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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, Wilt.

CONTENTS. No. 214.

NOTES : Memorials of Galileo in England, 81 Roads round London, 82 Lines in a Worcester MS. Luigi da Porto, 83 St Botolph without Aldersgate A Bishop's Household Fee - Farm Rents, 84 Grosvenor Chapel- Dickens and the Royal Society of Musicians, 85.

QUERIES: Evelyn Family, 85 T. & G. Seddon, Furniture Manufacturers Younger Van Helmont Hewitt and Ledlie Families, 86 Colonels of the 24th Regiment John Thomas Biographical Information Wanted Author Wanted The Havamal Mary, Queen of Scots Cardinal Ippolito dei Medici Saffron Walden, 87 Swinburne as Polyglot Author^Bp. Gower " You rotten Arminian." Whitington Anti - Wesleyana Morgan Family, 88 E. Hargatt Sir R. D. Henegan J. L. Crawfurd J. G. Semple Repertory Theatre Regimental History Maj.. Gen. Duff Author of Play Wanted Cigar Centenary, 89.

BEPLIES : Newnham Family Q. Cicero and Stone Circles, 90 Over Kellet Upright Stones in Churchyards, 91 Powlett: Smyth " Marriage " as Surname -Heart- Burial Dickens in London, 92 Bangor : Conway Kipling Items Portrait of Napoleon III. Heraldic- Flo wer-Name Sabbath in Abyssinia Dunstable Larks Roman Bath in the Strand, 93 Choirboys in Ruffs "Tallest one-piece flagstaff" Gordon as a Hungarian Noble Adjectives from French Place-Names Cromwell's Granddaughter, Mrs. Hartop Sir George Wright, 94 Groom of the Stole Swedish Ambassador Sundial Inscripton Defoe's ' Weekly Review,' 95 T. Hudson, Painter Smith in the Vasconcellos Family, 96 Dover seen from Calais Trilby County Maps, 97.

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MEMORIALS OF GALILEO IN ENGLAND.

THE following notes are offered in the hope that readers of ' N. & Q.' will be able, not only to complete them where deficient, but to furnish other examples, of which there must be many in public and private places. Thus it is hoped that in the end a fairly complete list may be made out. These memorials will be incorporated in a larger work ' Iconografia Galileiana ' on which Prof. Favaro, of Padua University, is now engaged, and which he hopes to illustrate as far as his materials will permit (see 11 S. viii. 229, 268).

Paintings in Oils. Probably the first portrait of Galileo seen in England is that in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It is a replica of Sustermans' (second) portrait of him, which was painted about 1640 to the order of Ferdinando II., Grand Duke of Tuscany, and which is now in the Pitti Gallery, Florence. In 1641 Vincenzio Vivi- ani, " the last disciple of the Master " (as

he loved to be known), had a copy of this portrait made, and, apparently, by no less an artist than Sustermans himself, and in all probability it is this copy which is now in the Bodleian Library, as just stated. Unfortunately, there appears to be no docu- mentary evidence of this donation beyond a formal entry in the ' Registrum Bene- factor urn ' of the Bodleian Library :

" Clarissimus et doctissimus vir Signer Vin- centio Viviani magnae Hetruriae Duels Mathe- maticus Academiae huic opus suum de maximis et minimis geometric am sc. divinationem in quintum conicorum Apollonii Pergaei desidera- tum, una cum pictura Galilaei a Galilaeis ex Italia benigne transmisit. April xxvi. MDCLXI."

The portrait is described and reproduced in Mrs. R. L. Poole's ' Catalogue of Oxford Portraits,' pp. xi, 41, and plate v.

In 'N. & Q.,' 11 April, 1857, there is a reference to this picture, and the writer goes on to say :

" A similar portrait (except that the back- ground is much darker) has been in the possession of my family for more than a century. Perhaps some of your correspondents could afford me a clue towards discovering the artist. The pic- ture is one of considerable merit and evidently antique."

The letter is signed DUNELMENSIS a name of frequent occurrence in ' N. & Q.' of that period. It would be interesting to discover the present whereabouts of this picture, but so far my search has been fruitless. Apparently it is a copy of the Bodleian portrait, and probably was made in England. Sustermans' first portrait of Galileo, supposed to be his chef-d'oeuvre, was painted in 1635, and was sent as a present by Galileo to his friend and correspondent Elia Diodati in Paris. Twenty years later (1656), at the request of the Grand Duke Leopoldo, it was returned to Florence, and subsequently was placed in the Uffizi Collection,

" in order [as he said] to show to all two marvels of nature one in the person of him represented, and the other in the art of the painter."

An excellent copy of this picture was made in Florence in 1901 by Miss Renee Baker (now Mrs. Robert Rankin), and is preserved in her home in Lancashire, Rufford Old Hall.

In the Master's Lodge, Trinity College, Cambridge, there is a fine portrait of Galileo by Allan Ramsay, painted in 1757, and presented to the College in 1759 by Dr. Robert Smith, then Master. It is said in the deed of gift that " the head is painted from a picture by Giusto [Sustermans] in the Grand Duke's Palace at Florence " (now the Pitti Gallery). As regards the likeness, it