2nd s. VIII. July 23. '69.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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premises since 1742; the canvass Avas nailed to boards, 

 and they were much obscured by dirt. The folIo^vi^g 

 are some of the prices which Mr. Timbs has recorded : 

 By Hogarth — Drunken Man, 41. 4s. ; A Woman pulling 

 out an Old Man's Grey Hairs, 31. 31. ; Jobson and Nell in 

 The Devil to Patj, 41. 4s. ; The Happy Family, 31. lbs. ; 

 Children at Play, 41. lis. Gd. By Hayman — Children 

 Birds -nesting, 5Z. 10s.; Minstrels, 3^. ; The Enraged 

 Husband, 41. 4s. ; The Bridal Day, 6/. Gs. ; Blindman's 

 Buft; 31. 8s. ; Prince Henry and Falstaff, 71. ; Scene from 

 The Rake's Progress, 9/. 15s. ; Merry-making, 1/. 12s. ; 

 The Jealous Husband, 41. ; Card Party, 6/. ; Children's 

 Party, 41. 15s. ; Battledore and Shuttlecock, U. 10s. ; The 

 Doctor, 41. 14s. Cd.; Cherry-bob, 21 15s. Two other 

 pictures, viz. The Storming of Seringapatam, and Nep- 

 tune and Britannia, sold for 8/. 10s. and 8/. 15s.3 



Henry William Bunbwij. — There are occasion- 

 ally to be met with engravings (dated about the 

 middle of last century) of humorous sketches by 

 Bunbury. I may notice in particular the " Coun- 

 try Club," " Symptoms of Eating and Drinking," 

 *' The Progress of a Lie," and " A long Story." 

 Who was this artist ? when and where was he 

 born ? and when did he die ? T. 



[Henry William Bunbury, born July, 1750, was the 

 second son of the Rev. Sir William Bunbury, Bart., of 

 Mildenhall in Suffolk. He was distinguished at a very 

 early age by a most extraordinary degree of taste and 

 knowledge in the fine arts. The productions of his pencil 

 have, from his childhood, been the admiration and de- 

 light of the public. But though he possessed in this re- 

 spect a peculiar genius, he neglected no branch of polite 

 literature. He was a good classical scholar, and an 

 excellent judge of poetry. In 1771 he married Catherine, 

 daughter of Kane William Horneck, Esq., lieut.-colonel 

 in the armj' of Sicily, by whom he had two sons. Mr. 

 Bunbury died on May 7, 1811. See a short notice of him 

 in the Gentleman's Mag. for May, 1811, p. 501.] 



" Scraping an Acquaintance.^^ — Could any of 

 your numerous readers inform me of the origin of 

 the phrase " scraping an acquaintance." I have 

 met with it in Irish stories very often, and have 

 also heard it used in familiar conversation ; hence 

 I presume there must be some peculiar origin 

 from whence it is derived. C. H. H. 



[This low phrase no doubt originated from the practice 

 of scraping in bowing, so as to curry favour by obsequi- 

 ousness.] 



Wrotham., co. Kent. — In the first part of the 

 Triie and Honourable History of the Life of Sir 

 John Oldcastle, the good Lord Cobham, ^c, 4to. 

 1600, an historical play " written by William 

 Shakespeare " (?), occurs the following remark- 

 able passage concerning the extent of this parish. 

 The parish priest and Harpoole, Lord Cobham's 

 serving man, are the interlocutors : — 



" Priest. Wrotham, 'tis better then the Bj'shoppricke 

 of Rochester : there's nere a hill, heath, nor downe in all 

 Kent, but it is in my parish, Barham downe, Chobham 

 downe. Gad's hil, Wrotham hil. Black heath, Cockes 

 heath. Birchen wood, all pay me tyth," 



W^as the parish above mentioned ever so exten- 

 sive, or is this utterance mere braggadocio on the 



priest's part, to Impress Lord Cobham's servitor 

 with a notion of his wealth and importance ? 



W. J. Pinks. 



[The parish of Wrotham is certainly very large, in- 

 cluding almost the whole hundred to which it gives 

 name. It is in the diocese of Rochester and deanery of 

 Shoreham, being one of the Archbishop of Canterbury's 

 peculiars. For farther particulars of this extensive parish 

 consult Hasted's History of Kent, the Bibliotheca Topogra- 

 phica Britannica, No. VI., Thorpe's Registrum Roffense, 

 and the Custumale Roffense,'} 



Places in Surrey. — Can you tell me where 

 Eaton or Eton, Dunfold, and Flanchford respec- 

 tively are situate in this county ? N. H. R. 



[We can spot two of them. Flanchford is in the dis- 

 trict of Santon, about two miles from Reigate to the 

 south-west. (Manning and Braj^'s Surrey, i. 304.) Duns- 

 fold is a parish near the borders of Sussex, adjoins on 

 the east to Bramlej', Alford, and Cranley; on the west 

 to Chiddingfold ; on the north Godalraing and Hascomb ; 

 on the south Alfold. — lb. ii. 59.] 



English Translations of'''' Don Quixote" — X 2. 

 wants the titles of the English translations of 

 Cervantes' masterpiece. (^Navorscher, ix. p. 131., 

 Qu. 178.) 



[The list is too long for insertion : it will be found in 

 Bohn's ne^v edition of Lowndes' Bibliographer's Manual, 

 art. "Cervantes."] 



A Pair of Gloves -preferred to the Bible. — In 

 Bailey's Antiquities of London, 18mo. 1734, p. 153. 

 is a very curious notice of the parish church of 

 St. Benet Grasschurch : — 



" At this church were the pictures of the nine worthies, 

 and amongst them King Henry VIII. standing with the 

 Bible in his hand, and verbum dei written upon it. 

 All these figures, anno 1555, were new beautified and 

 painted. But the Bible in King Henry's hand gave great 

 offence, and commandment was given that it should be 

 put out, and a pair .of gloves was pictured in the room of 

 the Bible." 



Bailey's Antiquities Is a very Interesting book ; 

 but is this alteration in the portrait of King 

 Henry VIII. confirmed- by any other historian ? 

 Who were the " nine worthies ? " 



George Offor. 



[Three of the Nine Worthies of the World were Jews, 

 viz. Joshua, David, and Judas Maccabteus. Three were 

 heathens, viz. Hector of Troy, Alexander the Great, and 

 Julius Cassar. And three were Christians, viz. Arthur 

 of Britain, Charles the Great (Charlemagne) of France, 

 and Godfrey of Bouillon.] 



BRITISH ANTHROPOPHAGI. 



(2"^ S. vll. 497. ; viil. 36.) 



You will pardon me for correcting your 



Note on this subject. The Aeddan, not Aecldau, 



of the ttymric Triads, and the Gododin of the 



British bard Aneurin, was Aeddan ab Gavran, 



