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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. i. JUNE 4, 1910.

Wilcock succeeded him. His name appears as a subscriber to Burnett's ' History of Sunderland l published in 1819 a year after his ' Lives of the Abbots ? was issued. He was removed from Sunderland to Liver- pool shortly afterwards, and there we lose sight of him. RICHD. WELFORD.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

TRUCHSESSIAN GALLERY, NEW ROAD (11 S. i. 369, 418). The first part of " that mag- nificent and truly capital collection of pictures well known as forming the Truch- sessian Gallery,' 1 which was " imported at immence expence from the Continent,' 1 and comprised ' ' some of the finest works of the most celebrated masters, 5 ' was sold by Skinner, Dyke & Co. " without reserve " on Thursday, 27 March, 1806, and two following days. Among the greatest of the names included in the sale catalogue of this part of the collection were Giorgione, Veronese, Rubens, Van Dyck, Durer, Hol- bien (sic), Rembrandt, and Brower (sic).

At the end of the first day's sale 80 pictures had been sold for 887Z. Is. 6d. ; the total on the following day had been brought up to 1,802Z. 12s. 6d. for 160 pictures ; and on the last day the full sum realized was 3,152Z. 15s. Qd. for 240 paintings. A " sin- gularly high-finished picture " by Mignon fetched the highest price (47Z. 5s.) realized in this sale.

The second part of the collection was sold on 24, 25, and 26 April, 1806, and included 240 pictures, which were sold at prices ranging from II. 10s. to 315Z., paid for Guercino's ' Susannah and the Elders. 1

The (so-called) " Portrait of Martin Luther, painted in his best manner n by Holbien (sic), which was No. 157 in the first part of the Collection, was exhibited at the National Loan Exhibition last winter, and its provenance indicated in the officia catalogue.

I shall be glad to send MR. ALECK ABRA HAMS any further facts he may need.

MAURICE W. BROCKWELL.

MAJOR JOHN JOHNSON (11 S. i. 309, 418) MR. SCOTT in his reply says that " Major Johnson of the 3rd Ceylon Regiment pub lished in 1810 ' A Narrative of the Operations of a Detachment in an Expedition to Candy in the Island of Ceylon, in the Year 1804.' ' The author of that narrative was not Major Johnson, but my great-uncle Major (afterwards Lieut.-Col.) Arthur John ston. I have not a copy of the origina publication, but I have one of a new edition

which was published by James M'Glashan, 50, Upper Sackville Street, Dublin, and Win.

S. Orr & Co., Paternoster Row, London, in 1. 854. I shall be very happy to furnish

any of your correspondents who may cam

.know anything further about the author of the narrative with such particulars about

aim as I am acquainted with. He was not, of course, the Lieut.-Col. John Johnson who wrote ' A Journey from India to Eng-

and ? in 1817. ARCHIBALD J. MACKEY.

Hurst House, Twyford, Berks.

NOTTING HILL : ITS ETYMOLOGY (11 S. i. 408). It has no more to do with nuts than a cot has to do with a cut ; u and o are different sounds. In order to be sure of the origin, we want old spellings and old records ; but such records as refer us, by guess, to a Latin nodosus, are not of much value.

A possible solution is that it meant " hill of the Hnottings or sons of Hnotta." Hnotta is a known name (Birch, ' Cart. Saxon.,' ii. 549 ; iii. 498). Nottingham is known to have been Snotinga-ham, or " home of the sons of Snot.'* Knottingley suggests a form Cnotta. WALTER W. SKEAT.

THE CRADLE OF HENRY OF MONMOUTH r BALL FAMILY (11 S. i. 183, 253, 314). The date of the presentation of Peregrine Ball, B.A., to the Vicarage of Newland, in the j deanery of Forest, co. Gloucester, was j 11 Feb., 1745/6 ; of his institution, 20 Feb., 1745/6 ; of the sequestration on his death, 22 Nov., 1794. All the transcripts of the i parish registers 1751-90 are in his writing I and signed by him. These transcripts j contain no entry of baptism, marriage, or ! burial of any of the name, 1751-94, except the burial of Susanna Ball (not otherwise described) in 1757. The episcopal visita- tions describe him as B.A. until 1764, when the record was altered to M.A. ; they show him as resident on and serving his cure, and from 1776 as also serving the chapelry of Coleford annexed to the living ; they make no reference to a plurality. There was a contemporary family of Bannister living in the parish. The foregoing information i taken from the records of the Gloucester Diocesan Registry.

1 Peregrine's will is not in the Gloucester Probate Registry, but was probably proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.

The Rev. R. H. Evered, the present Vicar of Newland, informs me that the parisl registers were not signed, and contain no further information.