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having been erected in the English church since 

 the Reformation ? and if so, could they give me 

 particulars, with the date of the faculty granted 

 for that purpose ? 



I should be much obliged for any information 

 relating to a faculty supposed to have been granted 

 for the erection of a stone altar in the church of 

 " Bramsted," or " Braxted," in Essex, about the 

 year 1724. Ecclesiasticus. 



Lemmivg Arms and Family. — In the earlier 

 works of heraldry, mention is made of the family 

 of Lemming in Essex ; their arms described as, 

 Ar. fifteen guttes de sang, five, four, three, two, 

 one, &c. &c. Is the family still in existence, or 

 has the name become extinct ? Are these arms 

 now used by any other family ? 



Information relating to the name, &c., from any 

 of the correspondents of this paper, will confer a 

 favour on Staidburn. 



Yorkshire. 



Douglas, Lord Mordington. — Can any of your 

 correspondents give me any information about the 

 works of George Douglas, Lord Mordington, of 

 whom Horace Walpole " could learn nothing ; " 

 particularly whether he was, as I suspect, the 

 author of a pamphlet (in 4to., 1719, J. Roberts) 

 entitled, A Discourse upon Honour and Peerage, 

 in a Letter from an elected Peer of Scotland to a 

 Member of the House of Commons ? W. H. C. 



Hogarth and Joe Miller (Vol. xi., pp. 303. 375.). 

 — These magic names must be coupled on some 

 worthy and sufficient authority. What is the 

 fac-simile worth ? If Hogarth were born in 1698, 

 then in 1717 he would be the apprentice of Gam- 

 ble at the age of nineteen ; when he had already 

 "scraped" public-house signs on many pewter and 

 may be silver tankards, but the name would be 

 the master's. If your correspondent can trace 

 home to William Hogarth the pit-ticket of Joe 

 Miller, it will be pleasant to see it ; at present, it 

 is but a Joe Miller. Jocoso. 



[This pit-ticket was considered a veritable Hogarth 

 by Nicholls and Steevens, who state ( Genuine Works of 

 Hogarth, -voX. iii. p. 111.) that "the annexed ticket was 

 engraved for the benefit of the facetious Joe Miller ; who, 

 in Congreve's Old Bachelor, played the part of Sir Joseph 

 Wittol. The scene here represented is in the third Act : 

 where Noll, the companion and bully of Sir Joseph, gets 

 a severe kicking from Sharper. The original of this print 

 is extremely scarce, and there is no doubt of its being 

 from a design of Hogarth ; and, in all probability, exe- 

 cuted by the same hand who etched the ' Modern Military 

 Punishments,' though it is in a somewhat better style." 

 To this extract the editor of The Family Joe Miller 

 has added the following facetious note : " After this, con- 

 ceive the disgust with which a biographer of the illus- 



trious patron of Hogarth reads a passage in Ireland's 

 Hogarth Illustrated. In a bull worthy of his name, he 

 enumerates the priceless relic as not worthy of enumera- 

 tion — 'imputed trash and libel; foisted into auctioneers' 

 catalogues, sold for large sums, warranted originals, and 

 ascribed to Hogarth ! ' Is not this abominable ? ' Trash 

 and libel' with a vengeance! Where are your proofs, 

 Old Emerald Isle? Pray remember that at this time 

 Hogarth was but a youth. Even in his prosperity he did 

 tickets for Spiller, Milward, and Walker; which you 

 eulogise as works of genius. You knew, Master Ireland^ 

 that Hogarth was a boon companion of Jo : for you tell 

 us of his convivialities at the ' Bull's Head,' and at the 

 Shepherd and his Flock Club, of both which Miller was a 

 frequenter — at least, we know nothing to the contrary. 

 Again: were this a spurious pasteboard, why did Jane 

 Ireland re-engrave it ; and why is her etching kept in 

 the British Museum print-room, side by side with the 

 original? Lastly, it was precisely these kind of jobs — 

 shop-cards, bill-heads, &c. — that Hogarth lived by as 

 soon as he had served out his apprenticeship."] 



'■'■ As thin as Banbury cheese." — What is the 

 origin of this phrase, which occurs in a scarce 

 tract, on The Sad Condition of the Clergy in Os- 

 sory, by Dr. Griffith Williams, the Bishop of 

 Ossory, printed in 1664 ? 



" And to say the truth, without fear of any man, we 

 are not only deprived of vicarial tythes and offerings by 

 the farmers of the great lords' impropriate rectories, but 

 our lands and glebes are clipped and pared to become as 

 thin as Banbury cheese, by the commissioners and counsel 

 of those illustrious lords." — P. 26. 



F. R. R. 



[Bardolf, in the Merry Wives of Windsor, compares 

 Slender to Banbury cheese, which seems to have been 

 remarkably thin, and all paring ; as noticed by Heywood 

 in his collection of epigrams : 



" I never saw Banbury cheese thick enough ; 

 But I have often seen Essex cheese quick enough." 



The same thought occurs in Jack Drum's Entertainment, 

 1601 : — " Put off" your cloathes, and you are like a Ban- 

 bury cheese, — nothing but paring." Mr. Beesley (^Hist. 

 of Banbury, p. 568.) says, " the knowledge of the manu- 

 facture of the real Banbury cheese is perhaps now un- 

 known." There is, however, in the Birch and Sloane 

 MSS., No. 1201., p. 3., the folloAving curious receipt for 

 making it, from a MS. cookery-book of the sixteenth 

 century : " Take a cheese- vat, and hot milk as it comes 

 from the cow, and run it forth withal in summer-time, 

 and knead your curds but once, and knead them not too 

 small, but break them once with your hands. And in 

 summer time salt the curds nothing, but let the cheese 

 lie three days unsalted, and then salt them. And lay- 

 one on other, but not too much salt ; and so shall they 

 gather butter. And in winter time in like wise ; but then 

 heat your milk, and salt your curds; for then it will 

 gather butter of itself. Take the runnet and whey of the 

 same milk, and let it stand a day or two till it have a 

 cream, and it shall make as good butter as any other." 

 A rich kind of cheese, about one inch in thickness, is still 

 made in the neighbourhood of Banbury. See more on 

 " Banbury Zeal and Cakes," in « N. '& Q.," Vol. vii., 

 pp. 106. 222. 310. 512.] 



^'■Passionate." — Moule (Bibliotheca Heraldica, 

 p. 493.) describes a book upon which all our kings, 

 from Henry I. to Edward VI., took the coronation 



