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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2>><i S. VI. 156., Dec. 25. '58, 



Sayes Court.' — "Where is the best description 

 (if any) of Sayes Court * to be found ? Is there 

 any engraving of the house as it stood in Evelyn's 

 days, or afterwards ? 



Jn Lysons's Environs of London, vol. iv. p. 362., 

 published in 1796, Sir F. Evelyn, Bart., is said to 

 be the present proprietor of the estate. Is it still 

 in the possession of the Evelyn family ? 'F. R. D. 



Tyndale : Wars of the Roses. — Information is 

 requested which may supply any detail of the pe- 

 culiar circumstances of the wars of the Roses 

 which induced the migration of the Tyndale family. 

 Thomas Tyndale of Kington St. Michael, near 

 Calne, writes f to a namesake and relative in 

 1663: — 



" The first of j'our family came out of the north in the 

 times of the wars between the houses of York and Lan- 

 caster, at what time many of good sort (their side going 

 down) did fly for refuge where they could find it." 



Also, Can any reason be either assigned or sug- 

 gested for his adoption of the name of Hutchins, 

 or Hytchins as some state ? S. M. S. 



Clergy called Bricklayers. — Can any of your 

 readers inform me of the origin of the word 

 " bricklayer " used for " clergyman " in the coun- 

 ties of Oxon and Berks ? Has it any connexion 

 with St. Paul's phrase, "a wise master-builder," 

 &c. ? E. Slatee Browne, 



Original of ike Order of the Garter. — It has 

 been recently stated by Dr. Doran that 



" When Richard Coeur de Lion was about setting out 

 for Acre, he instituted the Order of the Blue Thong, the 

 insignia of which was a blue band of leather, worn on the 

 left leg, and which appears to me to be the undouhted ori- 

 ginal of the Order of the Garter. There were twenty-four 

 "knights of the Order, with the King for Master, and the 

 •wearers pledged themselves to deserve increased honours 

 by scaling the walls of Acre in company." — Lives of the 

 Qtteens of England of the House of Hanover, 2nd edit. 

 1855, vol. i. p. 193. 



Is this statement based on real, or merely ro- 

 mantic, history ? Particularly as to there being 

 an " Order," limited to " twenty-four kniijhts," 

 and presided over by a " Master ? " Perhaps an- 

 other work of the same amusing writer, entitled 

 Knights and their Days, may contain fuller details 

 on the same subject; though I fear without stat- 

 ing the chapter and verse of authority, which is 

 what I should wish to see. H. 



Arch- Treasurer of Holy Roman Empire. — One 

 of the titles of the kings of the line of Hanov ir, I 

 find in one publication, is " Arch-Treasurer of the 



[* An engraving of Sayes Court as it was a quarter of 

 a century since, will be found in Dunkin's History of 

 Kent, also an account of its present condition; see pp. 34. 

 72— 101.— Ed.] 



t In a letter supplied by John Roberts, Esq., to the 

 Editor of the Parker Society edition of Tyndale's Works, 

 vol. i. p. xiii. 



Holy Roman Empire." I am anxious to know 

 when, and on what occasion, that title was given 

 or assumed. Will any of your readers kindly give 



me the information ? 

 Parkstone, Dorset. 



G. DE Chaville. 



Anecdote of the late Duke of Wellington. —The 

 following anecdote, if true, is interesting, and 

 thoroughly characteristic of the Iron Duke. I cut 

 it from a newspaper a short time since, and you 

 may think it worth preserving in your pages. Of 

 course I cannot answer for its authenticity. 



"The Duke of Wellington and the Palnter. — 

 The following amusing anecdote is now for the first time 

 recorded of the great 'F. M.' and our countryman Sir 

 Wm. Allan : — Sir Wm. Allan having finished ' The Battle 

 of Waterloo,' called for the money, per appointment, at 

 Apsley House. He was ushered into the study, where 

 the Duke proceeded at once to the business in hand, the 

 simple process of payment — a process, however, much 

 more compound than the painter had anticipated. Tak- 

 ing up a roll of notes, the Duke unrolled and began to 

 put them down in his deliberate and emphatic manner, 

 calling out the amount as he did so, ' one hundred pounds,' 

 ' two hundred pounds.' This was slow work ; and Allan 

 was overpowered with the idea that the mightiest man on 

 earth, whose minutes had outweighed cartloads of Koh-i- 

 noors in value, should be thus occupied. He blurted out, 

 in his Scotch confused manner, that he was really very 

 sorry his Grace should take all this trouble — a cheque 

 would do. The Duke went on, ' five hundred pounds,' ' six 

 hundred pounds.' Allan, thinking he hadn't been heard, 

 raised his voice louder and louder at each hundred, ex- 

 claiming a cheque would do, a cheque would do ; — ' Ele- 

 ven hundred pounds' — 'A cheque will do!' 'Twelve 

 hundred pounds' — 'A cheque, your Grace, really a 

 cheque will do!' Grace: 'No, a cheque won't do; do 

 you suppose I am going to let my bankers know I have 



been such a fool as to pay 1200/. for a picture ? Why, 



they'd think me mad — Sir William Allan, I wish you 

 good morning.' Exit Allan, unconscious whether it was 

 head or heels foremost, and conscious only that he had the 

 money." 



Who was this Sir William Allan ? There was a 

 Scotch portrait and historical painter named David 

 Allan, born in 1744, and died in 1796. He was 

 director of the Edinburgh Academy in 1780. His 

 most celebrated painting was "'The Corinthian 

 Maid drawing the Shadow of her Ijover." Was he 

 the father of Sir William ? Alfred T. Lee. 



[The painter above alluded to was the late Sir William 

 Allan, R.A., President of the Royal Scott^ish Academy, 

 (and successor to Sir David Wilkie in the office of Limner 

 to the Queen for Scotland,) who was born at Edinburgh in 

 the year 1782, and died in the same citj', 23 Feb. 1850, set. 

 68. " We know nothing of Sir William's parentage or 

 family; but, as his father was alive in 1814, when the 

 young artist returned to his native country, after wan- 

 dering ten years in Russia, Turkey, &c., that gentleman, 

 of course, could not have been identical with the histori- 

 cal painter, David Allan, who deceased in 1796. The 

 painting referred to in the above extract was publicly 

 exhibited in the rooms of the Royal Academy, Trafalgar 

 Square, London, in 1844, under the title of " Waterloo, 



