Feb. 14. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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this note : " The following portrait of Bishop Hall 

 is rare and valuable." I should esteem it a favour 

 if some one of your correspondents would inform 

 me how far this is a correct estimate of the print. 



s. s. s. 



Mother Huff and Mother Damnable. — Can any 

 of your correspondents favour me with an account 

 ■of Mother Iluff? She is mentioned in Bishop 

 Gibson's edition of the Britannia, in a list of wild 

 plants found in Middlesex. In Park's Hampstead, 

 p. 245., is the foUowinnj extract from Baker's 

 comedy of Hampstcad Heath, 4to. 1706, Act II. 

 Sc. 1. : 



" Arabella. Well, this Hatnpstead's a charming place: 

 to dance all niglit at the Wells, and be treated at 

 Mother Huff's," &c. 



The place designated as "Mother Huff's" was, 

 I think, the sanie as that known as " Mother 

 Damnable's." The latter personage is mentioned 

 in Caulfield's Remarkable Characters. Who was 

 Mother Damnable ? Can any of your correspon- 

 dents furnish any additions to Caulfield's account 

 of Mother Damnable ? S. Wiswoulu. 



Sir Samuel Garth. — Can any of your numerous 

 correspondents inform me when and where Sir 

 Samuel Garth the poet was born, or favour me 

 with a copy of the inscription on his tomb in Har- 

 row Church ? Some say he was born in York- 

 shire ; others that he was born at Bolam, in 

 Durham. S. Wiswould. 



Germans Lips. — In Fulke's Defence of the 

 English Translations of the Bible (Parker Society, 

 1843, p. 267.) he speaks thus : 



" Beza's words agree to us, as well as German's lips, 

 that were nine miles asunder." 



Can you inform me who German was, and where 

 his lips were situated ? H. T, 



[In our first Vol. p. 157. will be found a similar 

 Query, founded on passages in Calfliill and Latimer, in 

 which the same allusion occurs, but which has not as 

 yet received any satisfactory reply.] 



Richard Leoeridge. — Some years ago, I saw 

 an oil-painting of this celebrated singer at an 

 auction-room in Leicester Street. Can any of 

 your readers give me a clue to its discovery ? 



Edwakd F. Kimbault. 



Thomas Durfey. — Is there any other engraved 

 portrait of this "distinguished" wit, besides the 

 one prefixed to his pills ? Edwaed F. Rimbault. 



Audley Family. — Can any of your correspon- 

 dents inform me whether there are any male 

 representatives still existing of the family of 

 Auilley (or Arvdeley) of Gransden, in Hunting- 

 donshire ; or, if not, when it became extinct ? 



Thomas Audley, created Lord Audley of Wal- 

 den. Lord High Chancellor, and K. G. by Henry 

 VIII., had an only daughter and heiress, married 



to the Duke of Norfolk. He had also two bro- 

 thers, Robert and Henry. Robert was of Here-' 

 church, in Essex ; and, on the chancellor's death 

 without male issue, inherited from him large 

 landed property. His line flourished for several 

 generations, and ended in Henry Audley — a weak 

 and vicious spendthrift, who ruined himself, and 

 died (without issue) in the Fleet Prisrfti, in 1714, 

 having married a daughter of Philip, Viscount 

 Strangford. Henry, the chancellor's youngest 

 brother, had the manor of Great Gransden, in 

 Huntingdonshire, by a grant from Henry VIII., 

 where his descendants were fixed for several 

 generations. In the Visitation of Hunts, made in 



1613, under the authority of William Camden 

 (Clarencieux), there is a pedigree of the Audleys 

 of Gransden, which comes down to Robert Aud- 

 ley, married to Elizabeth, daughter of John 

 Marbury, who had two sons then living, Robert 

 and Francis, of the respective ages of three and 

 two (in 1613) : a daughter, Elizabeth, was bom in 



1614, and married William Sneyd, Esq., of Keele, 

 CO. Stafford; she had issue, and died 1686, aged 

 seventy-two. 



Gransden must have passed from the possession 

 of that family not long after this visitation ; for, 

 in Charles II.'s time, it belonged to Sir Julius 

 Caesar : and in the catalogue of lords and gentle- 

 men who compounded for their estates (1655), 

 the only Aulieys of Hunts who were mentioned, 

 are. Wheat ehill Audley, of Woodhurst; and Moli- 

 neux Audley, of St. Ives (both in Hunts). The 

 parish registers of Gransden throw no light on 

 the fate of the family. The church contains no 

 memorials, and local tradition is silent. 



Can any of your correspondents supply any 

 information ? My object is to ascertain whether 

 the above-mentioned Elizabeth, married to Wm. 

 Sneyd, did, or did not, become the representative 

 of the family, by the death, without issue, of her 

 brothers. W. S. 



Denton. 



Ink. — Can any of your correspondents enlighten 

 me as to the nature of the ink used in the ancient 

 MSS. ; its delightful blackness, even In examples of 

 great antiquity, is most refreshing to the eye. 



W. Sparkow Simpson, B. A. 



Mistletoe excluded from Churches. — Is mistletoe 

 excluded now from any church in the mistletoe- 

 producing counties at Christmas ? And was it 

 ever admitted in Roman Catholic times ? 



T. GOIJJSEEB. 



Blind taught to read. — Burnet, in the postscrlplj 

 of his Letter from Milan, dated Oct. 1, 1685 (ed. 

 Rotterdam, 1687, p. 114.), speaking of Mistress 

 Walkier, who had been accidentally blinded in 

 infancy, states, that her father " ordered letters to 

 be carved in wood;" and that "she, by feeling 



