Mar. 17. 1855.] 



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to the Protestant faith before and after that 

 memorable event. Many of your readers could 

 furnish lists of such, as well as particulars of their 

 original places of abode in France, and other 

 matters of interest. The invaluable work of 

 Weiss would have been rendered more interesting 

 to English readers had a roll of these names been 

 appended. Mark Antony Lowee. 



Lewes. 



Portraits of Lord Lovat. — How many portraits 

 ai'e there in existence of Lord Lovat besides the 

 well-known one of Hogarth's taken the night before 

 his execution ? I have one that was taken at Don- 

 caster as he was on his way to be tried ; and on 

 comparing it with a print from Hogarth's, I find 

 the features of each an exact counterpart. If any 

 one possesses a portrait, I shall be obliged if 

 they will let me know through the medium of 

 "N. &Q." T.Wilson. 



Halifax. 



Lord Mayors. — Was Sir W. Ryder, Lord 

 Mayor a.d. 1600, the ancestor of the noble family 

 of Harrowby ? Was not his successor. Sir W. Lee, 

 of an ancient family ? Are there any particulars 

 relating to Sir Thomas Lowe, Lord Mayor in 

 1604? or any relating to Sir Henry HoUiday, 

 Lord Mayor, 1605 ? F. Llotd. 



Gilston Lodge, West Brompton. 



Ride from Paris to Chantilly. — Where can I 

 find the best account of the celebrated ride of the 



Count from the Porte St. Denis to Chantilly 



(twice there and back in five hours and forty-two 

 minutes !) ? I have unfortunately lost my re- 

 ference. V. T. Sternbeeq. 



Minor ^vLZxit^ tdtt^ ^niStoeriS. 



Potter on the Number 666. — The fate of the 

 generality of pamphlets and small publications, 

 even though they may relate to matters of great 

 interest, seems to be to disappear from the face of 

 the earth. I should be much obliged to any of your 

 correspondents who could give me any information 

 relative to a Treatise, which I should imagine to 

 be a pamphlet, referred to by Mr. Faber. I do 

 not know whether the production is still to be 

 purchased. I have not met with any bookseller 

 who has heard of it. Mr. Faber, in his Disserta- 

 Hon on the Prophecies relative to the great Period 

 of 1260 Years, vol. ii. p. 330. note (5th edit. 1814), 

 says : 



" There is a most curious treatise by Mr. Potter on the 

 number 666 ; in which he goes ou tlie principle of ex- 

 tracting the square root, and of applying it when so 

 extracted to a wonderful variety of matters connected 

 with Popery .... I can promise the reader entertain- 

 ment of a very singular nature from this work .... It is 

 one of the most ingenious productions I ever met with . . . 



Mr. Mede bestows a very high and well- deserved enco- 

 mium on this work of Mr. Potter." 



The first edition of Faber's clever work was 

 published in 1805, but the above reference is con- 

 tained in a note. The last words, however, would 

 carry back the date of Mr. Potter's publication to 

 some time before 1638, the year in which Joseph 

 Mede died. R. Geaham. 



Clapham Common. 



[This work is entitled, " An Interpretation of the 

 Number 666, wherein not only the manner how this 

 number ought to be interpreted is clearly proved and 

 demonstrated ; but it is also showed that this number is 

 an exquisite and perfect character, truly, exactly, and 

 essentially describing that state of Government to which 

 all other notes of Antichrist doe agree. With all knowne 

 objections solidly and fulh"- answered, that can be ma- 

 terially made against it." By Francis Potter, B. D., Ox- 

 ford, 1642, 4to. A copy of it in the British Museum 

 contains the book-plate of Pepys's chief clerk, " William 

 Hewer, of Clapham, in the county of Surrey, Esq., 1699." 

 Pepys seems to have been " mightily pleased " with this 

 work. Under Feb. 18, 1665-6, he says, " Called at my 

 bookseller's for a book writ about twenty years ago, in 

 prophecy of this year coming on, 1666, explaining it to be 

 the mark of the' beast." Again, Nov. 4, 1666 ; "Begun 

 to read Potter's Discourse upon 666, which pleases me 

 mightily." By the 8th he had finished it : " Read an 

 hour to make an end of Potter's Discourse of 666, which 

 1 like all along ; but his close is most excellent, and 

 whether it be right or wrong, is mighty ingenious." This 

 work was afterwards translated into French, Dutch, and 

 Latin.] 



Cothon. — In Fugitive Pieces on various Subjects, 

 published by Dodsley, in vol. ii. is " A Journey 

 into England, by Paul Hentzner, in the year 

 1598." At p. 246., in his description of the gates 

 of London, appears, — 



" Billingsgate, now a Cothon, or artificial port, for the 

 reception of ships." 



Query, what is " Cothon," and where is it to be 

 found ? I have searched in vain in all dictionaries 

 I have access to. C. de D. 



[The word occurs in Du Cange : "Cothon, portus 

 artificialis. Servius ad illud Virgilii JEn. i. 431: Hie 

 portus alii effodiunt, id est, Cothona faciunt. Cothona 

 sunt portus in raari non naturales, sed arte et manu 

 facti."! 



Wife of Lord Strange. — Reginald, second 

 Lord Grey de Ruthin, married Eleanor, daughter 

 of John Lord Strange of Knockyn. Query, of 

 the first or second Lord Strange ? and who was 

 the wife of the second Lord Strange ? Y. S. M. 



[According to Blomefield {History of Norfolk, vol. v. 

 p. 1265.), Reginald, second Lord Grey of Ruthin, married 

 Eleanor, daughter of John Lord Strange of Blackmere, 

 cousin to John, fifth Lord Strange of Knockyn, temp. 

 Edw. III. The wife of the second Lord Strange was (ac- 

 cording to the same authority) Lady Amicia, or Martia, 

 daughter of ] 



A laced Head. — What is the meaning of " laced 

 head" in the following report of a case in second 



