Dec. 20. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUEPvIES. 



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subject merits. I will therefore briefly conclude 

 with a Query. 



Where are the deepest wells in England ? 



P. M. M. 



Mrs. Mary Anne Clarke (Vol. iv., p. 396.).— Is 

 Mrs. Mary Anne Clarke really dead ? 



She was alive two years since, and was then 

 living with her son, Colonel Clarke, somewhere on 

 the Continent. Colonel Clarke is an officer of the 

 line, and is universally respected. 



I obtained the above information from a friend 

 and brother officer of the Colonel. Fm. 



Upton Court (Vol. iv., p. 315.). — -My friend 

 Miss Mitford gives a most interesting account of 

 Upton Court in the Ladles' Companion for August 

 1850, which, as I know the place well, I believe to 

 be perfectly correct. A short extract may not be 

 unwelcome : 



" Fifty years ago a Catholic priest was the sole in- 

 habitant of this interesting mansion. His friend, the 

 late Mrs. Lenoir, Christopher Smart's daughter, whose 

 books, when taken up, one does not care to put down 

 again, wrote some verses to tlie great oak. Her nieces, 

 whom I am proud to call ray friends, possess many 

 reliques of that lovely Arabella Fermorof whom Pope, 

 in the charming dedication to the most clianning of his 

 poems, said that ' the character of Belinda, as it was 

 now managed, resembled her in nothing but beauty.' 



" Amongst these reliques are her rosary, and a por- 

 trait, taken when she was twelve or thirteen years of 

 age. The face is most interesting : a high, broad 

 forehead ; dark eyes, richly fringed and deeply set ; a 

 straight nose, pouting lips, and a short chin finely 

 rounded. The dress is dark and graceful, with a little 

 white turned back about the neck and tlie loose sleeves. 

 Altogether I never saw a more charming girlish por- 

 trait, with so much of present beauty and so true a 

 promise of more, — of that order, too, high and intellec- 

 tual, which great poets love. Her last surviving son 

 died childless in 1769, and the estate passed into 

 another family. 



" Yet another interest belongs to Upton; not indeed 

 to the Court, but to the Rectory. Poor Blanco White 

 wrote under tiiat roof his first work, the well-known 

 Dobladu's Letters ; and the late excellent rector, Mr. 

 Bishop, in common with the no less excellent Lord 

 Holland and Archbishop Whately, remained, through 

 all that tried and alienated other hearts, his fast friend 

 to his last hour." 



The ])ortrait of Arabella Fermor is in Reading, 

 purchased at a sale at Upton Court many years 

 ago, when the property changed hands. 



Julia R. Bockett. 

 Southcote Lod^e. 



iHi^rcnaurouS. 



NOTKS ON HOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. 



Of tlie value of broadsides, (lying sheets, political 

 S(|uibs, popular ballads, &c. few can doubt ; while the 

 advantage of having these snatches of popular literature, 



when collected, deposited in some public and easily 

 accessible library, will be readily admitted by all who 

 may have had occasion to tresjjass on the time and 

 attention (readily as they may be aflbrdcd to parties 

 entitled to claim them), of the Master and Fellows of 

 Magdalene, when requiring to consult tiie matchless 

 collection of ballads, penny merriments, and chap 

 books, deposited in their library by Samuel Pepys. 

 These remarks have been suggested to us by a very 

 handsome quarto volume entitled Catalogue of Procla- 

 mations, Broadsides, Ballads, and Poems presented to the 

 Clietham Library, by J. O. Halliwell, Esq. As this 

 catalogue is limited to one hundred copies, and has 

 been printed for private circulation only, we must con- 

 fine ourselves to aimouncing that it contains an 

 enumeration of upwards of three thousand documents 

 of the classes specified, many of them of very considera- 

 ble interest, which the zeal of Mr. Halliwell has 

 enabled him to gatlier together, and which his liberality 

 has led him to deposit in the Chetham Library. We 

 have marked several articles to which we propose to 

 call the attention of our readers at some future mo- 

 ment ; and we have no doubt tliat the Halliwell Col- 

 lection in the Chetham Library, is one wliich will 

 hereafter he frequently referred to, and consulted by, 

 literary men. 



If the Popular Mythology of these islands is ever to 

 be fitly recorded, its most important illustration will 

 be found in the writings of Grimm and his fellow- 

 labourers. How zealously they are ])ursuing their 

 search after the scattered fragments of the great mytho- 

 logical system which once prevailed in Germany is 

 shown by a new contribution to its history, which has 

 just been published by J. W. Wolf, under the title of 

 Beitraye zur Deutschen Mijthologie : \. Glitter und Gijt- 

 tennen. In this volume the reader will find not only 

 much that is new and interesting in connexion with 

 the history of the great mythic heroes and heroines, 

 but very valuable supplements on the subject of Super- 

 stitions anrl Popular Charms. 



Mr. U' Alton, the author of The History of Drogheda, 

 is about to dispose of his Historical, Topographical, and 

 Genealogical MS. Collections. They occupy upwards 

 of 200 volumes, and comprise, on the plan of Watt's 

 Bibliotheca, copious references to, and extracts from 

 Records, Registries, Pleadings, Wills, Finieral Monu- 

 ments, and Manuscript Pedigrees. They are to be 

 sold wholly, or in lots, as classified at the commence- 

 ment of i\Ir. D' Alton's Annals of Boyle. 



Messrs. Ellis and Son, watchmakers, of Exeter, have 

 published a very interesting ifap showing the Time 

 hept by Public Clocks in various Towns in Great Britain, 

 Among many other curious notes which may be made 

 on this subject, we may mention tlial it is Sunday in 

 Inverness and Glasgow nearly seventeen minutes earlier 

 than at Plymouth; and it will be \i^^l'2 u\ Liverpool 

 eleven minutes before it will be so in Bristol. 



iSlessrs. Cook and llockin, of 289. Strand, have pre- 

 pared a cheap, but very com))lete Chemical Chest, 

 to accompany Stockhardl's Principles of Chemistry 

 illuslrated by Sim/ile L.tjivrinients, recently imblished by 

 Bohn in his Scicntijic Library. 



