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lessly the Saxon clergy had been harried by the 
Danes, surely there is reason as well as evidence 
for their fallen condition. E. L. 
“ Solamen miseris,” §c. (24 S. i. 57.) — Malone 
made B.'s Query sixty years ago, both in his 
Shakspeare and his edition of Boswell's Johnson, 
but it seems not to have yet been answered. Mr. 
Croker had not found it. Croker’s Boswell, sub. 
March, 1783. ‘ 
Albert Durer’s Picture of “‘ Melancholy” (2"° S. 
i. 12.) — This engraving is partially explained in 
The Works of Eminent Masters (published by 
Cassell), p. 38. : 
“Her folded wings, emblematic of that impotent as- 
piration, which directs her gaze towards heaven, whilst a 
book, closed and useless as her wings, rests upon her 
knee. . Near her is a symbolical sun-dial, with 
the bell which marks the hours as they glide away. The 
sun is sinking into the ocean, and darkness will soon en- 
velope the earth. Melancholy holds in her right 
hand a pair of compasses and a circle, the emblem of that 
eternity in which her thoughts are lost. Various instru- 
ments appertaining to the arts and sciences lie scattered 
around her; after having made use of them she has laid 
them aside, and has fallen into a profound reverie. As a 
type of the mistrust which has crept into her heart, with 
avarice and doubt, a bunch of keys is suspended at her 
girdle; above her is an hour-glass, the acknowledged 
emblem of her transitory existence. But nothing is more 
admirable than the face of Melancholy, both in the severe 
beauty of her features and the depth of her gaze, in which 
may be recognised a likeness to Agnes —a remarkable 
fact, which I do not think has before been noticed. 
Neither the sentiment of ‘melancholy, or the word which 
oo it, had appeared in art before the time of Albert 
urer.’ 
The foregoing is, I believe, translated from the 
French of M. Charles Blanc, in the Histoire des 
Peintres. 
The Art Journal for 1851, p. 143., has the fol- 
lowing observations on this engraving : 
“Tt is quite impossible to analyse it with any certainty 
of arriving at the truth of its meaning; critics haye been 
greatly puzzled to give it anything like a reasonable 
translation. That which seems the most appropriate 
version of the story is to suppose it indicative of the ten- 
dency of abstruse sciences, when too closely followed up, 
to induce fits of melancholy; or, as Solomon says, ‘ Too 
much study is a weariness of the flesh.” The figure is 
that of a female wearing a chaplet of leaves, and having 
wings; the latter may be typical of the rapidity of 
Shanght - a dog rests at her feet, probably to 
signify vigilance. The time is night, indicated 
by the bat, which refers to the hours the studious man 
devotes to his labours when others are asleep.” 
The writer does not attempt to explain more 
than this, but adds : 
“Some writers upon Durer’s works have supposed this 
print to be a satire on his ill-tempered wife, whose irri- 
tating conduct was a source of constant annoyance and 
vexation to him, and at length, as it has been affirmed, 
brought him to an untimely end.” 
Curusert Brepr. 
Edward Chamberlaine (1* S. xi. 217.) — “‘ Mais- 
ter Edward Chamberlaine, of Barnham Broome,” 
to whom epig. xx. of Peacham’s Emblems was 
addressed, was the son of Edward Chamberlaine 
of the same place, and of Bixton in the same 
county, who was the grandson of Sir Edward 
Chamberlaine of Little Ellingham, Norfolk. He 
married Anne, daughter of Henry Lambe, Esq., 
of Tostock, co. Suffolk, by whom he had issue. 
G. Sremmman STEINMAN. 
Sir Gilbert Pickering (1* S. xii. 471.) —R. R. 
is right. Sir Gilbert, who succeeded Sir Edward 
as fifth baronet in 1749, was grandson of Gilbert, 
second son of the first baronet. He married Ann, 
daughter of Frank Bernard of Castle Town, 
King’s County, by whom he had two sons and 
seven daughters. Sir Edward, the eldest, suc- 
ceeded as sixth baronet; he married, but died 
without male issue. Townsend Edward, the 
second son, went to America, but whether he 
married or not is unknown. 
Sir Gilbert, the first baronet, had seven sons, 
three of whom had issue, but the male line failed 
many years ago. 
The pedigree in Burke’s first edition was in 
many respects erroneous, and was in consequence 
withdrawn in the subsequent editions; at least 
such is my conjecture. ANoN. 
Cromwell's Illegitimate Daughter, Mrs. Hartop 
(1* S. xii. 205. 353.) I have to apologise to 
Mr. Wits for not having sooner answered his 
inquiry respecting my authority for stating that 
Mr. Jonathan Hartop’s third wife was an dlegiti- 
mate daughter of the Protector, Oliver Cromwell, 
and I now beg to do so, by supplying the extract 
below, from the first edition of Easton’s work on 
Health and Longevity, published more than half a 
century ago (1799), relating to the above-named 
patriarch, which may probably interest some of 
your numerous readers who have not had an op- 
portunity of perusing Mr. Easton’s book : 
“ JoNATHAN Harrop, 
Of the village of Aldborough, near Boroughbridge, 
Yorkshire. His father and mother died of the plague in 
their house in the Minories, in 1666, and he well remem- 
bered the great fire of London the same year; was short 
in stature, had been married five times, and left seven 
children, twenty-six grandchildren, seventy-four great 
grandchildren, and one hundred and forty great great 
grandchildren. He could read to the last without spec- 
tacles, and play at cribbage with the most perfect recol- 
lection. On Christmas Day, 1789, he walked nine miles 
to dine with one of his great grandchildren. He remem- 
bered King Charles II., and once travelled from London 
to York with the facetious Killegrew. He eat but little, 
his only beverage was milk, and he enjoyed an uninter- 
rupted flow of spirits. ‘The third wife of this very extra- 
ordinary old man was an illegitimate daughter of Oliver 
Cromwell, who gave with her a portion amounting to 
about five hundred pounds. He possessed a fine portrait 
of the usurper by Cooper, for which a Mr. Hollis offered 
him three hundred pounds, but was refused. Mr. Hartop 
