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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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the picture described by him is preserved, or his 

 reason for referring it to the time of James I. The 

 Grove picture belonjjs to the previous reign. It 

 is dedicated to Sir Wm. Cecil, who was created 

 Lord Burleigh in 1571. L. 



Mr. Justice Port, — I inserted a Query about 

 this gentleman in your P' S. vii. 572. As I have 

 recently met with some particulars concerning 

 him in a volume of MS. Cheshire pedigrees of the 

 sixteenth century, I think it my duty to place 

 them at your service. They may, moreover, be of 

 use to Mr. Fobs. 



Henry Port, of the city of Chester, merchant, 

 had two sons, the elder, Richard, being the father 

 of John Port of Ham, co. Stafford, and of Richard 

 Port, Rector of Thorp, in Derbyshire. The se- 

 cond son, Henry Port, Mayor of Chester in 1486, 

 married Anne, daughter of Robert Barrow, of 

 Chester, and had issue an only son, Sir John Port, 

 Knight, of Etwall, Justice of the King's Bench. 

 Mr. Justice Port married, according to my pedi- 

 gree, Jane, daughter and coheir to John Fitz- 

 herbert, of Etwall, and had issue one son, Sir 

 John, and three daughters. The latter Sir John, 

 who is confounded with his father by Burke and 

 other genealogists, married Elizabeth, daughter of 

 Sir Thomas Gifford, Knt,, of Chillington, co. Staf- 

 ford, and left three daughters his coheiresses, who 

 married respectively into the Gerrard, Hastings, 

 and Stanhope families. T. Hughes. 



Chester. 



Bell-founders (2"'^ S. iv. 115.) — J. W. may be 

 the initials of John Warren or John Wallis, who 

 were founders circa 1614. 



J. L. was a founder from 1635 to 1661. His 

 habitat is not, I believe, known. He may have been 

 an itinerant, as many of the craft were. 



R. P. stands for Richard Perdue. Several of 

 this name were founders at Sarum. 



H, T. Ellacombe, 



^^ Won golden opinions,'" SfC. (2"^ S. iv. 108.) — 

 The origin of this phrase may be yet to seek; but 

 in explanation of Dr. Johnson's use of it as a 

 quotation, Mr. Ingleby, who has shown himself in 

 your pages to be a diligent student of Shakspeare, 

 need only refer to Macbeth, Act J. Sc. 7. : 



" I have bought 

 Golden opinions from all sorts of people, 

 Which would be worn now in their newest gloss." 



Cf. As You Like It, Act I. Sc. 1. : 



«My brother Jaques he keeps at school, and report 

 speaks goldenly of his profit." 



Cf. Sophoc. Antigone, 699. : 



" Ov-x ijSe XPVOTJs a^ctt Ttjuijs Kaxe'v." 



ACHB. 



Captain Roger Harvie (2""^ S. iii. 107.) — This 

 gentleman was, I believe, the grandson of Sir 

 Nicholas Harvey, Knt., whose daughter Anne 



married Dr. George Carew of Upon Hillion, co. 

 Devon. The issue of this marriage was Sir Peter 

 Carew the younger, who in 1580 was slain in the 

 recesses of Glenmalure, and Sir George Carew, 

 afterwards Earl of Totnes. In consequence of 

 their connexion with the Carews, the Harveys 

 were introduced into Ireland, and we find them 

 frequently mentioned in the historical MSS. of 

 the latter end of the sixteenth century, George 

 Harvey, brother of Roger, was implicated with 

 George Carew in the assassination of Owen Onai' 

 sye in 1583, and was included in the verdict of 

 wilful murder returned, on that occasion, at the 

 coroner's inquest. Sir George Carew was Lieu- 

 tenant of the Ordnance in England from 1591, and 

 when he was absent from this country, e. g". dm-ing 

 his government of Munster, his cousin, George 

 Harvey, acted as his deputy. I have many Notes 

 relating to the Harveys, but am now writing from 

 memory, not having my papers at hand. 



John Maclean. 

 Hammersmith. 



John Carter, P.S.A, (2"'' S. iv. 107.) — In an- 

 swer to the Query of J, G, N"., relative to the 

 existence, in the library of Sir John Soane's Mu- 

 seum, of a pamphlet entitled The Life of John 

 Ramble, Artist (a Draftsman), I can state with 

 certainty that no such pamphlet is in the coUec-' 

 tion. G. B. 



Sir John Soane's Museum. 



Moravian Query (2"'' S. iv. 9.) — Perhaps Dr- 

 Maclaine's note at p. 507. vol. ii. of his edition of 

 MosheinHs Ecclesiastical History (Tegg, 1838), 

 may offer some explanation of the " scandal " al- 

 luded to by Walpole. Wm. Matthews. 



Cowgill. 



The Chisholm (2"'i S._ iv. 68.) —Y. B. N. J. 

 will find some explanation with regard to his 

 Query respecting the origin of such titles as " The 

 Chisholm " in a note to the 2nd vol. of Lays of 

 the Deer Forest, p. 245. I may mention that this 

 book, the notes to which are highly interesting, 

 was published by John.Sobieski and Charles Ed- 

 ward Stuart, in 1848. John Maclean. 



Hammersmith. 



Pedigree (2"* S. iv. 69.) — As Dr. Richardson 

 derives pedigree " from the French Gres, or jDe- 

 gres des peres," while Dr. Webster's derivation 

 is " probably from the Lat. pes, pedis," pei-liaps 

 by taking a hint from each of these derivations 

 we may Hk the etymology of the word in question, 



The Lat. pes signifies not only a foot, but the 

 stem of a tree. So also do its derivatives. Port. 

 pS, Sp. pie. It. pie and piede, Fr. pied. 



The Lat. gradus is m like manner followed by 

 a numerous progeny, gre, grao, grade, degre, 

 &c., in sometimes signifying a genealogical degree, 

 a degree of relationship. 



