Feb. 19. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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traditionally said to have frequented a small inn 

 close by the roadside (on the right hand as you 

 pass through the village from Mold towards the 

 vale of Clwyd), and to have spent many an hour 

 upon the bench under a tree which was lately, 

 and is perhaps still standing opposite. His friend 

 the landlord, wanting a new sign, or more proba- 

 bly a restoration of the old established one, Wilson 

 painted for him the heads of two very merry red- 

 faced men, who are looking hard, with a broad 

 grin, towards the spectator. Long exposure to 

 the wind and weather had, when I saw them, nearly 

 obliterated the original colouring of the heads, 

 and I have heard that some Dick Tinto has of late 

 years restored the rubicund hue to their cheeks : 

 but the words "We Three Loggerheads Be" 

 were quite legible ten years ago. The innkeeper, 

 who sets a very high value on this sign, is, I be- 

 lieve, a son of the man for whom Wilson painted 

 it. It is not attached to a pole, but fastened 

 against the front of the inn : and a few years ago, 

 an idea prevailing that " The Loggerheads " had 

 been painted on the back of an unfinished land- 

 scape, an artist offered the innkeeper a sum of 

 money to be allowed to take it down, and ascer- 

 tain the fact. But it was indignantly refused, with 

 a protest that the sign which Wilson had painted 

 should never be removed from its place, as long as 

 he lived. Cambrensis. 



Lord Nelson and Walter Burke (Vol. vi., p. 576.). 

 — An obituary memoir of Mr. Burke appears in 

 the Examiner for October 1, 1815. H. G. D. 



Parochial Libraries (Vol. vi., pp. 432. 559.). — 

 An ancient parochial library existed some seven 

 or eight and twenty years ago at Gillingham in 

 Dorsetshire. I was for a short period at that time 

 the locum tenens of the then rector of Gillingham ; 

 but at this distance of time remember scarcely 

 more than that the books were kept in a small room 

 devoted to the purpose in the rectory house, and 

 were probably above two hundred in number. 



COKELY. 



St. Botulpk (Vol.vii., p. 84.). — The life of St. 

 Botulph, contained in the Harleian MS. No. 3097., 

 is by Fulcard, a monk of Thorney, as appears by 

 the dedication. It is the same as that printed by 

 Capgrave, who omits the dedication. Fulcard wrote 

 the lives of certain other saints buried at Thorney 

 (Torhtred and Tancred). The dedication does 

 not belong exclusively to the life of Botulph, but 

 forms the introduction to all three lives. It was 

 for this reason, I suppose, that Capgrave (or rather 

 John of Tynemouth, from whom he borrowed) 

 omitted it. C. W. G. 



Twnei-'s Picture of Eltham Palace (Vol.vii., 

 p. 90.). — J. H. A. mentions a picture of " King 

 John's Palace at Eltham, by the late Mr. Turner." 



Could he inform me what has now become of that 

 picture, and also whether it was rated among that 

 celebrated artist's best works or not ? A. W. S. 



"il/moires d'un Homme d'EtaV (VoLvi., pp. 412. 

 588.). — There seems to be sufficient reason for 

 believing in the disavowal of Prince Hardenberg 

 being the author, made by his friend and agent 

 Privy-Counsellor Schoell, to whom the prince, at 

 his death, had confided his genuine Memoires, 

 M. Schoell thought the best care would be taken 

 of them by placing them under the official safe- 

 guard of the Prussian minister ; and his decision 

 was, that they were not to be published till after 

 the lapse of fifty years from the prince's death, 

 which took place in 1822. Copies, however, of 

 the original Memoires had been surreptitiously 

 taken before their seclusion from the public eye ; 

 and from these copies, important and extensive 

 extracts are said to have been undoubtedly made, 

 and form part of the printed Memoires. In edit- 

 ing them, several well-known literary men were 

 employed ; among whom are enumerated, Alphonse. 

 de Beauchamp, A. Schubart, and Count A. F. 

 D'AUonville. A Mons, Montveran (the author, I 

 believe, of a work on English jurisprudence) an- 

 nounced, some years ago, a publication, in which 

 he promised to disclose the original sources of the 

 Memoires and the compilers' names ; but, so far as 

 I can discover, M. Montveran has never redeemed 

 his promise. J. M. 



Oxford. 



Indian Chess Problem (Vol. vi., p. 464.). — 

 This most beautiful of chess problems was sent 

 from India, in a letter addressed to the editor of 

 the Chess Player's Chronicle, signed " Shagird " 

 (native Indian chess player). 



It was published in the Chronicle in 1846, 

 vol. vi. p. 54., without the solution, which is as 

 follows : 



WHITE. 



B. from R. 6th to B. 1st. 



K. to Kts. 2nd. 



R. to Qns. 2nd. 



R. to Qns. 4th. Mate. 



BLACK. 



Pawn advances. 

 Pawn advances. 

 K. to B. 4th. 



T. B. O. 



^^ God tempers the Wind" (Vol. i., pp. 211. 

 325.). — Mr. Gutch will find the French proverb 

 " in print " in Ward's National Proverbs, p. 38., 

 and assimilated as follows in four European lan- 

 guages : 



" A brebis tondue, Dleu mesure le vent." j 

 " Dio manda il freddo secondo i panni." 

 " Dies da la ropa conforme al frio." 

 " Gott giebt die Schultern nach der Biirde." 



w. w. 



Malta. 



Age of Trees (Vol. v., passim). — In the Satur- 

 day Magazine of Dec. 29, 1832, mention is made 



