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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 185. 



his London-made shoe, and " to wear the brogue, 

 though speak none." A. B. R. 



P.S. — The postscriptum of J. H. T. respecting 

 the pronunciation of English being preserved in 

 Scotland, goes direct to an opinion I long since 

 formed, that the Lowland Scotch, as we read it in 

 the Waverley Novels, is the only genuine unadul- 

 terated remains we have of the Saxon language, 

 as used before the Norman Conquest. I formed 

 this opinion from continually tracing what we call 

 "braid Scotch" to its root, in Bosworth's, and 

 other Saxon dictionaries ; and I lately found this 

 fact confirmed and accounted for in a passage of 

 Verstegan, as follows : — He tells us that after the 

 battle of Hastings Prince Edgar Atheling, with his 

 sisters Margaret and Christian, retired into Scot- 

 land, where King Malcolm married the former of 

 these ladies ; and proceeds thus : 



" As now the English court, by reason of the abound- 

 ance of Normannes therein, became moste to speak 

 French, so the Scottish court, because of the queen, and 

 the many English that came with her, began to speak 

 English ; the which language, it would seem. King 

 Malcolm himself had before that learned, and now, by 

 reason of his queen, did more affecte it. But the 

 English toung, in fine, prevailed more in Scotland than 

 the French did in England ; for English became the 

 language of all the south part of Scotland, the Irish (or 

 Gaelic) having before that been the general language 

 of that whole country, since remaining only in the 

 north." — Verstegan's Restitution of Antiquities, a.d. 

 1605. 



Many of your accomplished philological readers 

 will doubtless consider the information of this Note 

 trivial and puerile ; but they will, I hope, bear 

 ■with a tyro in the science, in recording an original 

 remark of his own, borne out by an authority so 

 decisive as Verstciijan. A. B. R. 



PICTURES BY HOGARTH. 



(Vol. vii., pp. 339. 412.) 



In reply to Amateur, I can inform him that 

 at the sale of the Marlborough effects at Marlbo- 

 rough House about thirty years ago, there were 

 sold four or five small whole-lengths in oil of 

 members of that family. They were hardly clever 

 enougli for what Hogarth's after-style would lead 

 us to expect, but there were many reasons for 

 thinking they were by him. They came into the 

 possession of Mr. Croker, who presented them, as 

 family curiosities, to the second Earl Spencer, and 

 they are now, I presume, in the gallery at Althorpe. 

 One of them was peculiarly curious as connected 

 ■with a remarkable anecdote of the great Duchess. 

 Horace Walpole tells us in the Reminiscences, her 

 granddaughter. Lady Bateman, having persuaded 

 her brother, the young Duke of Marlborough, to 

 .marry a Miss Trevor without the Duchess's con- 

 sent: 



" The grandam's rage exceeded all bounds. Plaving 

 a portrait of Lady Bateman, she blackened the face, 

 and then wrote on it, ' Now her outsiders as black as her 

 inside.' " 



One of the portraits I speak of was of Lady Bate- 

 man, and bore on its face evidence of having in- 

 curred some damage, for the coat of arms with 

 which (like all the others, and as was Hogarth's 

 fashion) it was ornamented in one corner, were 

 angrily scratched out, as with a knife. Whether 

 this defacement gave rise to Walpole's story, or 

 whether the face had been also blackened with 

 some stuff that was afterwards removed, seema 

 doubtful ; the picture itself, according to my re- 

 collection, showed no mark but the armorial de- 

 facement. 



I much wonder this style of small whole-lengths 

 has not been more prevalent ; they give the ge- 

 neral air and manner of the personage so much 

 better than the bust size can do, and they are s(j 

 much more suited to the size of our ordinary 

 apartments. C. 



Referring to An Amateur's inquiry as to where 

 any pictures painted by Hogarth are to be seen, I 

 beg to say that I have in my possession, and should 

 be happy to show him, the portrait of Hogarth's 

 wife (Sir William Thornhill's daughter), painted 

 by himself. Lyndon Rolls. 



Banbury. 



The late Bishop Luscombe showed me, at Paris, 

 in 1835, a picture of " The Oratorio," — a subject 

 well known from Hogarth's etching. He told me 

 that he bought It at a broker's shop in the Rue 

 St. Denis ; that, on examination, he found the 

 frame to be English ; and that, as the price was 

 small — thirty francs, if I remember rightly — he 

 bought the piece, without supposing it to be more 

 than a copy. Sir William Knighton, on seeing it 

 in the bishop's collection, told him that Hogarth's 

 original had belonged to the Dukes of Richmond, 

 and had been in their residence at Paris until the 

 first Revolution, since which time it had not been 

 heard of; and Sir William had no doubt that the 

 bishop had been so fortunate as to recover it. 

 Perhaps some of your readers may have something 

 to say on this story. J. C. R. 



photographic correspondence. 



Washing Collodion Process. — In " N. & Q.," 

 No. 153., p. 320., your valued correspondent Dr. 

 Diamond states " that up to the final period of 

 the operation, no washing of the plate is requisite. 

 It prevents, rather than assists, the necessary che- 

 mical action." 



Now, in all other instructions I have yet seen, ifc 

 is directed to wash off the iron, or other developing 

 solution, prior to immersing in the hypo., and after 



