2°d a Vin. Nov. 12. '69.] 



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which has an edifying sense, and was practised in the 

 days of the Apostles, before any superstition bad infected 

 the church." 



To this extract Mr. Jones has subjoined the fol- 

 lowing note : — 



" An excellent sermon, which ought never to be forgot- 

 ten, and which I carried through the press when I was an 

 undergraduate at Oxford, was published on 'Christ the 

 Light of the World ' from a verse of the 19th Psalm, by 

 my admired, beloved, and lamented friend, the late Rev. 

 George Watson, once a Fellow of University College, to 

 whose early instructions and example I have been in- 

 debted in most of the labours of my life. Many extraor- 

 dinary men have I seen ; but for taste or classical literature 

 and all works of genius; for a deep knowledge of the in- 

 spired writings ; for readiness of speech and sweetness of 

 elocution ; for devout affection towards God ; for charit- 

 able goodness of heart, and elegance of manners, I never 

 met with any one that exceeded him." 



After this perhaps too long preface, I would 

 inquire if any reader of " N. & Q." or any book- 

 seller could furnish the above sermon of Mr. 

 Watson at a stated price, to be addressed as below. 

 It would be conferring a great boon in the declin- 

 ing years of an octogenarian. J. M. Gutch. 



Worcester. 



PORTEAIT OP A TRUE GENTLEMAN. 



The Rev. J. J. begs to ask a place for the enclosed 

 " Portrait of a True Gentleman " among the Minor 

 Notes and Queries of some forthcoming number. 

 It was made a note of some weeks ago at an old 

 manor-house in Gloucestershire, where it was found 

 fairly written and framed, and hung over the mantel- 

 piece of a tapestried sitting-room. It was stated 

 by the old lady who drew attention to it, that it 

 was the penmanship of one in reduced circum- 

 stances, who had made his temporary abode in 

 that ancient mansion. But whether it was his 

 own composition, or the result of an act of me- 

 mory on his part, she could not certify, albeit 

 evidently inclined to give her poor, but respected, 

 friend the benefit of the doubt. 



Wishing to obtain a less prejudiced, perhaps a 

 more enlightened view of this interesting question, 

 J. J. begs to ask the Editor, or some correspon- 

 dent of his, to say if the authorship of this ingeni- 

 ous portrait, — so likely to have been devised as a 

 prose pendant to the Wykehamist metre of the 

 " Trusty Servant" — happens to be traceable to 

 some writer of the seventeenth^or eighteenth cen- 

 tury : — 



"The true gentleman is God's servant, the world's 

 master, and his own man. Virtue is his business, study 

 his recreation, contentment his rest, and happiness his 

 reward. God is his father, the church is his mother, the 

 saints his brethren, all that need him his friends. Devo- 

 tion is his chaplain, chastity his chamberlain, sobriety his 

 butler, temperance his cook, hospitality his housekeeper, 

 providence his steward, charity his treasurer, piety his 

 mistress of the house, and discretion his porter, to let in 

 and out, as most fit. Thus is his whole family made up 

 of virtue, and he is the true master of the house. He is 



necessitated to take the world on his way to Heaven, but 

 he walks through it as fast as he can, and all his business 

 by the way is to make himself and others happy. Take 

 him in two words : a man and a Christian." 

 Avington Rectory, Hungerford, Berks. 



SSiitiax <SLMtxiti, 



Arthur Hallams Literary Remains. — Can you 

 inform me whether there is any hope that the 

 literary remains of Arthur Ilallam will be pub- 

 lished, now that death has removed so many to 

 whom it might have been painful to see them in 

 the hands of strangers, if any feeling reader of 

 In Memoriam can be called a stranger to its sub- 

 ject? 



These Remains have been printed more than 

 once for private circulation, but are of course 

 quite inaccessible to the public generally ; and it 

 needs but to read the singularly beautiful and 

 thoughtful fragments of them given in Dr. Brown's 

 HorcB SubsecivcB, to gain a much stronger motive 

 than curiosity for desiring the whole. W. H. R. 

 Trin. Coll. Camb. 



Families of Ross. — Will any of your learned 

 correspondents kindly inform me whether any of 

 the families who now bear the name of Ross, trace 

 their descent from Walter Earl of Ross, north of 

 Forth, who was Lord Justice General of Scotland 

 in 1239, or another Lord Ross, who was created 

 Baron Ross, I believe in 1489. G. L. 



William Forth, elected from Westminster to 

 Trinity College, 1632; M.A. 1638; LL.D. 1646; 

 has verses in Annalia Dubriensia, 1636. He was 

 admitted an advocate 29th January, 1647-8; but 

 we have not met with any subsequent notice of 

 him. We wish to ascertain the date of his death. 

 C. H. & Thompson Coopek. 



Cambridge. 



Slaves in England. — In a MS. Diary kept by 

 Sir John Philipps, the fifth baronet of Picton 

 Castle, I find the following curious entry : — 



" 1761. Nov. ye 8*. Went to Norbiton with Capt. 

 Parr and Lieut. Rees, taking with nie a Black Boy from 

 Senegal, given me by Capt. Parr; also a Paraquet and 

 foreign Duck." 



Farther on is another entry : — 



" 1761. Dec. ye 6*. D^ Philipps christened my black 

 Boy, Caesar ; gave Eliz. Cooper, Tho. Davies, and Thomas 

 Lewis his Gossips, 7'. Q^." 



The Court of Common Pleas, so late as the 

 5 W. & M. held that a man might have a pro- 

 perty in a negro boy, and might bring an action 

 of trover for him, because negroes are heathens. — 

 (1 Ld. Ray. 147.) But it was decided in 1772, 

 in the celebrated case of James Somcrsett, that a 

 heathen negro, when brought to England, owes 



