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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. VIL JUNE is, 1007.

" The true original picture of Mary Carleton, also called by the name or the German Princess ; as it was taken by her own order, in the year 1663; .Jo. Ch(antry) Sc."

Caulfield values this at 11. Us. 6d., remark- ing :

" There are two prints of Mary Carl ton the one mentioned, and one in an octagon, aged 38, in the manner of Faithorne, and is worth 21. 12*. 6d." This octagon portrait was engraved by Caul- field, 1 Nov., 1793, and published in the first edition of his ' Remarkable Characters.' In his ' Calcographiana ' he mentions both these portraits, valuing them at the prices named in his MS. note.

Flindall (' The Amateur's Pocket Com- panion ') mentions another portrait of Mary Carleton :

"'The German Princess, with her supposed husband and lawyer ' ; F. Nicholls, delin. T. Basire, Sculp. This folio print has not been mentioned by Bromley or Granger. There are three men present ; the lawyer is on his knee, with a sword held over him." '

Anna Macallame [225]." '2s. Qd. Wilkinson has the plate."

This is Wilkinson of Fenchurch Street, author and publisher of the ' Londina Illustrata.' At his death the whole of his stock was sold by Sotheby in a succession of sales ; in that held 13 April, 1826, lot 363 included ' Anna Macallame,' the copper- plate, and 20 impressions.

Caulfield re-engraved the print, for his ' Remarkable Characters,' but the original impressions, although of infrequent occur- rence, were usually included in sales with a number of others, and rarely realized more than a few shillings.

This concludes the series of notes supplied by James Caulfield to an interleaved copy of Granger's ' Biographical History ' (1775), vol. iv. I have not transcribed all his remarks ; and the valuations by him and a later hand of all the prints mentioned by Granger must be dealt with in some other form, as they are not of sufficient general interest for these pages.

Caulfield probably made these anno- tations with a view to publishing a sup- plement to his well - known work ' Calco- graphiana,' 1814. Although these notes in some instances reflected on the business integrity of rival printsellers, and were therefore unprintable, together they formed as useful a " Printseller's Chronicle and Collector's Guide to the Knowledge and Value of Engraved British Portraits " as the volume that was published.

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

39, Hillmarton Road, N.

SARAH WALKER, " OLD CAM- PAIGNER " : " MARQUIS OF GRANBY," PUBLIC-HOUSE SIGN.

IN ' Tales of the Wars ' (London, published by William Mark Clark, 1836-9), vol. iii. p. 70, is a biography of Sarah Walker, who " lately was interred in the burial-ground of New Windsor." (The date of this number of ' Tales of the Wars ' is 3 March, 1838.)

Sarah was born in 1750 at Northampton, her father's regiment, the Royal Horse Guards, " then called the Blues," being stationed there. He had then been twenty- two years in the regiment, " of which the celebrated Lord (afterwards the Marquis of) Granby was commander." She and her mother accompanied the regiment when it went to join the army under Prince Fer- dinand. She recollected the battles of Minden, Wasbourg, and Paderborn. Her mother died at Paderborn from an injury received by the upsetting of a waggon with Lord Granby' s baggage in it. Sarah and her sister were sent to Hesse Cassel (where she learnt French and German), their expenses there being defrayed by Lord Granby and Prince Ferdinand. Hesse Cassel having been taken by the French, they were detained there as prisoners until 1763, when peace was proclaimed. They were removed by their father and returned to England, where they lived with a man named Sumpter and his wife. Sumpter, having got his discharge from the Blues, and

" taking a public-house at Hounslow, was the first person who set up the now common sign of The Marquis of Granby,' his former excellent com- mander. At that house the Marquis's two sons used frequently to stop on their road between Eton and London."

Here Sarah reacquired her native language. She subsequently married a man named Walker, and after the riots in 1780 went to Windsor, where she afterwards lived and died. She had thirteen children ; four of her daughters married soldiers. One of these daughters was wounded in the Peninsular War, and fell into the hands of some of Massena's troops.

When old, Mrs. Walker was for some time in very reduced circumstances. Her case was taken up by the Rev. W. J. Moore, the curate of New Windsor, who procured a liberal subscription. Among the donors were General Pigot, Viscount Ashbrooke, Sir Andrew Barnard, Sir Jeffrey Wyatville, Lord C. Paulet, Lady S. Bridgman, and Col. Hill, as well as " several officers of the Royal