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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 182. 



•without gold, as Is done by the bookbinder to this 

 day in blind stamping. 



The legend on the first back is as follows : 



At top. " DIEZ . rUCHLEl 



Continued to the right. — 1st . s. , margretek . 



At the bottom. — schuest . abt , zu . 



Continued to the left, — s. . katherei . zu . mur." 



That is,— 



" Diez puchlein ist schwester Margreten, schuest 

 ebtisse zu Sankt Katherein zu Mur." 



The legend on the last back is, — 



At top " NACH . CRIST . 



Continued to the right. — gepurt . Mccccxxxv , 



At bottom. — uvAiiT . GEPUN 



Continued to the left. — de . diez . puch .... k." 



That is,— 



" Nach Crist gepurt mccccxxxv uvart gepunden 

 diez puch . . . k." 



The whole inscription will therefore be, in En- 

 glish,— 



THIS BOOKLET 



IS SISTER Margaret's, 



SISTER-ABBESS AT 



SAINT Catherine's at mur. 

 AFTER Christ's 



BIRTH, 1435, 



WAS BOUN- 



DEN THIS BOOK . . , . K. 



A letter or two is illegible, from the injury made 

 by the clasp, before the last k. Both the clasps 

 are torn away, perhaps from their having been 

 of some precious metal. Has this k anything to 

 do with Koster ? 



Can any particulars be given of the abbess, 

 monastery, and town mentioned ? 



Is any other specimen of movable metal types 

 known of so early a date ? George Stephens. 



Copenhagen. 



POBTBAITS AT BHICKWALL HOUSE. 



Among the pictures at Brickwall House, Nor- 

 thiam, Sussex, are the following portraits by 

 artists whose names are not mentioned either in 

 Bryan, or Pilkington, or Horace Walpole's notices 

 of painters. _ I shall be thankful for any inform- 

 ation respecting them. 



1. A full-length portrait in oils (small size) on 

 canvas (29 inches by 24) of a gentleman seated, 

 dressed in a handsome loose gown, red slippers, 

 and on his head a handsome, but very peculiar 

 velvet cap ; on the ground, near him, a squirrel ; 

 and on a table by his side, a ground plan of some 

 fortification. "John 'SiommQv pinxit, 1700." 



N. B. — The late Capt. Marryatt, and subse- 

 quently another gentleman, guessed it to be a 

 portrait of Wortley Montague from the peculiar 



dress ; but the fortification would seem to indi- 

 cate a military personage. The picture is well 

 painted, 



2. A half-length portrait in oils (small size) on, 

 canvas (20|- inches by 17), of an old lady seated; 

 a landscape in the background. A highly finished 

 and excellent picture ; the lace in her cap is most 

 elaborate. "T. Vander Wilt, 1701." 



N. B. — I conclude this is the artist's name, 

 though possibly it may be the subject's. 



3. A pair of portraits (Kit Kat size), of John 

 Knight of Slapton, Northamptonshire, aged 

 seventy-two ; and Catherine his wife, aged thirty- 

 seven. "Lucas yVhiiioims, pinxit, 1736." 



N. B. — Inferior portraits by some provincial 

 artist. I conclude Lucas is the surname, and 

 Whittonus indicates his locality ; if so, what place ? 



Whilst on this subject, I would add another 

 Query respecting a picture in this house : a very 

 highly finished portrait (small size) by Teiburgh, 

 of a gentleman standing, in black gown, long 

 brown wig, and a book on a table by him, " An- 

 dries de Grrieff. Obiit Ixxiii., mdclxxiiii." 



Can you tell me anything about this old gentle- 

 man ? T. F. 



Christian Names. — Can any of your correspon- 

 dents inform me when it became a common pi-ac- 

 tice to have more than one Christian name ? Lord 

 Coke says (Co. Litt. 3 «) : 



" And regularly it is requisite that the purchaser bo 

 named by the name of baptism and his surname, and 

 that special heed be taken to the name of baptism ; for 

 that a man catinot have two names of baptism as he may 

 have divers surnames," 



And further on he says : 



" If a man be baptized by the name of Thomas, and 

 after, at his confirmation by the bishop, lie is named 

 John, he may purchase by the name of his confirma- 

 tion And this doth agree with our ancient 



books, where it is holdeu that a man may have divers 

 names at divers times, but not divers Christian names." 



It appears, then, that during the first half of the 

 seventeenth century a man could not have two 

 Christian names. 



Also, at what period did the custom arise of 

 using as Christian names words which are properly 

 surnames ? Ericas. 



Lake of Geneva, — The chronicler Ma^jius (in tlie 

 second volume of Dom Bouquet^ mentions that, in 

 the reign of the sons of Clotaire, an earthquake or 

 landslip, in the valley of the Upper Ehone, enlarged 

 the Lemannus, or Genevese Luke, by thirty miles 

 of length and twenty of breadth, destroying towns 

 and villages. Montfaucou, in his Monumens de la 



