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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED.

(1) THOMAS BARNARD, Bishop of Limerick. I wish to ascertain the date of his birth and the full dates of his two marriages. Did he matriculate at any University ? When was he ordained? The 'D.N.B.,' iii. 241, does not give the information that I require.

(2) LIEUT. -GENERAL JOHN BURGOYNE. According to the 'D.N.B.,' vii. 340, Bur- goyne was " educated at Westminster School, where he made friends with Lord Strange, eldest son of the Earl of Derby." I should be glad to know what good authority there is for this statement.

(3) SIR JONATHAN TRELAWNY, Bishop of Winchester. According to the ' D.N.B.,' Ivii. 179, Trelawny matriculated at Oxford from Christ Church, 11 Dec., 1668. But according to Foster's ' Alumni Oxonienses,' he matriculated from Exeter College, 5 Aug., 1668. Which authority is correct ?

(4) REAR-ADMIRAL CHARLES WATSON. Where did he die, 16 Aug., 1757 ? and where was he buried ? What was the Christian name of his mother ? When in 1741 did he marry Miss Rebecca Buller ? The ' D.N.B.,' Ix. 2, does not throw any light on these points.

(5) CHARLES WATSON- WENTWORTH, 2nd Marquis of Rockingham. In the account of him in the ' D.N.B.,' Ix. 48, it is stated that he was at St. John's College, Cambridge, and that he became a trustee of Westminster School. His name does not appear in the printed Admissions to St. John's College, Cambridge, and there were no trustees of \\Vstminster School. I should be glad to know if he became a member of any College at Cambridge. G. F. R. B.

TRACES OF THE CULTUS OF ST. LAWRENCE AT HUESCA. The balance of evidence points to Huesca in Aragon as the birthplace of St. Lawrence the Deacon. The cathedral there was not under his invocation. Does any church in the city bear his name ? I should be glad to know if, within the cathedral, there is any picture or statue recalling the martyr.

J. M. MACKINLAY, F.S.A.

THE DROESHOUT ENGRAVING OF SHAKE- SPEARE. Will readers of * N. & Q.' be so good as to help the undersigned to form a detailed list of the paintings and engravings, of earlier date than 1623, wherein there are some such differences of perspective or tailoring, &c., as exist between the right and left sides of the front of the doublet "or coat

in the First Folio " picture " of the poet ? The differences between the two sides should be described in each case, and it should be mentioned where the painting or engraving can be seen. I should be glad to have replies sent direct.

J. DENHAM PARSONS. 45, Sutton Court Road, Chiswick, W.

' THE LAUGHING CAVALIER,' BY FRANZ HALS. Some years ago I read I cannot remember where attached to a notice of this picture, a ballad, or portion of a ballad, which almost exactly described what the original of this picture must have been. It was about a rollicking, jovial, happy- natured blade, ready to make love or fight, to joke or gamble, as occasion indicated. The last two lines ran something like this :

From Trier to Ghent

There was no such knight as he.

But I cannot trace the quotation to its

source. Can any one help me ?

H. F. H.

CHINESE PROVERB IN BURTON'S ' ANA- TOMY.' (See 10 S. xi. 68 ; xii. 277.)

" The Chinezes say, that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde." ' Anat. of Melancholy,' ed. 6, p. 40. It was pointed out at the former reference that this saying is attributed to the Chinese in ' Mundus Alter et Idem.'

Dr. Friedrich Niichter, ' Albrecht Durer,' p. 8, in the English translation by Lucy D. Williams, writes :

" In proud Venice of those days there was a proverbial saying : ' All German cities are blind, Niirnberg alone sees with one eye.' "

What is the Italian form of this "pro- verbial saying " ? and where is it first found ? EDWARD BENSLY.

' THE PERIS OF THE NORTH.' Can any of your readers assist me to discover who were the originals of a sketch of two ladies' heads one fair, one dark, and both beautiful engraved in colours by G. Cornson, after Hayter, and entitled 'The Peris of the

may

The date would be about 1840.

(Mrs.) FORTESCUE. Grove House, Winchester.

JOHN BLACKWOOD PAINTED BY REYNOLDS. I have an engraved portrait by W. Say of Col. John Blackwood, from the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Cotton's ' Cata- logue of the Portraits painted by Sir Joshua