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 12 S.X.APBH, i,i922.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 251 . Can anyone tell me anything R. Busick, Esq., of Epsom (c. 1797), mentioned in the following extract from The Gentleman's Magazine (1797), or state whether any connexion can be traced between his family and Sir Busick Harwood <b. 1745; d. 1814), Regius Professor of Anatomy in the University of Cambridge ? Extract from The Gentleman's Magazine (1797), vol. lxvii.,Pt. I. : At Naples whither she went for recovery of her health in her 29th year on 9th Feb., 1797, Mrs. Busick, wife of R. B. Busick, Esq., of Epsom in Surrey. She was the daughter of the late Edward Barker, Esq., and grand-daughter of Baron Barker, formerly of Tranquil Dale in the same county. B. E. P. HENBY FUBNESSE. In * London and its Environs,' published by R. and J. Dodsley, 1761, in the course of a description of Gunnersbury House (vol. iii.), the author says : " This was the house of the late Henry Furnesse, Esq., who had a fine collection of pictures in it." I should be very glad of any information about this Henry Furnesse. W. HAYTHOBNE. " To SEND TO COVENTBY." The ' N.E.D.' says that a probable suggestion refers the phrase to the circumstances recorded in the quotation below under date 1647, from Clarendon's ' History of the Rebellion,' vi. 83 : At Bromigham, a town so generally wicked that it had risen upon small parties of the King's, and killed or taken them prisoners and sent them to Coventry [then strongly held for the Parliament]. This is the view taken in Murray's ' Warwickshire.' The explanation given in Chambers's ' Cyclopaedia,' and regarded by Brewer's ' Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ' as meeting the general scope of the phrase better, is that at one time the citizens of Coventry had so great a dislike to soldiers that a woman seen speaking to one was instantly tabooed, and hence, when a soldier was sent to Coventry, he was cut off from all social intercourse. But is there any evidence that there was ever such a time ? JOHN B. WAINEWBIGHT. BABBABA VILLIEBS. -If any reader of ' N. & Q.' could supply the following in- formation, I should be greatly obliged. Did (Sir) Peter Lely paint a portrait of Barbara Villiers (afterwards Lady Castle - maine and Duchess of Cleveland) in 1658, when Barbara was 1 7 years old ? AVo, is (Sir) Peter Lely known to have signed his name several times in i urple paint on any portrait of Barbara Vi liers ? H. C. S. THE REV. GEORGE SACKVILLE COTTEB. When and where did he die in 1831 ? The ' D.N.B.' (xii. 289) says that the later years of his life were spent at Youghal. The dictionary omits the date of his marriage, as well as the Christian name of his wife. Can any correspondent supply these ? G. F. R. B. HOLOFEBNES CooKE. Are any parti- culars recorded as to the life and personality of one Olof ernes or Hoi of ernes Cooke, who was at Cambridge University in 1586 ? R. L. EAGLE. THE ONE-LEGGED LOBD MA YOB. Can any of your readers give me any particulars of a Lord Mayor who had only one leg ? It appears that when a youth he was bitten by a shark and rescued by some boatmen in Havana harbour. I understand that there is a painting depicting the incident some- where in existence. D. E. SMITH. " TOUB D'IVOIBE." -Was Sainte-Beuve's characterization of Vigny's discreet seclusion as his " tour d'ivoire " an original concep- tion or an echo of feudal romance ? The " Tower of Ivory " has become so common a title for novel, play or poem that one naturally looks for the literary origin of the phrase. Larousse's reference to ' Consola- tions ' is misleading. The famous line occurs in one of the poems of ' Pensees d'aofit,' published seven years after ' Consolations.' THOMAS FLINT. HENBY ELLIS BOATES OF LIVEBPOOL. Alive in 1793. His father was a merchant in that town, having a partner named Seaman. What was his business ? Did he leave descendants ? E. E. COPE. WAINWBIGHT'S POEM ON HIS MUBDEB OF HABBIET LANE. Henry Wainwright was executed in London, Dec. 21, 1875. Can any reader oblige with the name of the poem supposed to have been written by him and sold to the public for threepence on the very day he met his fate ? It may possibly have been issued for the benefit of the murderer's wife and children, who ultimately benefited by a public subscription of 1,232. FBEDK. C. WHITE.