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NOTES AND QUEEIES. [io< s. i. MAY 7, 190*.

and dramatist (born 1692, died 1750), son o Col. Thomas Mottley, killed at the battl< of Turin in 1706, while in the service o Louis XIV. John Mottley was educated a Archbishop Tenison's Grammar School, St Martin's-in-the-Fields. Was he married ? hac he children or brothers ? Any information regarding him beyond that given in the ' Dictionary of National Biography ' will be most acceptable. WALTER HOWARD, Col. Ellerslie, Waterden Road, Guildford.

DRYDEN PORTRAITS. I should be glad to know particulars of any original portraits oi the poet ; also the present whereabouts oi the following pictures mentioned by a bio- grapher under date 1800 :

Portrait by Kiley in the possession ol William Davenport Bromley, of Baginton Hall.

Portrait, formerly belonging to Addison, the property of the Hon. John Simpson, second son of Lord Bradford, in 1797.

Portrait by Maubert, owned by Horace, Earl of Orford, or duplicate owned by C. Bedford, of Brixton Causeway.

Portrait (head), formerly in possession of Rev. - Bilston, chaplain of All Souls' College, Oxon.

Portrait in pencil in the possession of the Rev. John Dry den Piggot, of Edgmond, near Shrewsbury. P. C. D. M.

LORD GOWRAN, VIVENS 1720. Who was this nobleman ? I shall be glad to have his names and those of his wife, if married, and dates of their death, and when the peerage became extinct. There was an earldom of Gowran, created, 1676, in favour of John Butler, fourth son of the first Duke of Ormonde, but it became extinct the year af er. CHARLES S. KING, Bt.

ot. Leonards-on-Sea.

[Richard Fitzpatrick was created Baron Gowran, of Gowran cp. Kilkenny, in the peerage of Ireland, of SfrJZrk ? mar " e d Anne, younger daughter or bir John Robinson, Bt., of Farming Woods, co. Northampton The title became extinct in 1818

ee Jurkes 'Extinct Peerages,' s.v. Fitz- Patrick.]

_MIRFIELD BOOK SOCIETY. Can any one give me information concerning the above society, which was in existence about 1830 or a reference thereto in any Yorkshire book ?

A. H. ARKLE.

- OF. THE SEA.-ID the Times of March it is stated, "Endeavours were made yesterday to lift the sunken submarine enof Wlre haw sers, but owing to the

he S6 u - in, fc - he exposed P tion ** wreck is lying, the haws ers parted."

Is send in the sense of current a usual ex- pression among seamen 1 E. S. DODGSON.

[Used by Longfellow in 'Miles Standish.' See ' Encyclopaedic Diet.' and Annandale's ' Imperial.']

EPITAPH ON LIEUTENANT OF MARINES. Where can the following epitaph be seen I Here lies retired from busy scenes A first lieutenant of Marines, Who lately lived in gay content On board the brave ship Diligent : Now stripp'd of all his warlike show, And laid in box of elm below, Confined in earth in narrow borders, He rises not till further orders.

A. E. C.

LADY CHANTREY. Can any reader inform me where the widow of the famous sculptor Sir Francis Chantrey is buried ? She died 3 January, 1875. W. P. GOLDEN.

Renishaw, Chesterfield.

BROME OP BISHOP'S STORTFORD. Who are the present representatives of the above family ? They seem to have possessed valuable MSS., &c., relating to their ancestors the Dennys. (Rev.) H. L. L. DENNY.

Londonderry.

EDWARD WILLIAMS, DROWNED 1821. Was he a descendant of Morgan Williams, Oliver Cromwell's ancestor 1 What General Baird was related to him ? A. C. H.

"SAL ET SALIVA." Nearly all the guide- books state that these words form the in- scription on the fine early Perpendicular font in St. Margaret's Church at Ipswich. Can any explanation be given of this curious ollocation? JAMES HOOPER.

ST. BEES' HEAD, CUMBERLAND. There is a

part of this headland known locally (and

believe marked in modern maps) as

Tomline." I remember being told some ive-and- thirty years ago, by a friend (long since dead) who had been a student at the Allege, that this name arose out of a joke. Dne of the books then used in the College was Bishop Tomline's 'Elements of Christian Theology,' and some witty student pro- pounded the question, " Why was this place ike Tomline? " the answer being " Because it s hard to get up."

Some years ago, when a student was mfortunately killed in climbing this place,

noticed that the witnesses at the inquest ailed it "Tomline," and I have several times asked persons living in the neighbourhood if hey knew the origin of the name; but the tory told me does not seem to be now known here. I shall be glad if any " Hivite " now iving can confirm it, as, if true, it is a curious