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NOTES AND QUERIES. [iis.m. APRIL 22, ion.

Cobbett's house in Kensington is said to have been " nearly opposite the New Vestry Hall in Kensington High Street."

Barn Elms manor house and farm stood on the south bank of the Thames, about half-a-mile east of Barnes Church. It is shown in Rocque's map, 1741-5. Heidegger occupied the mansion at the time of his celebrity. HOBACE BLEACKLEY.

According to Loftie's ' Kensington, Picturesque and Historical,' Cobbett lived in a house pulled down for the present High Street Railway Station. S. D. C.

PORTRAIT IN PITTI GALLERY : JUSTUS SUSTERMANS (11 S. iii. 267). Sustermans, the painter of the portrait in question (No. 190 in the Sala dell' Iliade), is said to have been a native of Antwerp and to have lived 1597-1670. The artist seems to be unrepresented in his native city. It would be interesting to know what other portraits from the brush of the painter of this master- piece are extant, and where ; also if there are any grounds for supposing that it is a likeness of the son of Frederick III., who afterwards became Christian V. of Denmark and Norway.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

The portrait by Sustermans in the Pitti Palace, No. 190, is stated in Bryan to represent the Crown Prince of Denmark (son of Frederick III.), and if this is correct, it represents Christian V. (1646-99) before he succeeded his father on the throne in 1670. The Pitti portrait represents the Prince when a youth of about 15 or 16,. according to a photograph which I possess ; it has been engraved by G. P. Fedi, and COL. DAVIS may get further particulars by looking up the engraving. There are several big books dealing with the Pitti Palace pictures, and from these additional infor- mation may be obtained as to the Suster- mans (or Suttermans) which is a fine picture.

For various portraits of Christian V. the 'A. L. A. Portrait Index,' which is in the British Museum, should be consulted.

W. ROBERTS.

SAMUEL ROGERS AND DISRAELI'S BAP- TISM (US. iii. 268). The assertion that Rogers knew Disraeli in his youth seems a little inconsistent with the following story related in Miss Devey's ' Life of Lady Lytton. 1 It refers to one of many dinner parties which the Bulwers gave at 36, Hertford Street not to be confused with

36A (now called 35A), where Bulwer lived at a later period, and where he took the surname of " Lytton " in 1844.

" Mrs. Bulwer was sitting by the side of Rogers in the drawing-room after a dinner-party, when Disraeli, who had been lounging in a cane-seated chair, crossed the room, with his coat-tails, as usual, over each arm, leaving his dark green velvet ador- ables, with the marks of the chair on them fully visible. Rogers asked, ' Who is that ? ' ' Oh ! young Disraeli, the Jew,' answered Mrs. Bulwer. ' Rather the wandering Jew, with the brand of Cane on him,' said Rogers. Disraeli heard the laugh these words evoked, and, turning round, glanced scornfully at them. When Lady Lytton repeated this to me, I remarked, ' Now 1 am certain it must have been you, and not Rogers, who uttered this bon mot.' ' No, indeed. I assure you it was Rogers, and not I, who said it.' "

In his ' Life of Bulwer Lytton ' Mr. Escctt gives a slightly different version of the story, placing the incident before dinner, and making it precede another which, accord- ing to Miss Devey, did take place at that time, though not necessarily on the same evening. But Mr. Escott does not tell us the authority for his version, whereas Miss Devey derived hers direct from Lady Lytton.

W. A. FROST.

16, Am well Street, E.G.

SIR W.. ROMNEY (11 S. iii. 169, 238, 294). A full account of him, his pedigree, and his issae is in ' The Lord Mayors and Sheriffs of London, 1601 to 1625,' by G. E. Cok&yne (Phillimore & Co., 1897).

G. E. C.

AVICE CAPELL=JOHN WARNER (11 S. iii. 228, 276). In reply to MR. FANSHAWE, I may say that Richard Capell is described in Genealogist, vol. vii. New Series, p. 66 (which contains some pedigrees of Derbyshire of 1569 and 1611), as of Ware Park, Herts. I knew that Ware Park belonged to the Fanshawe family, but thought that Capell might have been lent it or had temporarily hired it.

From other evidence I have little doubt that this John Warner was the one who became Bishop of Rochester, but could not some members of the Capell or Burnell families settle the question? E. L. W. -

" BARNBURNER " : " HUNKER " (11 S. iii. 229). Mr. J. S. Farmer in his ' American- isms ' says :

" Barnburner. A nickname given to certain progressive New York Democrats, about 1835, who were opposed to the Conservative Hunkers [q.v. ). The name is derived from, the legend of the Dutchman who set his barn afire in order to kill }he rats which infested it, the inference being
 * hat the Democrats in question would fain