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only record he ever met with of Denham, during 
a long residence at Upminster, was a brick, with 
W. D. (Derham’s initials) impressed thereon, 
which the rector (Mr. Holden) possessed ; which 
was found in sinking a well in his, the rector’s, 
garden. 
Dr. Derham was a Canon of Windsor, and it is 
possible there may be some record of him there ; 
although the pleasing memoir of him, prefixed to 
the edition of his Physico- Theology, published in 
1798, by Strachan (Cadell & Davies), distinctly 
states that he died at Upminster, April 5, 1735, in 
his seventy-eighth year. 
It may not be amiss to remind the inhabitants 
of Upininster, that it is not too late to repair the 
negligence of former parishioners by at once erect- 
ing some memorial to so worthy and amiable a 
man as their former rector. 
Sussex Place, Regent's Park. 
P.S. Your correspondent, Upminster, has, I 
conclude, consulted Morant’s Essex for answers 
to his heraldic Queries. 
Rochefoucault's Maxim (2" §S., i. 53.) — I know 
nothing of M. Aimé-Martin’s edition ; but I have 
found the celebrated ‘‘ Maxime” in all the edi- 
tions that I have seen, and especially in that by 
Didot, 1815, where it stands No, 241. \On 
Andrea Ferrara (2™ S. i. 73.) — Crertcvs is 
informed that the value of an Andrea Ferrata 
blade is quite nominal; many hilts of Highland 
claymores are beautifully worked, and they fetch 
a good price generally. The temper of these 
blades is much overstated. I should be very 
sorry to place two specimens I have under such 
treatment as Wilkinson, of Pall Mall, submits his 
sword-blades every Wednesday: the proof is well 
worth seeing, and any one, I believe, can witness 
it by asking. As far as I recollect, I gave for my 
best claymore (the make of Andrea Ferrara) 
31. 10s.; but in this specimen the hilt is not in- 
laid with silver, as is the case with many of them. 
I cannot give him the name of any work in which 
he will find information upon the subject. 
CENTURION. 
Atheneum Club. . 
Planché, in lis History of British Costume, 
p. 448., engraves one of these sword-blades from 
the Meyrick Collection, and says that they were 
highly prized in Scotland about 1574. Their 
value has risen since the Highland gatherings 
annually at Braemar, &¢., as a genuine Andrea 
Ferrara to wear on that occasion is considered 
“the thing.” Of the maker I believe nothing 
satisfactory is known. The name is variously en- 
graved on*them, ANDRIA, ANDREA, FERRARA, and 
FERARA, and some are said to be spurious. I 
subjoin a description of one I purchased in Glen- 
finlas, and which I have every reason to believe 
R. W. 
was “out” in the “ Forty-five” with its owner, 
Macgregor. Length 34 inches, exclusive of the 
basket-hilt; breadth 14 inches, tapering to a 
rounded point. The blade is three-grooved, and 
bears the inscription and marks : 
RK RR Rae 
x X ANDREA xxx 
x xxx ie Ned 
Will any owner of another specimen enable me to 
compare inscriptions ? After all, the best test of 
genuineness is the quality; mine is incomparable 
for elasticity and flexibility. Bi. 8. Tarror. 
Lord of Vrijhouven (1* 8. x. 307. 394.) —The 
Lord of Vry¥houven, Pieter Huguetan, left by his 
will, dated Sept. 10, 1780, among other legacies, 
100/. to each of the city schools of the reformed 
Protestant religion in Leyden; the testator re- 
quiring and ordaining that no part of the lecacy 
should ever be employed for building, repairing, 
or adorning; but that the whole should be de- 
voted to the profit and immediate use of the chil- 
dren of the above-named schools. This legacy 
was paid through Messrs. Kops & Kotisemaker, 
London, in Jannary, 1793. We learn from the 
will, that Mr. Huguetan, lord of the manor of 
Vryhboeven, in South Holland, resided in King 
Street, Covent Garden. He died in London, 
June 10,1791. His will is in the care of John 
Schabrarge, notary, in London. From The Na- 
vorscher. J. Scorr. 
xi ak 
FERARA X X 
KK We x 
Norwich. 
Epigram in a Bible (1* 8. xi. 27. 73.) —The 
author of this epigram was the learned theologian 
S. Wehrenfels ; -who, in the early part of the last 
century, was professor of divinity at Basil. It has 
for title, S. Scripture abusus, and is the forty- 
ninth in his collection of epigrams. See his 
Opuscula, published in two volumes 4to. (Leyden 
and Leeuwaarden, 1772). As a warning against 
bibliolatry, it stands in its true place at the be- 
ginning of the Bible. From The Navorscher. 
J. 58. 
De La Fond (1* 5. ix. 272.) —Concerning the 
person represented by this portrait, I have as yet 
found no very decided information. That he was 
the newspaper-writer, may be safely inferred, 
from the sheet of paper in his left hand, and the 
pen in his right. On this paper, between the an- 
cient and the present arms of Amsterdam, are the 
words: “ La gazette ordinaire d’Amsterdam. Du 
Lundi, 5 Decembre, 1667; De Madrid, 10 Nov.” 
In the Bibliothéque de la France, by Le Long 
(vol. iv. p. 186.), this portrait is mentioned as that 
of “ N. de la Fond, fameux gazetier de la Hol- 
lande, Frangois H. Gascar, pinx., Lombart, sc., 
1680, avec un distique de Santeuil.” In the 
Catalogue of Van Tulthem, 1846 (p. 727., No. 
