Nov. 3. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



353 



city supplying it, furnished Apelles with one of 

 the four colours he used for his paintings. 



T. J. BCCKTON. 



Lichfield. 



CromweWs Portrait, Sfc. (Vol. xii., p. 205.). 

 — In the library of the Baptist College, Bristol, 

 there is an original miniature of Oliver Crom- 

 well, of exquisite workmanship, but I am not 

 aware of the artist's name. It was once bor- 

 rowed for the purpose of being copied, and the 

 copy returned instead of the original ; fortunately 

 the frau<l was discovered, and while the original 

 was regained, the copy was likewise kept in pos- 

 session. The copy is a fair one, but the colours 

 are somewhat faded, while those of the real 

 miniature are as perfect as ever. 



Will Cestriensis be kind enough to refer me 

 to the authorities for Cromwell having an illegiti- 

 mate daughter ? as, althoush I have heard many 

 sins laid to his charge, the fact of his having erred ■ 

 in this particular is quite new to me. 



W. H. Wnxa. 

 Bristol. 



Duke of Marlborough and Mr. Barnard (Vol. 

 xii., p. 303.). —W. T. M. will find all particulars 

 of the narrative to which he refers in the Gentle- 

 man's Mag. for May, 1758 ; and in the " Selection 

 of Curious Articles" from that work (1811), vol.iii. 

 p. 322. 



Barnard, who was tried for sending the threat- 

 ening Letters to the Duke of Marlborough, and 

 invitinir the interviews in the Park and Westmin- 

 ster Abbey, was not a colonel ; he was the son of 

 Mr. Barnard, a surveyor in Westminster, "a very 

 profitable business" (as it was said at the trial in 

 May, 1758), in which the son is likely to succeed, 

 being capable and diligent." The young man 

 may, however, have had a taste for mischief or 

 adventure ; and notwithstanding the evidence ad- 

 duced on the trial — the result of wliich was an 

 acquittal — it seems questionable whether young 

 Barnard did not actually send the letters to the 

 Duke, who, for reasons best known to the writer, 

 may have been selected by this young man, as the 

 object of a most unwarrantable hoax. His Grace, 

 who succeeded to the title of Duke of Marl- 

 borough in 1733, as heir to liis mother, the second 

 daughter and co-heir of John, Duke of Marl- 

 boroui-h, died a few months only after the trial of 

 Barnard. He was distinguished as a brave and 

 humane officer. j, JJ. M. 



Br. Bloxholme, not BloxJiam (Vol. xii., p. 303.). 

 -—• The name of tlie physician concerning whom 

 Magdalenensis desires information is incorrectly 

 spelt, both in the pa-sage cited from the Gentle- 

 mans Mog, ami in that from Horace Walpole's 

 Letters^ to George Montague. The person referred 

 to IS Noel Bioxolme (or, as I have sometimes seen 



•No. 314.] 



it written, Broxholme), a native of Rutlandshire, 

 educated at Christ Church, Oxford, as a member 

 of which he proceeded B.A., May 20, 1709 ; M.A. 

 April 18, 1711. He subsequently removed to 

 University College, applied himself to the study 

 of medicine, and, accumulating his degrees therein, 

 proceeded M.D., July 8, 1723. He then settled 

 in London, was admitted a candidate of the Royal 

 College of Physicians, Dec. 23, 1723, and a Fellow, 

 March 22, 1724-25. He served the office of Censor 

 in 1726, and delivered the Harveian Oration for 

 1731. This, which was printed the same year, in 

 4to., is a very favourable specimen of classical 

 attainments. Dr. Broxolme was, I know, ap- 

 pointed in 1734 physician to the Prince of Wales, 

 wiih salary annexed, in place of Dr. Clifton, and 

 died at Hampton Court, on the 8th of July, 1748, 

 by his own hand, as mentioned by Horace W^al- 

 pole. W. MuNK, M.D. 



26. Finsbury Place. 



John Acton (Vol. x., p. 371.). — I see that in- 

 quiries have been made about a John Acton. I 

 send you an extract from a pedigree which I ob- 

 tained from Margaret Acton's daughter many 

 years ago, comprehending all the dates I am at 

 present able to give. If your correspondents 

 should make any search at Basingstoke, I should 

 be very much obliged to learn the result. 



Sir John Cutta of=Aiine Weld. 

 Childersley. I 



Ist.=JoTin Lord=EIiz(iheth Marffa-= John Acton of Joanna.=Thur- 



Ux. 



Cutts. eld- 

 est fon ; a 

 paintinffof neral 

 him by Sir sermon 

 P.Lelyex- by At- 

 ists. Ob. 26 terbury. 

 Jan., 1707. 



Clarke, 

 her fu- 



Basinjistokc; 

 a veiy fine 

 painting of 

 him by 



Sfhalken ex- 

 ists. Aimy 

 agent. 



ban. 



Thur- 

 bom. 



Thomas Cowslade. a=Mars:aretta, 

 director of the I tirin. 

 South Sea Com- 1 

 paDyial730. I 



Joanna, twin : died 

 yoi'ni. buried at 

 B isingstoke, in 

 JLittou. 



Four children, all cceleihes. The last died 

 Jan. 29, 1814, »t. 91. 



F. FiTZ Henrt. 



Fire (Vol. xii., p. 205.). — The use of fire is 

 clearly implied in the offering which Abel made 

 (Gen. iv. 4.) : 



" And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his 

 flock, and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect 

 unto Abel, and to his offering." 



The manner of offering such an offering as Abel 

 made is laid down in Numbers, xviii. 17. : 



"Thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and 

 shalt hum their fat for an offering made by fire, for a 

 sweet savour unto the Lord." 



In the same chapter of Genesis, we find it re- 

 corded of Tubal Cain, that " he was the instructor 

 of every artificer in brass and iron ;" consequently 

 the use of fire was known very soon after the fall 

 of man. Fbas. Crosslet. 



