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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'«i S. VI. 148., Oct. 30. '68. 



it is) is inscribed " Eoljertus Langton, doctor, 

 etc." The painting is on canv.as. It is said to 

 Lave come from Anncsley Hall, Nottinghamshire, 

 the residence of the Chaworths. 



If any of your correspondents, acquainted with 

 Annesley Hall and its pictures within the last 

 forty or fifty years, could inform me whether the 

 portrait is remembered to have been seen there, 

 and furnish any farther particulars, I should feel 

 much obliged. James Thompson. 



Leicester. 



Quotation Wanted. — Who says, of whom — 

 " The solitary monk -who shook the world." ? 



A. E. H. H. 



Medalet of Spence. — I have lately been shown 

 a small copper coin of three quarters of an inch in 

 diameter, of which I should like to know the 

 history. One side is the impression of the head 

 and bust of a man surrounded with the following 

 words: " T. Spence, a State Prisoner in 1794." 

 And on the obverse, under the words " Am I not 

 thine ass," is the figure of a man with a crown on 

 his head ; a sceptre in his uplifted right hand, the 

 reins in his left ; a pigtail hanging down over his 

 tailcoat ; a " fair round belly," casting its shadow 

 before ; his legs encased in breeches and Hessians 

 (the latter armed with long spurs) ; seated on a 

 bare-backed animal that, but for the hint con- 

 veyed in the label, and the even superasinine length 

 of ears with which it is adorned, a naturalist would 

 feel more inclined to pronounce a bull than a 

 donkey. It is not diflScult to guess that the rider 

 of this hybrid beast is meant to represent his 

 Majesty George III. of blessed memory; but who 

 was T. Spence ? and for what ofience was he in 

 limbo ? Wherein lies the point of the label, "Am 

 I not thine ass ?" These are I hope, Sir, not ille- 

 gitimate queries to you and your legion. Rustic. 



Mooltan, Punjab, 25 Aug. 1858. 



[This is one of the many medalets or tokens issued by 

 the radical fellow T. Spence, who was imprisoned for 

 sedition. See The Case of Thomas Spence, bookseller, the 

 corner of Chancery-lane, who was committed to Clerkeniuell 

 Prison, J)ec. 10, 1792, for selling Paine's Rights of Mail. 

 8vo., 1792. The reverse represents George III. rir.ing 

 upon John Bull, having an ass's head, and exclaiming 

 submissively: "Am I not thine ass?" (See Balaam.) 

 Spence struck several medalets or tokens, all politically 

 satirical. Mrs. Banks entered them all in her Catalogue 

 .as "seditious tokens." See .also The Coin- Collector's Com- 

 panion, published by T. Spence, 24mo., 1795.] 



Michael Drayton. — Some time ago it was an- 

 nounced in " N. & Q." (P' S. xii. 395.) that Mr. 

 Collier was engaged in editing Drayton's Works. 

 Was this expressed intention ever carried into 

 effect ? W. C. 



[One volume 4to. of Drayton's Works has been printed 



for the Roxburghe Club, under the editorship of Mr. Col- 

 lier. It occupies nearly 500 pages, and contains all the 

 poet's earliest and rarest productions. Of tlie seven 

 poems contained in it, two are from unique originals, one 

 from copies which exist only at Oxford and in the 

 British Museum, and another from a book formerly the 

 property of the unfortunate Earl of Essex, with his cor- 

 rection?. We trust that the work will be continued by 

 the Roxburghe Club.] 



Beukelzoon. — In an account of the state of the 

 Netherlands at the time of the accession of Philip 

 the Good, Mr. Motley says, in his Rise of the 

 Dutch Hepublic, i. 39,, — 



"The material prosperity of the countrj' had, however, 

 vastly increased. The fisheries of Holhand had become 

 of enormous importance. The invention of the humble 

 Beukelzoon of Biervliet had expanded into a mine of 

 wealth." 



Can any of your readers tell mc who Beukel- 

 zoon was, and in what his invention consisted ? 



Vespertilio. 



[In 1414, Jacob Beukelzoon of Biervliet discovered the 

 new and excellent method still in use, of drying and bar- 

 relling herrings, and two years after the first large her- 

 ring sein was manufactured at Hoorn. — Velius, Chronyck 

 van Hoorn, boek i. p. 17.] 



Seal found at Old Ford. — I enclose an impres- 

 sion from a copper seal found at Old Ford, near 

 Bow, during the excavation for the North London 

 Line. I am not learned in archaeology, and there- 

 fore I must leave the Editor of " N. & Q." to 

 read the legend ; but I should feel obliged for 

 any information on the point. At the back of 

 the seal is a copper loop, which affords a handle 

 or means of suspending it. W. L. B. 



[The inscription is, " s p.tstri tederi decanoric' 

 CRETENSIS." Sigillum Petri Teder, such is the interpre- 

 tation of the commencement ; but how to proceed we 

 know not at present, for the seal is foreign, and the names 

 and titles are to us unknown. Mr. Teder, or Tederus, 

 was probably a dean or a canon.] 



Norfolk and Suffolk MSS.— In the History of 

 the College of Arms, by the Eev. Mark Noble, 

 A. D. 1805, is the following : — 



" The Rev<i. Joseph Bokenham, Rector of Stoke Ash in 

 Suffolk, made an alphabetical list of Arms and Monu- 

 ments of this County (Norfolk), containing 1228 coats of 

 Anns. The late Sir John Fenn purchased it out of Le 

 Neve Norroy's collection." 



Also : — 



" The Revd. J. Bokenham made a collection of 730 

 coats of Arms of families of Suffolk, to which Sir John 

 Fenn made additions." 



Can any of your readers give me any informa- 

 tion of the whereabouts of either or both of these 

 MSS. ? and whether I can obtain an inspection of 

 their contents ? Three Mullets. 



[In the Index to the Additional MSS. in the British 

 Museum, under Norfolk, we find " Notes of Norfolk 

 families. Alphabet of Arms, etc., collected by Mr. Borrett 

 and Rev. J. Bokenham." MS. 6522.] 



