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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9 th S. 1. JUNE 25, '98.

secolo di vostro Cristo " seems to indicate that figures were among the weak points for which he apologizes in Ottoman printing.

Books published by Ibrahim Achmet are probably well known to some of your readers, and I think that many of us would be inter- ested by such notes as they may favour us with on the original edition I refer to.

J. M. TROTTER.

Colinton, N.B.

[You have stumbled on a supercherie. The work you mention was published in Italy, presumably in Florence, near the middle of last century, say 1743. It may interest you to know that the edition a contrefaqon of which with 228 pages instead of 220 was issued supplies a good text. Fanciful rubrics such as that here employed are common enough in French and Italian literature. See Haym's ' Biblip- teca Italiana : ossia Notizia de' Libri Ilari Italiani,' Milano, 1803, vol. iii. p. 24. Few works of any sort were printed in Constantinople under Turkish rule, though Ibrahim Effendi, in 1726 or soon after, established, by permission, a press. See Cotton's 'Typographical Gazetteer.' Ibrahim Achmet is most probably a name of fantasy.]

THE HEAD OF THE DECAPITATED DUKE OF SUFFOLK. Until recently the church of the Holy Trinity in the Minories contained the head of the Duke of Suffolk, father of Lady Jane Dudley, commonly known as Lady Jane Grey, beheaded for instigation of his daughter's attempt upon the throne. The church has been pulled down. Can any one state what has become of the head 1

WALTER SYLVESTER.

[See 6 th S. xii. 241, 302, 418 ; 8 th S. iii. 466, 499 : iv. 44; viii. 286, 393; x. 72, 144; xii. 114.]

BEARDS. Can any correspondent tell me if slaves in Persian ^seraglios are still shaved as a mark of servitude ? Does the custom prevail in any other countries ?

WILLIAM ANDREWS.

The Hull Press, Hull.

MORE FAMILY PORTRAIT. I am anxious to learn if any one has a duplicate of a portrait of Christopher Cresacre More, great- grandson and biographer of the Chancellor. Mine is a three-quarter-length on panel in the dress of the period (1611), with his left hand on the hilt of his sword, arid the right extended in a curious way across his stomach, which gives the picture a peculiar feature, although the face and other parts are well painted. On the upper left-hand corner is, in faint yellow, the following legend : Acer Cres animq Christi fer More labores Pectus Eliza ferit Gagea betha (?) tuum. Jita. suse 38. 1611.

Christopher Cresacre More was born in 1572, and married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas

Gage, of Firle, Esq. I do not know the date of his marriage, but from the legend I infer it was after the portrait was painted. If any of the elder descendants of Sir Thomas More have a duplicate, or can tell me by whom the portrait was painted, I shall be gratefully obliged. C. T. J. MOORE, F.S.A.

Frampton Hall, near Boston.

FROBISHER FAMILY. I shall be greatly obliged to any correspondent of 'N. & Q.' who can give me particulars of the descen- dants of John Frobisher, of Chirk, Denbigh- shire, who married Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Thomas Bulkeley, of Eaton, circa 1425. Were the Frobishers of Altofts, co. York, descended from this John Frobisher 1 WM. JACKSON PIGOTT.

SIBYL GRAY'S WELL. Did such a person as Sibyl Gray, who is mentioned by Sir W. Scott in 'Marmion,' ever exist? There is a well close to the village of Branxton which the inhabitants of that place say is the one spoken of by Sir Walter; but some little way off is another, also pointed out as that spring whence Clara brought water for the dying man. Can any one tell me which statement is the correct one 1 K.

COL. WALL. In or about the year 1804 Lieut.-Col. Joseph Wall, retired Commandant of "Wall's African Corps," was brought to trial in Dublin, found guilty, and executed, on the charge of murder, in having caused the death of a soldier by flogging. I recall having seen a printed report of the trial, but now so long ago that particulars of the case have escaped my memory. Perhaps some of the readers of ' N. & Q.' may be able to tell us something about what must have been une cause celebre at the time, more than twenty years having elapsed between the punish- ment (?) of the soldier and that of his colonel, who ordered the flogging and saw it carried out to the end. The crime for which Col. Wall paid the penalty on the scaffold was committed in the island of Goree, circa 1782. Wall's African Corps was disbanded in 1783, but the colonel's name remained on the H.P. of the Army List until the time of his being brought to trial. W T. SHANLY.

Montreal.

[Wall was executed 28 Jan., 1802.]

' COURSES DE FESTES ET DE BAGUES.' Will any reader kindly give me information respecting the following work? "Courses de Festes et de Bagues Faittes Par Le Roy, et par Les Princes et Seigneurs de sa Cour, en 1'annee 1662. Paris, 1669 " [sic]. It con- tains no letterpress, and the pages are not