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NOTES AND QUERIES, tio s. vm. AUG. 31, 1907.

for regaining the town of Newcastle. Charles was not likely to have been ignorant of this, and he had the good feeling to express his sense of it, by a dis- tinction, which was no doubt valuable as well as gratifying to Sir Thomas Browne."

The historian to whom Wilkin refers was Francis Blomefield (1705-52), whose history of Norwich was published in 1745.

S. BUTTERWORTH.

ZOFFANY'S INDIAN PORTRAITS (10 S. vii. 429 ; viii. 14, 110). The title of the engrav- ing by Earlom after Zoffany's ' Tiger Hunt ' picture cited by MR. CORFIELD is

" Tiger Hunting in the East Indies. This plate represents the attack and death of the Royal Tiger near Chandernagur in the Province of Bengal in the year 1788, by a party of gentlemen and their attendants mounted on elephants according to the custom of that country."

Unfortunately, my copy of the excessively rare index plate has been mislaid, or I would have communicated the names of the persons introduced.

The central figure of the ' Cock-fight ' picture is Colonel (not Captain, as stated by MR. CORFIELD) Mordaunt, who was a natural son of the Earl of Peterborough, and at the time of the cock-fight 1786 in command of a king's regiment of Dragoons at Cawnpore. The Colonel and several of his officers, and those of other regiments, frequently visited Lucknow for the cocking for which it is still celebrated.

Col. Mordaunt died at Cawnpore, and his tomb is in the " Old European Cemetery," close by the quarter called Colonel Ganj.

An engraving of Zoffany's portrait of Warren Hastings forms the frontispiece to London, 1787, 8vo.
 * Memoirs relative to the State of India,'

In the Martiniere College at Lucknow there hangs the very fine portrait of the founder, General Claud (not Claude, as often mis- printed) Martin, by Zoffany ; also a fine painting by the same artist of the Ghori Beebee (" Fair Lady ") with her slave boy .Zulficar, otherwise known as " James Martin." The Ghori Beebee was a Persian girl bought by General Martin from a Frenchman, and died childless. Her tomb is the well-known building near Hodson's grave in the Martiniere Park.

These two Zoffanys were acquired about 1872 from a descendant of Zulficar's who had concealed them in his house during the Mutiny, when the Martiniere was looted, and the General's tomb in the vault under the central tower was desecrated by the rebels. ALDOBRAND OLDENBUCK.

Fairport.

ROBERT GRAVE, PRINTSELLER (10 S. viii. 28, 110). I have a quarto portrait of Robert Grave the elder (size of engraved surface 4 Jin. by 3f in.), with the following inscrip- tion engraved below : " Robt. Grave (fac- simile autograph), Engraved by his Son from a Picture by J. Hoppner, Esq. R.A. 1809." (All in round script hand.) It is three-quarter length, looking to the right of the spectator, and in the left hand is an engraved portrait, on which appears " W. Hollar," probably signifying Grave's pre- dilection for that engraver's works.

E. E. NEWTON.

7, Achilles Road, West End, Hampstead, N.W.

THE SUBTERRANEOUS EXHIBITION (10 S. viii. 86). The Lowther Bazaar was on the south side of the Strand, between Villiers and Buckingham Streets, and opposite to the Lowther Arcade, which, as is better known, was on the north side of the Strand. See further 'The Story of Charing Cross,' pp. 101, 119, 314-15.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

R. B. P. is in error in supposing that the " entrance to the exhibition seems to have been in the Lowther Arcade," the two buildings being on different sides of the Strand. Walford in ' Old and New London ' speaks of the Bazaar flourishing for a period at the time of the Great Exhibition of 1851, and I remember going there, as a lad, fully four or five years after that time. The faade as we see it now, from the first floor upwards, is the same as it was in those days, but I think I am right in saying that the ground floor has been altered more than once as its uses have been changed. The upper portion is now known as Osmond's Hotel, used largely by Derbyshire folk when in London, the ground floor being one of Messrs. Lyons & Co.'s refreshment depots. It is noteworthy that in a thoroughfare where changes have abounded the number of these premises has remained the same through so many years. W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY. Westminster.

VIRGINIA AND THE EASTERN COUNTIES (10 S. vii. 329, 412). Virginia was founded by certain of the nobility, gentry, and merchants of London, and tobacco, its chief product, which was strictly protected, had to be delivered, under heavy penalties, to the King's Commissioners in London, and the ships which brought it over returned with arms, stores, and emigrants. Doubtless many persons from East Anglia followed the trade route, but there was no such