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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 75., June 6. '67. 



Btatements ? Can any of your readers refer me 

 to tlie document spokeu of as existing in the 

 Kouen archives ? Robebt J. Allen. 



Croydon. 



Portraits of Mary Queen of Scots. — Can any 

 of your readers versed in art afford me informa- 

 tion where the full-length portrait of Mary, en- 

 graved for Pinkerton's Scottish Portraits, after the 

 plate in Montfaucon's Monarchic Franqaise, may 

 now be seen ? The queen is represented in a 

 black slashed dress, leaning with her left hand on 

 a chair. I have been informed that the original 

 passed into the possession of an English collector. 

 An extensive series of painted and engraved por- 

 traits of Mary Stuart has been collected, and will 

 soon be ready for inspection at the rooms of the 

 Archaeological Institute, 26. Suffolk Street, Pall 

 Mall. The Prince Albert, and many distinguished 

 possessors of portraits, have enriched the collec- 

 tion, which promises to be even more interesting 

 than the Stuart gallery formed last year at Edin- 

 burgh at the meeting of the Institute. Any in- 

 formation regarding portraits or miniatures, &c. 

 of Mary will be thankfully acknowledged. 



Albert Wat. 



Eeigate. 



IVailing Pikes. 

 ing pikes ? 



■ What is the meaning of trail- 

 M. A. Ball. 



Lords Spiritual. — Bishop Jewel (Jelf's edition, 

 vi. 216.) states that the consent of the Lords 

 Spiritual is not required in Parliament, even for 

 laws affecting religion ; and that they were in fact 

 excluded from a Parliament of Edward I. 



Have they ever been excluded under the reign 

 of any later sovereign ? T. H. P n. 



Mumby, Alford. 



Quotations Wanted: ^^ The great Correctoi'" SfC. 

 — From whence is the following quotation taken, 

 referring to war : 



" The great Corrector of Enormous times, 

 Shaker of o'er-rank states, that heals with blood 

 The Earth, when it is sick." 



F. M. H. 



Where shall I find the little poem commencing 



" When in Golconda's mine I lay." 



T. C. 



Can you tell me who is the author of some lines 

 beginning 



" I live for those who love me, 



Whose hearts are kind and true^ 

 For the Heaven that smiles above me, 

 And awaits my spirits too." 



Maeie Stuart. 



Coal used by the Itomans. — Did the Romans 

 discover and make use of coal prior to their in- 

 vasion of Britain ? W. Wilkins. 



Field Marshal Robertson of the House of Stro- 

 wan, and Sachville Duchess of Dorset. — Sir Alex- 

 ander Robertson, a Cadet of the House of Strowan, 

 was created a baronet Feb. 26, 1676, Lord Port- 

 more in 1699, and in 1703 elevated to the Earldom 

 of Portmore. He is represented as a man " of 

 rare military genius." 



He settled somewhere in the province of Hol- 

 land, and assumed the name of Colyear, whilst his 

 brother, Walter Philip, retained his patronymic of 

 Robertson, and was known as Field Marshal Ro' 

 bertson, and his daughter became the wife of 

 Lionel Sackville, first Duke of Dorset; she was 

 one of the Maids of Honour to Queen Anne, and 

 first Lady of the Bedchamber, and Lady of the 

 Robes, to Queen Caroline when Princess of Wales, 

 and in 1727 Groom of the Stole to Her Majesty. 

 It does not appear from any of the printed ac- 

 counts I can find of the families of Robertson or 

 Sackville who the Field Marshal Robertson inar- 

 ried. 



If any of your readers should happen to know 

 who was the mother of the Duchess of Dorset, 

 and how, and from what branch of the Robertsons 

 of Strowan the Earls of Portmore descended, they 

 will oblige by communicating it. S. E. Gr. 



Par apy elites. -^In a letter from Chester, in 1731, 

 I find the following : " We breakfast together on 

 coffee and parapyclitesr Are these what are now 

 known under the name oi pikelets ? IscA. 



Lord Chief Justice Coke. — Arthur Coke, 2nd 

 surviving son of the Lord Chief Justice, married 

 Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir George Walde- 

 grave, and left issue two daughters and co-heirs. 



Can any of your correspondents give any in- 

 formation as to the residence or time of death of 

 Arthur Coke and his wife^ or the same particulars 

 respecting his co-heirs ? S. E. G. 



^^ Lathe" or " Leth, and ^^ Rape," their Size and 

 Meaning? — In the Theatre of the Empire of 

 Great Britain, by John Speed, published in 1611, 

 and in the map of Kent only, I see used lathe, 

 instead of the more general division hundred. 

 From its size on the map it appears to embrace 

 many hundreds. Can any correspondent to " N. 

 & Q." inform me of its real size ? Also the mean- 

 ing of rape, as signifying a measurement, or por- 

 tion of a county ? Lathe or leth, and rape, are 

 both Saxon terras. Henri. 



[The five laths into which Kent is divided vary much 

 in extent and in the number of hundreds respectively in- 

 cluded in them. The term is peculiar to Kent, as " Kape " 

 is to Sussex. It signifies an assembly. Lambard de- 

 rives it from selafiian, to assemble together. Spelman 

 defines Lattie, " est portio comitatus plures continens 



