.'"•i S. VI. 155., Dec. 18. '58.] 



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ants and visitors of Bath some twenty or thirty 

 years ago. Judginpr from this portrait, Newton 

 must have been about seven-and-twenty years of 

 age when it was painted. The face is somewhat 

 pale, with a mild intelligent expression ; the hair, 

 of a rich brown, falls in natural curls over the 

 shoulders. The coat is of a dark colour, buttoned 

 up the whole front, sitting closely to the figure, 

 with pockets low down in the skirt ; the arms of 

 the coat are large and full, the cuffs turned up 

 and embroidered ; the laced ends of the neck- 

 cloth fall in full folds upon the chest. The left 

 hand rests upon a celestial globe standing upon 

 an hexagonal table ; the right hand holds a pair 

 of compasses partially extended. The back- 

 ground of the figure consists of drapery ; the re- 

 maining space is occupied with what appears to 

 be a view of the distant ocean. The size of the 

 picture, as I judge, is about 2i feet high by 18 

 or 20 inches wide. Ou a paper pasted on the 

 back is written a version of the often-related tale 

 of Newton's having attempted to use a lady's 

 finger for a tobacco-stopper, and under this the 

 following, the whole in the handwriting of the 

 Key. J. Bowen : — 



" I was applied to in The year 1807 b)' a Gentleniau 

 for This Portrait to Shew to one of the Colleges in Cam- 

 bridge where S"^ Isaac was educated. But I did not choose 

 to part with it. It is the only Portrait in England of 

 Him when a young Man. The picture was traced to my 

 possession by the Gentlemen of the College. They sent 

 in that sort of Manner which I disapproved of, and indeed 

 such a Valuable Relic should not be parted with for A 

 Trifling Consideration. The painting is by an Unknown 

 Hand. But it is an Undoubted Original. 



" J. BowEN." 



Is this picture known to any of your corre- 

 spondents who are acquainted with the portraits 

 of Newton ? II. W. F. 



WILLIAM 8ACHEVEKELL. 



Can any of your numerous antiquarian readers 

 enable me to identify the William Sacheverell, 

 Governor of the Isle of Man from 1692 to 1694, 

 and author of An Account of the Isle of Man, 

 1702 ? 



I believe him to have been half-brother to 

 Robert Sacheverell, of Barton in Nottingham- 

 shire, who died in 1714, leaving an only daughter 

 Elizabeth, married to Edward Pole, Esq. 



He (William Sacheverell) dedicates his book 

 to this Robert Sacheverell, whom he names the 

 head of his family, signing himself also his humble 

 servant and kinsman. 



Robert Sacheverell had a half-brother William, 

 who married Alicia Sitwell, by whom he had two 

 sons AVilliam and Henry, both of whom died 

 without issue. 



In the Norris Papers published by the Chetham 

 Society, Manchester, are two letters from William 



Sacheverell, Governor of the Isle of Man, to his 

 friend Richard Norris of Speeke near Liver[)Ool, 

 touching on Isle of Man affairs and bis dismissal 

 in 1694 from the Gpvernorship. The Editor 

 mentions that there are other letters, but not of 

 any public interest. It may be, however, that 

 those other letters contain some allusions, as the 

 name of his wife " Alicia," or of his sons AVilliam 

 and Henry, which may assist in the identification 

 of the Governor of the Isle of Man with the half- 

 brother of Robert Sacheverell. I should be 

 happy to be put in communication with the 

 Editor of the No7-j-is Papers. In a P. S. to the 

 first of the two published letters mention is made 

 of " Billy," whom I suspect to be the son of the 

 Governor of Man. J. G. Gumming. 



Transcript of Matthew Paris used by Archbishop 

 Parker. — In the Adversaria or Variantes Lec- 

 tiones in AVats's edition of Matthew Paris, in 1640, 

 he speaks of the copy or transcript made use of at 

 the press for Archbishop Parker's edition of the 

 same work in 1571, as then existing in Selden's 

 possession, who had purchased it accidentally some 

 twenty years previous. I find, on inquiry, that 

 this transcript is not now among Selden's MSS. in 

 the Bodleian Library, or in Lincoln's Inn Library, 

 and I am anxious to learn if anything is known of 

 it elsewhere. There is a report that some of Sel- 

 den's MSS. found their way to Gloucester. Is 

 such the fact ? and, if so, what are they ? 



r. Madden. 



Anonymous Works. — Who are the authors of — 



" An Account of the Earl of Galway's Conduct in Spain 

 and Portugal. London : J. Baker, at the Blackboy in 

 Pater-noster-Eow. 1711. 2nd Edit." 



" An Essay on the diflferent Stiles in Poetry. London : 

 printed for Benj. Tooke, at the Middle Temple Gate, Fleet 

 Street. 1713." 



P. H. F. 



Quotations Wanted. — 



" For learned nonsense has a deeper sound 

 Than simple sense, and goes for more profound." 



Vespertilio. 



" 1 ask not sympathy. 1 have no need. 

 The thorns I feel are of the tree I planted. 

 They tear me, and I bleed. 

 I might have known what fruit would 

 Come from such a seed." 



C. L. M. R. 



Cannons and the Lake Family. — Where is it 

 likely that a view of Cannons, the seat of the Lake 

 family, and afterwards of the Duke of Chandos, 

 could be found ? Also, where can portraits of 

 that family (Lake) be looked for, with a chance 

 of meeting them ? Constant Reader. 



