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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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ADMIRAL VEBNON AND OAKENDEAN, COW- FOLD. This Easter I was staying with my friend Mr. G. S. Brown of Oakendean, near Cowfold, one of the oldest houses in that part of Sussex, and in the grounds I discovered the keystone of a doorway lying half -hidden in a flower bed. On scraping it I found an excellent carved figure in high relief, of an admiral of the period of the middle of the eighteenth century. In his right hand he carried an admiral's baton, in the left a cocked hat. He had on a laced coat, ruffles, and high-heeled shoes. Before him was a cannon with smoke issuing from the mouth. Round it was carved AD. VEBNON, and it is no doubt a portrait of the victor of Porto Bello.

Can any of your readers tell me if he had any connexion with Oakendean ? Accord- ing to the ' D.N.B.' he died at his seat, Nacton near Ipswich, on 30 October, 1757 ; but it is clear from the architecture that the keystone was at one period part of the house. WILLIAM BULL.

ROBEBT ROLLO GlLLESPIE AT VELLOBE.

A picture illustrating the above incident was exhibited & few years ago at the Royal Academy. Would the painter or present owner be good enough to communicate with me ? (COL.) H. W. PEABSE, D.S.O.

58, Elm Park Gardens, S.W.

MADAME D'ABBLAY AND DISBAELI. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' say whether the letter mentioned by Disraeli in ' Home Letters, 1830-52,' has ever been published ? His own letter is dated 5 July, 1832 : " ' Contarini ' seems universally liked, but moves slowly. The staunchest admirer I have in London, and the most discerning appreciate! of * Contarini,' is old Madame D'Arblay. I have a long letter, which I will show you. Capital."

BATHAMPTON.

CHUBCH BBIEFS. Can some one tell me how moneys collected on a brief in 1650- 1700 would have been transmitted ? In the brief books of a village in Kent one collection (26 Feb., 1698) is "for Derby Court in Westminster." What is likely to have been the reason for that, as most of the collections are for churches, redemption of slaves, or losses by fire ? C. F. YONGE.

FBANCIS FAMILY. I shall be very much obliged to any one who will refer me to books and papers where I may get some genealogical information about the Francis family, its origin and connexions.

J. S. FBANCIS JACKSON.

Dallymount, Dublin.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. Whence comes the following ?

In good sooth, my masters, this is no door. Yet is it a little window, that looketh upon a great world.

EMEBITUS.

I wish to learn the author of the lines on Dickens' s ' Christmas Carol ' :

And God did bless him, if the prayers and tears Of countless thousands : if the knowledge sure Of heart uplift, &e.

I. X. B.

SIB T. LAWBENCE'S SKETCH OF MBS. LINLEY. So long ago as 1859 a query was inserted by C. J. in ' N. & Q.' (2 S. viii. 69) respecting a pen-and-ink sketch by Sir Thomas Lawrence representing a very stout lady, seated, wearing spectacles, and with a fan in her hand. The querist stated that he had been informed by his mother that the sketch was made by Lawrence when, as a young man, he used to give lessons in drawing, and that it was a good representa- tion of Mrs. Linley as she used to appear in her box at the theatre.

No answer appeared at the time ; but as several of the present contributors to ' N. & Q.' are well versed in the early history of the English stage, I hope that I may yet learn something of the drawing.

C. B.

KELSEY FAMILY OF HANTS. Can any reader say whence came John Kelsey, who lived at a fine old mansion called Fiddle- worth, near Broughton in Hampshire, in the seventeenth century ? He was father of John Kelsey of New College, Oxford, who matriculated there 14 August, 1676, aged 18, B.A. in 1680 (Foster's * Alumni Oxonienses '). He died unmarried shortly after, and lies buried beside his father at Bassington, which is the parish church of Piddleworth. F. H. SUCKLING.

Highwood, Romsey.

GLOUCESTEBSHIBE BOOKSELLEBS. I shall be glad of the titles of any books bearing the name of Toby Jordan, bookseller of Gloucester, on the title-page. The only one I know is entitled " Little Timothe his Lesson : Or, A Summarie relation of the

Historicall part of holy Scripture by

E[dmund] G[raile] .... Third impression. London, Printed by Aug. Mathewes for lohn Grismond, and are to be sold by Toby lorden in Glocester, 1632." The first im- pression was published in 1611, and no copy of the second appears in the B. M. Cat. of Books printed before 1640. Toby Jordan