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 108 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vii. AUG. 7, 1920. Upon a comparison being made of the Cowley portrait with the known work of Dobson, I believe to King Charles I.'s '* Tintoretto " would be accorded the merit of having produced it. J. N. DOWLING. 48 Gough Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham. ' THE NORTHAMPTON MERCURY ' : ITS B i- CENTENARY. The Times Literary Supple? ment of July 22 contains an interesting review of ' The Bicentenary Record of The Northampton Mercury,' fiom. which I extract a note or two that may be of service to some readers of ' N. & Q.' A newspaper bi- centenary is so rare an event as to be of more than passing interest. No. 1 of The Northampton Mercury was published on Monday, May 2, 1720, and alone amongst all its earliest contemporaries, has never changed its title. That patriarch of all newspapers The London Gazette commenced in 1665, as The Oxford Gazette. Sorrow's Worcester Journal came into existence in 1709 as The Worcester Postman. Gone are all The Northampton Mercury's predecessors save these two. One further interesting note is, that The Northampton Mercury was a Whig journal at its commencement, when most other country newspapers were Jaco- bite or Torj'. It is a Liberal paper still. F. A. RUSSELL. 116 Arraii Road, S.E.6. ( items. We must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct. GNATOX. I am anxious to know where this place is : it has been transcribed as Ganton and as Gunton. In The Field of Aug. 14, 1875, p. 179, it is recorded that a cock pheasant, weighing 5 Ibs. 15 oz. was killed at Gnaton "while Admiral Sir Houston Stewart was residing there some years ago." I can find no place called Gnaton and the owners of both Ganton and Gunton can give me no information. I should also like to know the actual date on which this enormous pheasant was shot. HUGH S. GLADSTONE. Capenoch, Thornhill, Dumfriesshire. PHIPPS = WALLER. In a note in Jesse's 'George III.' (vol. iii. p. 438) it is stated that Phipps, ''the eminent oculist," who attended George III., was '.'afterwards known as Sir Wathen Waller, Bart.'* According to G. E. C.'s ' Complete Peerage/ where his marriage in 1812 to Sophia Char- lotte, Baroness Howe, is recorded, his full' name was Sir Jonathan Wathen Waller. (1) At what date did Phipps take the name- of Waller ? (2) What was his connexion with the Waller family ? (3) When was he- made a baronet ? 1 understand that his- present representatives claim to be descended from an elder branch of the family to which the poet Waller belonged. Presumably the oculist is the person alluded to by Lady- Louisa Stuart in her letter 01 Dec. 11, 1822,. to Miss Louisa Clinton, as " Baron Phipsy Waller," his wife being Baroness in her owrti right. CINQVOYS. GRANDFATHER CLOCK : DATE WANTED. I have a grandfather clock made by Isaac- Rogers (Clockmakera Co., 1776, Master later). The date of clock probably betweert 1780-1790. In the top of the door, sawn crosswise, there are deep clear saw-cuts, as- shown : X! V I Can any reader kindly inform me what date these marks are likely to represent ? I am in doubt as to 1796. NELSON B^THURST., 12 Goodmayes Lane, Goodmayes, Essex. "LE TIR ANGLAIS." On theU: 80,000 map- of France, the name " Le Tir Anglais" appears 1 mile south-east of Hazebrouck. Doubtless it refers to some past engagement of our troops ; I surmise it dates from 1513, projbably the scene of a skimish while Henry VIII was besieging Therouanne. It is noteworthy that there are two other place- names within a mile, " Le Grand Haeard,'* and ". Au Soverain", both of which might have some connection. Can any one throw any light on it ? A. W. BURNE, Major, R.A. 21 Kelvin Grove, Liverpool. COLONEL JOHN LTGHTFOOT. Is anything; known as to the parentage or antecedents of Col. John Light foot, who was appointed Auditor -General of Virginia in 1670, an appointment which was subsequently re- voked. He was member of the Virginia Council of State in 1697, and Commander- in-Chief of King and Queen Co., dying in 1707. W. A. Crozier's ' Virginia Heraldfca * states that he was the brother of Philip Light-foot, and the two were immigrants to- Gloucester Co. in 1670 sons of John Light- foot, barrister, of Gray's Inn. This, how-