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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"4 S. IX. ArRiL 28. '60. 



tion any other house in the neighbourhood of 

 London as having been the residence of Sir Wal- 

 ter Raleigh. See Lysons' Environs of London, 

 1st edition, vol. i. p. 354. ; vol. iv. p. 600. ; and 

 Supplement, p. 47. W. II. W. T. 



Buckinghamshire Gentry (2 n S. ix. 243.) — 

 The list of 1433, referred to by Lysons, is the list 

 printed by Fuller in his Worthies of England, 

 divided under each county as it occurs. He does 

 not state whence he derived this document; but 

 under his first county (Barkshire), it is headed 

 "The Names of the Gentry of this County, re- 

 turned by the Commissioners in the Twelfth Year 

 of King Henry the Sixth, 1433." It would cer- 

 tainly be desirable to ascertain upon what occasion 

 this catalogue of the gentry was taken, and wh'ere 

 the original is now preserved. In looking at the 

 calendar of Rymer, I do not at once detect any 

 record connected with it. J. G. N. 



Dr. Robert Clayton (2 td S. ix. 223.) — An 

 account of this prelate may be found in Thom- 

 son's Memoirs of the Court and Times of George 

 the Second. He was related to Mr. Clayton (after- 

 wards Lord Sundon), who held the post of De- 

 puty Auditor of the Exchequer in 1716. His 

 wife, Viscountess Sandon, was the intimate friend 

 and adviser of the Queen-Consort of George II. 

 Mr. Clayton was descended from the Claytons of 

 Fulwood in Lancashire. Dr. Clayton, Bishop of 

 Clogher, was a native of Ireland, his father being 

 Dean of Kildare. 



" In a laudable but vain attempt to recover the 

 ancient Hebrew character," he drew attention to 

 the Written Mountains, and Edward Wortley 

 Montague made a journey to the desert of Sinai, 

 but without success. Dr. Clayton held during 

 his lifetime the bishoprics of Killala, Cork, and 

 Clogher. He died 25th February, 1758. Some 

 interesting notices of Dr. Clayton's correspon- 

 dence with Lady Sundon may be read in the 

 above-named work. James Wm. Bryans. 



The Cognizance or the Drummonds (2 nd S. 

 ix. 263.) — In Haydn's Dictionary of Dates, 1860 

 edition, under the head of " Clanships," is a curi- 

 ous and rare list of all the known clans of Scot- 

 land, with the badge of distinction anciently worn 

 by each," and it is there stated that the badge of 

 the clan Drummond is the holly. G. W. N. 



M. Rai-er (2 nd S. ix. 281.)— Although I am 

 unable to give any certain information respecting 

 the M. Raper to whom N. B. refers, the following 

 extract from an authentic pedigree may be of 

 use to the inquirer* : — 



" Matthew Raper of Wendover-Dean, co. Bucks, and of 

 Xhoriey Hall, co. Herts, died in 1748, leaving issue by 

 Elizabeth his wife (sister and heir of Sir William Billcrs, 



[* See Nichols's Lit. Anec. iii. 135., for particulars of 

 Mathew Raper, father and son — Ed. "N. & Q."] 



Lord Mayor of London in 1734), who died in 1760, aged 

 77, six sons and one daughter, 1. Matthew, who died in 

 1778; 2. William; 3. Charles; 4. John,, who married 

 Elizabeth, second daughter of William Hale, M.D., of 

 Twyford House, co. Herts, and died in 1783 ; 5. Henry ; 

 6. Moses; 7. Elizabeth." 



The father of Matthew Raper first-mentioned 

 lived in Yorkshire. H. F. 



Porson (2 nd S. ix. 101.) — Will the communi- 

 cator of the anecdote about Porson and the can- 

 dles be good enough to say whether he knows of 

 any trustworthy authority for it? Porson was 

 often eccentric and often morose, but this was so 

 very unfeeling conduct towards those from whom 

 he had received substantial kindness, that it can 

 hardly be credited without strong testimony. 



Does any reader of " N. & Q." know who was 

 the author of A Vindication of the Literary Cha- 

 racter of the late Pi'ofessor Porson from the Ani- 

 madoei'sions of Dr. Burgess, Bp. of Salisbury, 8vo. 

 Cambridge, 1827 ? The writer's nom de plume 

 is Crito Cautabrigiensis, and the work relates to 

 the controversy respecting 1 John v. 7. Lesuy. 



[By Dr. Turton, now Bishop of Ely. — Ed.] 



Portrait of John Bunyan (2 nd S. ix. 245.) 

 — The portrait after which R. W. inquires is now 

 in the possession of Mrs. Sanigear's executor, Mr. 

 Wilkinson, Clinton Street, Nottingham (2" d S. i. 

 81. and ix. 69.) ; he, I am sure, would feel plea- 

 sure in allowing anyone to see it. 



S. F. Creswell. 



Radford, Nottinghamshire. 



Witty Classical Quotations (2 nd S. ix. 116. 

 246.) — 



"Lord Palmerston, undisturbed by qualms of con- 

 science, surve} T 8 with satisfaction the incidents of his 

 Peloponnesian war. England may be disgraced and Eu- 

 rope exasperated — what matters it if the whim of the 

 Foreign Secretary be gratified, and if his Lordship's 

 sovereign commands are obeyed? Horace has described 

 to the letter this extraordinary position, and in his words 

 we conclude — 



' Scdilibusque magnus in primis cques, 



Othone contempto, sedet. 

 Quid attinet tot ora navium gravi 



Rostrata duci pondere 

 Contra latrones alque servilem manum, 

 Hoc, hoc, Tribuno milituui.' " 



The Times, 1850. 



E. H. A. 



Lady Arabella Denny (2 nd S. i. 190.; viii. 

 88.) — In the Rev. John Wesley's Journal (May, 

 1783), mention is made of Lady Arabella Denny's 

 residence at Blaekrock, in the county of Dublin, 

 in the following terms : — 



"Monday, 5th. We prepared for going on board the 

 packet; but as it delayed sailing, on Tuesday 6th, I 

 waited on Lady Arabella Denny [second daughter of 

 Thomas Fit'zmaurice, Earl of Kerry] at the Blaekrock, 

 four miles from Dublin. It [now known as Lisaniskea, 

 the residence of Frederic Willis, Esq.] is one of the plea- 

 santest spots 1 ever saw. The garden is everything in 



