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lull, to Mrs. Thornhill, daughter of Sir Robert Tliornliill, 

 Bart." 



It seems to me a curious incident, that the 

 ;»randson of Oliver Cromwell should be married 

 in the very place where his grandfather caused 

 the head of Charles I. to be struck otF. 



I suppose this Richard was son to the eldest son 

 of Oliver Cromwell. Did his descent give him 

 the privilege of being married at \VbifcehaU ? 



W.D. H. 



A Hint to Paper Manufacturers. — Why are not 

 all papers made Jire-proof especially writing- 

 paper, either by the solutions of chloride of zinc ; 

 or the liquid sulphuret of calcium, or of barium ; 

 the same being afterwards steeped in a solution of 

 sulphate of iron ? Bank-notes, and papers used in 

 drawing up wills and legal documents, should be 

 so treated always, considering how many valuable 

 documents are yearly lost. This hint should not 

 soon be forgotten by the manufacturers, as the 

 cost is but trifling. J. Bruce Niel. 



" Coke upon Littleton" turned into Verse. — 

 The anecdote given by Lord St. Leonard's, in the 

 tenth Letter of his valuable Handy Book on Pro- 

 perty Law, is perhaps better told in the MS. note- 

 book now before me, of a contemporary of Lord 

 Chancellor Hardwicke, to whom, whether correctly 

 or not, the joke is attributed, as follows : 



" When a young Barrister he had excited the jealous 

 feelings of a certain Judge of Assize, whose nephew he 

 eclipsed at the Bar, and whose chief oratory consisted in 

 ' Hark ye, d'ye see, I'd have you to Imotv,' with which 

 words his charges were constantly interlarded. Taking 

 an opportunity once in public company, he rudely ad- 

 dressed Mr. Yorlic thus : ' As you are so clever a man, 

 Mr. Yorke, at everything else, I should suspect you must 

 be a Poet. Have you published anything in that way ? ' 

 ' Never, my Lord, but I have a work by me which you 

 will think an odd one. It is Coke upon Littleton turned 

 into Verse ! ' Being very much pressed by his Lordship 

 for a specimen, he gave the following ; 



" ' The man that is seized of an estate in fee 

 Need fear neither wind nor weather ; 

 For hark ye, d'ye see, I'd have you to know, 

 'Tis his and his heirs for ever.' " 



S. H. H. 



HB-Mtxit^, 



SIR WILLIAM GORE, LORD MAYOR OF LONDON. 



Sir William Gore was Lord Mayor of London in 

 1709. His father was an attorney, and had the 

 estate of Sandon Chapel, Esher, Surrey. Who 

 was his grandfather, and where does he join in to 

 the pedigree of Gores, which goes back to Queen 

 Elizabeth's time ? Li the church at Tring, where 

 Sir Wm. Gore resided, is a handsome monument 

 to him and Lady Gore. In the inscription it is 

 said, but erroneously, that he was the third Lord 

 Mayor of London of that name and family. Sir 



John Gore- of Gilston, Herts, was the first Lord 

 Mayor, and was knighted at York, by Charles I., 

 in 1640, and Sir Wm. Gore was the second and 

 last. In his will he leaves a legacy to his cousin, 

 Wm. Gore of Tewin, in Herts, whose pedigree is 

 the same as the one above mentioned as going 

 back to Q. Elizabeth's time. Sir Wm. Gore and 

 John Gore held courts at Sandon Chapel, which 

 were at last held by Sir William only, who con- 

 veyed that estate to John Gore of Godalming, 

 Surrey, who is buried with Joanna his wife in the 

 church at Esher. I have not been able to find 

 the will ofWm. Gore, Sir William's father, at the 

 Prerogative Office, Doctors' Commons. There is 

 a very perfect pedigree of the Gores of Barrow 

 Court, Somersets., who took the name of Lang- 

 ton, in Sir Kichard Hoare's History of Wilts; and 

 at the bottom of that pedigree the Gores of Esher 

 are mentioned, in a note, as descended from a 

 branch of the same family. There is also a very 

 perfect pedigree of Sir Wm. Gore's family, which 

 only begins with Sir William, in Clutterbuck's 

 Hist, of Herts, in which county many branches 

 of the family were seated. Genealogus. 



^m0r Queries. 



Lady Lester. — Some years ago I saw her pic- 

 ture in a book (I think that it was a royal quarto), 

 where she was named as one of the beauties of 

 the Court of Queen Anne. Since then I have 

 never been able to meet with it. Lady Lester 

 was a maid of honour, and the widow of Sir John 

 Dantre. Is the book known ? Who was Sir John 

 Dantre? and who was the second husband of Lady 

 Lester ? H. H. 



The Tales of the Fairies. — Who wrote 



" The Tales of the Fairies, or the Comical Metamor- 

 phoses with the wonderful Operation of a Fountain in 

 the Gardens of Patagonia in restoring lost Virginity " ? 

 London, printed in the year 1764. 12mo. 



No printer's name. The copy before me was 

 in the library of Richard Graves, the author of a 

 once popular romance, the Spiritual Quixote, and 

 a great friend of Shenstone. The Tales have 

 much humour, but are not remarkable for deli- 

 cacy. ■ J. M. 



Ovid^s Tristia. — There was published by Arthur 

 Bettesworth at the Red Lion on London Bridge 

 in 1713, 12mo., a translation of the Tristia, 



" Containing five books of mournful Elegies, M'hich he 

 sweetly compos'd in the Midst of hji Adversity, while he 

 lived in Comos, a city of Pontus, where he died after 

 seven years' Banishment from Rome. Newly translated 

 into English by T. P." 



There is a frontispiece — a very rude produc- 

 tion — containing a wretched portrait of Augustus 

 Caesar at the top, and the unhappy Ovid leaning 



