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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Square). The collection of pictures (containing 

 specimens originally purchased out of the Orleans 

 Gallery, one or more of which are now in the Na- 

 tional Collection) was disposed of by auction by 

 Peter Coxe & Co. on 31st May, 1813, and two 

 following days. A priced catalogue in my pos- 

 session has the following autograph mem. : " This 

 catalogue was made by me Geo. Stanley." One 

 or two of the pictures were bought in ; amongst 

 them a very fine specimen of Paul Potter, origi- 

 nally purchased in Holland by Ralph Willett. 

 The fine library was sold about the same time by 

 Leigh and Sotheby & Co. (Dec. 6, 1813.) 



The second surviving son of J. W. Willett, viz. 

 Henry Ralph Willett, died in the Albany exactly 

 two years ago. His valuable collection of coins 

 were, as I have heard, disposed of about the year 

 1826. He left, however, at his death a few cabi- 

 nets of miscellaneous coins, including a complete 

 assortment of Pope's medals, which fetched high 

 prices at Sotheby's on April 24, 1858. He seems 

 to have shown much judgment in forming a col- 

 lection of pictures, the whole of which are now at 

 Merly, embracing about twenty-six pictures and 

 sketches by Hogarth, two specimens of Albert 

 Durer, together with the fine Paul Potter above- 

 named. 



WiLLKTT L. AdTE. 



Merly House, Dorset 



William Andrew Price (2"* S. ii. 466. ; viii. 

 379.) — Although Glwtsig failed to obtain replies 

 to his former Queries as to the above, if J. F. C. 

 will communicate his private address to Glwtsig, 

 with his Queries, very probably Glwtsig may 

 be able to furnish some replies to J. F. C, and 

 be the means of some correspondence thereon. 



Glwtsig. 

 Glannant y Llan, Llanflfwyst, 

 Abergavenny. 



Malabar Jews (2"^ S. iv. 429.; viii. 232. 418.) 

 — Mb. J. H. Van Lennep, to his reply (2"'* S. viii. 

 418.) adds an extract from the Literary Gazette 

 for 1832 on " The Jews of Thibet." The fol- 

 lowing is from Baron Haxenthausen's Tribes of 

 the Caucasus. 



" The Ancient or Black Jews are scattered over the in- 

 terior of Asia from China to the Caspian Sea ; but their 

 chief seat is at Bokhara, where they reside in great num- 

 bers, having a mysterious political organisation under 

 native princes. There is hardly any doubt of their being 

 descendants of the lost ten tribes." 



Whether there is any ground for the baron's 

 theory respecting the lost ten tribes or not, I 

 should think it extremely probable that Malabar 

 had at some time been colonised by the Jews of 

 Asia. G. W. P. 



Triforium (2''-^ S. iv. 269.) — I do not know 

 whether the correspondents of " N. & Q." who 

 have written articles in elucidation of this refrac- 



tory word, are aware that it appears in some old 

 writers, bearing a sense manifestly different from, 

 though possibly connected with that to which their 

 articles refer. In Warton's History of English 

 Poetry, vol. ii. p. 432. (1824 edition), an extract 

 from La Lai du Corn is given. It commences 

 thus : — 



" . . . Un dauncel 



Mout avenaunt et bel, 



Seur un cheval corant, 



En palleis vint craunt. 



En sa main tint un Cor 



A quatre bendel de or, 



Ci com etoit diveure 



Entaillez de ad trifure." 



Thus translated : — "He bore in his hand a 

 horn having four bandages of gold ; it was made 

 of ivory, engraved with trifoire." In explanation 

 of trifoire, the editor supplies the following note : 



" Or rather trifore, undoubtedly from the Latin tri- 

 forium, a rich ornamented edge or border. The Latin 

 often occurs, under Dugdale's Inventory of St. Paul's, in 

 the Monasticon, namely ' Morsus (a buckle) W. de Ely, 

 argenteus, cresta ejus argentea, cum triforio exterius 

 aureo et lapillis insitis, &c.' (Tom. iii. Eccl. Cath. p. 

 309.") • 



The note continues, but as it is to the same 

 effect, and as Warton's book is readily met with, 

 I need not give more than the above. I confess 

 I do not see how it explains the triforium in 

 question. The correspondents of " N. & Q." 

 may discern a connexion, though I cannot. J. P. 



Francis Pole (2"* S. viii. 451.) — This gentle- 

 man served the office of sheriff" for Derbyshire 

 in 1707, and a pedigree in Glover's Derbyshire 

 states that he died in 1758, aged seventy-two, 

 " one of the greatest book-collectors of his time ; " 

 but the year is certainly wrong, for I have before 

 me a document dated 1 Feb. 1750, in which he is 

 mentioned as then deceased. Probably a refer- 

 ence to the Gentleman^ s Magazine for 1748 or 9 

 might satisfy W. J. P.'s curiosity'; but I cannot 

 think Mr. Pole deserves the name applied to him, 

 from the circumstance of a mastiff's collar being 

 found upon the premises of a house of ill repute 

 more than a century after his death. W. St. 



Owenson the Player (2°^ S. viii. 416.) — 



" Lady Morgan's father, Owenson, was the favourite 

 Pan of the Irish stage, and he performed it with great 

 applause so late as 1807." 



So says the writer of some remarks on Kane 

 O'Hara's Midas, prefixed to the copy of that bur- 

 letta contained in Cumberland's British Theatre. 



W. H. Husk. 



Ephemeral Literature (2°^ S. viii. 131. 196.) — 

 The author of the essays inquired after by J. J. 

 does not live where pointed out by Ma. Septimus 

 PiESSE, but the former may obtain all required 

 information by addressing as below. J. C. F. 



3. Myrtle Street, Queen's Road, Dalston. 



