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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 124. 



tall," I subjoin the following notice of a death, 

 which appeared in a newspaper of September, 

 1769: 



" At London, Peter Branan, aged 104. He was 

 SIX feet six inches high, and was commonly called Long 

 Meg of Westminster. He had been a soldier from 

 eighteen years of age." 



This notice is extracted in the EdinhurgTi An- 

 tiquarian Magazine, but without mentioning the 

 quarter from which it was taken. K. S. F. 



Perth. 



Family Likenesses (Vol. v., p. 7.). — To trace a 

 family likeness for a century is not at all un- 

 common. Any one who knows the face of the 

 present Duke of Manchester will see a strong like- 

 ness to his great ancestor, through six generations, 

 the Earl of Manchester of the Commonwealth, as 

 engraved in Lodge's Portraits. The following in- 

 stance is more remarkable. Elizabeth Hervey was 

 Abbess of Elstow in 1501. From her brother 

 Thomas is descended, in a direct line, the present 

 Marquis of Bristol. If any one will lay the por- 

 trait of Lord Bristol, in Mr. Gage Rokewode's 

 Thingoe Hundred, by the side of the sepulchral 

 brass of the Abbess of Elstow, figured in Fisher's 

 Bedfordshire Antiquities, they cannot but be struck 

 by the strong likeness between the two faces. 



This is valuable evidence on the disputed point, 

 whether portraits were attempted in sepulchral 

 brasses. Vokaeos. 



" A Roaring Meg" (Vol. v., p.l05.).— In Ghent, 

 in Flanders, there is still to be seen a wrought-iron 

 gun, a sister of Mons Meg, the famous piece of 

 artillery in Edinburgh Castle. She is named 

 DuUe Griete, Mad Margery, or Margaret, and 

 may possible be the elder sister after whom the 

 rest of the family have been named. Northman. 



Lyte Family (Vol. v., p. 78.). — A painted win- 

 dow representing the arms of the Lytes, and the 

 families with whom they intermarried for many 

 generations, is in the little church of Angersleigh, 

 near Taunton. E. M. 



Nuremberg Token (Vol. v., p. 201.). — The 

 legend of H. C. K.'s medal seems to me to be the 

 following : — 



" Hans Kravwinkle in Nuremberg " 

 (the name of the issuer of the token). 

 " Gottes Reich bleibt ewig [Mnd understood] ewig?" 

 " The kingdom of God endures for ever and ever." 

 Possibly a tradesman's token. 



G. H. K. 



The Old Countess of Desmond (Vol. iv., passim.^. 

 — Your several correspondents whose able re- 

 marks have excited much interest with regard to 

 this very extraordinary individual, appear to have 

 overlooked the fact that a cabinet portrait by 



Rembrandt is to be seen in the collection of the 

 Marquess of Exeter at Burleigh ; the age, cos- 

 tume, &c., corresponding exactly with the de- 

 scription given by Pennant, as quoted by A. B. R. 



Kt. 



Pimlico (Vol. i., pp. 388. 474.; Vol. ii., p. 13.). 

 — I find tlie two following mentions of Piinlico as 

 a public place of entertainment : 



1. In A Joviall Crew, or the Merry Beggars, by 

 R. Brome: first acted, 1641, at Drury Lane, edit. 

 1708: 



" To Pimblicoe we'll go, 



Where merry we shall be, 

 With every man a can in's hand 



And a wench upon his knee. 

 And a begging," &c. 



2. Massinger's City Madam : 



" Or exchange wenches. 

 Coming from eating pudding pies on a Sunday 

 At Pimlico or Islington." 



G. H. K. 



" Wise above that which is written^^ (Vol. v., 

 p. 228.). — This phrase is evidently a quotation of 

 1 Cor. iv. 6., though not according to the autho- 

 rised translation, the words in the original being 

 ;u^ ujrep o yfypairrai <ppove\v. Here, however, the 

 verb cannot mean "to be wise," which is the 

 meaning given to it in the phrase in question ; for 

 the context requires it to be taken (as in our 

 version) in the sense of " elation of mind, to the 

 despising of others." 



The Query of R. C. C. reminds me of another 

 phrase, which in a somewhat similar way one hears 

 continually quoted in sermons, &c., as a text: 

 viz. " that he that runs may read." I should like 

 to know whether this strange perversion of 

 Hab. ii. 2., which seems to be the source whence 

 it is derived, can be accounted for in any way. 



F. A. 



Sir John Cheke (Vol. v., p.200.).--C. B. T. will 

 find an account of Sir John Cheke in Harwood's 

 Alumni Etonenses, under the head of " Provosts of 

 King's College." I send also from an old MS. 

 the following account ; not being responsible for its 

 accuracy, nor for the correctness of the references : 



" Sir .John Cheke put into the Provostship by 

 Edward VI., April 1, 1548, though not qualified, as 

 not of the Society, nor in orders. See his Life by 

 Strype; Fuller, Hist. Camb., 119.; Burnet, ii. 11.5., 

 who says that in consequence of the controversy with 

 Gardiner about the Gr. Pronuntiation he was either 

 put from the chair, or willingly left it. This was not 

 the case. He did not quit it till sent for by the King, 

 as appears from the Life of his successor, Nic. Carr, 

 p. 59. ; see, too. Wood Hi^t. and Antiq., lib. i, p. 26. 

 His mother stood godmother to the child of a poor 

 woman in Cambridge Gaol on suspicion of murder. 

 (See Latimer's First Serrn. p. 125., edit. 1635; Burnet, 

 ii. 213. ; Wood, Hist, and Antiq., 1. ii. 251.; Burnet, iu 



