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artists whose names he has quoted, perhaps he 

 may be glad to know that Luke Hornebolte, de- 

 scribed as a native of Flanders, was made a 

 denizen by patent, 22 June, 26 Henry VIII. p. 2. 

 m. (32.) and licensed to keep in his service four 

 journeymen or covenant servants born in parts 

 beyond sea, notwithstanding the statute. On the 

 same day he obtained, by another patent, the of- 

 fice of King's painter, and a tenement and piece of 

 ground in the parish of St. Margaret, "Westmin- 

 ster. 



Another painter named Katherine Maynor, 

 widow, born at Antwerp, was made a denizen by 

 patent, Nov. 11, 32 Henry VIII., p. 2. m. (38.). 



James Gaibdnbr. 



W. Vesey Fitzgerald (2°^ S. iv. 331.) — The 

 person alluded to by A. B. C. was the Right Hon. 

 W. Vesey Fitzgerald, not only Irish Chancellor 

 of the Exchequer, but afterwards President of the 

 Board of Control. In 1835 he was created an 

 English peer, having, in 1832, succeeded to an 

 Irish peerage on the death of his mother. 



The scurrilous pamphlet referred to, of Mrs. M. 

 A. Clarke, was prosecuted by Mr. Fitzgerald in 

 1813, with a distinct denial of its scandalous and 

 indeed ridiculous assertions. She suffered judg- 

 ment to go by default, and then came before the 

 Court of King's Bench for sentence. The counsel 

 were Sir W. Garrow, and Messrs. Scarlett and 

 Brougham on opposite sides ; and she was con- 

 demned to nine months' imprisonment, which, 

 considering the gross nature of the libel (for, 

 among other things, she had accused Mr. Fitz- 

 gerald of murder,) was at that time regarded as a 

 merciful sentence. E. C. 



I have a copy of Mrs. Mary Anne Clarke's 

 pamphlet, to which reference is made by A. B. C. 

 Though it made much noise at the time, I doubt 

 whether many copies remain ; and I dare say I 

 should not have retained mine, but that, in accord- 

 ance with a practice of former years, it got bound 

 with other pamphlets which I deemed curious or 

 worth preserving. The following is its title, 

 which may be worth giving entire : — 



" Letter addressed to the Right Honourable William 

 Fitzgerald, Chancellor of the Irish Exchequer, one of 

 the Lords of the Treasurj', &c., &c., &c. By Mrs. M. A. 

 Clarke: — 



" ' Why lie can smile, and murder while he smiles. 

 And wet his cheeks with artificial tears. 

 And frame his face to all occasions.' 



Hermj VI., Part 3.' 

 London: Published by J. Williams, 267. opposite St. 

 Clement's Church; and to be had of all Booksellers. 

 1813." 



In it he certainly was most violently attacked. 

 He was accused of corrupt and criminal conduct 

 — even to the extent of seducing a friend's wife, 

 and treating her and her offspring most murder- 

 ously. The writer was prosecuted in the King's 



Bench ; found guilty, and sentenced to imprison- 

 ment in that Court's prison. I forbear to make 

 farther reference to the contents of the publica- 

 tion : they are of the severest and most revolting 

 character. A Hermit at Hampstead. 



The Devil and Church Building (2"^ S. iv. 144. 

 298.) — There is a very similar tradition regard- 

 ing the removal of a church in this neighbourhood 

 to that related by your correspondents. At the 

 village of Duffield, a few miles from Derby, there 

 is the site of an ancient castle formerly belonging 

 to the Ferrars, Earls of Derby. The site is still 

 known by the name of Castle Orchards, and at a 

 very short distance from the hill on which the 

 castle stood is another eminence (only one field's 

 breadth off), on which are some ancient cottages. 

 There is a tradition current in the neighbourhood 

 that the church was originally intended to be 

 built upon this eminence, but that after the work 

 had been commenced and proceeded to some ex- 

 tent, the devil, for some unexplained reason, re- 

 moved the whole of the work in one ni^ht to the 

 site it now occupies, in a field by the side of the 

 river Derwent, at quite the opposite side of the 

 village. The workmen were naturally surprised 

 in the morning at finding that their work had all 

 disappeared, and after solemn prayer, again began 

 laying the foundations, but to be carried away 

 again by the devil on the succeeding night. Day 

 after day the same thing was enacted, the whole 

 of the material brought in the day being removed 

 and set up in its right place on the site the arch- 

 fiend had chosen for it; and at last he so completely 

 triumphed over the patience of the workmen, that 

 they went down to the place where he had car- 

 ried the material, and completed the church 

 where it now stands. The eminence, it appears, 

 on which the church was originally intended to be 

 built was a place of rendezvous for evil spirits, for 

 at the prespint day the villagers firmly believe a 

 " brown-man," or bogie, is to be seen every night 

 near the cottages. Llewelltnn Jewitt, F.S.A. 



Derby. 



Richard Aston (2°'* S. iv. 329.)— Sir Richard 

 Aston, before he became a Judge of the King's 

 Bench here, was Chief Justice of the Common 

 Pleas in Ireland, to which post he was appointed 

 in May, 1761. His situation there was rendered 

 so disagreeable by frequent disputes with magis- 

 trates and grand juries, arising originally, it is 

 supposed, from the expression of his disapproval 

 of the careless mode adopted by the latter in find- 

 ing bills, that he was happy to change his seat for 

 one in Westminster Hall. There he continued for 

 thirteen years, dying on March 1, 1778. He was 

 one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal, on the 

 removal of Lord Camden from the oflice of Lord 

 Chancellor, from Jan. 1770 to Jan. 1771. There is 

 some story told against him of his being detected 



