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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. i. APEIL 16, 1004.

(under 'Full,' v.t), folare, to smooth, bleach. Again, there is about it a faint suggestion of the French foulard, another word of uncertain derivation. I have just found in Littre,

" Follette sorte de fichu a la mode vers

1722." ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES.

RALEGH PORTRAIT. Two portraits of Sir Walter Ralegh engraved by Simon Pass are included in the list of the latter's works in Walpole's 'Anecdotes of Painting,' &c. (1876), iii. 145-6. The first is thus described : " Sir Walter Raleigh in an oval, arms and devices. Sim. Pass sculps. Comp. Holland exc. Oval 4to," and is to be found in Ralegh's ' History of the World,' from the third (1617) edition to the tenth (1687). The second is simply noted as " another of Sir Walter Raleigh ";

have been unable to meet with an example of the latter, and should feel greatly obliged for any information where a copy of it could be seen. T. N. BRUSHFIELD, M.D.

Salterton, Devon.

JESSAMY BRIDE. Can any of your readers tell me what is the meaning of the above name, which was given by Goldsmith to Miss Mary Horneck ? F. E. S.

['The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy,' 3 vols., 1753, was written by Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Pepys talks of jessamy gloves, 15 Feb., 1668/9. See

'. r-r & P-/, 8 ,' h S< xL 148 > 213 '> and Austin Dobson's 'Life of Goldsmith,' pp. 154-5.]

JAMES BRINDLEY. Can any reader of 'N. & Q.' tell mo where James Brindley, the engineer, was born, when he died, and where he was buried ? Does any illustration of his birthplace exist? and, if so, where is it to be found 1 J. R. FINCH.

[Neither Smiles nor the ' D.N.B.' seems to supply the information you seek.]

MITCHEL & FINLAY, BANKERS. This firm is mentioned, in letters written early in the eighteenth century, as near the Post Office .London. I should be glad to know how long it existed and the name of the senior partner The junior was Robert Finlay, who married 29 July, 1707, at St. Audoen's, Dublin, Kathe rme, eldest daughter of Alderman Thos. Somerville, of Dublin (by Katherine King his wife), and had issue James, Katherine, &c. Robert Fmlay'e address in 1709 and subsequently appears to have been "Shel burne Lane, n r y Post Office, London."

CHARLES S. KING, Bt.

GOOD FRIDAY AND Low TiDEs.-At St. Mary's, Scilly, it is firmly believed that


 * he lowest tide of the year, as happened to

je the case this year, is invariably on Good Friday, at whatever date it may occur. Is there anything to justify this belief on astronomical ground ] and are like super- stitions known elsewhere ? H. 2.

EARLY MS. MENTION OF SHAKESPEARE. [n Malone's 'Inquiry,' 1796, p. 67, is the following foot-note :

' ' Venus and Adonis,' 16mo, 1596. This poem was entered on the Stationers' Books, by Richard Field, April 18, 1593 ; and I long since conjectured that it was printed in that year, though I bave never seen an earlier edition than that above quoted, which is in my possession. Since 1 published that

Eoem [in 17901 my conjecture has been confirmed, eyond a doubt ; the following entry having been found in an ancient MS. diary, which some time since was in the hands of an acquaintance of Mr. Steevens, by whom it was communicated to me : ' 12th of June, 1593. For the Survay of Fraunce, with the Venus and Athonay p r Shakspere, xiid.' "

Afterwards, as he states in a note to the second edition of his ' Shakespeare ' (vol. xx. p. 9), Malone acquired a copy of the 1593 edition, the existence of which he had con- jectured, but he now says nothing of the "ancient MS. diary." Under the circum- stances it was not necessary that he should ; it is, however, possible that he had come to have doubts of its existence. I have not been able to find any allusion to it by any subsequent writer, and it is absent from Ingleby's 'Centurie of Prayse' and from Furnivall's 'Fresh Allusions.' Is anything known of it ? H. A. EVANS.

Begbroke, Oxon.

H. LAWRANCE, FANMAKER, PALL MALL. The Duke and Duchess of Gordon had a box at the King's Theatre for the opera season 1787-8. The fan used by the duchess was made by the above fan maker. I shall be glad to learn whether the ancestors of this fanmaker were in any way connected with the Buchan district, Aberdeenshire, where the above way of spelling Lawrance was once extremely common. The first person I have come across in history to use it either as a Christian name or a surname was Law- rance Fraser, of Philorth, Fraserburgh, circa 1498. Please send answers relating to the above or any Lawrances connected with Aberdeenshire to

ROBERT MURDOCH LAWRANCE.

71, Bon-Accord Street, Aberdeen.

WHITE TURBARY. Could any of your readers give me the botanical name of white turbary ? A name for it in Lancashire is dewon. W. E. S.