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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'>d S, X. Nov. 17. 'vO. 



Painters, made this exclamation on one occasion : 

 " By God's splendour," said he, in speaking of 

 the court painter, " of seven peasants, I can make 

 seven lords ; but I cannot make one Hans Hol- 

 bein." This, then, is the chronology of the 

 thing : — 



Henry VIII. - - 1491—1547. 



James I. - - - 1566—1625. 



Nicholas Rowe - - 1673—1718. 



Robert Burns - 1759—1796. 



James J. Lamb. 



Underwood Cottage, Paisley. 



Portrait (2"^ S. x. 228.) — It is probable that 

 the portrait, respecting which G. P. Inquires, is that 

 of Goldsmith. Sir Joshua Reynolds being in the 

 habit of introducing into his portraits any charac- 

 teristic or specialty peculiar to the persons whom 

 he painted, and Goldsmith being in early life ad- 

 dicted to playing on the flute, nothing Is more 

 likely than that his friend Sir Joshua should seize 

 on that circumstance as an accessory. Perhaps 

 G. P. will say whether the features are those of 

 Goldsmith. Some other reader of "N. & Q." 

 may be able to state whether Goldsmith ever 

 adorned himself with "a scarlet roquelaire and 

 fur cap with gilt tassel " ? and whether Sir Joshua 

 painted such a portrait of Goldsmith ? D. H. J. 



PiAYiNG Cards, Tarots (2"* S. viii. 432 ; ix. 

 169.) — -I had hoped that C. F.'s Query, and my 

 reply, would have elicited some curious informa- 

 tion from travellers who have seen games played 

 with these mysterious cards. Singer, in his Re- 

 searches on Playing Cards, 4to. 1816, gives several 

 brief methods of play with the Tarots from Court 

 de Gebelin, and the Maison des Jeux Academiqiies, 

 Paris, 1668, but none sufficiently clear to enable 

 one to understand clearly the scope of the game. 

 There is much that is curious connected with 

 them, and I should be greatly obliged for any 

 scraps of information from C. F. or any other cor- 

 respondent, to add to my own collections on the 

 subject, for the work I announced in March last, 

 and which now approaches completion. The 

 Tarots are used by the denizens of the more se- 

 cluded parts of France, Switzerland, Germany, 

 and Italy. Anything relating to mediaeval card- 

 games, especially German, and German systems of 

 cartomancy, would be especially valuable. Any- 

 thing too lengthy or uninteresting for insertion in 

 " N. & Q." would be duly acknowledged if sent 

 by post to E. S. Taylor, 



Ormesby S. Margaret. 



Family of Leigiiton (2"* S. x. 124. 230. 257.) 

 — The earliest mention of the name is In Domes- 

 day Book, where, in Shropshire, it is written 

 "Le'stone," "Ralnald'ten Le'stone (nowLeighton, 

 CO. Salop), LennI tenuit T. R. E.," and in Che- 

 shire, Middlewich Hundred, it Is "Lavtvne " (now 



Leighton). Luun is said to be the Saxon ances- 

 tor of the Leightons, and he had according to Lib. 

 Nig, 1167, a son " Ro«bertus fil. Luun," who may 

 be a second ancestor. The earliest subsequent 

 occurrence of the name is as a witness to a grant 

 of land to Haughmund Abbey, Shropshire, 1155- 

 1160, as"Tihel de Lahtune." From deeds and 

 records after this date, the following may be an 

 approximation to the orthography : — " Lecton 

 and Lekton, 1180; Lehton, 1180; Leton, 1182; 

 Leocton, 1188; Letton, 1194; Lethon, 1207; Leg- 

 ton and Leghton, 1216 ; Leighton, 1224." The 

 spelling ia^tow does not occur until a later period. 



Sir Thos. Leighton, Knt. of Feckenham, co. 

 Worcester, Governor of Guernsey and Jersey, 

 Constable of the Tower of London, of the 

 council to Queen Elizabeth, knighted 1579, was 

 the second son of Sir John Leighton, Knt., of 

 Wattlesborough, Esquire of the body to Hen. VIII., 

 M.P. for Shropshire (who died Feb. 28, 1531-2), 

 by his second wife, Joyce, daughter of Edw. Sut- 

 ton, Lord Dudley (married 1522). The other 

 sons were Sir Edw. Leighton, Knt., of Wattles- 

 borough, Devereux, and Charles ; and six daugh- 

 ters, one of whom, Catherine, married, for her first 

 husband, " Richard Wygmore of London." This 

 lady had for a second husband " Lymmer of Nor- 

 folk" (" N. & Q.," 2"'! S. vli. 373.), not " Comp- 

 ner," as in x. 257. Sir Thos. Leighton's children 

 were as in x. 257, and the son died *. p. I am 

 not aware of any biography of Sir Thos. Leigh- 

 ton, or that he left any MSS. Perhaps P. S. C. 

 will explain to what he refers. 



W. A. Leighton. 



Shrewsbury. 



In illustration of the various ways of spelling 

 and pronouncing this name (lately noted In these 

 pages), I may mention, that, having occasion to 

 investigate the history of the parish of Leigh (be- 

 tween Malvern and Worcester), I found it vari- 

 ously spelt at various times, thus : Leyghe, Lege, 

 Lega, Ley, Lye, Legh, and Leigh, — while it is 

 pronounced almost as dissimilarly. Thus, the 

 Leigh of which I am speaking, is pronounced Lye^ 

 though the more general pronunciation is Lee; 

 while in Lancashire, I believe, it is contracted to 

 the letter L, and a guttural. There are twelve 

 parishes in England named " Leigh," in addition 

 to fourteen parishes where the name of " Leigh " 

 Is found in conjunction with other words ; e. g. 

 Leigh-de-la-Mere, North Leigh, High Leigh, 

 Leigh Wooley, &c. The Lincolnshire Chronicle for 

 March, 1856, mentions the sudden death of an in- 

 habitant of Louth, and a " funeral sermon " 

 preached by the Rev. C. H. Leigh Lye. 



Cuthbert Bede. 



Zinc (2"'* S. x. 248.) — Hilpert seems to think 

 that this word (which is doubtless of German 

 origin) may be for zinnig = zinniihnlich. Menage 

 (^Etym. It, jderives zingani or zingari from the Ger. 



