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 12 S. V. OCT., 1919.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

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NEWTON, R.A. (12 S. v. 236). Consult Algernon Graves's book, ' Royal Academy Exhibitors, 1769-1904,' where many portraits exhibited in the Royal Academy are recorded ; also engravings after G. S. Newton in Print Room of British Museum.

E. E. LEGGATT.

MARTIN (12 S. v. 236). (10) Samuel Martin. Probably only son of Col. Sam. Martin of the island of Antigua by his first wife Frances Yeamans. Born Sept. 1, 1714 ; of the Inner Temple, 1747 ; M.P. for Camel- ford and Hastings, Joint Secretary to Treasury, fought a duel with John Wilkes, 1763 ; Treasurer to the Princess of Wales, resided at 84 Pall Mall and Marshalswick, St. Albans, and died bachelor, Nov. 20, 1788 ; buried and M.I. at Great Canford, Dorset ; will [551 Calvert].

V. L. OLIVER, F.S.A.

Sunninghill.

Can any of the Martins have been of the family of Martins of Hemingstone Hall, Ipswich ? M.A.OxoN.

" APOCHROMATIC " (12 S. v. 209, 250). F. DE H. L. has misunderstood my query. There is not much doubt as to the quantity of the second o in the word ; it is the first o that I queried, and was surprised to find it marked long in ' Lloyd's Dictionary ' ; in most other compounds of apo- the o is short.

J. A. S.

METAL MORTARS (12 S. v. 209, 250). If MR. J. W. SWITHINBANK refers to The Pharmaceutical Journal of about three years ago he will find some interesting notes and descriptions of mortars. At my instance a description was inserted of the important example found at Hyde Abbey, and now in the Winchester Museum. No doubt the editor of the Journal will give the references.

W. H. QUARRELL.

Burlington Fine Arts Club, 17 Savile Row, W.I.

JOHN WILSON, BOOKSELLER (12 S. v. 237). In partial reply to MR. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY I find in The Globe, on Jan. 23, 1911, the following paragraph :

" Mr. Dobson says : ' The late Mr. John Wilson, bookseller, once of 93 Great Russell Street, and afterwards of 12 King William Street, Strand, informed me not long before his death that he made them up as a motto for one of his second- hand catalogues, where I think 1 saw them. He was amused at the vogue they eventually obtained.' No doubt many of the vogueists will be surprised, if not amused, by the revelation."

I venture very respectfully to differ from so learned a writer as Mr. Austin Dobson, in

consequence of my finding Mr. Alexander Ireland in his charming book, ' Thef Book- Lover's Enchiridion,' has placed the quota- tion as follows (I give his spelling and punctuation) :

O for a Booke and a shadie nooke, eyther in-a^

doore or out ; With the grene leaves whisp'ring overhede or the

Streete cryes all about. Where 1 maie Reade all at my ease, both of the

Newe and Olde ; For a jollie goode Booke whereon to looke, is better

to me than Golde.

as ' An Old English Song ' at a period between 1592-1670, and I do not think that such a careful compiler and author as Mr~ Alexander Ireland would have given a quotation in this particular period without/ due investigation, especially as he tells us in his preface (June, 1888) that he was fifty years making his collection of quotations, and his object " has been to present in- chronological order, a selection of the best thoughts of the greatest and wisest minds- on the subject of books."

He would doubtless have made an. alteration " in the chronological order " had it been necessary after his first edition,, published in 1882, or his second (or third) edition of 4,000 copies, or again in 1887, when a further new edition (of 5,000 copies) was issued.

Had this quotation been original to such a recent writer as Mr. John Wilson the bookseller, Mr. Alexander Ireland would have found it out and rectified his first or subsequent edition, and placed the quotation at a much later period than about 1590-1670.

I might mention incidentally that many years ago I adopted the full quotation in connection with my book-plate, which I still use, and which is much liked by my friends. OSCAR BERRY, F.C.A., C.C.

Monument Square, E.G.

MRS. SUSAN CROMWELL (12 S. v. 232). The late Sir Bernard Burke, in his ' The Rise of Great Families,' stated as follows : " Oliver Cromwell's last male descendant was Oliver Cromwell, an attorney, the son of a grocer on Snow Hill." He, therefore, was the brother of Mrs. Susan in modern sense, Miss Susan Cromwell, mentioned above. HERBERT SOUTHAM.

Loxley House, Maybury Hill, Woking.

MASTER GUNNER (12 S. v. 153, 212). A letter from Fra. Coningesbye, June 28, 1637, to Capt. Collins states that : " the Master Gunner William Elldreade had complained that he was enjovnde to watch and warde. He did not think that a Master Gunner ie to pass uppon the dutye of a common souldier