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NOTES AKD QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 91.,.Sept. 26, '57. 



towards our colonies, may not be influenced by 

 the description of fish sauce served up at the 

 Cabinet dinner given at tbe " Plough " at Black- 

 wall, or upon the quality of the whitebait which 

 that renowned restorateur, Lovegrove, sends to 

 table on tliat occasion. In conclusion, would 

 you or any of your correspondents inform me if 

 the sandlins of the journal from which I quote, 

 the sandeels which in my younger days I hunted 

 through sublous fields by the sea shore, and tlie 

 whitebait which in my middle-aged days I have 

 eaten in common with all civilised persons, with 

 no \\ii\Q gust6^ at the "Artichoke" or "Plough," 

 in the parish of Poplar, are one and the same 

 thing ? K. 



Arbroath. ' 



Portrait of an Irish Prelate. — I have now be- 

 fore me an artist's proof impression of a half- 

 length portrait of (I think) an Irish prelate. The 

 painting, I know, was by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 

 about the year 1827 ; and the engraving was exe- 

 cuted shortly after by Mr. Thomas Lupton. Can 

 you give me the prelate's name, which I am 

 anxious to ascertain ? I have consulted AVilliams' 

 Life and Correspondence of Laicrence without 

 success. Aehba. 



Pythagoras. — Madame De Stael, in her Ger- 

 many, Part iii. chapter x. says that — 



" Pythagoras maintained that the planets were pro- 

 porlionably at the same distances as the seven chords of 

 the lyre; and it is affirmed that ho predicted the new 

 planet which has been discovered between Mars and 

 Jupiter." 



Can this last statement be supported from any 

 ancient author ? Unbda. 



Philadelphia. 



Smith of Northamptonshire. — Colonel William 

 Smith was born at Newton, near Higham Ferrars, 

 in Northamptonshire, Feb. 2, 1655. In or about 

 the year 1675 he was at the royal city of Tangier, 

 in Africa, and according to a tradition in the 

 family, was at one time in command of that ap- 

 pendage of the British crown. 



On November 26, 1675', Colonel Smith was 

 married at Tangier to Martha, the daughter of 

 Henry Tunstall of Putney, in the county of 

 Surrey, England. In or about the year 1683 he 

 returned to London. In June, 1686, he was at 

 Yough Hall in Ireland, the residence of Sir 

 Eustace Smith. During the same summer he 

 sailed for New York, and became an inhabitant 

 of that province. Colonel Smith occupied a dis- 

 tinguished position in the government of New 

 . York ; he was the Chief Justice of the colony, and 

 President of his Majesty's Council for several 

 years. A large estate on Long Island, near the 

 city of New York, was granted to Colonel Smith 

 by the crown, and erected intp the manor of St. 



Georges, which is in great part held by his de- 

 scendants at the present day. 



Colonel Smith had sisters, Jeane, Elizabeth, 

 and Susannah ; the first was married to Nathaniel 

 Lodington, the second to John Erlisman, who was 

 Consul at Tangier about the year 1679. The 

 arms borne by Colonel Smith were a chevron, 

 sable, between three griflins' heads, erased, of tbe 

 same, on a field, argent. Can anyone of the readers 

 of " N. & Q." give information of Colonel Smith's 

 family, and whether any branches of the same 

 still exist in England ? And also as to what ca- 

 pacity, civil or military, he was in at Tangier, and 

 whether he was related to Sir Eustace Smith of 

 Yough Hall, Ireland ? S. 



J^ew York. 



Sacheverell. — Sir John Blennerhassett (ob. 

 Nov. 14, 1624) left three daughters and co-heirs, 

 of whom the eldest, Dorothy, married Francis 

 Sacheverell of Legacorry, co. Armagh, Esq. Had 

 they more than one child ? Major Edward Ri- 

 chardson married — — , daughter and heiress (or 

 co-heiress) of Mr. and Mrs. Sacheverell, as I be- 

 lieve. He appears to have been the owner of 

 Legacorry, afterwards called " Rich Hill " after 

 the Restoration. He was ancestor of the present 

 family of Richardson, of Rich Hill. Could this 

 Major Richardson have been a grandson of the 

 Rev. John Richardson of Levallagllsh als Low- 

 gall, CO. Armagh, who died Sept. 25, 1635 ? And 

 if not, who was he ? Y. S. M. 



Solidus. — On the title-page of a most beautiful 

 copy of the first edition of the French Testament, 

 by Le Fevre, " Imprime a Basle, I'an md.xxv.," is 

 inscribed : 



" Emptus Lugduni in itinerc versus Bimticrns. 



Anno M.n.xxxr. 30 Sulidis." 

 If any of your readers can inform me of the 

 value of a solidus, I shall feel greatly obliged. The 

 volume is a thick small 8vo., beautifully printed 

 on fine paper ; and, according to the usual price 

 of books at that period, especially if prohibited, 

 the value would have been about a French crown. 



Geohgb Offor. 



Arms. — Can any of the readers of " N. & Q." 

 identity the following arms in a church in Dur- 

 ham ? Az. a fess arg. between three stags, courant, 

 or; crest, a stag's head, erased, or, I. II. a.d. 

 1777? F. T. 



Ancient Map of Ireland. — A friend of mine 

 purchased some time since a map, of the authen- 

 ticity of which I have strong doubts ; it purports 

 to be " Engraved from the original copperplate in 

 possession of John Corry, Armagh, where the 

 plate was found amongst old copper." It bears 

 date 1572, and is "supposed to have been made 

 for Sir Thomas Smith, Knt., Secretary to Queen 

 Elizabeth, and Governor of Belfast Castle." The 



