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 NOTES AND QUERIES.

[2nd S. N 3., JAN. 19. '56.

Quarto Plays, early English Poetry, and a few scarce Tracts, Sj-c., sold by Leigh Sf Sotheby, April,' 1805, 8vo. The arrangement of this small catalogue is excellent. Many of the books in it are of the rarest occurrence, and, to my knowledge, were of the finest preservation. The collector is no more 1 He died in India ; cut off in the iirime of life, and in the midst of his intellectual and book-collecting ardour. He was a man of exceedingly gentlemanly manners and amiable disposition, and his laste was, upon the whole, well cultivated and correct. Many a pleasant, and many a profitable hour, have I spent in his ' delightsome library' ! ! ! "

And in a subsequent note, where mention is made of Porson attending a circle of literary friends, it is added : " Poor Fillinghani was of the party."

Can any of your readers tell me who this Mr. Fillingham, the book-collector, was? Who were his relations ; what his profession ; and where he lived before he went to India ?

HENRY KENSINGTON.

Portuguese Preachers. Would any of your correspondents oblige me by giving any infor- mation respecting Raphael de Jesus, and Joseph de Oliveira, Bishop of Angola, two famous Portu- guese preachers of the seventeenth century ?

E. H. A.

Richard Hart/son. Information is desired re- specting the birth, parentage, education, marriage, or burial of Richard Haryson [spelt Hereson in Blomefield], the first Protestant Rector of Brade- stone, co. Norfolk, and who is supposed to have died prior to the year 1562.

ALEX. HUGH FASTOLF.

Dunlof Park.

Dreigh. Can any of your correspondents give me any information respecting an Irish duke whose family name was Dreigh, and who was alive, I believe, in 1700? What was his title ? Whether any of that family or name are still in existence, and what may be their crest and arms ? E. C.

Oxford.

Life of Sir William llomney. Where can I find any account of the life of Sir Wm. Romney, who was formerly alderman of London, and sheriff there in 1603, and a great benefactor to the town of Tetbury ? ALFRED T. LEE.

Tetbury, Gloucestershire.

Archbishop Law, of Glasgow. I shall be glad to know any particulars respecting the descent of James Law, Archbishop of Glasgow from 1615 to 1632, and, previously to that, Bishop of Orkney. Before being raised to the Episcopate, he was for some time minister of Kirkliston, near Edinburgh. His grandson, James Law, of Brunton, in Fife, married Margaret, daughter of Sir John Preston, Bart., of Preston Hall, and his great-grandson, William Law, was married to Jean Campbell,

descended from one of the branches of the House of Argyll ; they were the parents of the cele- brated John Law, of Lauriston. Can any of your correspondents give me any account respecting the ancestors of Archbishop Law, or from what particular branch of the House of Argyll Jean Campbell was descended ? ALFBED T. LEE.

Tetbury, Gloucestershire.

Altar Cloths. With reference to a recent judgment in the Consistory Court of London, I should be glad to be furnished with any notices, hitherto unpublished or no, of altar vestments of different colours, procured and used in post Re- formation times. The use of a second for Lent, though pronounced by Dr. Lushington illegal, is of course the rule rather than the exception ; but any notices from churchwardens' accounts of the purchase of such a cloth, and, if it exists, of any directions from archdeacons with reference to it, would be acceptable. W. DENTON.

Acoustics. If I, from my room, converse through the unopened window with a man in the street, both equidistant from the glass, and speak- ing in the same tone, I -shall hear much belter than he. Why ? PATRICIUS.

Painting on Copper, Sfc. When was copper first used by artists for painting upon ?

Did Albert Durer ever paint upon that metal ?

CHEMICUS.

What were in realitij the Beasts which Louia Vertomannus saw at Mecca? In a black-letter collection of Travels, "gathered in parte, and done into Englyshe by Richarde Eden ; ne%ly set in order, augmented and finished by Richarde Wille?, imprinted at London by Richarde Juggc, 1577," there is what appears to be the copy of a publication thus entitled :

" The Nauigation and Vyages of Lewes Vertomannus, Gentleman, of Rome, to the Regions of Arabia, Egypte, Persia, Syria, Ethiopia, and East India, both within and without the llyeur of Ganges, &c. In the Yeere of our Lorde, 1503. Conteynyng many Notable and Straunge Thinges, both Hysterical! and Naturall."

From this I have made the following extract :

" On the vnicorns of the temple of Media, whiche are not seene in any other place. On the other part of the temple are parkes and places inclosed, where are seene two vnicorns, named by the Greekes, Monocerotce ; and are there shewed to the people for a myracle, and not without good reason, for the seldomnesse and strange nature. The one of them, which is much hygher then the other, yet not mvclie vnlike to a colte of thyrtye monethes of age; in the forehead groweth only one home, in manor ryght foorth, of the length of three cubites. The other is much younger, of the age of one yeere, and lyke a yo tinge colte": the home of this is of the length of foure handfuls. This beaste is of the coloure of a horse of weesell coloure, and hath the head lyke an hart, but no long uecke, a thymic mane lumgyn^c onlye ou the