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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 226. 



relation who knew the facts.* Lord Vane was the 

 last of his race, and died at Fairlawn, Kent, 

 probably about the latter half of the last century .f 

 The successor to his fortune selected a few pic- 

 tures, and left the remaining, of which mine 

 formed a part, to his principal agent. Amateurs 

 say they are by Sir Peter Lely : a fact I should 

 be glad to establish. I have searched Windsor 

 Castle, Hampton Court, and Knowle Park collec- 

 tions in vain for duplicates. 



No. 1. is a young man in what appears to be a 

 Court dress, exhibiting armour beneath the folds 

 of the drapery. Point lace neck-tie. 2. Do., in 

 brocaded silk and fringed dress. Point lace neck- 

 tie and ruffles. A spaniel introduced, climbing 

 up his knee. 3. A youth sitting under a tree, 

 with pet lamb. Point lace neck-tie and ruffles, 

 but of simple dress. 4. A lady in flowing dra- 

 pery. Pearls in her hair and round her neck, 

 sitting under a tree. An orange blossom in her 

 hand. 5. A lady seated in an apartment with 

 marble columns. Costume similar to No. 4, minus 

 the pearls in the hair. A kind of wreath in her 

 hand. 6. A lady in simple, flowing drapery, 

 without jewellery, save a broach or clasp on her 

 left shoulder ; holding a flower in her right hand. 

 In all, the background is very dark, but trees and 

 buildings can be traced through the gloom. The 

 hands are models, and beautifully painted. Size of 

 pictures, divested of their carved and gilt frames, 

 four feet two inches by three feet four inches. If 

 any of your readers can, from this description, 

 give me any clue to the name of the artist, it will 

 greatly oblige and be duly appreciated by an 

 elderly spinster. S. D. 



BURIAL-PLACE OF THURSTAN, ARCHBISHOP OF 

 YORK. 



The church of All Saints, in Pontefract, county 

 York, was some years ago partly restored for divine 

 worship ; and during the progress of the works, a 

 broken slab was discovered in the chancel part of 

 the church, upon which was cut an archiepiscopal 

 cross, extending from the top apparently to the 

 bottom. On the upper part of the stone, and on 

 each side of the cross, was a circle or ring cut 



[* A correspondent in the Gentleman's Magazine for 

 May, 1789, p. 403., who was intimately acquainted 

 with Lord and Lady Vane, states that " though Dr. 

 Smollet was as willing as he was able to embellish his 

 works with stories marvellous, yet he did not dress up 

 Lady Vane's story of her Lord. She wrote it as well 

 as she could herself, and Dr. Shebbeare put it in its 

 present form at her ladyship's request." 



f Lord Vane died April 5, 1789, at his house in 

 Downing Street, "Westminster. He was great-grand- 

 son of that inflexible republican, Sir Henry Vane, 

 executed on Tower Hill, June 14, 1662. — Ed.] 



down the middle by a dagger ; and bearing on the 

 circle the following inscription in Old English 

 characters : 



" * w . rjou" . W . all." 



In the middle of the stone, and on each side of 

 the cross, also appear a shield emblazoned with a 

 rabbit or coney sejant * 



Beneath this part appears the commencement of 

 the inscription, which seems to have run across 

 the surface of the stone, " Orate pro anim . . . ." 

 Here the stone is broken across, and the lower 

 part not found. 



Can any of your numerous readers inform me 

 if this stone could possibly be the tombstone of 

 Thurstan, Archbishop of York ? It is said that he 

 resigned the see of York after holding it twenty- 

 six years : 



,( Being old and sickly, he would have been made a 

 monk of Pontefract, but he had scarcely put off bis- 

 pontifical robes, and put on his monk's dress, when 

 death came upon him and made him assume his grave- 

 clothes ; for he survived but eleven days after his- 

 resignation, dying Feb. 5, 1 140." 



Thurstan is stated to have been buried in the 

 Monastery ; but may he not have been buried in 

 the church of All Saints, which was the conven- 

 tual church of the Priory of St. John the Evan- 

 gelist, and was situated adjoining the Grange, the 

 site of the Priory ? In the bull of Pope Celestine, 

 " right of burial in this church was granted to- 

 the monks, saving the privileges of neighbouring 

 churches." (CA. de Pontif. fol. 8. a.) 



George Fox. 



ffiinav <aum'e£. 



Admiral Hopson. — In Tomkins' History of the 

 Isle of Wight (1796), vol. ii. p. 123., an anecdote 

 is told of a native of Bonchurch named Hobson,. 

 who afterwards became Admiral Hobson. It is 

 mentioned that he was an orphan., bound appren- 

 tice to a tailor; and that being struck with the sight 

 of a squadron of ships off" the Isle of Wight, he 

 rowed off in a boat to them, and was received on 

 the admiral's ship ; that the next day, in an engage- 

 ment with the French, when his ship was engaged 

 yard-arm and yard-arm with the enemy, he 

 climbed up the mast, clambered to the enemy's, 

 yard-arm, mounted to the top-gallant mast, and 

 took down the flag. This created consternation in 

 the enemy, who were soon defeated. Hobson was 



* In "N. & Q.," Vol. ix., p. 19., I find, under the 

 head of " Wylcotes Brass," an answer to the inscription 

 " In . on . is . all ;" and as the inscription on the tomb- 

 stone discovered in All Saints, Pontefract, was very 

 legibly written " In God is all," may not one family 

 be a branch of the other ? Can you say where the 

 quotation is from ? 



