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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. VIL MAY 25, 1007.

was railed-in, as it ought to have been in Lamb's time. Where did Lamb reside in Shacklewell and Colebrooke Row ?

M. L. R. BRESLAR.

[The position of Lamb's residence at Dalston was identified by the late FREDERICK ADAMS at 8 S. v. 194 a discovery upon which he was congratulated at p. 477 of the same volume by COL. PRIDEAUX, writing from Jaipur, in Rajputana. The house, 14, Kingsland Row, Dalston, was demolished in connexion with the formation of Dalston Junction. At 8 S. vi. 9 MR. ADAMS contributed a second article on Lamb and Kingsland Row. Lamb's residence at Islington was called Colebrooke Cottage. Mr. Wilmot Harrison, in the third edition of his ' Memorable London Houses,' p. 165, says that it was the last house at the northern extremity of Colebrooke Row, now 19, Camden Terrace. But Mr. Harrison would seem to be in error, as Colebrooke Cottage is now 64, Duncan Terrace. 1

IVY LANE, STRAND (10 S. v. 81, 136, 175, 254). Five men who were neighbours in the Strand crossed the Thames on a Sunday, and spent the day drinking on the Southwark side. Returning in a drunken condition late at night, they were all drowned at Ivy Bridge, 16 Oct., 1616. This forms the sub- ject of one of the ' Shirburn Ballads,' edited by Andrew Clark, 1907, p. 67. The editor says he has not found Ivy Bridge in old maps of London, but mentions Ivy Lane, Newgate Street. W. C. B.

CHARLES I. : HIS PHYSICAL CHARACTER- ISTICS (10 S. vii. 169, 210, 252, 334). MR. PHILIP SIDNEY says we have ample con- temporary evidence to prove that Charles was rude and awkward in his demeanour, and that there was nothing gracious in his manners and address. The ' Oglander Memoirs ' give a different impression. When Charles visited the Isle of Wight as a young man in 1628, Sir John Oglander writes :

" He landed at Ride, wheather my wyffe went to see him, when he saluted her and her dawghtors ; and from thence to Arreton Down, when in truth the Scotchmen did very well. I then moored his Ma 1 ; 6 for paye for theyre bilettinge, and for ye fortifyinge of owre Island ; hee tooke mee by the hand, and helde mee a long tyme rydinge togeathor, sayinge he wase bound unto iis all for owre paticence, and well usuage of ye Scotchmen," &c. The whole of the passage gives the idea of a kindly hearted gentleman, with a caressing manner.

Twenty years afterwards, 27 Nov., 1648, Sir John reports his Majesty's farewell speech to the Lords Commissioners at Newport, and ends by saying :

" His Ma tio delivored these wordes with mutch cheartulnesse and with a serene cowntenance, arid carndge free from anie disturbance ; and thus hee p rted with ye Lordes and Commisioners, leavinge

[yet]

manie tender impressions, if not in them, it

in ye other hearors." 'Oglander Memoirs,' 1888,

pp. 40, 70.

If MR. SIDNEY'S " ample contemporary evidence " is superior in quality to that of Sir Henry Wotton, Sir John Oglander, Roger Coke, and Andrew Marvell, to say nothing of Van Dyck and the medallists, he will perhaps favour the readers of ' N. & Q.' with some specimens of it. Hallam's testi- mony is worthless without his authorities. W. F. PRIDEAUX.

Your correspondents who have written upon this subject will remember the Horatian maxim,

Pict9ribus atque poetis

Quidlibet audendi semper i'uit sequa potestas. Further than this, the dress worn makes a wonderful difference. In the full-length portrait of Charles I. by Van Dyck he is represented as over the middle height, and as wearing royal robes, heavy with ermine and velvet. The picture was probably painted about 1633, before the great troubles of Charles I. began, yet the engraving represents a countenance of sadness. It used at one time to be a great favourite in Oxford, a place ever attached to the Stuarts.

In the ' Life of the Great Lord Fairfax ' by Sir Clements R. Markham it is stated that Charles I. was present at the battle of Naseby in 1645 in complete armour, and there is an effigy of him on horseback, armed cap-a-pie, in the Armoury at the Tower. Close at hand, mounted on his steed, is James II., who wears a strong, thick coat of buff leather over his cuirass, large jack boots, and a morion or steel cap, and has in his hand a truncheon. In this case the likeness is very close to the portraits of that ill-fated monarch.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

SIR JOHN SUCKLING: "PALLAT" (10 S. vii. 247). Undoubtedly " palates " is in- tended, as a perusal of the context will show :

There scarce were ten good Pallats in the Age. More curious cooks than guests ; for men would eat Most heartily of any kind of meat. In the 1826 edition of Dodsley's ' Old Plays,' vol. x. p. 101, the word is spelt " palates," with a small p, one Z, and a final e ; and there it is

The palates are grown high (not "higher"). In * Troilus and Cressida,' Act IV. sc. i., Diomedes, speaking to Paris concerning the " fair Helen," says, " Not palating the taste of her dishonour."

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.