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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



• [No. 284. 



1793, p. 398., where they were accompanied by a 

 " fac-simile drawing " of one of the roundles, 

 which Mr. Urban's correspondent describes as — 



" Made of very thin pieces of beech wood, and exactly 

 filling an old round box ; with a couplet of rhymes in the 

 centre of each ; the ornaments on all a good deal similar, 

 and by the form of the letters, and the stjHe, thought to 

 be as old as the time of Henry VII. or VIII.'" 



This is in such accordance with Mr. Haresfielt>'s 

 description of those found at Castle Dairy, that we 

 may consider them cotemporary productions. 



The latter gentleman's conjecture, that they were 

 " used in some game of chance," does not appear 

 so probable as the supposition of the former, that 

 we may " rank them in the same class of amuse- 

 ments with our modern conversation-cards." 



1. 



" A woman that ys wilfull is a plage of the worst. 

 As good lyve in hell as with a wyffe that is curste." 



2. 

 " Wittes are raoste wylly where wemen have wyttes, 

 And curtissy comethe upon them by ffittes." 



a. 



**In frinds ther ys flattery, in men lyttel trust, 

 Thoughe fayre they proffess they be offten unjuste." 



4. 

 " Good fortune God sende you. I dare laye my heade, 

 You will holde with ye home iff ever youe wedd." 



5. 



" Tene pound to a puddinge whensoevere you marry, 



You will repente yee that so longe you did tarrye." 



6. 



" Wheresoever thou traveleste, Este, Weste, N'orthe, or 

 Southe, 

 Learne never to looke a geven horsse in the mothe." 



7. 



Wyssdome dothe warne the in many a place 

 To truste no suche flatteres as will jere in thy face." 



8. 

 **A widdowe thatt ys wanton, with a running head, 

 Ys a dvvell in the kvttchine, and an ape in her 

 bedde." 



9. 



" Pyke oute a shrowe that will searve yoa a choisse. 

 With a read heade, a sbarpe nosse, and a shrille 

 voyce." 



10. 



" Chosse oute a mate that will searve you a chosse, 

 With a rede heade, a sharpe nosee, and a shrill voyce." 



A discussion on the use of these beechen roundles 

 very probably followed the publication of the 

 above in the pages of the Gent. Mag.*; but as I 

 transcribe from a book of adversaria, I am equally 

 with the Rev. J. Corser unable to state its result. 

 Perhaps this gentleman would send you a copy of 

 the inscriptions on the set noticed by Dr. Whit- 

 aker in his History of Leeds, vol. i. p. 1 82. 



A. Challsteth. 



[• Sec Gent. May., vol. Ixiii. pt. ii. pp. 1187-8.] 



PORTRAITS OF LORD liOVAT. 



(Vol. xi., p. 207.) 



In addition to the portrait by Hogarth, and the 

 small prints of Lord Lovat's trial by the same 

 master, I have in my collection the following por- 

 traits of that nobleman : 



1. The Right Honourable Simon Lord Frasier 

 of Lovat, chief of the clan of the Frasers, &c. 

 Fol. Mez. Le Clerc. Simon. 



2. A monumental print for the Rebellion in 

 Scotland in 1746. Dedicated to all loyal subjects. 

 Folio. Sold by S. Lyne at the Globe in Newgate 

 Street. 



3. Lord Lovat a Spinning. 4to. 



4. Simon Lord Fraser of Lovat. Large folio, 

 eight verses underneath. 



5. The Lord Lovat, as he appeared at the time 

 he was taken. Large sheet, six verses under, 

 commencing with, — 



" 'Mong them there was a politician, 

 With more heads than a beast in vision." 



Lord Lovat is represented disguised as a beggar 

 seated on a wall, holding an open paper in his left 

 hand, on which is printed six verses, descriptive 

 of his difficult position. On the wall are repre- 

 sentations of various acts of cruelty and oppression 

 attributed to him, such as " a servant in the cave 

 for asking his wages," " a hundred head of large 



cattle belonging to Mr. , all killed and lamed 



in one night," &c. Printed for John Bowles at 

 the Black Horse in Cornhill. 



4. Simon Lord Fraser of Lovat. Brought to 

 the Tower, Aug. 15, 1746, charged with high 

 treason. Oval, with the portraits of Lords Kil- 

 marnock, Balmerino, and Cromartie, in three 

 other ovals at the corners ; in the centre the exe- 

 cution of Lords Kilmarnock and Balmerino on 

 Tower Hill. Large folio. 



5. La Decollation des Lords Rebelles a Grand 

 Tower Hill, large sheet. On the left-hand corner 

 portrait of Lord Lovat (evidently copied from 

 Hogarth's) ; in the centre a well-engraved view of 

 the Tower and Tower Hill, with the execution of 

 Lords Kilmarnock and Balmerino, with eight 

 stands erected, tilled with spectators. The letter- 

 press in Dutch and French. 



I have omitted in this list the very interesting 

 print of the " Inside of Westminster Hall, with 

 both Houses of Parliament assembled on the 

 Tryall of Simon Fraser, Lord of Lovat," by Free- 

 man and Parr, and the numerous small 8vo. por- 

 traits, most of the latter being of little merit, and 

 usually copies of the larger ones. 



There is also a large view of the execution of 

 Lord Lovat on Tower Hill, and " Lovat's Ghost 

 on Pilgrimage," a mezzotinto by Hogarth, with 

 six lines of poetry : of the latter I have only a 

 copy by Ireland. J- H. W. 



19. Onslow Square. 



