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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 176. 



Emendator has doubtless restored the sense 

 to many puzzling passages in Shakspeare, but he 

 certainly is mistaken here in reading prigging for 

 pugging. H. JB. J. 



Carlisle. 



Loitdon. — Is the following, which was copied 

 October 11, 1811, from a MS. pasted on Spital- 

 fields Church at that time, worth preserving in 

 the pages of " N. & Q." ? Could any of your 

 numerous correspondents furnish me with the 

 author's name ? 



"London. 

 " Houses, churches, mixt together ; 



Streets cramm'd full in ev'ry weather; 



Prisons, palaces, contiguous ; 



Sinners sad and saints religious ; 



Gaudy things enough to tempt ye j 



Outsides showy, insides empty ; 



Baubles, beasts, mechanics, arts. 



Coaches, wheelbarrows, and carts ; 



Warrants, bailiffs, bills unpaid, 



Lords of laundresses afraid ; 



Rogues that nightly prowl and shoot men ; 



Hangmen, aldermen, and footmen ; 



Lawyers, poets, priests, physicians. 



Noble, simple, all conditions ; 



Worth beneath a threadbare cover. 



Villainy bedaubed all over ; 



Women, black, fair, red, and gray. 



Women that can play and pay ; 



Handsome, ugly, witty, still. 



Some that will not, some that will ; 



Many a beau without a shilling, 



Many a widow not unwilling, 



Many a bargain, if you strike it,— 



This is London, if you like it." 



H. E. P. T. 

 Woolwich. 

 Note from the Cathedral at Seville. — 



" El Exc"" S"" D' Don Nicolas Wiseman, Obispo 

 Coadjutor de Birmingham, y Rector del Collegio de 

 Oscott, por decreto de 2 de Enero de 1 845, concedio 

 40 dias de Indulgentia per cada Padre- Nuestro, 6 Credo 

 a Nuestri Seiior Jesu Cristo, 6 un Ave-Maria a su 

 Santissima Madre, 6 un Padre- Nuestro en honor del 

 Santo Patriarcha S' S" Domingo, cujas imagenes se 

 veneran en esta Capilla, como por cualquier palabra 

 afetuosa 6 jaculatoria con devotion." 



S.K.K 



Riddles for the Post Office. — The following 

 ludicrous direction to a letter was copied verbatim 

 from the original and interesting document : 



" too dad Tomas 

 hat the ole oke 



otehut 

 I O Bary pade 

 Sur plees to let ole feather have this sefe." 



The letter found the gentleman at " The Old Oak 

 Orchard, Tenbury." I saw another letter, where 



the writer, after a severe struggle to express 

 " Scotland," succeeded at length to his satisfaction, 

 and wrote it thus, " stockling." A third letter 

 was sent by a woman to a son who had settled in 

 Tennessee, which the old lady had thus expressed 

 with all phonetic simplicity, " 10 S C." 



CUTHBERT BeDE» 



cauertJiS. 



NATIONAIi PORTRAITS. POETEAIT Or THE DUKE 



OF GLOUCESTER, SON OF CHARLES I. 



A cotemporary portrait of this prince, fourth 

 son of Charles I., was in existence. He was re- 

 presented with a fountain by him, probably in 

 early age. He died, at the age of twenty, in 1660, 

 Where is this painting now to be found, or is any 

 engraving from it known ? Granger describes an 

 engraved portrait by Vaughan, representing the 

 infant prince seated on a cushion ; and a rare por- 

 trait of him by Lovell. 



It would be very desirable to compile a descrip- 

 tive catalogue of painted portraits, those especially 

 preserved in the less accessible private collections 

 in England. Such a manual, especially if illus- 

 trated with outline sketches or photographs, in 

 order to render it available at a moderate cost,, 

 would be most useful, and supply, in some degree, 

 the deficiency of any extensive public collection 

 of national portraits, such as has been commenced 

 in France, at the palace of Versailles. 



Albert Way. 



Reigate. 



[Recognising as we do most fully the value of the- 

 idea thrown out by Mr. Wat, that it would be de- 

 sirable to compile a descriptive Catalogue of Painted 

 Portraits, as the best substitute which we can have for 

 an extensive public collection of such memorials of our 

 Great and Good, we shall always be glad to record in 

 the columns of " N. & Q." any uotices of such pictures 

 as may, from time to time, be forwarded to us for that 

 purpose. The suggestion that Photography might be 

 usefully employed in multiplying copies of such por- 

 traits, coming as it does from one whose skill as an 

 artist rivals his learning as an antiquary, is the highest 

 testimony which could be given to the value of an art 

 which we have endeavoured to promote, from our con- 

 viction that its utility to the antiquary, the historian,, 

 and the man of letters, can scarcely be over-rated. ] 



BOSTON queries. 



I annex a prospectus of a second edition of my 

 Collections for a History of the Borough of Boston 

 and the Hundred of Skirbeck, in the County of 

 Lincoln, which I am now employed upon in pre- 

 paring for the press. As there may, and most 

 probably will, arise many points upon which I may 

 require assistance, I shall from time to time address 

 (with your leave) inquiries for insertion in your 



