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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°a S. VI. 143., Skpt. 25. '58. 



tries are in Italian. At the end of the book is en- 

 tered what appears to be a draft of a letter dated 

 May 27, 1753, intended to be addressed to a gen- 

 tleman, in which, after describing the circumstan- 

 ces under which the writer procured the privilege 

 of making casts from moulds of " the finest sta- 

 tues in Rome both antient and modern," he 

 propounds a project for the foundation of " an 

 Academy of Design " in England, upon which 

 subject he writes at great length, and suggests a 

 provision for himself as keeper of the statues. 

 The name of the intended correspondent does not 

 appear, but he was doubtless a person of influence. 

 The intervening pages, which had been left be- 

 tween the end of the accounts and the draft-letter 

 now mentioned, are occupied by the draft of an- 

 other letter dated Jan. 10, 1755, addressed to 

 " Ralph Howard, Esq., in Dublin " [afterwards 

 created Baron Clonmel and ViscountWicklow],with 

 whom the writer appears to have been upon terms 

 of friendship, and in which he solicits his patron- 

 age for a set of casts from the antique. To this 

 is appended the writer's name, but is illegibly 

 written. It may, however, be read " M. Bretting- 

 ham." Now Matthew Brettingham, the father, 

 was the architect employed in the erection of the 

 palatial mansion at Holkham by Thomas Coke, 

 the first Earl of Leicester of that name, for the 

 galleries of which many of the pictures and sta- 

 tuary described in this book were purchased, and 

 in all probability by Matthew Brettingham, the 

 son, then a young man. Can this conjecture be 

 verified ? G. A. C. 



The Red Flag' the Signal of Invasion. — I am 

 old enough to remember the fears that were en- 

 tertained of Bonaparte's invading our island, 

 and I had in my possession, when curate of 

 Great Snoring, Norfolk, a large red flag which 

 was to be hoisted on the tower of the church im- 

 mediately on the report of his landing on that 

 part of the coast. The tower of the church was 

 both a land and a sea mark, and the flag was to be 

 the signal for the villagers and people to destroy 

 everything that the enemy might want for sup- 

 port. Can any of the reJiders of " N. & Q." say 

 whether any such flag has been preserved to this 

 day as a memento, and if so, where ? and whether 

 other counties, the churches of which served as 

 sea marks, were px'ovided with similar signals of 

 invasion ? R. R. F. 



The First Lady who vjore a Watch. — There is 

 in one of the Halls at Oxford a figure of a female, 

 who is stated to have been the first wearer of a 

 loatch. Can any of your readers inform me where 

 this figure is to be seen, the name of the illustri- 

 ous individual, the time when the custom of 

 ladies wearing watches commenced, and on wh.at 

 ground is the supposition based of this being the 

 first wearer of a w.atch? I. O. 



The Rev. Abel Evans, D.D. — This distinguished 

 offshoot from Merchant Taylors' School became 

 one of the greatest ornaments of St. John's Col- 

 lege, Oxford. He was generally styled " Dr. 

 Evans, the Epigrammatist," and was one of the 

 Oxford wits mentioned in the following distich: — 



" Alma novem genuit celebres Rhedycina poetas — 

 Bubb, Stubb, Cobb, Crabb, Trapp, Young, Carey, Tic- 

 kell, Evans." 



Can any of your Oxford friends help me to the 

 name of the author, and some particulars of the 

 crabbed celebrities it honours ? James Elmes, 



An ex-Mercat. Sciss. 



Michael Co^iuaiih of St. John's College, Cam- 

 bridge, B. A., 1579, is believed to have been a na- 

 tive of Cornwall. He was cousin to Richard 

 Carew of Anthony, and also to Henry Locke, or 

 to Mrs. Barbara Locke. He is author of certain 

 psalms in English metre, MS. Harl. 6906., referred 

 to in Brydges's Excerpta Tudoriana, i. 48-51. 

 Any fiirther information respecting him will be 

 acceptable to C. H. and Thompson Cooper. 



Mother of the late Czar : Princess Charlotte dc 

 Rohan: Madame Du Cayla. — 1. Who was the mo- 

 ther of the late Czar Nicholas, and what part did 

 she play in the history of her times ? 



2. What was the fate of the Princess Charlotte 

 de Rohan, the unhappy object of the Duke 

 d'Enghien's love ? 



3. What was the history of Madame du Cayla, 

 subsequent to the death of Louis XVIII. ? 



Henrietta L. 



Schools ■.with Chapels attached. — Bceoticus is I 

 exceedingly anxious to ascertain immediately, for ' 

 a business purpose, a list of those schools in Eng- 

 land to which chapels are attached, or are in con- 

 templation. His list, on which he begs corrections 

 (if requisite), at present stands as follows : — 



Addiscombe ? Bedford? Birmingham? Bury St. Ed- 

 mund's? Bradiield? Brighton. Bromsgrove? Chelten- 

 ham. Chichester. Claphani. Durham? Eton. Grinstead. 

 Harrow. Haileybury? Hurstpierpont? Ipswich. Kidder- 

 minster? King's College. Christ's Hospital? Merchant 

 Taylors ? Charterhouse. Leamington. Marlborough. 

 Repton. Rugby. Rossall. Radley. Shoreham. Sandhurst? 

 Shrewsbury. Uppingham. Winchester. Westminster? 

 Woolwich. 



The Fine Old Irish Gentleman. — Where can 

 I find the words of a song of this title, beginning 

 " I'll sing you a fine old Irish song, made by a fine 

 old Irish pate ? " M. 



Millhrook Church. — Having lately been on a 

 tour " pedestrian" in the Midland counties, I was 

 attracted by the beautiful position of Millhrook 

 church, the parish church of a most retired and 

 pretty village adjoining Ampthill. In it are 

 divers busts in marble put up to the memories of 

 Lord and Lady Holland, a young daughter of 



