Feb. 17. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Photographic Likenesses of Soldiers and Sailors, — It has 

 lately occurred to me what a treasure the friends of a 

 poor private, non-commissioned officer, or A. B., would 

 consider a photographic likeness of their absent hero; 

 and that perhaps you, in the midst of London and photo- 

 graphy, might be able by yourself or by others to organise 

 a scheme whereby every soldier or sailor, before embark- 

 ing on service, might be able to leave behind with his 

 friends such a memento of himself. 



There must be, I should think, many a skilful amateur, 

 who, being furnished with materials and his expenses 

 paid, would be pleased to attend at the barracks, or at 

 the port of embarkation, and take the likeness of each 

 poor fellow who presented himself with an order from his 

 officer. 



What difficulties there may be in the amount of labour 

 or expense, not being a photographer, I cannot estimate ; 

 but if you think the idea worth proposing to the public, 

 I shall be happy when the scheme is started to assist it 

 with such small contribution as I can afford. 



Eegedonum. 



Janus Vitalis (Vol. x., p. 523.). — The poet 

 Janus (or John) Vitalis, of Talermo, died in 1560. 

 He must be distinguished from two others of the 

 same name, priests of the fourteenth century ; one 

 a cardinal, and the other a writer for the imma- 

 culate conception. AVith the exception of some 

 scattered epigrams, the only work mentioned by 

 Fabricius as printed is Medit. in Ps. li., Bonon. 

 1553, 8vo. Fabricius refers to Ant. Mongitor, 

 Bibl. Sicula, v. i. p. 305. M. 



He was a divine and poet of Palermo, who died 

 about 1560. His writings are : 



" Meditationes in Ps. li,, Bononiae, 1553, 8vo. ; Para- 

 phrasis in Ps. cxxx. et Ps. Ixvii., Ibid. ; Hymni in An- 

 gelos, et Poema de Archangelo; Epithalamiiim Christi et 

 Ecclesise, Ibid. ; De Elementis, de Pietate erga Rempub. 

 et Hymnus de Pace, Roma, 1554; Epigrammata varia, 

 obvia in Pauli Jovii elogiis utrisque virorum litteris et 

 bellica laude illustrium, et in Deliciis Poetarum Italia 

 Gruterianis, tom. ii. p. 1411, seq. ; Bellum Africte illatum 

 a Sicilia; Prorege Joanne Vega ; Elogia Romanorum Pon- 

 tificum, et Julii III. atque Cardinalium ab ipso creatorum ; 

 Triumphus Ferdinandi Francisci Davali Aquinatis Magni 

 Piscarise Marchionis et lacrym^ in eundem ; Theratorizion 

 sive de Monstris," &c. 



The above account is taken from the Bihlioth. 

 Latina med. et inf. cetatis of Jo. Alb. Fabricius. 



'AXuis, 

 Dubhn. 



The Episcopal Wig (Vol. xi., pp. 11. 72.). — 

 E. F. is in error, when he says that the Hon. 

 Edward Legge, Bishop of Oxford, was the first 

 who left it off; so is your previous correspondent 

 Anti-Wig, who ascribes its disuse to the present 

 Bishop of London. It was first abandoned by 

 the Hon. Richard Bagot, late Bishop of Bath and 

 Wells, under the express permission of George IV. 

 He (the bishop) was a remarkably handsome man ; 

 and, many years before he was elevated to the 



Bench, the Prince Regent had said to him, before 

 many witnesses (no doubt much more in joke thau 

 earnest) : " It would be quite a shame to put you 

 into a bishop's wig. Remember, whenever I make 

 you a bishop, I dispense with your wearing it." 

 Accordingly, when towards the end of the reign 

 he was nominated to the See of Oxford, the 

 bishop reminded the king of his promise, and, not 

 without some difficulty, prevailed upon his Majesty 

 to release him from this preposterous head-gear. 



The Bishop of London speedily took advantage 

 of the dispensation ; but not immediately, since 

 those who were present at the coronation of 

 William IV. may remember that Bishop Blomfield 

 officiated in the orthodox peruke. That Bishop 

 Legge always wore it, many an All- Souls man 

 can yet testify. B. (2) 



The Irish bishops do not appear to have worn 



wigs : 



"Archbishop Magee, in protesting against the Tithe 

 Bill, and other innovations on the Church of Ireland, 

 said that the fate of the English Church was involved in 

 that of the Irish one. ' Pardon me,' says Lord Welles- 

 ley, ' the two churches differ materially ; for instance, the 

 English bishops wear wigs, and you do not wear any. 

 I'll wig you, if you do not take care.' " — Moore's Diary, 

 iv. 141. 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Portrait at Shotesham Park (Vol. x., p. 465.). — 

 At the Visitation of the county of Norfolk in 1664 

 a short pedigree was entered, by which it appears 

 that Richard Pead, of Garboldisham, in that 

 county, gentleman, then living, was the son of 

 Thomas Pead. His arms were : Or, on a bend 

 azure, three human feet couped above the ancle 

 argent. Crest : a chapeau gules, turned up er- 

 mine, ornamented with two (ostrich) feathers or. 



Sir Thomas Tresham (Vol. xi., p. 49.). — In 

 addition to the works mentioned as containing 

 notices of Sir Thomas Tresham, I would call the 

 attention of E. P. H. to a little book by Mr. Bell 

 of Barnwell, in the county of Northampton, on the 

 family of Tresham. It is entitled The Ruins of 

 Liveden ; with historical Notices of the Family of 

 Tresham and its Connexion with the Gunpowder 

 Plot. It :may be purchased, I believe, from the 

 author, or from Mr. Russell Smith, Soho Square. 



G. R. M. 



In the Visitation Book of the County of North- 

 ampton, a pedigree of Tresham was entered in 1618. 

 Sir Thomas Tresham, of Newton, in that county, 

 knight, was the son of Maurice Tresham by Maria, 

 daughter of Edmund Odingsells, of Ichington, 

 in the county of Warwick ; and married Anne, 

 daughter of Bartholomew Tate, of Delapre, near 

 Northampton, Esq., by whom he had issue Henry 

 Tresham, his son and heir apparent (who married 

 Abigail, daughter of Cecil Cave, of Stanford, 



