Apeil 17. 1852.] 



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and probably in the works of all other writers who 

 need the word and the prefix ; but, as to there being 

 only six words beginning with h to which the case 

 of the said prefix will apply, I cannot assent to the 

 assertion. Witness the loUowing words, which 

 will form decided exceptions to a supposed rule of 

 that kind: — Harangue, hei'eafter, historical, hour, 

 hostler, hyperbole, hypothesis, hysteric. Can any 

 one speak these words in succession with the pre- 

 fix "a" to each without impediment ? I trow not. 



C. I. E. 



The six words mentioned by Kil Nemini, that 

 begin with the letter h, and have the article 

 " an" prefixed, are not quite the same as those I 

 was taught at school. This is my list : " Heir, 

 honest, honour (including honourable), hour, herb, 

 and hospital." Cuthbert Bede. 



The Countess of Desmond (Vol. v., p. 323,). — 

 Having succeeded in eliciting notices of various 

 pictures of Oliver Cromwell attributed to Cooper, 

 without discovering the original miniature be- 

 queathed to Richard Burke by Sir Joshua Rey- 

 nolds, I am tempted to mention that I once saw 

 a portrait of the Countess of Desmond, hitherto 

 not described by any of her biographers, but very 

 much resembling the Windsor picture and Pen- 

 nant's engraved print, though evidently the work 

 of an inferior artist. The portrait in question was 

 a short time in my father's possession, soon after 

 the year 1800, having been delivered to him by 

 the executor of Mrs. Elizabeth Berkeley, an ec- 

 centric old lady, well known as a correspondent of 

 the Gentleman s Magazine, who left the picture, 

 with many others, to Lord Braybrooke. But it 

 was soon claimed by a Mr. Grimston of Sculcoates, 

 in Yorkshire, who seemed to be entitled to a great 

 portion of the collection, and my father was glad 

 to be allowed to retain two fine views of Venice, 

 painted by Canaletti for Berkeley, Bishop of 

 Cloyne, who was the father of Mrs. Berkeley's hus- 

 band, and which are still at Audley End. Perhaps 

 this statement made from memory at the end of 

 fifty years may be of no value, but it shows the 

 existence of another likeness of the person always 

 described as the Countess of Desmond, and as it 

 came originally from the collection of an Irish 

 prelate, it probably, like the lady herself, be- 

 longed to the Emerald Isle. Braybrooke. 



Friday at Sea (Vol. v., pp. 200. 330.). — Stranger 

 still to your correspondent W. Eraser and the 

 readers of " N. & Q." must the assurance be that 

 the " Birkenhead" troop-ship (whose disastrous 

 loss was accompanied by such a terrific sacrifice of 

 life), sailed from Portsmouth harbour on the 2nd 

 January last — the identical day (being a Friday) 

 on which the lamented Capt. Symons in the 

 "Amazon" left this port, no more to return. Can 

 we wonder that uneducated minds, usually prone 



to superstitious observances, should at least marvel 

 at these strange coincidences ? 



H. W. S. Taylor. 

 Southampton. 



Marriage of Mrs. Claypole (Vol. v., p. 298.). — 

 In an old annual obituary for 1712, there is men- 

 tion made of the Protector's family, and of the 

 marriage of Mrs. Claypole. I think it gives the 

 date required by B. N., but the phraseology is 

 rather old-fashioned, and may be open to a second 

 interpretation. I send you the extract entire : — 



" Elizabeth (and not Mary, as stated in your note) 

 became the wife of John Claypole, Esquire, of North- 

 amptonshire, made Master of the Horse to tlie Pro- 

 tector, one of his House of Lords, a Knight and 

 Baronet, on July 16th, 1657, he being then Clerk of 

 the Hanaper; the said Elizabeth dyed August 7th, 

 1658, and was buried in Henry VII.'s chappel in- a 

 vault made on purpose." 



There is no mention of the writer's name in the 

 volume, but I have found such of the details re- 

 specting the Cromwell family as I examined to 

 coincide with the received authorities. T. O'G. 



Dublin. 



Rev. John Paget (Vol. Iv., p. 133. ; Vol. v., 

 pp. 66. 280. 327.).— Will the following facts, takeu 

 from Oldfield and Dyson's History and Antiquities 

 of Tottenham, 1790, pp. 48—50., be of any use to 

 Cratjmore ? He is quite right as to the substi- 

 tution of the baptismal name James to the Baron 

 of the Exchequer, instead of John, as Dugdale 

 has it : for he is called " James Pagitt, Esq.," in 

 the inscription to his memory in Tottenham Church. 

 He was a baron from 1631 till his death in 1638. 



The authors describe him as " son of Thomas of 

 the Inner Temple, London, son of Richard Craw- 

 ford, in the county of Northampton, son of Thomas 

 of Barton Seagrave, &c., in the said county." He 

 married three wives: 1. Katherine, daughter of 

 Dr. Lewin, Dean of the Arches; 2. Bridget, 

 daughter of Anthony Bowyer ; and 3. Margaret, 

 daughter of Robert Harris of Lincoln's Inn. The 

 latter we find, in Ashmole's Antiquities of Berks, 

 vol. iii. p. 88., had been married twice before, and 

 that her father was of Reading. 



Baron Paget had no children by his last two 

 wives ; but by his first, besides two daughters, he 

 had two sons : Justinian of Hadley, Middlesex, 

 custos brevium of the Court of King's Bench ; and 

 Thomas. 



If Cranmore can communicate to me any de- 

 tails of his history, I shall feel obliged by his doing 

 so. Edward Foss. 



Mary Queen of Scots and BothwelVs Confession 

 (Vol. iv., p. 313.). — iEGROTUs refers, I presume, 

 to a document which he will find in a little volume 

 entitled, Les Affaires du Comie de Bodnee, pub- 

 lished at Edinburgh by the Bannatyne Club in 



