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 NOTES AND QUERIES. 1 LONDON. JULY 2, 1921. CONTENTS. No. 168. NOTES: A Manuscript by Samuel Cooper and a Side- light on John Hoskins, 1 Inscriptions in the Church- yard of St. Nicholas, Deptford, 3 Reynolds of Coolbeg, Co. Donegal, 5 The Mystery of Richard Parker of The Nore, 8 Parody on famous French Sonnet Richard Dudley, 9 Feeding Pheasants on Milk and Cheese Epitaph at Glencorse, 10. QUERIES : Fontenelle's * Nouvelles de la Republique des Lettres Peers' Mantles, 10 Fenning's ' Royal English Dictionary ' Queen Elizabeth and the French Am- bassador " Wild-cat Scheme" Sir Thomas Browne's ' Religio Medici 'Varieties of Cheeses in 1534 Jacketed Cheese Vat, 11 Privilege of Templars and Hospitallers- Sir Benjamin Hammet William's, executed 1618 Thomases : Artists and Engravers The Gregorian Calen- dar Dickson : Kirkpatrick Dannett Family Corbish- ley Family Song wanted, 12. REPLIES : The Plague Pits, 12 Canaletto, 13 Mary Godwin, 14 The Smallest Pig of a Litter G. 5L Cooke and his County Itineraries Coco-nut Cup, 15 " Parlia- ment Clock" Banquo Hicks's MS. History of St. Ives, Cornwall, 16 Cockney Pronunciation "Mobs Hole " Hair-brushes Swindon : " Damas " Cholerton Clementina Johannes Sobiesky Douglass Henry Clay Family Mottoes, 17" Single Whiskey " Lowestoft China Prisoners who have survived hanging Peter Beckford, 18 Handshaking May Saying Author Wanted, 19. NOTES ON BOOKS : ' Studies in Islamic Mysticism.' Noti-es to Correspondents. A MANUSCRIPT BY SAMUEL COOPER AND A SIDE-LIGHT ON JOHN HOSKINS. CONSIDERING the importance of Samuel Cooper (1609-1672) as a miniature-painter, his wide circle of distinguished acquaint- ances and the reputation which he enjoyed during ^his lifetime, the information con- cerning him is decidedly meagre. During recent years several attempts * have been made to give an account of him, in which the facts recorded by Richard Graham f ton Magazine, vol. ix., pp. 296 et seq., and 367 et seq. ; J. J. Foster, ' Samuel Cooper ' ; B. W. Goulding, fourth annual volume of the Walpole Society, pp. 20-24 ; Dr. G. C. Williamson, ' The Miniature Collector,' 1921. t Bichard Graham, ' A Short Account of the Most Eminent Painters,' 1695, pp. 338, 339. and Horace Walpole * have received numerous additions culled from Pepys's ' Diary,' the Exchequer Accounts, the publications of the Historical Manuscripts Commission, and so forth. But none of these biographies, as far as I am aware, mentions any authentic specimens of the great limner's handwriting, apart from those on the face of miniatures. Sir R. R. Holmes f quotes an inscription on the back of a miniature by Cooper at Welbeck Abbey which runs as follows : The first Ivorey this pictr and on(e) other which Mr. graham had away is not paid for three guinis is the price. Sir Richard supposed this to be in Cooper's hand, but, as also with regard to the in- scription on the back of another miniature at Welbeck Abbey, Mr. R. W. Goulding J has shown that the writing is probably that of L. Cross(e), the miniaturist. Incidentally, with reference to the above-quoted in- scription, it may be pointed out that " Mr. Graham," who was doubtless identical with Richard Graham mentioned above, possessed several works by Cooper, one of which, Cooper's pastel self -portrait, is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum. The sale catalogue of Graham's collection is given in the Fifteenth Report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission, Appendix, Part vii. , p. 206. The auction, one of the earliest recorded in which miniatures by Cooper were bid for, took place on March 6, 1711, at Mr. Pelitier's, next house to the Wheat Sheaf in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. There does, however, exist a manuscript written by the hand of Samuel Cooper, and duly authenticated by contemporary evi- dence. Sir Theodore Turquet de Mayerne, the son of a French historian, was born near Geneva on Sept. 28, 1573. He studied at Heidelberg, took medical degrees at Montpellier, and by 1600 was practising medicine at Paris, where he controversially advocated the use of chemical remedies. In 1606 an English lord whom he had cured took him to England, where he was 1762-1761. t Sir B. B. Holmes, loc. tit., p. 303. t B. W. Goulding, op. cit., pp. 83, 91, whence I have quoted the corrected transcription. See my account of it in The Art Journal, 1909, p. 15*
 * Notably those of Sir B. B. Holmes, Burling-
 * Horace Walpole, ' Anecdotes of Painting,'