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 12 S. IV. JAN., 1918.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

BaUantyne, and Thomas Thomson (at the j born at Chatham iu 1789 ; studied at

end of the table). The three figures stand- ing up are Sir William Allan, Sir David Wilkie, and Sir Humphry Davy (examining a sword). The figure in front of the table, facing round three-quarters, is Thomas Campbell ; and the figure wearing Hessian boots and stroking his chin is Sir Adam Ferguson. There are seventeen figures in the picture

JOHN PATCHING.

If L. A. W. will consult ' The Homes and Haunts of Sir Walter Scott, Bart.,' by George G. Napier (Glasgow, MacLehose, 1897, pp. 174-5), he will there see a photo- gravure of this picture, and a complete list of the portraits. A similar list will also be found in a work entitled ' Abbotsford,' painted by William Smith, jun., described by W. S. Crockett (London, A. & C. Black, 1905, pp. 80-81).

The eight portraits he wants named are : Tom Campbell, sitting opposite to Thomas Moore; Constable and BaUantyne, the two printers, both sitting ; Allan and Wilkie, the painters, and Sir Humphry Davy (examining a sword), all three standing ; Sir Adam Ferguson (in Hessian boots, sitting) ; and on the extreme left of the picture Thomas (Hugh) Thompson (sitting). Napier calls the last-named Hugh Thompson, while Crockett refers to him as Thomas Thompson ; but Thomson seems the better spelling. J. CLARKE HUDSON.

Thornton, Horncastle.

[F. H. and MB. W. E. WILSON also thanked for replies.]

CONQUEST'S VERSION OF THE BIBLE (12 S. iii. 478). W. S. inquires as to a Bible published about the middle of last century by a Dr. George Conquest. I think W. S. must be referring to a Bible published by Dr. John Tricker Conquest. Of this Bible, which contained 20,000 emendations, two editions were issued : the first (16mo) in 1841, the second (8vo) in 1848. Dr. J. T. Conquest was a noted man-midwife of the time, and it was popularly said that those practitioners could be divided into two classes : those who enlivened the period of waiting for the infant by ribald stories, and those who did so by pious exhortations and Scriptural quotations. I fancy Dr. J. T. Conquest must have belonged to the latter

Edinburgh University ; M.D. 1813 ; L.C.P. London, 1819. He lived at 4 Aldermans- bury Postern about 1820-24, and lectured at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1825 ; died at the Oaks, Plumstead Common, Oct. 24, 1866, aged 77. He published the Bible referred to in 1841, the title-page of which runs, ' The Holy Bible, containing the Authorized Version, with 20,000 emenda- tions ' ; it was printed by John Childs & Son, Bungay, for Longman, Brown & Co.,

1841. about

In the preface the editor mentions 300 authorities from whose works

his emendations have been derived. A " People's Edition" was published in 1843. There are copies of both in the British Museum and in the library of the British and Foreign Bible Society.

ARCHIBALD SPABKE.

PEERAGES : THEIR SALE (12 S. iii. 479). A definite example of the purchase of a peerage in the reign of James I. is that of John Holies, who for 10,OOOZ. was created Baron Holies of Haughton in 1616, and Earl of Clare at a later date for an addi- tional payment of 5,OOOZ. See Prof. C. H. Firth's life of John Holies in the ' D.N.B.,' and S. R. Gardiner's ' History of England,' vol. ii. chap, xxi., where Sir John Roper's title of Lord Teynham is also said to have cost 10,OOOZ. References to authorities will be found in these two places.

On p. 294 of ' The Memoirs of Ann, Lady Fanshawe ' (1907), the editor has the following note :

" A somewhat lurid light upon the honours of these days is thrown by a letter of Sir Thomas Fanshawe of Jenkins to Christopher Hatton on this occasion [the coronation of Charles I.], in. which the uncle writes openly that there are 120 earls, viscounts, and barons to make, and that ready money will be accepted for these, and desires to know his nephew's wishes in the matter, The peerage conferred on Sir Christopher in 1643 was, doubtless, largely in recognition of the considerable sums advanced by him to King

Charles I."

EDWARD BENSLY.

class.

S. D. CLIPPINGDALE, M.D.

W. S. is in error in calling this man George, He is John Tricker Conquest (British Museum Catalogue styles him John Trickey under both his name and Bible). He was

STATUE AS WATER-FOUNTAIN (12 S. iii. 478, 521). At the second reference four contributors point to the Mannekin at Brussels as probably the statue sought by H. K. ST J. S. The Mannikin, however, does but partially answer the description given by the querist. He has in memory, " in a German or Italian town, a statue (single figure or group) used as a public fountain " ; and he has " a faint impression of four Cupids." These recollections are