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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. iv. OCT. 7, 1911.

Williams' s ' Parliamentary History of the County of Gloucester ' states (p. 122) that Sir John Knight was the only son of the John Knight who served^as member temp. Charles II.

Is not Sir Arthur Hart a slip for Sir Robert Hart, who represented the city in 1681, 1685-7, and 1689-95 ? Williams gives (pp. 120-21) some interesting particulars of Sir Robert, which I shall be pleased to forward to your correspondent if he has not access to the book. ROLAND AUSTIN. Gloucester Public Library.

As there was little information obtainable from reference books concerning the Harts of the West Country, I made a special study of them, and worked out their pedigrees, as I found they were very numerous and of a good position.

The Harts of Bristol were descended from George Hart of Uphaie, Axminster, clothier (d. 1591). His eldest son George became a wealthy linen draper of Bristol ; married Marie Knight (sister of Sir John Knight), and died in 1658.

They had five sons, of whom Sir Richard Hart of Hanham, Gloucestershire, was the eldest, and was M.P. for Bristol in the Parlia- ment of 1 William and Mary. He died 1701. Their fourth son Arthur was a merchant of Bristol, and its Mayor, but was never knighted. He was twice married : by his first wife he had a son and a daughter. He died in 1686. E. H. FAIRBROTHER.

QUEEN ELIZABETH'S PORTRAITS AT HAMP- TON COURT BY ZUCCHERO (11 S. iv. 244). The portrait here of ' Queen Elizabeth with a Feather Fan' (No. 306 of the current catalogue) is probably by Zucchero. The grounds for this attribution are given in my ' Royal Gallery of Hampton Court ' (ed. 1898), No. 616, p. 226, where J. F. R. will find a plate of the picture. The fan she holds is probably the one given her by Leicester in 1574. I ascribe the painting to 1575, when Elizabeth was 42. In my opinion 50 is too old for this face.

The portrait called ' Queen Elizabeth in a Fanciful Dress ' (No. 346 of the current catalogue) is discussed by me in the same book, No. 349, p. 138, where there is a plate of the picture, and also in a supplemental note thereto, p. 310, where reasons are given for doubting whether it is by Zucchero, or, indeed, even represents Queen Elizabeth at all.

I think I have found out the real person- age depicted, and also the writer of the

verses, sometimes ascribed to Spenser, or even to Queen Elizabeth herself. These further facts will appear in the new edition of my book, now preparing.

ERNEST LAW. The Pavilion, Hampton Court Palace.

' PICKWICK PAPERS ': PRINTERS' ERRORS IN FIRST EDITION (11 S. iv. 248). In the early issues of ' Pickwick ' the error " 1817 " for " 1827 " is to be found, as also its entry in the " Errata." There were various issues of the book.

" Of part one, the binder prepared four hundred ; of part fifteen, his order was for more than forty thousand." Forster's 'Life of Charles Dickens,' 5th ed., 1872, vol. i. p. 108.

I have three ' Pickwicks,' all bearing the date 1837 on the pictorial title-page. Two of them have that date on the printed title- page ; the other has 1838 thereon. All three have the same list of " Errata." The two former have the error referred to, viz., " 1817 " for " 1827." The third has the notice concerning it in the "Errata," al- though it does not occur in the letterpress. Similarly the last " erratum " is unnecessary in this 1838 edition, in which " George Yard, Lombard-Street," properly takes the place of " Sun Court, Cornhill " (p. 541).

C. C. B.'s copy of * Pickwick ' is, there can be little doubt, one of an issue later than the first.

I think that I am right in saying that among the marks of a copy of the first issue are the following :

1. In the pictorial title-page the board over the door of the inn has " Veller " for " Weller," and "Tobacco" appears in the bottom line.

2. Facing pp. 69 and 74 are respectively the plates (drawn and etched by Buss) of the " Muggleton Cricket Match," and the fat boy surprising Miss War die and Tupman in the arbour.

As is w T ell known, Dickens, not liking Buss's plates, got Hablot Browne to take his place. The plates substituted by the latter for Buss's two etchings are (p. 74) " The fat boy awakes on this occasion only," i.e., the arbour scene, and (p. 76) " Mr. Wardle & his friends under the influence of the Salmon."

The early issues have the plates " before letters," whether Seymour's, Buss's, or Browne's.

The printed title-page of ' Pickwick ' of the earliest issue contains an error. We read " with forty- three illustrations, by R. Seymour and Phiz," whereas two of them