Mak. 26. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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:9Ainax HSiutviti. 



Tassage in Bacon.— What is the meaninjj of this 

 raying oV Bacon: " Poetry doth raise and erect the 

 jnind^y submitting the shows of things to the 

 desires of the mind ? " Recnac. 



Lamech hilling Cain. — In the church of St. 

 jj^eot, Cornwall, are some very interesting ancient 

 painted windows, representing various legendary 

 and scriptural subjects. In one of them, descrip- 

 tive of antediluviai history, is a painting of Lamech 

 shooting Ciiin with a bow and arrow. Are any of 

 your readers acquainted with a similar subject? 

 Is there any tradition to this effect? and doesit 

 Ahrow any light on that difficult passage, Gen. iv. 

 23, 24. ? 



" And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, 

 Hear my voice : ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto 

 my speech : for I have slain a man to my wounding, 

 and a young man to my hurt. 



" If Cain shall he avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech 

 ^seventy and sevenfold." 



J. W. M. 



Hordley EUesmere. 



Lord Chief Justice Popham. — C. Gonville 

 «ays (Vol. vii., p. 259.) that Raleigh Gilbert " emi- 

 grated with Lord Chief Justice Poph.im in 1606" 

 to Plymouth in Virginia. As this is a fact in the 

 history of that learned judge with which I am 

 unacquainted, I shall be obliged to your corre- 

 spondent to favour me with some particulars. 

 According to Anthony Wood he died on June 10, 

 1607, and was buried at Wellington in Somerset- 

 shire ; and Sir Edward Coke (6 Reports, p. 75.) 

 notices the last judgment he pronounced in the 

 previous Easter Term. Edward Foss. 



" Her face ivas lihe the milky way" 8fC. — Where 

 is the subjoined quotation taken from, and what 

 4s the context ? I cannot be quite certain as to 

 its verbal accuracy. 



" Her face was like the milky way i' the sky, 

 A meeting of gentle lights without a name." 



Via Lactea. 



Nelson Rings. — I am in possession of a ring, 

 "which in place of a stone has a metal basso-relievo 

 Tepresentation of Nelson (half-bust). The in- 

 scription inside the ring is as follows : 

 " A Gift to 

 T. Moon 

 from 

 G. L. Stoppleburg 

 1815." 

 The late Mr. Thomas Moon was an eminent 

 merchant of Leeds, Yorkshire, and the writer has 

 -always understood that the ring referred to is one 

 of three or half-a-dozen, which wefe made subse- 

 .qiiently to Nelson's death, the metal (blackish in 

 appearance) forming the basso-relievo^ set in 



them, being in reality portions of the ball which 

 gave the late lamented and immortal admiral his 

 fatal wound at Trafalgar. 



Can any of your readers furnish me with the 

 means of authenticating this supposition ? likewise 

 I should be glad to know if other similar rings 

 are at present in existence, and by whom owned. 



11. Nichols, 



Pelsall, Staffordshire. 



Boohs Wanted. — 



Life of Thomas Bonnell, Mayor of Norwich, 

 published by Curl. 



Samuel Hayne, Abstract of the Statutes relating 

 to Aliens trading, 1 690.* 



Lalley's Churches and Chapels in London. 



Can any of your readers tell me where I shall 

 find these books ? I do not see them in the 

 British Museum. J. S. B. 



Mr. Cromlin. — In Smith's History of Water- 

 ford (1746) are noticed " the thanks of the House 

 of Commons given to Mr. Cromiin, a French gen- 

 tleman naturalised in the kingdom, then actually 

 sitting in the house," and the present to him of 

 10,000^. for establishing a linen manufactory at 

 Waterford. Where shall I find the particulars of 

 this grant recorded ? J. S. B. 



Dr. Fletcher and Lady Baker. — Dr. Fletcher, 

 Bishop of London, married a handsome widow, 

 the Lady Baker, sister of George Gifford the 

 Pensioner, at which marriage Queen Elizabeth 

 being much displeased, the bishop is said to have 

 died "discontentedly by Immoderate taking of 

 tobacco." (AthencB.) Who was the Lady Baker's 

 first husband ? Who was George Gifford ? Was 

 she a Roman Catholic previous to her second 

 marriage ? W. S. 



Jeremy Taylor and Christopher Lord Hatton. — 

 Bishop Jeremy Taylor, in his dedication of the 

 Great Exemplar to Christopher Lord Hatton, 

 entreats his lordship to "account him in the 

 number of his relatives." Was Jeremy Taylor In 

 any way connected with Lord Hatton by mar- 

 riage? His first wife was a Mrs. Joanna Bridges 

 of Mandinam, In the parish of Languedor, co. 

 Carmarthen, and supposed to be a natural 

 daughter of Charles I., to whom she bore a striking 

 resemblance. Do any of your readers know of 

 any relationship between this lady and Lord 

 Hatton, or any other circumstance likely to ac- 

 count for the passage above mentioned ? 



Ci-AKENCB Hopper. 



"Pylades and Corinna." — Can anybody tell who 

 was the author ? Could It be De Foe ? P. R. 



[• Hayne's Abstract, edit. 1685, will be found in the 

 British Museum. See the new Catalogue s. v., Press- 

 mark 8245. b Ed.] 



