April 23. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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J\Ionarchie, i. p. 63., states that the Lake of Geneva 

 •was formed on this occasion : absurdly, unless he 

 means that upon this occasion its limits were ex- 

 tended to Geneva, having previously terminated 

 further east. What vestiges of this catastrophe 

 are now perceptible ? A. N. 



Clerical Portrait. — May I request the as- 

 sistance of " N. & Q." in discovering the name of 

 a reverend person whose portrait I. have recently 

 met with in my parish? The individual from 

 ■whom I procured it could give me no other his- 

 tory of it, but that he had bought it at the sale 

 of the effects of a respectable pawnbroker in the 

 village many years ago. 



Afterwards I learned from another resident in 

 the parish that he well remembered visiting the 

 shop of the same broker, in company with another 

 gentleman still living, when this identical portrait 

 was the subject of conversation, and the broker 

 went into his private room and brought out a 

 book, conceived to be a magazine, from which he 

 Tead a description of the person of whom this was 

 the portrait, to the following effect, viz., " That he 

 was born of obscure parentage in the parish of 

 Gleniham, Suffolk ; that he was sent to school, and 

 afterwards became a great man and a dignitary of 

 the church, if not a bishop ; and became so wealthy 

 that he gave a large sum for the repairs of Norwich 

 Cathedral." 



These are the only particulai's which I have yet 

 ascertained as to the portrait, for neither of the 

 gentlemen who were present at this transaction 

 with the broker, though they agree in the circum- 

 ^stances which I have above narrated, can re- 

 member the name of my great unknown. 



I look, however, with confidence to the wide 

 range of your correspondents, and hope to receive 

 some clue which may guide me to the wished-for 

 'discovery. 



. The portrait is an oil painting, a fine full florid 

 face, with a long wig of black curly hair resting 

 «n the shoulders, gown and band, date probably 

 from Queen Anne to George II. J. T. A. 



Arms: Battle-axe. — With some quarter ings of 

 Welsh arms in Bisham (Marlow) of Hobey, is 

 -one of three battle-axes. The same appear near 

 Penbigh, supposed taken in with a L. R. from 

 Vaughan. Query, What family or families bore 

 three battle-axes ? A. C. 



Bidlinger's Sermons. — Will some of your corre- 

 spondents kindly give me some information re- 

 ;garding a volume of sermons by Henry BuUinger, 

 which I have reason to believe is of rather rare 

 occurrence? It is Festorum dierum Domini et 

 Servatoris nostri Jesu Christi Sermones Ecclesias- 

 tici : HeinrycJio Bullingero, Authore. There is a 

 -vignette, short preface (on title-page), with a 

 Scripture motto, Matt. xvii. Date is, " Tiguri 



apud Christoph. Froschoverum a. mdjoviii." I 

 believe there is a copy in the University Library, 

 Cambridge. Enivei, 



Monkstown, Dublin. 



Gibbon's Library. — Matthews, In his Diary of 

 an Invalid, says, when visiting Gibbon's house at 

 Lausanne, "His library still remains; but it is 

 buried and lost to the world. It is the property 

 of Mr. Beckford, and lies locked up in an unin- 

 habited house at Lausanne "(1st edit. 1820, p. 319.). 

 This was written about 1817. Was the library 

 ever transferred to Fonthill or to Bath, or does it 

 still remain at Lausanne ? J. H. M. 



Dr. Timothy Bright. — Can any of your corre- 

 spondents inform me whether this gentleman, 

 author of a Treatise on 3Ielancholy, an edition of 

 Fox's Martyrs, &c., was an ancestor of the Rev. 

 Henry Bright, prebend of Worcester Cathedral,' 

 and instructor of Samuel Butler, author of 

 Hudibras f H. A. B. 



Townley MSS. — I request to know, where are 

 the Townley MSS. ? * They are quoted by Nicolas 

 in the Scrope and Grosvenor Rolls ? Also, where 

 are the MSS. often referred to in the History of 

 the House of Yvery as then penes the Earl of 

 Egmont ; and also a folio of Pedigrees by Camdea 

 Russet ? H. T. Ellacombe. 



Order of St. John of Jerusalem. — 1. Who were 

 the members of the British Language of St. John 

 of Jerusalem, when Elizabeth took away their pro- 

 perty ?^ 



2. What members of the British Language were 

 present when, in 1546, the English commander 

 Upton attacked and defeated the famous Corsair 

 Dragut at Tarschien in Malta? Also, what mem- 

 bers of it were present when the Chevalier Repton,. 

 Grand Prior of England in 1551, was killed, after 

 signally defeating the Turks in another attack 

 which they made on the island ? 



3. ^Vhat became of the records of the Lan- 

 guage ? 



N.B — Some of them, belonging to the Irlsli' 

 branch of it, were lately bought of a Jew by a, 

 private gentleman in the Grand Duchy of Baden.. 

 They are supposed to have been deposited for. 

 security at Heidersheim near Fribourg, which 

 was the chief seat of the German Language of, 

 the Order. R. L. P. 



Wartensee, Lake of Constance. 



Co7isec)'ated Roses, Swords, SfC. — Where will 

 any account be found of the origin of the custom, 

 which has long prevailed at Rome, of the Pope's 

 blessing, on the eve of certain festivals, roses and 



[• For a notice of the Townley MSS., see « N. & Q.,'» 

 Vol. iv., p. 103.] 



