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 io* s. iv. JULY is. 1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 57 the Court of James I., Sir Richard Preston, Lord Dingwall, but Radbrook was repurchased." ALFRED T. EVEEITT. High Street, Portsmouth. 'PICTURES OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTA- MENTS' (10'" S. iii. 487).—This work was published at Amsterdam about the end of the eighteenth century, in quarto, and the title is as follows (see Lowndes, p. 199): " Pictures of the Old and New Testaments, showing the most Notable Histories in One Hundred and Fifty Copperplates by the most famous and principal Masters. The Text iu French and English." It is apparently an imitation of an earlier work by De Royaumont in 1690-8, in which each plate was dedicated to an individual patron (who was allowed to pay the cost of production in return for the honour, the work being thus produced free of cost to the promoter). The market value of ME. GREEN SMITH s "rarity" is only small, and seems absurdly out of proportion to his generous praise of the work. WM. JAGGARD. CONYERS (10th S. iii. 489).—Sir Conyers Darcy (son of Thos. Darcy, Esq., Lieutenant of the Tower of London, by Elizabeth, second daughter and coheir of John, third Lord Conyers of Hornby) was knighted 23 June, 1603 ; confirmed as Lord Conyers, Darcy, and Meinell by letters patent dated 10 August, 1641 ; died 3 March, 1653 ; and was buried at Hornby. By his marriage with Dorothy, daughter of Sir Henry Bellasis, of New- borough, Yorkshire, he had six sons and seven daughters. Barbara, the eldest daughter, married Matthew Hutton, of Marske ; Mar- garet married Sir Thomas Harrison, of Cop- grave, son of Robert Harrison, alderman, and grandson of Thomas Harrison, one of the Lord Mayors of York. See Plantagenet Harrison's pedigrees in his ' History of York- shire' for the Darcy family, Dugdale's ' Visitation' for Harrison of Allerthorpe (and Copgrave), and a paper on ' Marske' contri- buted to Archceolo;tia Juliana (second series, vol. v. pp. 1-90) by the late Rev. James Raine. At the date of Mr. Raine's paper (1860)there remained at Marske Hall portraits of Lord Conyers and Darcy and his wife, which are thus described :— " Sir Conyers Darcy, the distinguished Royalist. Created Lord Conyers and Darcy in 1641. A hand- gome face, florid and oval, with a Carolian beard and moustache. Half length. He is in a Court dress, and has a purple mantle with a surcoat of white point lace.' " Dorothy Bellasia his wife' A pretty girlish face with light hair and brown eyes. She holds a watch in her hand, and is very richly attired in a brown brocaded dress trimmed with lace. Her earrings, singularly enough, are attached to her ears by ribands. RICHARD WELFORD. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. See Beatson's ' Political Index,' 1786, p. 60 (1641) and p. 69 (1682); also Collins's 'Peerage,' second edition, 1710, pp. 325-6. Under the heading of Darcy, Earl of Holder- ness, full particulars are given of Conyers. If MR. HELMER will send me his address I will lend him ' Collins.' HERBERT SOUTHAM. Innellan, Shrewsbury. See Dugdale's 'Baronage' (sub d'Arcie), G. E. C.'s 'Complete Peerage,' and Harl. Soc., xxxix. 985-6. H. J. B. CLEMENTS. Killadoon, Celbridge. [Reply also received from MB. J. RADCLIITE.] LOCAL RECORDS (10th S. iii. 464).—I should like to mention that a very important work on Somersetshire has apparently escaped notice, i.e., "Somersetshire Parishes: an Historical Handbook to all Places in the County, by Arthur L. Humphreys, 187, Piccadilly, London, W." This work marks an advance in the system of making county bibliographies, inasmuch as the references to wills and ancient deeds, &c., are given in fuller detail than is usual in works of this description, and the work also includes biographical notices of both ancient and con- temporary well-known personages. W. J. [Mr. Humphreys's collections are, we believe, in course of publication. We mention the fact as it is not clear from W. J.'s letter.] JOHN HAZLITT AND SAMUEL SHARWOOD (10th S. iii. 468).—From Scharfs 'Historical and Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures, Busts, &c., in the National Portrait Gallery' (1888) I give the following particulars concerning John Hazlitt:— 1768-1837. Miniaturist. Born at Wem, in Shropshire. He came to London shortly before 1788, and exhibited in the Royal Academy from that year to 1819. He died at Stockport." JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire. PICTURES INSPIRED BY Music (10th S. iv. 9). —Finished paintings of this class must be very rare, since in the course of thirty years' continuous exhibition-going 1 cannot recall one, and any work of that kind would cer- tainly have attracted my attention. But the late M. Fantin-Latour produced a good many lithographs illustrating or symbolizing pas- sages from Wagner's operas. 1 think he also