Mar. 15. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Engraved Portrait. — 

 " All that tlioii see'st and readest is divine. 

 Learning thus us'd is water turn'd to wine; 

 Well may wee then despaire to draw his minde, 

 View here the case; i'tli Booke the Jewell finde." 



Tiie above quatrain is placed benoatli a portrait 

 cliaracteristieally engraved by Cross. Above the 

 head is the ibUowing inscription : — 



" yEtatis Sua? 50°. Octob. 10 1549." 



or whom is this a portrait ? It is no doubt 

 well known to collectors, and is of course a frun- 

 tisjjiece ; but having never yet seen it vis-d-vis 

 with a title-page, I am at a loss as to the author 

 of whom it is the vc7-a effigies. Possibly some of 

 your readers will be kind enough to enlighten me 

 upon the matter, and favour me with the name of 

 the British worthy thus handed down to posterity 

 by Cross's admirable burin. Henky Campkin. 



Blackstone's Commentaries and Table of Pre- 

 cedence. — The first edition of Blackstf)ne was 

 published at Oxford in 4to., in the year 1765; and 

 the Table of Precedence, in the 12th chai)ter of 

 the First Book, found in subsequent editions 

 e<lited by Mr. Christian, does not occur in Black- 

 stone's first edition. Can any of your readers, 

 having access to good legal tlieoric.^^, inform me in 

 which of Blackstone's own editions the Table of 

 Precedence was first inserted ? E. 



The Two Drs. Abercromby. — In the latter half 

 of the seventeenth century, there were two phy- 

 sicians of the name of Abercromby, who both gra- 

 duated at the university of Leyden, and were 

 afterwards the authors of various published works. 

 The first woik of David Abercromby mentioned in 

 Watt's fi(Wwrtec« is dated in 1084, and the first 

 written by Patrick Abercromby in 1707. As it 

 was usual to compose an inaugural dissertation at 

 obtaining the doctorate, and such productions were 

 ordinarily printed (in small quarto), J. K. would 

 feel obliged by the titles and dales of the inau- 

 gural di.^^sertations of either or both of the physi- 

 cians above mentioned. 



Witte van Haemstede. — Can any of your readers 

 inform me whether there still e.xistany descemhints 

 of Witte mm Haeinstcde. an illc'ritimate scion of 

 the ancient house of Hollrind f W'illem de Water, 

 in his Adelijiie Zeelaiul, written in the seventeenth 

 century, says that in his youth he knew a Witte 

 van Haemstede of this family, one of whose sons 

 became pastor of the Dutch congregation in 

 Loudon. — Nucorscher, Jan. 18.51, p. 17. 



J. Brnrhuei Dutch Chm-ch in Norwich. — In 



(he GeiilbiiKins Aldguzinu for 1804 is a short 

 memoir of the liev. ,f. IJruckncr. He was born 

 in the island of Cadsand, completed his studies at 

 Levdi-n, where he enjoyed the society of llemster- 

 huis, Valckeuaer, and the eider Schultcns. In 



1753 he became pastor of the Walloon, and after- 

 wards of the Dutch congregation in Norwich, 

 where he remained till his death in May, 1804. 

 In 1767 he jmblished at Leyden his Thcorie die 

 Systiime Animal; in 1790 appeared his Criticisms 

 on the Diversions of Parley. 



Could your coriespondcnts furnish me with a 

 complete list of Bruckner s works, and direct me 

 to a history of the Dutch church in Norwich, 

 from its origin to the present time? — Navoischer, 

 Feb. 1851, p. 28. 



[Under this heading we propose to give such Minor 

 Queries as we are able to reply to at once, but which 

 are not of a nature to be answered with advantage in 

 our Notices to Correspondents. We hope by this 

 means to economise our space.] 



The Hereditni-y Earl Marshal. — Miss Marti- 

 neau, in her History of England, book iii. ch. 8., 

 speaks (in 1829j of 



"three Catholic peers, the Dnhe of Norfolk, Lord Clif- 

 ford, and Lotd Dormer, having obtained entrar.ce at 

 last to the legislative assembly, where their fathers sat 

 and ruled when their faith was the law of the land." 



In Lord Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors, 

 there is an anecdote, vol. vii. p. 695 , of the Duke 

 of Norlblk falling asleep and snoring in the House 

 of Lords, while J.,ord Eldon was on the woolsack. 

 Did not the Duke of Noif'oik (though Roman 

 Catholic) sit and vote in the House of Lords, either 

 by prescription or special act of parliament, be- 

 fore 1829? J. H. S. 



[The anecdote told by Lord Campbell (but much 

 better by Lord Eldon himself in 'J'wi>s's Life of the 

 great Chancellor), does not rei'er to the late Duke of 

 Norfolk, but to his predecessor Charles (the elevLiith 

 duke), who was a Protestant. The late duke never 

 sal in parliament till after the Relief IJill passed. In 

 1824 a Bill was parsed to enable him to exercise the 

 office of Earl Marshal without taking certain oaths, 

 but gave him no seat in the House. We may as well 

 add, that Lord Eldon's joke must have been perpe- 

 trated — not on the bringing up of the Bill, when the 

 duke was not in the House — but on the occasion of 

 the Great Snoring Bill bei/ic/ ripnrted ( April 2, ISll), 

 when the duke appears to have been present] 



7 he Beggars Petition. — I shall feel obliged by 

 iiforming me who the author is of the 



your 

 lines — 



" Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, 

 Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door." 



s. 



[The authorship of this little poein has at times ex- 

 cited a good (leal of attention. Il has been attrihuttd, 

 on no very sufficient grounds, to Dr. Joshua Webster, 

 iNl.D. , but from the Gentleman's Mat/azine, vol. Ixx.. 

 p. 41., it appears that it i.s the entire production of the 



