Sept. 10. 1853.] 



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And if so, in wbat work ; or where are the in- 

 scriptions to be met with? I possess two fine 

 engraved portraits of this fomily : the originals by 

 Hiins Holbein are said to be in " His Majesty's 

 Collection;" where are the originals now? Do 

 they still adorn the walls of Windsor Castle ? The 

 one is inscribed — 



The other — 



Phillip Hobble, Knight." 

 « The Lady Hobble." 



The orthography of the names is the same as 

 engraved on the portraits. The former was Sir 

 Plulip Iloby, one of the Privy Council to King 

 Henry VIII. ; and the lady was, I believe, the 

 wife of Sir Thomas Hoby, of Leominster, co. 

 Hereford, who died in lo96, aged thirty-six. Was 

 this the learned Lady Hoby, who wrote one of the 

 epitaphs above referred to ? Arc there any other 

 portraits of members of this ancient, but now 

 extinct family, in existence ? They bore for arms, 

 " Arg. three spindles in fesse gules, threaded or." 

 What was their crest and motto ? 



J. B. Whitborne. 



Porti'aii of Sir Anthony/ Wiyigfield. — Can any 

 person inform me where the picture of Sir An- 

 thony Wingfield is, described in Horace Walpole's 

 Letters, and which he saw in an old house in 

 Suffolk belonging to the family of IsTaunton, de- 

 scended from Secretary IsTaunton, temp. James I. ; 

 he says : 



" Sir .Anthony Wingfield, who, having his hand 

 tucked into his girdle, the housekeeper told us had had 

 his fingers cut off by Henry VIII." 



Q. 



Lofcopp, Lnfcopp, or Liivcopp. — In some of 

 the charters granted by our earlier monarchs 

 (Henry I. for instance), there is contained a grant 

 of a toll called lofcopp, lufcopp, or liivcopp. Could 

 any of your correspondents give me any farther 

 information respecting the meaning of the word, 

 than is contained in the first volume of " N. & Q.," 

 pp. 319. 371.? J. Ctus. 



Humming Ale. — Having lately met with the 

 above epithet applied to ale in one of James's 

 novels {Forest Days), I should be glad to know 

 its meanins:. AV. H. P. 



Miliar ^wtxit^ &)ttl) ^u^tocr^. 



Dr. Ricliard Sherlock. — Dr. Richard Sherlock, 

 afterwards Vicar of Winwick, had his first cure In 

 Ireland. I should be glad to know where he offi- 

 ciated, and to receive any information respecting 

 him beyond Avhat is met with in his nephew, 

 Bishop Wilson's, life of him. William Denton. 



[A few additional notes have been added to Bishop 

 "Wilson's Life of Dr. Richard Stierloclt, in the seventh 



edition, 2 vols. 1841-44. The editor, the Rev. H. H. 

 Sherlock, M. A., has the following note on his first 

 cure in Ireland : " Wood (At/ten. Oxon., vol. iv. p. 259. 

 Bliss) leads us to suppose that Dr. Sherlock was or- 

 dained immediately after taking his Master's degree, 

 and adds, that ' soon after he became minister of se- 

 veral small parishes in Ireland, united together, and 

 yielding no more than 807. a year.' The editor has not 

 been able to obtain any particulars of his ordination, 

 nor the names of the united parishes in Ireland where 

 he ministered. Canonically, he could not have been 

 ordained earlier than a. d. 1C33."] 



Cardinal Fleiiry and Bishop Wilson. — There 

 exists a tradition to the effect that during a war 

 between this country and France, Cardinal Fleury 

 gave directions to the French cruisers not to mo- 

 lest the Island of Man, and this out of regard to 

 the character of its apostolic bisliop, Wilson. I 

 should be glad to know whether any and what 

 authority can be assigned for this story. 



William Dentox. 



[The story rests upon the authority of the Rev. C. 

 Cruttwell, the bishop's biographer and editor. The 

 following passage occurs in the Life of Bishop Wilson, 

 vol. i. p. 22b'. of his Works, third edition, 8vo., 1784, 

 and in the folio edition, p. 57. : — " Cardinal Fleury 

 wanted much to see him [the bishop], and sent over 

 on purpose to inquire after Ids liealtli, his age, 

 and the date of his consecration ; .is they were the 

 two oldest bishops, and he believed the poorest, in 

 Europe ; at the same time inviting him to France. 

 Tlie I3ishop sent the Cardinal an answer, which gave 

 him so high an opinion of him, that he obtained an 

 order that no French privateer should ravage the Isle 

 of Man." Feltham, in his Tour through the Isle of Man y 

 1798, after quoting this story, adds, " And that the 

 French still respect a Manksman, some recent instancess 

 confirm."] 



Dr. Dodd a Dramatist. — I have seen it some- 

 where stated, that after Dr. Dodd's trial, he sent 

 for Mr. Woodfall to consult him respecting the 

 publication of a comedy he had written in his 

 youth, entitled Sir Roger de Coverley, and which 

 he had actually revised and completed while in 

 Newgate. Was it ever published ; and if not, 

 Avhere is the MS. ? V. T. Sternberg. 



[Woodfall's interview with Dr. Dodd at the Old 

 Bailey, is given in Cooke's Memoirs of Samuel Foots, 

 vol. i. p. 195., and is quoted in Baker's Biographia 

 Dramatica, vol. ill. p. 278., edit. 1812. It appears 

 that Dodd's comedy was commenced in his earlier 

 days, and finished during his confinement in Newgate; 

 but was neither acted nor printed. In a -pamphlet, 

 entitled Historical Memoirs of the Life and Writings of 

 the late Rev. William Dodd, published anonymously in 

 1777, but attributed to Mr. Reed, it is stated at p. 4., 

 that " Sir Roger de Coverley is now in the hands of 

 Mr. Harris of Covent Garden Theatre."] 



Trosachs.— Q,^n I learn through "N. & Q." the 

 derivation and meaning of the name Trosachs, as 



