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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. VIL MAR. 22, wia.

REV. H. DE FOE BAKER. I have a water-colour picture of Doune Castle, Scot- land, painted by the Rev. H. De Foe Baker, probably about 1790. It is a work of con- siderable merit, but I am unable to find out anything about the artist. Can any reader provide me with biographical details ? His name suggests a relationship to Daniel Defoe. Do any other drawings of his exist ?

W. CARR, ARTIST. I have just seen an interesting genre picture, evidently by an English artist, signed " W. Carr, 1792." I cannot find any reference to him in Mr. Algernon Graves 's indispensable ' Dictionary of Artists ' (1901), or in any other book of reference.

I shall be glad of any information about this accomplished artist. JOHN LANE.

The Bodley Head, Vigo Street, W.

" FURDALL." What is the meaning of this word ? It occurs in the Churchwarden's Account of the parish of Martin, near Horn- castle, and also in the Account of the Over- seer of the Poor for the same year, viz., 1675, as follows :

1. " Martin : William Bond, Church warden, a just account of my Layings out for this year 1675.

. . . .Layed out for a furdale and nales to bottam the poolpit."

2. " Martin : William Bond, Overseer of the Poor, a full account what I have layed out for the Relefe of the pore this yeare 1675 .... Layed out for nalles and Dore bands, and a furdall for the tounes hous."

The writing is beautifully clear, and the / is not an h, as suggested by some ( = hurdle). Others have suggested a wrapper of old French cloth, but that would be of no use to "bottom the pulpit" or repair the "town house." May it mean (a piece of) fir deal ? J. CLARE HUDSON.

Thornton, Horncastle.

" LUCASIA." Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' kindly tell me what is meant by ' Luca- sia's Portrait,' a work ascribed to Samuel Cooper that I have met with ? Is there any connexion with the Lucasian professorship, or is it a misprint for " Lucasta," to whom Lovelace sang ? J. J. FOSTER.

" NUT." What is the origin of this slang term, which appears to mean much the same as the slang word " masher " meant when I was a boy ? It is possible that Parolles was the first " nut," of whom Lafeu re- marks : " There can be no kernel in this light nut ; the soul of this man is his clothes " (' All 's Well that Ends Well,' II. v.).

JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

ENGLISH AND DANISH OGRE-STORIES. In English stories such as ' Jack the Giant - Killer ' and ' Jack and the Beanstalk ' the Giant exclaims : "I smell the blood of an Englishman," or " Christian man." In two versions of the Danish ballad of * The Mer- man,' which is a folk-tale in rime, translated into German by W. C. Grimm, Rosmer the merman is evidently a kind of ogre. Coming home, he cries, " I smell, by my right hand, a Christian man is within." " To a certainty a Christian woman or man has come in here."

Again, in another ballad, * Burmann and Olger the Dane,' Burmann is described as a hideous " trold," who eats nothing but the flesh of Christian men, and drinks blood mixed with poison.

Are parallels to be found in the folk-lore of other countries ? M. P.

'THE OLD MAN'S LEGACY.' (See 11 S. vi. 329.) I am now able to add to my query, though not to furnish a reply. The book was edited by David Crosly, who was the minister of the first Baptist chapel in Bacup (Lancashire) in 1691. A second edition Was issued, to which the editor added something of his own, in order, as he said, "'that the Orphan Legacy might not venture abroad a second time without com- pany." HENRY FISH WICK.

The Heights, Rochdale.

FOREIGN AUTHORS. I should be glad to know the dates of the deaths of Alessandro Palma di Cesnola and J. B. M. Challamel.

Is there a twentieth-century dictionary of French or of Italian biography, in addition to the books similar to the English ' Who 's Who ' ? M.

[' The Encyclopedia Britannica,' llth ed., states* . v., that Jean Baptiste Marius Augustin Challamel died 20 Oct., 1894.]

COL. DRAKE. The protest against the abolition of the Westminster Play in 1847 was apparently signed by two colonels of this name. One is described as "of Harley Street, London " ; the other as " of Little Shardeloes, Amersham." The former has been identified as Thomas Drake (1782- 1851). Can any correspondent of ' N. & Q/ identify the latter ? G. F. R, B.

" A WYVERN PART-PER-PALE ADDRESSED.'*

This line describes the landlord's crest in the * Tales of a Wayside Inn.' What does Longfellow mean by " addressed " ? I can- not find this term in any standard work on Armory which I have consulted. Should it not be " addorsed " ? W. G.