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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 191. 



glad to authenticate. It appears to represent 

 Charles XL at the Hague in 1660. 

 ■ The foreground is occupied by groups of figures 

 in the costume of the period. In the distance is 

 seen a street in perspective, down which the royal 

 carriage is proceeding, drawn by six horses. On 

 one side is a row of horses, on the other an avenue 

 of trees. To the right of this is a canal, on the 

 bank of which a battery of seven guns is firing a 

 salute. The opposite bank is occupied by public 

 buildings. 



In tlie air a figure of Fame holds a shield 

 charged with the royal arms of England, sur- 

 rounded by a garter, without the motto. Five 

 cherubs in various positions are dispersed around, 

 holding respectively a globe, a laurel crown, palm 

 branches, &c., and a crowned shield bearing a lion 

 rampant, and a second with a stork, whose beak 

 holds a serpent. 



A portion of the zodiacal circle, containing 

 Libra, Scorpio, and Sagittarius, marks, I suppose, 

 the month in which the event took place. 



E. S. Tatloe. 



Hall-dose, Silverstone, Northamptonshire. — 

 Adjoining the church-yard is a greensward field 

 called " Hall-close," which is more likely to be 

 the site of the mansion visited by the early kings 

 of England, when hunting in Whittlebury Forest, 

 than the one mentioned by Bridges in his History 

 of the county. About 1798, whilst digging here, 

 a fire-place containing ashes was discovered ; also 

 many large wrought freestones. 



The well, close by, still retains the name of 

 Hall-well ; and there are other things in the im- 

 mediate vicinity which favour the supposition ; 

 but can an extract from an old MS., as a will, 

 deed, indenture, &c., be supplied to confirm it ? 



H. T. Wake. 



Stepney. 



. Junius s Letters to Wilkes. — Where are the 

 original letters addressed by Junius to Mr .Wilkes ? 

 The editor of the Grenville Papers says, " It is 

 uncertain in whose custody the letters now remain, 

 many unsuccessful attemjjts having been recently 

 made to ascertain the place of their deposit." 



D. G. 



The Reformer s Elm. — What was the origin of 

 the nnme of " The Reformer's Elm ?" Where and 

 what was it ? C. M. T. 



Oare. 



How to take Paint off old Oak. — Can any of 

 your correspondents inform me of some way to 

 take paint olT old oak ? F. M. Middleton. 



Alitor caucrtc^ iuttlb ^n^eriS. 



Cadenu.1 and Vanessa. — What author is re- 

 ferred to in the lines in Swift's " Cadenus and 

 Vanessa," — 



" He proves as sure as God's in Gloster, 

 That Moses was a grand impostor; 

 That all his miracles were tricks," &c. ? 



W. Frasek. 

 Tor-Mohun. 



[These lines occur in the Dean's verses " On the Death 

 of Dr. Swift," and refer to Thomas Woolston, the cele- 

 brated heterodox divine, who, as stated in a note quoted 

 in Scott's edition, " for want of bread hath, in several 

 treatises, in the most blasphemous manner, attempted 

 to turn our Saviour's miracles in ridicule."] 



Boom. — Is there an English verb active to boom, 

 and what is the precise meaning of it ? Sir Waller 

 Scott uses the participle : 



" The bittern booming from the sedgy shallow." 

 Lady of the Lake, canto i. 31. 



VOGEL. 



[Richardson defines Boom, v., applied as bumhle by 

 Chaucer, and hump by Dryden, to the noise of the bit- 

 tern, and quotes from Cotton's Night's Quatrains, — 



" Philomel chants it whilst it bleeds, 

 The bittern booms it in the reeds," &c.3 



" A Letter to a Member of Parliament." — Who 

 was the author of A Letter to a Member of Par- 

 liament, occasioned by a Letter to a Convocation 

 Man: W. Rogers, London, 1697 ? W. Fkaser. 



Tor-Mohun. 



[Attributed to Mr. Wright, a gentleman of the Bar, 

 who maintains the same opinions with Dr. Wake.] 



Ancient Chessmen. — I should be glad to learn, 

 through the medium of " N. & Q.," some parti- 

 culars relative to the sixty-four chessmen and 

 fourteen draughtsmen, made of walrus tusk, found 

 in the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, and now in case 

 94. Mediajval Collection of the British IMuseum ? 



Hornoway. 



[See ArchcBohgla, vol. xxiv. p. 203., for a valuable 

 article, entitled " Historical Remarks on the introduc- 

 tion of the Game of Chess into Europe, and on the 

 ancient Chessmen discovered in the Isle of Lewis, by 

 Frederick Madden, Esq., F. R. S., in a Letter addressed 

 to Henry Ellis, Esq., F.R.S., Secretary."] 



Guthryisms. — In a work entitled Select Trials 

 at the Old Bailey is an account of tiie trial and 

 execution of Robert Hallam, for murder, in _ the 

 year 1731. Narrating the execution of the crimi- 

 nal, and mentioning some papers which he had 

 prepared, the writer says : '• We will not tire the 

 reader's patience with transcribing these prayers, 

 in which we can see nothing more than common- 

 place phrases and unmeaning Gulhryisms." What 



