2'»» S. X. Nov. 24. '60.] 



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those so afflicted) of Colchicum autumnale. I have 

 seen it, within a few miles of Cambridge, bloom- 

 ing abundantly and beautiful in its wild state. 



Pbideaux and Blake op Barbadoes (2"^ S. 

 X. 347.) — Ina will find several notices of mem- 

 bers of these families in a collection of West In- 

 dian records and monumental inscriptions, in MS. 

 lately presented to the British Museum. 



Nicholas Blake, of Bishop's Mead, Craford, 

 Kent; of London, and of Barbadoes, was a 

 Spanish merchant, and appears to have been a 

 brother of Admiral Robert Blake. 



He married, 1664, Mary iJ/7/ssrWcw, of a well- 

 known Devonshire family. His next wife was 



Judith . She survived him (dying in 1667). 



His first wife, who died in 1663, appears to have 

 been the widow of a Mr. Wilson. By Mr. N. 

 Blake she had a son, also called Nicholas, who 

 was the father of Benjamin Blake, of Jamaica, 

 Avho, again, was father of two sons, viz. 1. Nicho- 

 las, and 2. Benjamin. The latter had three sons : 

 1. William, Speaker of the House of Assembly, 

 and whose daughter, Margaret Bonella, married 

 Samuel W. Houghton, son of Colonel Richard 

 Houghton (Houghton- James.) 2. Benjamin Wm. 



3, Nicholas Allen Blake. 



These Blakes were cousins of a fiimily of the 

 same name, and which, I believe, was settled in 

 Antigua. 



Elizabeth Blake (as above) in her will, 26th. 

 Oct. 1663, names her cousins John Blake and 

 Nicholas Prideaux. The witnesses afe, 1. Nicho- 

 las Prideaux ; 2. Hercules Tervil ; 3. H. Turvile ; 



4. Thomas Mortimer. Spal. 



N.B. Could Ina favour Spal with a list of the 

 names that occur in the will of Mr. Prideaux 

 which she mentions ? 



Gainsborough's Chef-d'OEuvrb (2""* S. x. 

 290.) — Gainsborough's picture of " The Cottage 

 Girl going to a Brook for Water," is now at Te- 

 hidy Park, Redruth, Cornwall, the seat of John 

 Basset, Esq , the great-nephew of the Sir F. Basset 

 who purchased the picture. J. P. 



Anecdote of Oliver Cromwell (2"*^ S. x. 

 304.) — This anecdote, as quoted by G. N. from 

 The Treasury of Wit, differs in some particulars 

 from that related in the Perfect Politician, 1660, 

 so I transcribe it, with the author's reflections on 

 same, p7-o hono publico : — 



Cromwell, " approaching near to the body of the Scots 

 army, one that knew the Lord General, fired a carbine at 

 him, but timerously; which he seeing, called out and 

 told him, ' That if he had been one of his Souldiers, he 

 should have been cashier'd for firing at that distance.' 

 But the truth is," adds the anonj'mous writer, " these 

 daring actions in Generals, favour more of valour then 

 discretion : Bullets distinguish not betwixt the meanest 

 private souldier and the most puissant General, if he 

 came in their way." 



The motto in the title-page of this curious book 

 (which abounds with proverbs and puns) is — 

 " Qui nescit Dissiraulare, nescit Regnare." 



George Llotd. 



Bartholemew Thomas Duhigg (2°"* S. viii. 9.) 



— In Nichols's Illustrations of Literature, vol. vii. 

 p. 156., Dr. Anderson, writing to Bp. Percy, 3i*d 

 Sept. 1805, says : — 



" A son of Counsellor Duhj^g, an agreeable young 

 man, brought me a present of^his father's publications, 

 ' King's Inns Remembrancer,' and two pamphlets. Mr. 

 Duhigg is highly commended as a legal antiquary by 

 our friend Dr. Ledwich, and appears to be a writer of 

 curious research and information ; but he writes a bad 

 English style. He is publishing the ' History of the 

 King's Inns'; I hope it is written with more simplicity 

 and perspicuity." 



It does not appear that Mr. Duhigg published 

 any work since this History in 1806. But all 

 who are familiar with the dreary publication will 

 agree that the hope expressed by worthy Dr. 

 Anderson for " more simplicity and perspicuity," 

 was certainly never realised by the author. Mr. 

 Duhigg was called to the Irish bar in 1775, and 

 died in 1813. J. D. H. 



Dublin. 



Pendrell Family (2"A S. x. 306.) — The /ol- 

 lowing is extracted from Burke's Heraldic Regis- 

 ter, p. 87 : — 



" The pension of 100 marks, granted to Richard Pen- 

 derell, continues to be paid (1850) to his representatives, 

 and several members of the family, in various conditions 

 of life, have been connected for some generations with the 

 county of Sussex. One of them a few years since kept 

 an inn at Lewes, bearing the sign of the ' Royal Oak.' " 



C. J. Robinson. 



The information required will be found in the 

 appendix to the Boscobel Tracts,edited by Hughes, 

 2nd edit., published by Blackwood about two years 

 ago. Peregrine. 



Reform Club. 



[The epitaph on Richard Pendrell in St. Giles in the 

 Fields, forwarded by G. N., appeared in our 1»* S. xi. 410. 



— Ed.] 



Heir or Lady Catherine Grey (2"** S. x. 

 349.) — P. R. will find an excellent pedigree, 

 showing the descent and representation of the 

 " sole heiress of the Duke of Chandos," prefixed 

 to the Life of Lady Jane Grey by Sir Harris 

 Nicolas, 8vo. P. R. seems to use the term repre- 

 sentatives for descendants : other families may be 

 descended, as he states, but nevertheless are not 

 the representatives. No genealogist will question 

 the descent of the Duke of Buckingham. J. R. 



Oliphant = Elephant (2"'' S. ix. 386. 434. ; x. 

 56.) — This was common in Queen Elizabeth's 

 time. Thus, e. g. in Cooper's Latin-English Dic- 

 tionary, 1584, oliphant is always put for elephant, 

 as in elephas and its^ derivatives; and in Art. 



