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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. XL JUNE 26, im

NASEBY FIELD (10 S. xi. 344, 433). I exceedingly regret having inadvertently shorn Sir Clements R. Markham of his baronetcy in my reply by referring to him as Mr. Markham. This is an unpardon- able blunder, and one which I am particu- larly sorry for having perpetrated. One's pen has a habit of running riot at times, and this is the only possible excuse I can advance for misstating a fact of which I was at the time clearly cognizant.

JOHN T. PAGE.

SWEDISH PAINTERS IN ENGLAND (10 S. xi. 467). ' D.N.B.' xiii. 379, in addition to Dam's portrait of Charles XI. of Sweden at Windsor, the series of admirals at Hampton Court, and the portrait of Mackenzie in the Parliament House at Edinburgh, mentions an early portrait of himself, " a very good example of his style of work, in the collection of Mr. Tregellas of Morlah Lodge, Bromp- ton."

\ miniature by Christian Pvichter (1682 ?- 1732, 'D.N.B.,' xlviii. 260) of Viscountess Tyrconnel, painted in 1709, is at Wroxton Abbey.

For Elias Martin (1740 ?-1811) and his brother John Frederick Martin (1745-1808) see ' D.N.B.,' xxxvi. 274.

A. R. BAYI.EY.

I have a portrait of Sir John Dutton, 2nd Bt., of Sherborne, by Dahl, for which he paid 151. SHERBORNE.

Sherborne House, North leach.

"THE WOOSET" (10 S. xi. 27, 71, 395). H. P. L.'s reply has unintentionally given the meaning (which had hitherto baffled me) of the mysterious " whuz-bird," which I came across in a letter describing some ram- shackle cottages in a Somerset village sixty years ago " with their little ' whuz-birds ' swarming about." Let us trust that in these enlightened days they swarm less.

H.

HARBOURS (10 S. xi. 409, 452, 477). Con- sidering that the book inquired about was seen at Liverpool, I imagine that it was Urquhart's ' Dues and Charges on Shipping in Foreign Ports,' a thick volume which contains a brief account of the position, accommodation, pilotage, &c., of every port available to shipping in foreign ports all over the world. I should think that nearly very shipping office in Liverpool will have a copy. The publishers used to be, when I was in business, G. Philip & Son, 32, -Fleet Street, London, and the work was

then in its fifteenth edition. There is, or was, a similar book on the ports and har- bours of Great Britain, but I forget its title. RICHARD WELFORP.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

I believe the book wanted is one bearing the title ' Port Charges of the World.' This is a thick volume containing particulars of every harbour and its shipping dues and also, I think, sailing directions. I do not know the date or publisher, but I imagine it is in most large shipping offices. R. S. B.

' Ports and Docks,' by Douglas Owen, price 2.s. 6d., published by Messrs. Methuen in London, a business book, may perhaps be useful to MR. FERRY.

Messrs. James Cornish & Sons of Liverpool can supply lists of dock and harbour dues for all ports. THOS. WHITE.

Liverpool.

THE BANK-NOTE SANDWICH (10 S. xi. 447). It appears to be probable that Casanova's story about Kitty Fisher and the bank note was merely a new edition of the Fanny Murray story, or of a yet earlier one.

According to the Brussels edition of the ' Memoires de Jacques Casanova,' vi. 34, 35, Casanova met " la celebre actrice miss Fischer " " dans je ne sais quel endroit public." The master of the house told him that " miss " had eaten a 1001. bank note on a piece of bread-and-butter, and that on another occasion the Chevalier Stihens, brother-in-law of Mr. Pitt, had set fire to some punch for the same lady with a bank note of the same amount.

In the Paris edition of the ' Memoires,' vi. 525, Kitty Fisher (" Kety-Fisher ") is spoken of as " la celebre courtisane."

Earlier, on p. 513, she is spoken of as " 1'illustre Kety-Fisher qui commen9ait alors a passer de mode." Casanova meets with her " chez la proxenete Wals." According to this edition, the value of the note was a thousand guineas, and it had been given to her by the Chevalier Akins, brother of the beautiful Mrs. Pitt. The Paris edition omits the punch incident.

The two editions of the ' Memoires ' describe the same meeting with Kitty Fisher. The Chevalier Stihens (Akins in the Paris edition) is Sir Richard Atkins, whose sister Penelope married Geroge Pitt ; see MR. BLEACKLEY'S note at 10 S. viii. 444.

According to Horace Walpole, quoted by MR. BLEACKLEY in his query, it was Sir Richard Atkins who gave the note for 20/.