2"d S. VIII. Aug. 13. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



121 



LONDON. SATURDAY. AUGUST 13. 1859. 



Xo. 189. — CONTENTS. 



NOTES: — Artists' Quarrels in Charles I.'s Reign, by W . Noul Sains- 

 bury, 121 —Mr. James Payne, by Bolton Comey,122_The Laird 

 of Cockpcn: Brose and Butter, 123 — I^ist of Writers m "Foreign 

 Quarterly Review," by John Macray, 124. 



Minor Notbs : — Strange Derivation — Supporting the Clergy — Mean- 

 ing of Toy— Basingstoke Reckonings — Sir Joshua Reynolds s House 

 in Leicester Square, 127. 



QUERIES:- Bibliographical QuDriea, 128 — "Then Pusli about the 

 Flowing Bowl," lb. 



Minor Qukries : — '• Molly Mog"—Patroclus — Archery Club Motto 

 -W.Dimond — Tower-crowned Arch — Orthograplucal Peculiarity 



— Donnybrook, near Dublin — Grotesques in Churches — " The Young 

 Travellers; or, a Visit to Oxford " — Heraldic Query — Jaraes Aik- 

 inan — Sir "Wm. Petty's Letters —Dorchester House, Westminster — 

 Origin of the Judge's Black Cap — Law and Poison, &c., 129. 



Minor Qoebies witB Answers:- '.' The English Spy " — Sheridan's 

 Speech on Warren Hastings' Trial— John Lord Cutts — Gauntlope — 



. Cfanbury, 131. 



REPLIES: —Cromwell in Scotland, 132— LeContratMohatra,byRev. 

 Thomas Boys, 133 — Milton's Correspondence, by CI. Hopper, 134 — 

 Dr. Latham s Theory of the Indo-European Languages, lb. 



Replies to Minor Queries :— Robert Nelson — Cromwell's Children 



— St. Dominic and the Inquisition— Moldwarp— Eminent Artists who 

 have been Scene-painters — Hearing through the Mouth — Scraping 

 an Acquaintance — Preservation of Monumental Brasses — Fawnes 

 Family — " Kaiserlicher GekrOnter Dichter " — Haxey Hood — A Pair 

 of Gloves preferred to the Bible — Brathwaitc,&c., 135. 



Notes on Books, &c. 



artists' QUARRELS IN CHARLES I.'s REIGN. 



I send you a transcript of a curious letter from 

 Horace Gentilescbi to King Charles I. So widely 

 spread was this artist's reputation that in 1626 he 

 was invited to London by that monarch, who 

 granted him an annuity of lOOZ. per annum, fur- 

 nished his house " from top to toe," at an expense 

 of more than 4000^., and treated both him and his 

 family with the greatest liberality and distinction, 

 Balthazar Gerbier, an artist himself, under the 

 protection of the Duke of Buckingham, and who 

 had "lived in England since the year 1617," ap- 

 pears to have been little pleased at the favours so 

 lavishly bestowed upon Geutileschi and his family. 

 In the letters printed in the Appendix to the lately 

 published Original Papers of Rubens, pp. 311. 

 et seq., there is evidence of Gerbier's antagonistic 

 feeling to his Italian rival. He estimates four 

 pictures painted by Gentileschi, which now form 

 part of the ornaments of the Hall at Marlborough 

 House, at 270Z., which he makes out was all the 

 return Gentileschi gave for 7,500?. received by 

 him from the king and the Duke of Buckingham. 

 Beyond attributing to Gerbier great jealousy and 

 dissatisfaction, I was unable to trace the cause of 

 his apparently revengeful and pertinacious con- 

 duct. I think, however, the following letter, which 

 has lately turned up in the State Paper Office, 

 clears up this doubt, and proves the "head and 

 front" of Gentileschi's offence : — 



[Indorsed.] 



♦' Sig''. Gentileschi's paper delivered to his Ma"* touching 



M^ Gerbiere, 29 Jan. 1628-9. 



" Maj' it please your most Excell' Ma''". 

 " Longe since I had many particular occasions given 

 to informe yC Highnes upon some discontentment be- 



tweene my self and M'. Gerbier, wherein I was loathe to 

 be querelous or troublesome to your Ala**®, had I not now 

 been enforced by this last occasion, by way of justificacon 

 of my self and my sonnes, whoe all of us are ready to ap- 

 prove by oathe or by probable testimony That whatsoever 

 is heerein conteyned is true. 



" The first distaste betweene M"". Gerbier and my selfe 

 was That I would not accorde with him in the mayn- 

 teyneinge and approvinge the goodnes of such Statues 

 and Pictures as hee woulde have mee, out of which I was 

 promised a benefitt, but refused to condiscende unto or 

 accept of. 



" The seconde cause for not approvinge some of those 

 Pictures which were already in Yorke howse, to be of that 

 merritt and valine as hee hathe reported, whereupon 

 bearinge this spleene in his mynde, not knowinge how to 

 expresse it otherwise, bee invited mee to his howse to 

 supper. Att which tyme hee tooke occasion to give mee 

 bad language, w''* I distastinge departed to my owne 

 howse. Since that hee hathe toulde a Gent whoe will 

 verify it That whatsoever I shall propounde eyther to 

 your Ma"« or others in this Kingdome, hee woulde crosse 

 mee in it ; And the same Gent informed mee that all the 

 Dutchmen had combyned togeather to weary mee, and 

 make mee leave the Kingdome, As by theis foUowinge 

 passages may appeare. 



" For M'. Gerbier hathe caused one John Bons his ser- 

 vaunte to arrest my sonne Frauncis on a Sonday Mome- 

 inge in service tyme uppon a feyned Action of money he 

 pretended to be owinge him, whereas no such debte is 

 due. And therfore not able to maynteyne his Action, hee 

 lett the Suite fall. And this hee did to disgrace him, 

 and out of apprehension that hee was not able to fynde 

 suertj'es eyther not at all, or not very readily, beinge a 

 stranger, and as his servaunt stylde him a Fugitive. 

 And in the tyme of his suite John Bous beinge advised 

 by twoe Gent to desist, both in respect hee wanted matter 

 and meanes to follow it, hee replyed that hee had a freind 

 whoe woulde maynteyne him with the expence of a hun- 

 dred powndes. 



" In a shorte tyme after Mr. Gerbier his comeinge out 

 of Italj'e hee caused his sayde servaunte to arrest my 

 sonne Marke, servaunt to the Dutches of Buckingham, 

 uppon a pretence hee stoode in feare of his life. And 

 presently after that the sayde John Bous tooke out a 

 speciall SuppUcavit against both my sonnes ; whereuppon 

 by some advise given them, and out of their desire to 

 shew all conformity, they forthwith repayred to the 

 Crowne Office, and there voluntarily bounde themselves 

 to your Ma''®. 



" The sayde Mr. Gerbier in a few dayes after, not satis- 

 fied with theis molesting courses and vexacons against 

 mee and my sonnes, caused my sonne Frauncis uppon 

 New Yeares Day in the morneinge to be arrested uppon 

 pretence of a debt feyned to be due, And gave spe- 

 ciall direccons that the officers should not accept of 

 Bayle nor lett him remayne in any howse, but to carry 

 him to prison and soe to begynne the yeare with 

 Captivity. But the sayd officers by the earnest per- 

 swacon of a Gent late servaunt of my Lo. Dukes carrj'cd 

 him to a howse and tooke Baj-le, whoe was not un- 

 gratefull for their favor. Moreover the sayde Mr. Ger- 

 bier hathe cast out such scandalous speeches of mee and 

 my sonnes which I doe forbeare (as unfittinge your 

 sacred eares) to putt to writeinge, which a Gent will jus- 

 tify to whome hee spake them. Hee hathe besides j'm- 

 peached my credditt and my sonnes, in sayinge wee 

 would pay no Tradesmen or others their debts, which is 

 most untrue, because both I and my sonnes have given 

 satisfaccon for all debts due to any without delay or ill 

 language ; And that all my sonnes are of a peaceable 

 and quiett disposicon, of a ciVill behaviour to all, it wilbe 



