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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 146. 



UHTMES UPON PLACES. 

 (V0I.V., p.618.,&c.) 

 Observing, from tbe number of references in 

 your Index to Vol. v., that this subject possesses 

 interest for some of your readers, I transcribe a 

 few more local rhymes not to be found in Grose's 

 Provincial Glossary : 



MNCOLN. 

 " York was, London is, but Lincoln shall be 

 The greatest city of all the three." 



KENT. 



" English lord, German count, and French Marquis, 

 A yeoman of Kent is worth them all three." 



GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 



" Blest is the eye 

 Betwixt Severn and Wye." 



BEDFORDSHIRE. 



« I, John of Gaunt, 

 Do give and grant. 

 To Roger Burgoyne 

 And the heirs of his loin. 

 Both Sutton and Potton 

 Until the world's rotten." 



BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. 



" Tring, Wing, and Ivinghoe, all these three did go 

 For striking the Black Prince a blow." 



■\VESTMINSTER ABBEY. SCONE STONE. 



" Except old saws be vain 

 And wits of wizards blind, 

 The Scots in place must reign 

 Where they this stone shall find." 



WARWICKSHIRE. 



It is singular that none of your correspondents 

 have yet cited Shakspeare's memorable lines : 

 " Piping Tebworth, Dancing Marston, 

 Haunted Hillbro', Hungry Grafton, 

 Dudging Exhall, Papist Wicksford, 

 Beggarly Broom, and Drunken Bedford." 



CORNWALL. 



[" Pars Corinea datur Corineo, de duce nomen 

 Patria; deque viro gens Corinensis habet." 



William Bates. 

 Birmingham. 



PORTRAIT OF GEORGE FOX. 



(Vol. v., p. 164.; Vol. vi., p. 43.) 



Thomas Clio Rickman was a stationer in Upper 

 Marylebone Street within the last twenty years ; 

 presuming, therefore, that the original portrait of 

 Fox, supposed to be painted by Honthorst, is still 

 in existence, I shall be glad to know in whose pos- 

 session it now is : and as I am editing for the 

 Chetham Society a collection of papers, chiefly 

 consisting of the private correspondence of the 

 immediate family connexions of George Fox, I 

 shall be much obliged to the present possessor of 

 this portrait if he will permit me to see it. 



I am not aware that an engraving after this 

 painting was published in any edition of Fox's 

 Journal; and in tlie absence of more explicit in- 

 formation from your correspondent Bonsall, I 

 conclude, partly from the occurrence of the word 

 " sect" in the inscription, that the engraving did 

 not originally form a part of the book in which it 

 is inserted. 



An impression of this engraving may be found 

 in the portfolio of Joseph Smith, Bookseller, in 

 Oxford Street, New Road, Whitechapel, who pos-- 

 sesses several representations of Fox, but no other 

 in a devotional attitude. 



One of these, well engraved in line by Samuel 

 Allen, after a painting by S. Chinn, was published 

 in 1838 ; another, lithographed by T. Stackhouse 

 from a drawing by W. Dance, was published in 

 1824; and a third is a small dotted engraving, 

 without the name of painter or engraver, published 

 by W. Darton in 1822. Mr. Smith believes that 

 none of these three representations is copied from 

 any authentic portrait : but he possesses also a 

 very small oval plate-engraving printed in folioy 

 without date ; it is a fac- simile of a rude woodcut 

 which Mr. Smith believes was printed in some 

 publication contemporaneous with Fox ; and he 

 understands tliat with the assistance of this wood- 

 cut, the above-mentioned three portraits Avere 

 composed. 



The only other portrait of Fox, which I have 

 seen or heard of, is an etching by Sawyer, Jun,, 

 published by Rodd of Little Newport Street ; 

 Mr. Rodd informs me that this etching was 

 founded on the before-mentioned woodcut, which 

 was printed, with George Fox's name attached, oa 

 an advertisement sheet, issued by the y)roprietors 

 of a quack medicine of very old standing, calle<l 

 the Anodyne Necklace. J. Lewelyn Curtis. 



ST. MARGARET. 



(Vol. vi., p. 76.) 



Your correspondent may like to know that there 

 are several metrical legends touching St. Margaret. 

 One given by Hickes from a MS. in Trin. Coll. 

 Cambr. : 



" Olde ant yonge 1 prelt our folies for to Icte." 

 Another in the Vernon MS. at Oxford : 



" Seinte Margarete was an holi maid and good." 



And one printed, of which no mention has yet 

 been made ; neither Ames, Herbert, nor Dibdin 

 having recorded it : 



" Here begynneth the lyfe of Saynte Margarete." 



Woodcut of a saint, holding the cross between 

 both hands, and standing on the dragon ci'ouching 

 beneath her, as subdued. The cut repeated at 

 the back of the title. Colophon : 



" d Enpryntcd at London wilitin Teple barre in 



