2''0 8. X. Dec. 29. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



513 



" Life of Peter D'Acbusson." — There was 

 printed at London, in 1679, The Life of the Re- 

 nowned Peter D'Aubussoii, Grand Master of Rhodes. 

 In the Address to the Reader, the author on re- 

 viving, as he calls it, the memory of this distin- 

 guished " Grand Master of Rhodes," says that this 

 history is derived from an ancient manuscript 

 written " by William Caoursin, Chancellour of the 

 Order, an eye-witness, and from original papers 

 found in Malta." He then adds, that " he did not 

 refuse the help of Khodgia Afendy, a Turk, who, 

 living at the time, wrote a relation of the siege 

 with a great deal of justice to the high merits of 

 the Grand Master." 



All this is very plausible, but is it ti*ue ? Do 

 any of the works, specially referred to, at present 

 exist ? The Malta papers are indefinite and gene- 

 ral ; but the two works by the Chancellor and 

 Turk are referred to particularly, as then (1679) in 

 existence. 



The subject of the memoir ia very interesting, 

 and has, from the minuteness of its narrative, 

 every appearance of being a true and veritable 

 history. Nevertheless, it would be satisfactory to 

 know if the statements as to the sources of the 

 biography are correct, and whether this is a 

 genuine English book, or only a translation from 

 the French ? J. M. 



[This work, with the omission of the "Epitre" and 

 " Avertissement," is a translation of Dominique Bou- 

 hours's Histoire de Pierre D'Aubusson, Grand- Maistre de 

 Rhodes. A Paris, 1676, 4to. The English translation, 

 without the least variation except in the title-page, was 

 republished in 1683, and entitled, The History of the 

 Turkish War with the Rhodians, S^c. ] 



SAiiVADOR Jacinto Polo de Medina. — I am 

 in want of information as to Salvador Jacinto 

 Polo de Medina, a Spanish poet of the seventeenth 

 century. I have his Academias del Jardin, and 

 JEl buon Humor de las Musas, but no notice of his 

 writings or his life. Quintana states, that after 

 his death, all his works were collected by a friend 

 and published, with an extraordinary dedication, 

 at " Barcelona y Zaragoqa," 1670. I cannot get 

 a sight of the volume. If known to any reader of 

 the " N. & Q.," I shall be greatly obliged by a 

 brief notice of the title-page, table of contents, 

 and dedication, especially if the latter gives any 

 account of the author's life. C. T. 



Paris. 



[The following is a copy of the title-page : " Obras en 

 Prossa, y Verso, de Salvador Jacinto Polo de Medina, 

 Natvral de la Ciudad de Murcia. Recogidas por vn Afi- 

 cionado suyo. Dedicadas a la Soberana Reyna de Cielo, 

 y Tierra, Maria Santissima Senora nuestra, "Concebida en 

 gracia en el primer instante de su animacion, Amen. Con 

 licencia, en Zarag09a, por Diego Dormer, Impressor de la 

 Ciudad, y su Real Hospital. A costa de Juan Martin 

 Merinero, Mercader de Libros, vive en la Puerta del 

 Sol. Alio. 1670." The work contains : — " Academias 

 del Jardin." « EI Buen Humor de las Musas." " Fabula 

 de Apolo, y Daphne." " Fabula de Pan, y Siringa." 



" Hospital de Incurables, y Viage de este mundo, y el 

 otro." "A Lelio, Govierno Moral." " Fabula de las tres 

 Diosas." " Vniversidad de Amor, y Escuela del Interns," 

 Parte i. ii. The Dedication is simply an oratorical rhap- 

 sody, without a line of biography.] 



3ftcjpltc^. 



WOOLLETT'S MONUMENT: SNAGGS 

 CHISELHURST: JOHN PELTRO. 



OF 



(2°*» S. X. 450.) 



Woollett's head-stone is the second immediately 

 within the iron gate, next to the west door of Old 

 St. Pancras Church. Having recently made a care- 

 ful sketch of the stone and its inscription (for the 

 purpose of engraving on a somewhat larger scale 

 than is usually allotted to the representations of 

 this tomb), I can assure P. that it is still in very 

 fair condition. 



Some years ago a small engraving of Woollett's 

 tomb was published in the Illustrated London 

 News, upon the occasion of its restoration, at the 

 expense of the Graphic Society. In that engrav- 

 ing it is shown as the third stone within the gate, 

 but the centre stone there figured has since been 

 removed. In a view of the reconstructed church 

 (published in the same newspaper), Woollett's 

 tomb is also figured as the second from the west 

 door, and as I myself saw it this very day, De- 

 cember 9th, 1860. 



In the Illustrated London News is an engraving 

 of the portrait of Woollett, painted by G. Stewart, 

 and now in the National Gallery. This portrait 

 was also engraved by Caroline Watson in 1785, 

 and is without doubt a fine specimen of her sur- 

 prising powers of engraving. 



In that charming privately-printed volume, the 

 Autobiography of Abraham Raimbach (the emin- 

 ent engraver of many of Wilkie's works), occur 

 the following scraps about Woollett, which Raim- 

 bach says he had from his own master, Hall, who 

 was the intimate friend of Woollett: — 



" In person, Woollet was rather below the middle sta- 

 ture, and extremely simple and unpretending in manner 

 and demeanour. .... He was accustomed, on the com- 

 pletion of a plate, to assemble his family on the landing- 

 place of his study (the first floor), and all. give three 



cheers Woollet was a man of integrity, candour, 



and liberality, wortbj' of his elevated station as an artist. 

 I have seen a letter of his, in which he bore the highest 

 testimony of his admiration and respect for the talents of 

 his then-considered rival, Bartolozzi." 



I hope it is not too late to answer a Query, 

 which appeared in this work about six years ago, 

 from P. W. S. of Dublin, concerning " the family 

 of Snagg, who for some years, towards the end of 

 the last century, resided at Chiselhurst " : — 



" Here lies the Body of M'" Henry Snagg, late of this 

 Parish ; who died Jany 19*^, 1760. Aged 72. Also two 

 of his Grand-Children. Also {sic) lies the Body of M" 



