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sion of disapprobation on the part of the Court, at the 

 introduction of a vulgarism in a tribunal of justice.' 



" I should be gratified to learn tlie name of the place 

 in which this worthy lived, as well as other particulars 

 respecting him. • K, T. (1) 



" Boston, June 13." 



K. P. D< E. 

 Waltham Peerage. — A line written in your 

 journal was the means of my recovering the patent 

 of the Culpeper peerage — to me a most valuable 

 family document. I have in my possession an- 

 other patent of peerage found amongst some old 

 lumber in a house in Drury Lane after the death 

 of one of my late father's tenants : how it came 

 there I know not. It is the patent by which John 

 Olmlus was raised to the peerage as Baron Wal- 

 tham of Philipstown in 1762. The son of John 

 Olmius, Drigue-Billers, succeeded to the title. He 

 was born in 1746 ; married, in 1767, Miss Coe, 

 but died s. p. in 1787, when the title became ex- 

 tinct. Now this document may be interesting to 

 some collateral descendants at present existing ; 

 and, I think, the best means of proving my gratitude 

 for the recovery of the patent I sought for, is to 

 ask you to announce the fact of its being in my 

 possession, and my willingness to present it to the 

 person most interested, should such there be. 



AViLLIAM H, MOBLEY. 



35. St. Michael's Place, Brompton, S. W. 



Discovery of the Tomb of Hippocrates. — The 

 Esperance of Athens states, that near the village 

 of Arnontli, not far from Pharsalia, a tomb has 

 been discovered which has been ascertained to be 

 that of Hippocrates, the great physician, an in- 

 scription clearly enunciating the fact. In the 

 tomb a gold ring was found, representing a ser- 

 pent (the symbol of the medical art in antiquity), 

 as well as a small gold chain attached to a thin 

 piece of gold, having the appearance of a band for 

 the head. There was also lying with these articles 

 a bronze bust, supposed to be that of Hippocrates 

 himself. These objects, as well as the stone which 

 bears the inscription, were delivered up to Housin 

 Pacha, Governor of Thessaly, who at once for- 

 warded them to Constantinople. {Express, Sept. 

 25, 1857.) 



Battle of Bloreheath : Bishop liaise. — F. H.W. 

 would be very glad to learn any details that are 

 known respecting the battle of Bloreheath, fought 

 September 1459 ; and especially respecting John 

 Halse, Htdse, or Hales, then Bishop of Lichfield 

 and Coventry, who escorted Margaret of Anjou 

 from the battle field to Eccleshall. 



Portrait of Richard J)uhe of York. — Is there 

 any portrait or description extant of Richard 

 Duke of York, father of King Edward IV. ? 



F. H. W. has consulted Holllnshed, Stowe, 



Fabyan, &c., and the previous vols, of " N. & Q." 

 for information, but without success. 



Portrait of Charles L, and a Political Use made 

 of it. — The Chancellor De Maupeo writing to the 

 Countess Du Barry says, inter alia, — 



" His Majesty (Louis XV. of France) must be alarmed 

 then just when his easiness is on the point of changing 

 to mildness, and he must be inspired with resolution in 

 spite of nature. For this purpose we must put every de- 

 vice in practice. One now presents itself v.-hich must not 

 escape us. Amongst the pictures to be sold out of the 

 cabinet of the late Baron de Thiers is a portrait of 

 Charles I., King of England, whose head was cut off by 

 his Parliament. Purchase that picture at any price under 

 pretence of its being a family picture, because the Du 

 Barrys spring from the house of Stuart. You will place 

 it in your apartment by the side of the King's picture, 

 and when his Majestj' views it, he will of course lament 

 the fate of the English monarch ; j'ou must take that 

 opportunity to observe that perhaps liis Parliament might 

 have attempted the same if I liad not detected their 

 criminal designs before they had arrived at such a pitch 

 of daring wickedness. An apprehension of this nature 

 suggested by 3-ou, my dear Cousin, will steel him against 

 all the attempts and machinations of our enemies. Burn 

 this letter, but observe its contents." — Letters to and from 

 the Countess Du Barry, translated from the French. — ■ 

 Dublin, Higly, 1780. 



The translator adds the following foot-note : 



" Madame Du Barry really put the Chancellor's advice 

 in execution. Absurd and wicked as this imputation was, 

 the Prince kindled at it instantly, and it was from be- 

 fore this portrait that * issued those flames which de- 

 stroyed the magistracy in the remotest parts of the 

 kingdom.' " 



Query, Is this portrait still to be seen in 

 France (probably at Versailles), and by whom 

 was it painted ? and farther, is there any accovmfc 

 of Madame Du Barry from the time she entered 

 the convent at the death of Louis till her own 

 decease ? G. N. 



" You have heard of them hy Q." — Who is the 

 author of a book called You have heard of them hy 

 Q. New York : Redfield ; London : Triibner, 

 1854? The author was at one time connected 

 with the Morning Post. Iota. 



"■ Ala7'has." — Can you inform me who is the 

 author of Alarbas, a dramatic opera, 4to., 1709, by 

 a Gentleman of Quality ? R. Inglis. 



Mormon. — Whence derived ? Among the 

 Greeks, Mormo was a bugbear used to frighten 

 children. Lucian, Philops., Theocritus, &c., men- 

 tion it. B. H, C. 



Thomas de Quincey. — I lately read two papers 

 by De Quincey, one detailing one of his opium 

 visions (of which the heroine was a beautiful 

 girl), not comprised in the Confessions of an 

 English Opium-Eater, nor in the Appendix 

 thereto ; the other being a critical dissertation on 

 " Heu! Taoeam." Having entirely forgotten where 



