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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'>'» S. VI. 136., Aug. 7. '58. 



Cunovs of Criticism, ami a Glossary, being a Stip- 

 plement to Mr. WarhurtorH s Edition of Shakspeare, 

 w.is published at London in 1750. Hurd's edition 

 of tlie Select Works of Cowley appeared in 1769 ; 

 and Mason's edition of Grays Poems and Letters, 

 icilh Memoirs of his Life and Writings, in 1775, 

 six years afterwards. Warburton died in 1779 : 

 so that these verses were probably written in the 

 interval between 1775 and 1779. L. 



St. Peters Net at Westminster. — There is a tra- 

 dition that, many years ago, a piece of net hung 

 in the cloisters of the Abbey, which was exhibited 

 as part of the genuine net of the apostle. Does 

 any neighbour remember any such thing ? and 

 can they throw any light upon the story ? A. A. 



Private Baptism. — Will any of your clerical 

 readers favour me with information on the follow- 

 ing subject : how far it is usual for the officiating 

 minister at a private baptism to destroy, after the 

 ceremony, the basin containing the water ? 



Clericus Rusticus. 



Portrait. — I have a portrait in oil, life size, of 

 an aged lady seated in an arm-chair, holding in 

 her right hand a full-blown rose ; the leaves drop- 

 ping on the arm, which rests on the arm of the 

 chair on the elbow ; showing the palm of the hand, 

 and the back of the rose. The left hand drops on 

 the other arm of the chair, the four fingers only 

 visible ; upon neither hand any ring. The dress, 

 black damask satin ; over her cap a sort of veil, 

 flowing at the back, of thick white material. On 

 the left, on a table, covered with crimson velvet, 

 is laid a gold watch, in a tortoiseshell case, with 

 blue ribbon attached, pointing to half-past twelve. 



Size of portrait, about 4 feet by 3 feet 9 inches. 

 If you can inform me the signification of what is 

 evidently symbolical in the picture, you will con- 

 fer a great favour on a Scbscribee. 



Pedigree of Cowley the Poet. — What is known 



of the pedigree of Cowley ? or can his descent be 

 traced from the Cowleys who were ancestors to 

 the Duke of Wellington ? James Graves. 



Kilkenny. 



Gilbert Wood. — Is there still a wood in Surrey 

 of the name of Gilbert Wood ? And why was it 

 so called ? G. H. H. 



Ancient Seal. — An old brass seal, found in a 

 newly ploughed field at Croughton, near Brackley, 

 bears the following inscription, in Gothic capitals, 

 round the edge between two dotted rings : — 

 « * lESVSELIOLISEGAIELEL ♦ C." 



Within the inner ring are two squares, having 

 double lines, crossed one under the other alter- 

 nately, and disposed so as to show eight corners, 

 lietween which are the following letters, similar to 

 t he foregoing, but smaller ; " lege tegb." 



Within the octagonal area is a profile head of a 

 man with long hair, looking to the right ; beneath 

 the head appears to be a bull-dog crouched up; 

 and underneath the dog, a branch with leaves, 

 springing up and spreading itself on each side of 

 the man's head. 



The seal is one inch in diameter, is deeply cut 

 in, and is well preserved. 



Can any of the readers of " N. & Q." explain 

 this seal ? H. T. W. 



Population of London. — What was the amount 

 of the population of London and Southwai-k at 

 the beginning of the seventeenth century ? 



J\.. JL. JU. 



Patrick Family. — Where is there to be seen a 

 pedigree, or any genealogical notes of the family 

 of Patrick, of which'Doctor Symon Patrick, Bishop 

 of Ely, was a member ? He is said to have been 

 born at Gainsborough, in the county of Lincoln. 



K. P. D. E. 



Kirkby, Stanley, Clarke, Martin. — What is 

 known of Mr. Kirkby and Mr. Stanley, Oxford 

 men in 1775, their B. A. degree coming shortly 

 afterwards ? The former was probably the son 

 of a wine-merchant in Nottingham, and it ap- 

 peared usual f<ft the latter to pass through that 

 town for the vacation. They are both frequently 

 mentioned as friends in the letters of a Christ 

 Church man of that period. 



Information is also requested about William 

 Clarke and Samuel Martin, Vicar and Curate 

 respectively of Bramcote, near Nottingham, at 

 about the same date. The latter is said to have 

 gone to sea as chaplain, in consequence of having 

 been jilted. S. F. C. 



Quotation. — Whence is the passage — 

 " Those golden tears which men call stars " 



taken ? It is quoted in the beginning of Longfel- 

 low's Hyperion. Mughrib. 



Death of Rev. 



Stephenson in his Pulpit . 



Monument. — Can any of your readers give me 

 information respecting the Rev. ■ ■ ■• Stephenson, 

 who expired in his pulpit some time previous to 

 1839 ? I believe there is a monument erected to 

 his memory in the church of the parish where he 

 was buried. Where is the church ? and who was 

 the sculptor of his monument ? Vetan Kbeged. 



Edward Wehbe. — In 1590 was published — 



" The rare and most wonderfvll Things which Edward 

 Webbe, an Englishman borne, hath seene and passed ia 

 his troublesome Travailes, in the Cities of Jerusalem, 

 Damasko, Bethlem, and Galely: and in the Lands of 

 Jewrie, Egypt, Grecia, Russia, and Prester John. London, 

 by A. I., for William Barley." 



A second edition was published the same year. 

 Could any of your readers give me any biogra- 



