain, which was in the year 

 1622, "to recover of the king of that place a rich 

 English ship, seized on by his viceroy of Sardinia, 

 for his master's use, upon some pretence of pro- 

 hibited goods therein." 



As regards his being " Clerk of the Council to 

 Charles I.," Wood's words are a better authority 

 than Collins. This industrious writer tells us : 



" After going through several beneficial emploj'ments, 

 particularly the assisting the clerks of the Council, (he) 

 was at length in the beginning of the civil war made one 

 of these clerks ; but being prodigally inclined, and therefore 

 running much into debt, he was seized on by order of a 

 certain Committee (after the king was forc'd from his 

 parliament), and committed prisoner to the Fleet." 



Mr. Gibson says : 



" He was Master of the Ceremonies to both those 

 kings [i. e. James I. and Charles I.], and author of a 

 little book on the precedence of foreign ambassadors, en- 

 titled Sir John Finetfs Observations, published in 165G, 

 which I do not find in the printed catalogue of his works." 



This note is altogether wrong. Sir John 

 Finett, who died in 1641, aged seventy, was the 

 " Master of the Ceremonies to the two last kings," 

 not James Howell. And the said Sir John was 

 the author of the Finetti Philoxenis, as may be 

 proved by reference to the worthy knight's MS., 

 which is still in existence. Howell was merely 

 the editor of the printed edition in 1656. 



Mr. Gibson speaks of the " printed Catalogue 

 of his [Howell's] works!" If he possesses one, 

 it is a treasure " worth the purchase." I know of 

 no such thing, if we except the scanty bits some- 

 times found at the end of Howell's various publi- 

 cations ; Wood's enumeration of the author's 



