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NOTES AND QUERIES. [10 th s. 11. NOV. 26, im.

" To Church againe, and after supper to the Spaniards discipline and to bedd."

"Morrison putt upon me a new suit of parra- gen."

" Measured the pale."

"Capt. Marcie to me, and was despatched by the defaulte of his compliment."

"To Putleigh I rode, and remained there all the -day to putt for the poore children."

" Danceiny the ropes"

"Sir Will Wctler the Conqueror to London," July, 1643. Who was he?

"To my Camell, where I beat sticlce and came home."

H. A. ST. J. M.

GALILEO PORTRAIT. What portraits of Galileo are there to be seen in English or foreign galleries or in private collections? I have recently seen at a friend's house a painting in oil colour of Galileo. I should like to know whether it is a copy or an original. It appears to be of considerable age. In the left-hand top corner of the painting there is the following inscription :

GALILEVS

GALILEVS

MATH'VS

representing, I think, " Galileus, Galileus, Mathematicus." In Beeton's ' Dictionary of Universal Information ' there is an engraving of Galileo which resembles this picture, except that it bears no inscription. The head is turned to the left in both portraits.

CHR. WATSON. 264, Worple Road, Wimbledon.

"MALI." I append an extract from the 'Records of the Society of Gentlemen Practisers in the Courts of Law and Equity, called the Law Society/ published by the Incorporated Law Society in 1897, and wish to know if the use of the word " mali " is not unique:

"At a meeting of the Society of Gentlemen Practisers in the Courts of Law and Equity, held on 13 February, 1739, the meeting unanimously declared its utmost abhorrence of all mali and unfair practice, and that it would do its utmost to detect and discountenance the same," &c.

JAS. CURTIS, F.S.A.

WILLIAM GOWER. In the registers of Penshurst, Kent, and of Chiddingstone, Kent, there appear certain entries relative to a William Gower. The first entry was made in 1730, and is of the baptism of a child "of William and Ann Gower." In the registers of other churches in the neighbour- hood which have, up to the present, been searched, no previous entry can be found. The William Gower referred to apparently died at Chiddingstone in 1788, and had eight children, viz., Mary (born 1730), John (born

1732), William (born circa 1735), Thomas (born 1739), Mary (born 1741), Edward (born 1744), Ann (born 1747), and Sarah (date of birth unknown). There may have been other children.

I shall be very grateful if any reader can tell me to what family the William Gower referred to belonged and the date and place of his birth. His descendants pronounce their name as if it rimed with " shower/' but it has always been understood that it was originally pronounced " Gore," and that the said William Gower or his immediate ancestor left his family and became reduced in the social scale. ROBERT GOWER.

50, Mount Pleasant, Tunbridge Wells.

ROPEMAKER'S ALLEY, LITTLE MOORFIELDS, I wish to secure information concerning any of the following, who successively held a small estate in the above region of St. Giles, Cripplegate :

"Edward Stanton, assignee of John Chatfield, assignee of Herbert Pinchin, devisee of Walter Pinchin, assignee of Margarett Pinchin, Widdow, Relict of Phillip Pinchin, for a Garden and little House thereupon erected, to him demised for 61 years from Christinas, 1661, at II. per annum." The land was held on "a Citty lease," and the Guildhall authorities have kindly afforded me the above extract from a document dated Christmas, 1722. STANLEY B. ATKINSON.

10, Adelphi Terrace, W.C.

" CHARACTER is FATE." Who says that ?

GARRICK.

[At 8 th S. xii. 189 it is assigned to Owen Mere- dith.]

" CONVINCED AGAINST HER WILL." Can any one kindly tell me the origin of the following 1 A woman convinced against her will

Is of the same opinion still. I have heard it so often quoted. Is it a parody on Butler's

He that complies against his will Is of his own opinion still ?

E. B.

[We believe it to be not a parody, but a mis- quotation.]

BERWICK : STEPS OF GRACE. The follow- ing is given in Lean's 4 Collectanea,' i. 160 : If a Berwick lad and lass Gang together by the Steps of Grace, They '11 sup wi' the priest o' Lamberton. Are there steps thus named at Berwick 1 and were there clandestine marriages performed at Lamberton 1 Mr. Lean describes it as the English Gretna Green. K. P. D. E.

BATTLE OF SPURS. This battle, fought in 1513, is generally said to be thus named in