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FitzHubert (de Hie) and Hugo, "nepos Herbert!." Does Dr. Round deal with this De Cornhill -Hubert pedigree in any later work I may have overlooked, or has any other antiquarian gone over this ground ?

Adam FitzHubert was one of the com- pilers of Domesday and brother of Eudo "Dapifer. " Quite another Hubert was Chamberlain to Queen Matilda, circa 1135. PEBCY HULBUBD.

124 Inverness Terrace, W.

AUTHOR or QUOTATION WANTED.

When the dumb Hour, clothed in Black

Brings the Dreams about my bed, Call me not so often back,

Silent voices of the dead, Toward the lowland ways behind me,

And the sunlight that is gone ! Call me rather, silent voices,

Forward to the Starry track Glimmering up the heights beyond me,

On and always on ! M. P. N.

Jteplus.

WILLIAM SANDERSON.

(12 S. vii. 450.)

THE portrait mentioned by your corre- spondent is that of Sir William Sanderson, the historian, and forms the frontispiece to his 'History of Charles I.,' 1658. The portrait was painted by G. Soest, and engraved by W. Faithorne (see ' A Descrip- tive Catalogue of the Works of Wm. Faith- orne,' 1888). There is another copy of the same plate, re-worked, fronting his " Graphice," 1658. Both are line portraits and both give his age as 68. They are half- length looking to right, within an oval frame, on pedestal, and the size is 9f by 6 in. There is no name of painter or engraver on the former, neither is there the year, otherwise they are the same. The painter's name under the portrait is printed " Souse."

There is a very good account of this historian in the 'D.N.B.' The date of his birth and parentage have always been a puzzle, but some years ago I spent con- siderable time in trying to settle the ques- tion. I have long wanted to put on record in ' N. & Q. ' the result of my research, and this I will do later on, only mentioning now that he was the fourth child and third son of William Saunderson by his wife Margaret, daughter of Hugh Sneddall, and was

christened at St. Magnus-the-Martyr, London Bridge, on Feb. 12, 1589, where his parents were married on May 4, 1584. Margaret was granddaughter of Walter Raleigh, the father of Sir Walter Raleigh, the navigator. Wm. Saunderson, the father, was of the Fishmongers Company and was known in his time and since as the Maker of the Globes, about which more anon. His father, Stephen Saunderson, was of the same com- pany, and lived in the neighbouring parish of St. Mary-at-Hill.

Although I had informed the late Rector of St. Magnus that I wanted to see his registers for a literary purpose only I had to pay the legal fee for every year I searched and for every entry I noted. Fortunately, this was just the reverse to my usual experience.

The portrait of the historian, from his 'History of Charles I.,' was reproduced in The Geographical Journal for June, 1903, but incorrectly given as his father of the same name of the Fishmongers Company. CHARLES HALL CROUCH.

204 Hermon Hill, S. Woodford.

Sir William Sanderson (1586 ?-1676), Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Charles II., was a sufficiently well-known personage of the seventeenth century. He is, of course, given a notice in the 'D.N.B.' Evelyn, who went to his funeral at West- minster on July 19, 1676, characterises his two historical works as "large but mean."

Sanderson's portrait, " Souse pinxit, W. Faithorne sculp.," is found, or ought to be found, in his ' Graphice. The Use of the Pen and Pensil,' 1658 ; and on the leaf immediately following the title are six lines by Thomas Flatman ' On the Picture of the Author. '

The author's portrait also embellishes his ' Compleat History of the Life and Raigne of King Charles from His Cradle to hisOrave,' 1658.

Bridget, Lady Sanderson, daughter of Sir Edward Tyrrell, knt., was Mother of the Maids to Charles the Second's Queen. She had held the same office in the Court of Henrietta Maria. See John Holmes's note to Evelyn's 'Life of Mrs. Godolphin.'

EDWARD BENSLY.

This was Sir William Sanderson (1586 ?- 1676), historian ('D.N.B.'). The engraving about which the inquiry is made is wrongly described (as to the states) by Fagan, in