NOTES AND QUEllIES: 



A MEDIUM OP INTER-COMMUNICATION 



FOR 



LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. 



" 'Virbea found, make a note of." — Captain Cuttle. 



Vol. IV.— No. 89.] 



Saturday, July 12. 1851. 



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CONTENTS. 



Notes : — Page 



Privately printpd Books and privatety engraved Por- 

 traits, by J. WodderspooQ - - - - IT 



Sardonic Smiles - - - - - - 18 



Private Amours of Oliver Cromwell - - - 19 



Spurious Editions of Baily's Annuities, by Professor De 

 Mor'tan - - - - - - -19 



Minor Notes: T.es Aniriiilles de IMelun — Derivation 



of Mews — Curious Monumental Inscriptions— First 

 Panorama ------- 



QuEniEs : — 



Minor Queries : — Verrauvden —Portrait of Whiston — 

 Charities for tlie Clergy and their Families — Principle 

 of Notation by Coalwliipners — Kiss the Hare's Foot — 

 Old Dog — "Heu qiianto minus," &c. — Lady Russell 

 and Mr. Hampden — Burton Family—" One whodwel- 

 leth on the castled Uhine "— Lady Petre's Monument— 

 Dr. Young s Nareissa — Briwingable — Thomns Kin>:6- 

 ston — Possession nine Points of the Law — Rev. H. 

 Bourne- Prior Lachteim —Robert Douglas- Jacobus 

 de Voragine — Peace Illumination, 1802 — Planets of 

 the Months— Family of Kyme — West of Enf:land 

 Proverb- Coke and Cowper — Orinoco — Petty Cury 

 — A'irgil — .'^lierid ni and Vuiibrujh — Quotation from 

 an old Ballad ------ 



Replies ; — 



Princesse? of Wales ------ 



The late Mr. William Hone , . . - 



Shakspeare's " Small Laitin."- His Use of" Triple" - 

 Replies to Minor Queries : — Family of Etty, the Artist 



— Parish Register of Pet'vorth— D.-ath— " Lord Jlayor 

 not a Privy Councillor — " Simm cnique tribuere," &c. 



— Meaning of Complexion — Oillingham — Nao, a Ship — 

 John Perrot — Sneck up — Meaning of Senage — Early 

 Visitations — Rifles - - - - - 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, .Sales, Catalogues, &x. - - - 29 



Books .-vnd Odd Volumes wanted - - - - 30 



Notices to Correspondents - - - - - 30 



Advertisements - - - - - - 31 



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PEIVATELY PRINTED BOOKS -'VND PRIVATELT EN- 

 GRAVED rOKTRAITS. 



If the " Notes and Queries," in the course 

 of its career, had only called the attention of anti- 

 quaries to the necessities of collecting epitaphs 

 and in.scriptions to the dead found in churches, 

 and thus brought into active exertion a large 

 number of zealous and intelligent recorders of 

 raonuiiients, its usefulness would have been fidly 

 establishetl; but the multitude of suggestive hints 

 and recommendations constantly appearing in its 

 p.iges, added to the great amount of precise and 

 unquestionable knowledge given to the public 



r Price, with Index, Qd. 



I Stamped Edition, IQrf. I 



through its means, have established the publication 

 as of the greatest importance to archa3ologists, and 

 literary men generally. 



A noble and highly regarded author (Lord 

 Braybrooke) has recently shown the necessity for 

 recording the existence of painted historical por- 

 traits, scattered, as we know they are, throughout 

 residences of the nobility and gentry, and from 

 thence too often descending to the humble dwell- 

 ing or broker's warehouse, through the effluxion 

 of time, the ill appreciation, in some instances, of 

 those who possess them, or the urgencies of indi- 

 viduals : but there are other memorials of eminent 

 persons extant, frequently the only ones, which, 

 falling into the possession of but few persons, are 

 to the seeker after biographical or topographical 

 knowledge, for the most part, as thougli they had 

 never existed. I allude to Privately Printed 

 Books and Privately Engraved Portraits. Surely 

 these might be made available to literary persons 

 if their depository were generally known. 



How comparatively easy would it be for the 

 readers of the " Notes and Queries," in each 

 county, to transmit to its pages a short note of any 

 privately engraved portrait, or privately printed 

 volume, of which they may be possessed, or of 

 which they have a perfect knowle<lge. Collec- 

 tors could in most instances, if they felt inclined 

 to open their stores, give the required information 

 in a complete list, and no doubt would do so ; but 

 still a great assistance to those engaged in the toils 

 of biographical or other study could be afforded 

 by the transmission to these pages of the casual 

 " Note," which happens to have been taken at a 

 moment when the book or portrait passed itnder 

 the inspection of a recorder who did not amass 

 graphic or literary treasures. 



As respects some counties, much has been done 

 by the printing press to l^urnish this desideratum; 

 at least that of privately engraved portraits. In 

 "Warwickshire, a list of all the portraits (with a few 

 omissions) has within a few years been brought 

 before the public in a volume. In Norfolk, the 

 Illustrations of Nurfolk Topogj-aphij, a volume con- 

 taining an enumeration of many thousand drawings 

 and engravings, collected by Dawson Turner, Esq., 

 of Great Yarmouth, to illustrate Bloinefield's 



Vor,. IV.— No. 89. 



