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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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slenderer connexion with the county, e.g. Col- 

 man's ditty of " Unfortunate Miss Bailey." 



Two only of the six songs published by Ritson, 

 as Part I. of The Yorkshire Garland^ are inserted. 

 Three of the others should, I think, have been in- 

 cluded, viz. "The Horse Race;" "In praise of 

 Yarra ;" and " The Gamblers fitted." The fourth 

 is of that class which Dr. Ingledew has reserved 

 for future publication. 



The song of " The Twea Threshers" appears to 

 be imperfect. It is described as " A story of two 

 rustics, and the history of their several mistakes 

 during a holiday which they took to go to Scar- 

 borough," but it carries the story no farther than 

 the commencement of their journey : the history 

 of the mistakes being wholly wanting, and not ac- 

 counted for by the editor. Perhaps the missing 

 portion exists separately in the form of a Second 

 Part to the song. 



Having made the above Notes, I now submit a 

 Query. VVas not " Herbert Stockhore, private in 

 Earl Fauconberg's Yorkshire North Riding Vo- 

 lunteers," whose song of " The Yorkshire Volun- 

 teers' Farewell to the Good Folks of Stockton" * is 

 given by Dr. Ingledew, identical with the Poet 

 Laureate of the Eton Montem ? If so, he is de- 

 serving of a foot-note. The Laureate was said to 

 have been (like the North Riding poet) a soldier. 

 Some particulars of him (including specimens of 

 his Montem Odes) are given in Hone's Year 

 Booh ; and also, I think, in The Mirror, a weekly 

 periodical which flourished between thirty and 

 forty years ago. W. H. Husk. 



SHAKSPEARIANA. 



Shaksperian Portraits. — Much controvex'sy 

 has arisen on the authenticity of the numerous and 

 varied portraits of William Shakspeare, and de- 

 spite of all that has been written and said about 

 the Chandos portrait of our immortal bard, Boaden 

 and Wivel have both written books to prove that 

 no portrait was ever painted of our Poet Shak- 

 speare during his lifetime. And I of my own 

 knowledge can here assert and testify that one Mr. 

 Zincke, who lived thirty-five years since, a pic- 

 ture-restorer, then residing in Windmill Street, 

 Lambeth, manufactured old portraits, principally 

 Shakspeares, Miltons, and Nell Gwinns ; and one 

 of the portraits of the former old Zincke sold at a 

 sale in Greek Street, Soho, for 41. 10*., and that 

 that same portrait passed from dealer to dealer 

 until it was sold to Talma, the French tragedian, 

 for 1000 guineas. 



This portrait was dubbed the "Bellows Por- 

 trait " from the ingenious but deceptive statement 

 " that it was at first painted upon canvas, and de- 

 corated the top of the parlour bellows belonging 



* In Haslewood's edition of Ritson's Bishopric Garland, 

 be is styled " the pretended author." 



to Queen Elizabeth." Old Zincke died about 

 twenty-five years since, and left behind him about 

 twenty portraits of Shakspeares and Miltons, &C., 

 all in pledge at the various West-end pawn- 

 brokers, and also a catalogue written in a small 

 memorandum-book (that one of his sons showed 

 me) of all the portraits old Zincke (his father) had 

 manufactui*ed of his favourite trio, Shakspeare, 

 Milton, and Nell Gwinn ; but Shakspeare sold the 

 best. Humphry Clinker. 



Shakspeare. — In the Life of Shakspeare pre- 

 fixed to the splendid edition of his Works now in 

 course of publication by Mr. Halliwell, it is stated 

 that the earliest instance of the name yet dis- 

 covered is that of Thomas Shakespere, who was 

 connected in an official capacity with the port of 

 Youghal in Ireland, In 49 Edward III., a.d. 1375. 

 And that a second early notice, of a less agreeable 

 kind, relates to another Thomas Shakespere, who 

 was indicted of ftelony at Coventry in the reign of 

 Henry IV. From neither of those instances can 

 the native place of the individual, or the local 

 origin of the family, be inferred — both were ob- 

 viously in transitu. I have found an earlier men- 

 tion of the name, which I think clearly shows its 

 holder to have been a landholder in Cumberland. 



The hospital of St. Nicholas, at Carlisle, was 

 endowed (by King Athelstan as supposed) with a 

 thrave of corn from every plough-land in Cum- 

 berland. In the reign of Edward III. these 

 thraves were withheld by the landowners, for 

 some reason which does not appear : whereupon 

 the king, as patron, issued his commission to in- 

 quire what was due, and from whom, and so forth. 

 An inquisition was accordingly held at Carlisle on 

 the Feast of St. Bartholomew, 31st Edward III., 

 A.D. 1358 5 upon which the jury find that the 

 thraves were due to the hospital, and had been 

 rendered from time beyond memory ; but that 

 for eight years last past they had been withheld 

 by the persons therein named (a large number, in 

 various parts of the county), and amongst them 

 by Hem'y Shakespere of the parish of Ivirkland, 

 which is a parish on the " fellside," to the east- 

 ward of Penrith, and bordering on Westmorland, 

 Here we have distinct evidence of a Shakespere 

 holding a plough-land as far back as 1350, twenty- 

 five years before the casual mention of Thomas at 

 Youghal in Ireland. It is observable that the 

 spelling of the name is similar, Carlisle. 



Derivation of Shakspere (2°** S. ix. 459. ; x. 

 15.) — The etymology of Shakeshaft referred to 

 by Mr. Ferguson seems simple enough ; viz. from 

 sigishaft; sighaft being used by the Franks 

 for "victorious" (cf. Wachter). But it might 

 also be from sigishaved, " head of victory," " vic- 

 torious leader," A.-S. heafod, 0. G. haubt, Frs. 



