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 io s. VIL MAY 25, 1907.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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This famous gentleman wrote as man accounts of great criminals as Lorrain him self, and was most zealous in guarding h copyright. The Perreaus, Dr. Dodd, Henr Hackman, and William Wynne Ryland a must have passed through his hand Villette died on 26 April, 1799, and D Brownlow Ford described so graphical] by J. T. Smith in ' A Book for a Rainy Day took his place. Dr. Ford resigned i 1814, because a Committee of the House o Commons did not approve of the manne in which he fulfilled his duties. In th following year Cotton was Ordinary, for w find him attending the celebrated Eliz Fenning to the scaffold on 26 July, 1815 and he also officiated at the execution of M Fauntleroy, the banker, on 30 Nov., 1824.

I shall be obliged if some of your reader can fill up the blanks that T have left.

HORACE BLEACKLEY. Fox Oak, Hersham, Surrey.

GEORGE T. : THE NIGHTINGALE AND DEATH. John Burroughs, the American naturalist, says in ' Fresh Fields ' :

" There is a tradition that when George I. die the nightingales all ceased singing for the year ou of grief at the sad event ; but his Majesty did no die till June 21st."

What is the authority for this tradition ?

I am anxious to hear of English and othe Teutonic beliefs connecting the nightingal with death. In what English counties, o other districts, is its song considered death boding ? M. P.

' A SHORT EXPLICATION ' OF MUSICAL TERMS. Can any one tell me where I can see a copy of the following book ?

"A Short Explication of such Foreign Words as are made use of in Musick Books. London printed for J. Brotherton, at the Bible in Cornhill, near the Royal Exchange. 1724. 24mo."

N. H.

TENIERS AND MINIATURES. I should be very glad if any of your correspondents could inform me whether Teniers the Younger (the Teniers) is known to have painted miniature portraits.

Some years ago I bought at Bruges an equestrian portrait on copper, 7 in. by 6 in., which had come from the sale of the effects of the late Baron Leys, the well-known artist, at Brussels ; and the dealer, a name- sake and distant relative of the Baron, stated that the picture was believed to be by Teniers, but unsigned. When the lower corners, however, were carefully sponged, the initials D. T. (with a capital F under the T) became faintly visible. The officials

at the Print-Room of the British Museum kindly examined the picture, and, without giving any opinion as to its origin, iden- tified the portrait as that of Charles II. de Lorraine - Guise, Due d'Elboeuf, who married Catherine Henriette, one of the legitimized daughters of Henry IV. of France, and died in 1677.

I should be happy to send a sketch of the picture to any one interested in the matter. A. J. HEWITT.

19, Lewisham Hill, S.E.

NEWMAN PORTRAITS. In her will of 22 Oct., 1681, Frances Newman, widow of George Newman, of Rochester, left " the pictures of Sir George Newman, Kt. [of Canterbury], and his Lady " to her sister- in-law Margaret Harfleet (nee Newman), of Molland Manor, Kent. The only surviving daughter of Margaret Harfleet and her husband Thomas Harfleet was named Afra, and she married John St. Leger, Esq. Is anything known as to the whereabouts of these family portraits at the present time ? JOSIAH NEWMAN. Hatch End, Middlesex.

PAYNE AT THE MEWS GATE. Mr. A. L. Humphreys (' Piccadilly Bookmen : Memo- rials of the House of Hatchard,' 1893) pictures this shop as a " Literary Coffee- louse and bookseller's combined," where ihe " illustrious literati " of the day met 'in the retiring room of their host," and ' cracked their jokes and gave way to nfinite merriment." This does not agree with the description provided by Beloe, Miss Lsetitia Hawkins, or her brother, and t is difficult to realize that it was anything more than a bookseller's shop regularly 'requented by certain eminent collectors.

Further references and biographical data will be appreciated. ALECK ABRAHAMS. 39, Hillmarton Road, N.

EDWARD DE VERE, 17ra EARL OF Ox- ORD. Dr. R. W. Bond, in his ' Works of ohn Lyly,' i. 17, states that Vere's wife was Anne, daughter of Burghley's first wifb, Mary Cheke. The ' D.N.B.,' article William ecil states that Thomas, Earl of Exeter, was the only fruit of this marriage (ix. 406) nd on p. 410 that Vere's wife was daughter r Burghley by his second wife, Mildred, aughter of Sir Anthony Cooke. Is not r. Bond mistaken ?

H. PEMBERTON,. Jun.

SIR THOS. BLOODWORTH, LORD MAYOR 665-6. I should be grateful for positive formation as to the place of interment