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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[2nd §, No 3, Jan, 19, °56, 
Quarto Plays, early English Poetry, and a few scarce 
Tracts, &c., sold by Leigh & Sotheby, April, 1805, 8vo. 
‘The arrangement of this small catalogue is excellent. 
Many of the books in it are of the rarest occurrence, and, 
to my knowledge, were of the finest preservation. The 
collector is no more! He died in India; cut off in the 
prime of life, and in the midst of his intellectual and 
book-collecting ardour. He was a man of exceedingly 
gentlemanly manners and amiable disposition, and his 
taste was, upon the whole, well cultivated and correct. 
Many a pleasant, and many a profitable hour, have I 
spent in his ‘ delightsome library’!!! 
And in a subsequent note, where mention is 
made of Porson attending a circle of literary 
friends, it is added: “ Poor Fillingham was of 
the party.” 
Can -any of your readers tell me who this Mr. 
Fillingham, the book-collector, was? Who were 
his relations ; what his profession ; and where he 
lived before he went to India? 
Henry Kenstncron. 
Portuguese Preachers. — Would any of your 
correspondents oblige me by giving any infor- 
mation respecting Raphael de Jesus, and Joseph 
de Oliveira, Bishop of Angola, two famous Portu- 
guese preachers of the seventeenth century ? 
i. H. A. 
Richard Haryson. — Information is desired re- 
specting the birth, parentage, education, marriage, 
or burial of Richard Haryson [spelt Hereson in 
Blomefield], the first Protestant Rector of Brade- 
stone, co. Norfolk, and who is supposed to have 
died prior to the year 1562. 
Axrex. Huen Fasroxr. 
Dunlof Park, 
Dreigh.— Can any of your correspondents 
give me any information respecting an Irish 
duke whose family name was Dreigh, and who 
was alive, I believe, in 1700? What was his 
title? Whether any of that family or name are 
stillin existence, and what may be their crest 
and arms ? KR. C. 
Oxford. 
Life of Sir William Romney. — Where can I 
find any account of the life of Sir Wm. Romney, 
who was formerly alderman of London, and sheriff 
there in 1603, and a great benefactor to the town 
of Tetbury ? Arrrep T. Lex. 
Tetbury, Gloucestershire. 
Archbishop Law, of Glasgow.—TI shall be glad 
to know any particulars respecting the descent of 
James Law, Archbishop of Glasgow from 1615 to 
1632, and, préviously to that, Bishop of Orkney. 
Before being raised to the Episcopate, he was for 
some time minister of Kirkliston, near Edinburgh. 
His grandson, James Law, of Brunton, in Fife, 
married Margaret, daughter of Sir John Preston, 
Bart., of Preston Hall, and his great-grandson, 
William Law, was married to Jean Campbell, 
descended from one of the branches of the House 
of Argyll; they were the parents of the cele- 
brated John Law, of Lauriston. -Can any of your 
correspondents give me any account respecting 
the ancestors of Archbishop Law, or from what 
particular branch of the House of Argyll Jean 
Campbell was descended ? Aurrep T. Lex. 
Tetbury, Gloucestershire. 
Altar Cloths.— With reference to a recent 
judgment in the Consistory Court of London, I 
should be glad to be furnished with any notices, 
hitherto unpublished or no, of altar vestments of 
different colours, procured and used in post Re- 
formation times. The use of a second for Lent, 
though pronounced by Dr. Lushington illegal, is 
of course the rule rather than the exception ; 
but any notices from churchwardens’ accounts of 
the purchase of such a cloth, and, if it exists, of 
any directions from archdeacons with reference to 
it, would be acceptable, W. Denton. 
Acoustics. —If J, from my room, converse 
through the unopened window with a man in the 
street, both equidistant from the glass, and speak- 
ing in the same tone, I shall hear much better 
than he. Why ? Parricivs. 
Painting on Copper, §c.— When was copper 
first used by artists for painting upon ? 
Did Albert Durer ever paint upon that metal ? 
Cnemicus. 
What were in reality the Beasts which Louis 
Vertomannus saw at Mecca ?—In a black-letter 
collection of Travels, “gathered in parte, and 
done into Englyshe by Richarde Eden; newly set 
in order, augmented and finished by Richarde 
Willes, imprinted at London by Richarde Jugge, 
1577,” there is what appears to be the copy of a 
publication thus entitled: 
* The Nauigation and Vyages of Lewes Vertomannus, 
Gentleman, of Rome, to the Regions of Arabia, Egypte, 
Persia, Syria, Ethiopia, and East India, both within and 
without the Ryeur of Ganges. &c. In the Yeere of our 
Lorde, 1508. Conteynyng many Notable and Straunge 
Thinges, both Hystoricall and Naturall.” 
From this I have made the following extract : 
“ On the vnicorns of the temple of Mecha, whiche are. 
not seene in any other place. On the other part of the 
temple are parkes and places inclosed, where are seene 
two vnicorns, named by the Greekes, Monocerote ; and 
are there shewed to the people for a myracle, and not 
without good reason, for the seldomnesse and strange 
nature. ‘The one of them, which is much hygher then 
the other, yet not mveche ynlike to a-colte of thyrtye 
monethes of age; in the forehead groweth only one horne, 
in maner ryght foorth, of the length of three cubites. 
‘The other is much younger, of the age of one yeere, and 
lyke a younge colte: the horne of this is of the length of 
foure handfuls. This beaste is of the coloure of a horse 
of weesell coloure, and hath the head lyke an hart, but 
no long necke, a thynne mane hangynge onlye on the 
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