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in the upper end of Aldersgate-StreBt, London. London, 

 printed by J. M. for Henry Herringman, and are to be 

 sold at his Shop, at the Sign of the Anchor, on the Lower- 

 Wallc iu the New -Exchange, 1656." 



In the address " To the Reader," Sir William 

 D'Avenant says : — 



" We conceive it will not be unacceptable to you, if we 

 recompence the narrowness of tlie Room, by containing in 

 it so much as could be conveniently accomplisht by Art 

 and Industry : which will not be doubted in the Scenen 

 by those who can judg that kind of illustration, and know 

 the excellency of Mr. John Web, who design'd and order'd 

 it." 



Here we learn the name of the scene-painter — ' 

 the celebrated relative and pupil of Inigo Jones, 

 John Webb — a fact which escaped the researches 

 of Walpole, and the writer of the article on " Early 

 Painted Scenery" in Brayley's Graphic Illustrator, 

 p. 296. 



I may add, in conclusion, that a number of 

 Webb's sketches and rough designs for scenery 

 are preserved in the magnificent collection of his 

 Grace the Duke of Devonshire at Chiswick. 



Edward F. Rimbault. 



General Lambert a Painter (2"'' S. iii. 410.) — I 

 wish we had more decisive evidence than the pas- 

 sage in Walpole which Mr. Way has cited, that 

 General Lambert was " a good performer in 

 flowers," because the general was but just come 

 of age when he took up arms for the parliament, 

 and his subsequent life was spent more in arms 

 than arts. Because also his son of the same name, 

 John, we know on evidence quite sufficient to 

 have cultivated the art of painting and to have 

 practised it with success ; so that there is danger 

 of works of his being attributed to his more cele- 

 brated father. 



The following notice of the son by a contempo- 

 rary and friend of the family, Mr. Oliver Hey wood, 

 is interesting : 



"Mr. John Lambert, son to General Lambert, came 

 into Craven : much addicted to pleasure, Avhich his wife 

 was against. Seized with palsy, January, 1676, about 

 which time his mother died in Plj'mouth Castle. His 

 father sent him a plain convincing letter against his ex- 

 travagance. His wife had got Mr. Frankland to preach 

 in Craven. He was against it : but changed. He invited 

 Mr. Heywood himself to preach, showed him his pictures. 

 He is an exact limner, [that is, as I understand it, por- 

 trait-painter]. He was beyond all the gentry for bowl- 

 ing, shooting, &c. ; an excellent scholar ; a man of much 

 reading; great memory, admirable parts. His only son 

 died the same year." 



This son, whose name was John, was buried at 

 Klrkby-Malham Dale, in Craven, March 9, 1675-6. 

 Two other sons died in infancy, so that his daughter 

 Frances became the heiress of Gallon. She be- 

 came the wife of Sir John Middleton, of Belsay 

 Castle in Northumberland, June 16, 1699. 



Perhaps, however, some correspondent of " N". 

 & Q." may be able to show on what authority the 

 statement rests, that the general as well as his son 

 cultivated a taste in art. Joseph Hunteb. 



Tailed Men (1" S. xi. 122. 252.) — 



" The Rev. Mr. T. J. Bowen, who spent several years 

 in the interior of Central Africa, as a missionary of the 

 Southern Baptist Board, makes the following reference to 

 the subject in his recently-published narrative In speak- 

 ing of Nasarau, the executioner of the King of Llorin (an 

 interior city of at least 70,000 inhabitants), and others 

 with whom he conversed, he says : — ' The Moors and 

 Arabs, who had been everywhere, had told them wonder- 

 ful stories of still other countries and tribes far off in the 

 east. Somewhere on the other side of Yakouba is a tribe 

 of people called Alakere, none of whom are more than 

 three feet in height. The chiefs are a little taller than 

 the common people. The Alakere are very ingenious 

 people, especially in working iron, and they are so indus- 

 trious that their towns are surrounded by iron walls. 

 Beyond these are a tribe called Alabiru, who have short 

 inflexible tails. As the stiffness. of their tails prevents 

 the Alabiru from sitting flat on the ground, every man 

 carries a sharp-pointed stick, with which he drills a holo 

 in the earth to receive his tail while sitting. They are 

 industrious manufacturers of iron bars, which they sell to 

 surrounding tribes. All the fine swords in Sudan are 

 made of this iron. The next tribe in order are the Ala- 

 biwoe, who have a small goat-like horn projecting from 

 the middle of their forehead. For all that, they are a 

 nice kind of black people, and quite intelligent. A wo- 

 man of this tribe is now in slavery at Offa, near Llorrin. 

 She always wears a handkerchief around her head, be- 

 cause she is ashamed of her horn. There are other people 

 in this " Doko " region who have four eyes, and others 

 who live entirely in subterranean galleries. These won- 

 ders were attested by natives and Arabs.' " — • Washington 

 Union, April 11, 1857. 



w. w. 



Malta. 



Pose: the Etymology of "to pose" (!'*■ S. Iii. 

 91.) — Nine volumes of the first, and two of the 

 second series of your interesting publication, 

 having appeared without a single reference being 

 made to your correspondent's Query, I would 

 refer him to Howell's Dictionary, London, 1659, 

 where he will find " To pose (in passing gradu- 

 ates)," probably an old college term, when a 

 scholar at his examination found himself puzzled, 

 evidently posed. William Winthbop. 



Malta. 



" Veak" — Like your correspondent T. Q. C. 

 (2°'' S. iii. 240.), I have sometimes heard the word 

 veaTte applied in Cornwall to a very had whitlow, 

 or " whilke," as it is there called. It is certainly 

 not used in this sense, however, by Carew in the 

 passage quoted, but as signifying a vagary, a 

 lohim, a sudden and capricious freak, with which 

 latter word it may perhaps be connected in deri- 

 vation. However this may be, the word is con- 

 stantly used in Cornwall as expressive of this kind 

 of impulse. J. M. 



Hammersmith, 



