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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. m. MAY, 1917.

(12 S. iii. 230.)

3. A portrait of Edward Robinson will be found in Duyckinck's ' Cyclopaedia of American Literature,' vol. i. p. 879.

6. Portraits of Roger Williams will be found in The Art Journal for 1870, vol. xxx. p. 171 ; Mitchell's ' American Lands and Letters,' 1897, vol. i. p. 19; Spofford's 'Library of Historical Characters,' 1896, vol. ii. p. 346. ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

JOB HEATH'S POSSET CUP (12 S. iii. 9). I find I must qualify what I said above relating to the sisters of Job Heath. My authority for stating that I was in possession of the names of his sisters rested on the record of their baptism (after the order of the Anabaptist Churches), as contained in the ancient church book of the "Particular" Baptist church at Alcester, under date Feb. 13, 1711/12, coupled with an extract irom the history of the Job Heaths by the late Rev. Charles Stanford, D.D., a distin- guished divine of the Baptist body. This little work was published in 1877, and is entitled ' Home and Church.' A copy is in the British Museum. He says :

"The first fact^ibout the family, in a clear series reaching; to our own time, is found in the old minute-book of the Baptist Church at Alcester : ' Job Heath with four of his sisters were baptized, on a profession of faith, Feb. 13, 1711.' "

On making application fourteen years ago to the then minister of this church for a copy of the record, I received this reply :

DEAR SIR, I have searched our old church book since receiving your letter. The entry on Feb. 13, 1711, stands in the following form. Job Heath ; Sarah Bliss, wife of J. Bliss of Henley ;

Rebecca Bird of ; Anne Savage, wife of John

Savage ; Sarah Dallaway of Henley : Mary Cox, daughter of John Cox, were baptized Feb. 13.

You will probably know better than 1 whether any of these were Job Heath's sisters, except in a spiritual sense. 1 can find no other information.

J. R. ANDREWS.

Since writing my article fresh evidence has somewhat weakened my first opinion as to the sense in which " sisters " should be taken, and here for the present I must leave it. This much is certain : all these families were very closely connected, and inter- marriages were numerous.

JOHN W. BBOWN.

No. 10 DOWNING STREET (12 S. iii. 274). We may infer that during its occupation by Count Bothmar a flag other than the Union Jack was on occasions flown at this house. He succeeded Fabrici as Hanoverian Minister, and had possession until his death appar-

ently for about three years (Pascoe, ' No. 10 Downing Street,' p.' 119). In 1735 Sir Robert Walpole removed here from St. James's Square, and a contemporary MS. note before me records :

" The North and West part of the House which Lord Orford lived in in the Park, consisting of three large Booms and three lesser, was possessed by Count Bothmar.

" As was also a side building to the East in which were the Count's offices, and are now two rooms on a floor with a Staircase. The Count also rented of Mr. Downing a little house on the south part, together with some Coachhouses and Stables."

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

REFERENCE WANTED (12 S. iii. 210). The Spanish text of the sonnet by Lope de Vega contained in Edward Churton's ' Gongora,' vol. ii. p. 139, will be found in vol. iv. p. 454 of Vega's ' Coleccion de las obras sueltas, assi en prosa, como en verso,' Madrid, 1776-9, 21 vols., 4to., and might be consulted at the British Museum, the London Library, or the John Rylands Library, Manchester. The sonnet is as follows :

MULTDM LEGENDUM, SED NOK MULTA. (Plin. Jun. Lib. vi.)

Libros, quien os conoce y os entiende, ,. c6mo puede llamarse desdichado ? si bien la proteccion que le ha faltado, el templo de la fama le defiende :

Aqui su libertad el alma extiende, y el ingenio se alienta dilatado, que del profano vulgo retirado en solo amor de la virtud se enciende.

Ame, pretenda, viva el que preflere

el gusto, el oro, el ocio al bien que sigo, pues todo muere, si el sujeto muere.

estudio, liberal, discrete, amigo,

que solo hablas lo que un hombre quiertf : por ti he vivido, morire' contigo.

E. E. BARKER.

OLD INNS (12 S. iii. 169, 257). I am much indebted to the several correspondents who have been good enough to reply re old inns, and hope to avail myself of MR. GRUNDY-NEWMAN'S kind invitation when I am in the neighbourhood of Walsall.

1 went to the Bull's Head, Market Place, Manchester, and found they no longer provide for residents, though a friend of mine tells me he put up there about five years ago. Opposite the Bull is the Shambles, of obvious antiquity, and near by is the Poets' Corner, also old.

I stayed recently at the Swan, Stafford, which is a fine old building with an old oak staircase and furniture. ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.

HANS-TOWN OR CADOGAN-LAND (12 S. iii. 7C 155, 236). I am obliged to B. C. S. for hi courteous criticism of my reply to his origii query, but I hope to be able to convince him the date, viz., 1886, given as that of the demoli-