NOTES AND QUERIES: 



A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATIQN 



FOR 



LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, AN'TiaUARIRS, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. 



" 'UTlien found, make a note of." — Cai-tain Cuttle. 



Xo. 74.] 



Saturday, March 29. 1851. 



f Price, Threeiience. 

 { Stamped Edition, 4'' 



ing, and Peal-ringing of Bells, by Rev. 



CONTICNTS. 

 Notts : — 



On Portraits of Distinguished Men, by Lord Bray- 

 broolte ---.___ 



Story of a Kelic -.__._ 



Illiistrat ons of Chaucer, No. II : Complaint of Mars 

 and \*eiins -__... 



Chai hs the First and Bartolomeo della Nave's Collection 

 of Pirlures, l)y Sir F. Miidden - - - , 



Minor Notes: — Non-uch Pal. ice — Ferrar and Benlowes 



— Tra.liti'ins Iro n remote Pej iods through few Links 



— Longevity — Emendation of a Passage in Virgil 



— I'oems discovered among the Papers of Sir K. 

 Digl>y — Matter-of-Fact Epitjph '. . . 



Queries : — 



Ancient Danish Itinerary: Prol in Angliam, by R J 

 King 



Clii^niiij. T 

 A. Gatty 



MaK -r Wo'id : Gutta Percha, by W. Pinkerton - 



Minor Queries :— I'anl Pitcher Night — Disinterment 

 for Heresy — " Just Nations." &c Pursuits of Litera- 

 ture—Satirical M'-dal — Mattliew's Mediterranean 

 Passage — In-criptioii on an Oak Board — Expressions 

 in Milton — Saints' Days — Chepstow Castle — The 

 \N'itkes MSS. and "North Briton" — " O wearisome 

 Condition of Humanity ! " — Epitaph in Hall's " Djs- 

 covery "---.-.- 



Minor Qieries ANswEnED :_ Canon and Prebendary 



— What Amount of Property constitutes an Esquire ? 



— Cromwell Family — Daui-'hters of the Si.vtb Earl of 

 Lennox — Wife of Joseph Nichilson — Six .\heiles — 

 Southey — Epigram against Burke — Knight's Hos- 

 pitallers --..-.- 



RtPLiEs: — 



Mesmerism, by Dr. Maitland , - - , 



Loid Howard ol EthULdiam - - _ . 



lovaiini \'olpe, by William Hughes _ _ - 



Replies to Minor Qu^-rics ; — Str Andrew Chadwiek — 



lilaniiscript of B-'de — Closing of Kooms on account 



ot Death — ^ l-'nigii,atieal Epitaph on Rev. J. Mawer — 



llayhands in Senls — Notes on News|>apers — Dui>can 



CaniplwHI — Cliristmas-day— ^^.S. Sermons tiy Jeremy 



'I'aylor — Dryden's .JVIjiolom and Achitopliel — Rev. 



W. ,\danis — Duchess of Bm kiogliam — ^- Go the 



whole Hog" — Lord liexh'y's Descent Irom Cromwell 



— .Morse and Ireton Families — The t'ounti-ss of Des- 

 mond—Aristophanes on the Modem Stage — De- 

 narius Philosnpliorum — On a P:issage in the Tempest 



— Meani.i^ oj' W;i-te-book — Atthnr's >e;it and Salis- 

 bury Craigs — Mc.'Uiliig of "llarnsers" &c. 



ftllScer.LANEOUH. — 



Notes on Bioks, Sales, Catalogues, &c. - 

 Hooks and Odd Volimies wanted 

 Nonces ID (Jorrespondems 

 Advel tisements - . . . 



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ON PORTRAITS OF DISTINGUISnED F.NGI.ISHMEN. 



Ill sul)iiiittiii<; to you the following biiof obser- 

 Viitioiis, it is iiciilier my wish nor iiiluntion to 

 undervalue or diapurage the iubours of Horace 



Walpole, and Granger, and Pennant, and Lodge, 

 and the numerous writers who have followed in 

 their train, and to whom we are so much indebted 

 for their notices of a great variety cf original 

 portraits of distinguished Englishmen, which still 

 adorn the mansions of our aristocracy, and are 

 found in the smaller collections throughout the 

 realm. But I may be permitted to express my 

 surprise and regret that in this age of inquiry no 

 general catalogue of these natiimal treasures 

 should ever have been published. It is true that 

 the portraits, as well as the other objects of attrac- 

 tion in our royal palaces, have been described in 

 print with tolerable accuracy, and some good 

 accounts are to be met with of the pictures at 

 Woburn, and Blenheim^ and Althorpe, and many 

 of the residences of the nobilily which can boast 

 their local historian. We are, however, in most 

 cases obliged to content ourselves with the meagre 

 information afforded by county topography, or 

 such works as the Beauties of England, Neale's 

 Country Seats, and unsatisfactory guide-books. 



No one, then, can doubt that such a compilation 

 as I am aiivocating would prove e most welcome 

 addition to our increasing stock of historical lore, 

 and greatly assist the biogia])her in those researches 

 ujion which, from no sufficient materials being at 

 hand, too much time is frequently expended with- 

 out any adequate result. A catalogue would also 

 tend to the preservation of ancient portraits, 

 which, by being brought into notice, would acquire 

 more importance in the estimation of the posses- 

 sors ; and in the event of any old houses fttlling 

 into decay, the recorded fact of certain pictures 

 having existed there, would cause them to be in- 

 quired after, and rescue tliem from destnictiun. 

 0])portnnities woulil likewise be afforded of cor- 

 recling misnomers, and testing the tiuthenticity of 

 reputed likenesses of the same individual; further, 

 the printed lists would survive after all the family 

 traditions had been forgotten, and passed away 

 with the antitiuated housekeeper, and her worn- 

 out inventory. The practice, too, of inscriliing 

 the names of the artist tnid ]ierson represented on 

 the backs of the frames, would piobahly bo better 

 observed; and I may mention as a proof of this 

 precaution being necessary, the instance of a 



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