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 we s.Iv.N<>v.4,19os.1 NOTES AND QUERIES. 365 likely to have been the case. John Michael Wright’s beautiful full-length portrait of ‘Rupert of the Rhine,’ painted in 1672, hangs in the College hall. It may well be that on 29 May, 1644, some of the School saw the king and his nephew watching, from the tower, the movements of Essex’s army on its way to Islip, when for a time an attack upon the city was expected. Former generations of schoolboys had, no doubt, gazed at divers illustrious guests entertained by the College. Among these had been King James and his heir, Henry, Prince of Wales; Rupert’s father, the Elector Palatine; Arthur, Prince of Wales, whose visit is commemorated by the beautiful piece of tapestry portraying his marriage, still to beseen in t ie President’s lodgings; and, in the very early days of the College, Edward IV. and Richard III., whom the founder in his wisdom induced to protect his Red-Rose foundation. A. R. BAYLEY. (To be continued.) SHAKESPEARE AT VVILTON HoUsE.-I make a note of the following from p. 168 of “Ex- tracts from Letters and Journals of William Cory, Author of ‘ Ionica.’ Selected and arranged by F. W. Cornish.” Writing in August, 1865, from Wilton, “Billy Johnson” 8ays:- “The House, Lady Herbert said, is full of in- terest. Above us is W'olsey’s room. VV e have a letter, never printed, from Lady Pembroke to her son, telling him to bring James I. from Salisbury to see ‘As You Like It.’ ‘We have the man Shakespeare with us.’ She wanted to cajole the King on Raleigh’s behalf-he came.” M F H NEI.soN PANORAMAS.--It would be of in- terest to note the date and place of exhibition of any panoramic or similar reproduction of Nelson’s engagements. I believe Barker at a very early date (1808 ?) was showing Trafal- gar and the Battle of the Nile at his house in the north-east corner of Leicester Square, but I have not yet met with copies of the descriptive pamphlet. Within recent times. if I am not mistaken, Trafalgar was produced at Westminster; but at least it is certain that Nelson's conflicts never had the success (from a showman’s point of view) enjoyed by 'Wellington’s battles. The difficulty of pre- senting a seascape would, in a measure, explain this. ALECK ABRAHAMS. 39, Hillmarton Road. NELSON'S PATENT or PEERAGE. - The Lancaster Stanclard of 27 October contains a long description of the patent conferring upon Nelson the peerage of the Nile. An exact copy of it, with the royal seal attached, is in the possession of Mr. .Cann Hughes. the Town Clerk of Lancaster, whose signature is familiar to readers of ‘ N. & Q.’ N P P ‘THE DEATH or NELSON.,-Tl1iS song was set to music, the theme of which is “cn bed” from Méhul. It was composed by him for the ‘ Chant du Départ’ of Chenier :- La victoire, en chantaut, Nous ouvre la barriére, La liberté guide nos pas ..... . EDWARD SMITH. [For the history of ‘The Death of Nelson’ see 10‘*‘ S. ii. 405, 493; iii. 18.] HoRATIo.-It is interesting to_ trace_ the transmission of Christian names In families, and this can be often done when these are more or less uncommon. Lord Nelson was named Horatio either after his mother’s uncle, Horatio Suckling, or her grandmother’s brother Horatio, Lord Walpole of Wolterton, who had died the year be ore Lord Nelson was born. Lord Walpole himself was named after an uncle Horatio Walpole, who died in 1717. He-the last-name -born In 1668, was probably a godson of Sir Horatio Townshend, whose mother was a daughter and coheir of Horatio, Lord Vere of Tilbury. This Sir Horatio Townshend’s_ son,_ the second Viscount Townshend, married a sister of Lord Walpole, but the families were thrown together before this, for Sir Edward Walpole joined Sir Horatio Townshend In fortifying and holding King’s Lynn for Charles I. _ The remarkable monument of Horatio, Lord Vere, in Westminster Abbey, IS well known. The name in his case was probably a “fancy” one, and due to Hamlet’s_fr1end Horatio rather than to any veneration for the great Latin poet, for in t at case it would never have been “ Horatio,” the Italian form, but always “ Horace,” as preferred by the literary peer of Strawberry Hill himself, though he was christened “ Horatio.” A. S. ELLIS. Westminster. VANISHING LONDON. - It may be worth puttin on record that at the present time one og the oldest houses in the City of London, the buildin at the south corner of Cloth Fair and Eittle Britain, is being demolished. RosINIA. GEORGE IV.: AN APPRECIATION. - On a scrap of very common paper of_ the Catnach variety are printed the following doggerel