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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. i. J AN. 15, 1910.

are referred to The South Place Magazine, September, 1909 (London, A. & H. Bonner, Church Passage, Chancery Lane). Permi me publicly to thank Mrs. S. M. Rushton of this city (daughter-in-law of Cobbett's friend) for facilities afforded visitors to inspect the relic, of which she is the owner and careful custodian. JAS. M. Dow. Liverpool.

DR. WOLLASTON IN SCOTLAND (10 S. xii

310). So far as I can ascertain, no reference to Dr. Wollas ton's being in Scotland is found save in Lockhart's ' Life of Scott and Mrs. Somerville's Personal Recollec- tions.' In the ' Recollections l allusion is made to James Veitch, the Laird of Inch- bonny, who, as the first observer in Britain of the comet of 1811, is introduced into the pages of Dr. Thomas Dick's ' Diffusion of Knowledge.' My edition of that work a very late one, however contains no reference to Veitch corresponding to that cited in Mrs. Somerville's book. I can only conjecture that the passage quoted in the 1 Recollections * as occurring in the ' Diffusion of Knowledge J may have been expunged in subsequent editions in deference to the feelings of Veitch, who felt somewhat indignant at the terms in which Dick had described him. At the same time, ample justice is done to Veitch' s discovery in Dick's ' Sidereal Heavens, 1 ed. 1840, p. 461. In none of Dr. Dick's books, I think, does the name of Dr. Wollaston occur. A very careful and appreciative article on Wollaston in Prof. George Wilson's ' Religio Chemici,' London, 1862, fails to notice any visit at all to Scotland.

Will the querist pardon me for adding that a mere friendly visit by. Dr. Wollaston to a self-taught astronomer living near Jedburgh, undertaken probably at the instance of the Somervilles, is hardly likely to stand recorded as a " red-letter day " in county history ? WALTER SCOTT.

Stirling.

LOVELS OF NORTHAMPTON (10 S. xii. 489). -MR. WRIGHT is perhaps aware that the arms of Sir Thomas Lovel, with those of the King and the Earl of Lincoln, may still be seen over the Chancery Lane gatehouse of Lincoln's Inn, commemorative of the fact that that gatehouse was built by him.

In the old Islington mansion near Paradise Place a building which was for some time known as Ward's Place, but was pulled down in 1800 were, among other interesting coats of arms, those of Lovel quartering j

! Muswel, or Mosel. Cromwell in his ' Walks through Islington ' does not say what became of either this or the other specimens of Tudor ' art which were removed at the dismantling of the mansion.

Another and more tangible memorial of this distinguished personage was in 1903 added to the collection of monuments in Westminster Abbey. This is a portrait in bronze, supposed to be by Torrigiano, of whose work there are many other notable examples in the Abbey. It was presented to the Dean and Chapter by Sir J. C. Robin- son, and was then placed on the back of the stalls in the south aisle of Henry VII. 's Chapel. The bronze was formerly in the National Portrait Gallery, to which it was lent for some time by Sir J. C. Robinson.

There is an account of the Lovells, Barons Lovell of Tichmersh, in Burke's ' Extinct Peerage.' J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

His HIGHNESS JOHN WILLIAM NEWBOURG, COUNT PALATINE (10 S. xii. 489). Johann Wilhelm of Neuburg (b. 1658) was Elector Palatine of the Rhine from 1690 to his death in 1716. See the ' Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, 1 xiv. 314-17, Leipzig, 1881. In English there is brief reference to him at p. 335 of Elizabeth Godfrey's Heidel- berg : its Princes and its Palaces, 1 London, E. Grant Richards, 1906. The pedigree on p. xiii of this work is not very clear, and not quite accurate.

Johann Wilhelm was the son of the Elector Philip Wilhelm (1685-90), who was the son of Wolfgang Wilhelm, Count of Neuburg. This Wolfgang had by renouncing the Pro- testant religion acquired the Duchy of Julich. Hence Johann Wilhelm was able to ive in state at Diisseldorf while the unhappy Palatinate was devastated by the French or oppressed by his own tax-gatherers. This Catholic prince was a noted collector of pictures ; he built the not very handsome edifice which is still pointed out to the astonished visitor as the University of Heidel- berg ; and he presented books to the Jniversity Library. His selfish and un- patriotic policy towards the Palatinate is duly censured by J. C. F. Hausser in his Geschichte der Rheinischen Pfalz,* vol. ii. lis two sons having died in infancy, Johann Wilhelm was succeeded by his >rother Karl Philip, with whom the line ame to an end in 1742. The Heidelberg Museum contains four portraits of Johann Vilhelm, one being a painting of the colossal equestrian statue which was put up