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unique collection of paintings, engravings, caricatures, and every other kind of por- traiture was eventually offered by Mr. Wil- liams to the nation, but not being accepted was advertised for sale at Sotheby's on 6 May, 1889. Before the sale it was privately purchased by Sir Kichard Tangye, of Birm- ingham, in whose possession I presume it still remains. The catalogue of pictures, &c., contains iv+22 pp., and is, of course, too long to reproduce in the columns of ' N. & Q.'

In 1883 Mr. Williams took the bulk of his collection down to Houghton, in Hunting- donshire, and in Cromwell's county lectured thereon. A guide to the exhibition, contain- ing a list of the portraits and many interest- ing details connected therewith, was published by Mr. J. G. Hankin, of St. Ives.

The De Kewer Williams Collection has several times been described in the public press, some of the best notices being as follows :

Moonshine, 5 June, 1879. This was the first number and contained a satirical cartoon of Mr. Williams. Baptist, 24 Oct., 1879. Christian Commonwealth, 21 Dec., 1882. City Press, 28 Jan., 1883. Antiquarian Magazine, July and August, 1883. These two articles were written by the editor, the late Mr. Edward Walford. Christian World, 12 Jan., 1888. Pall Mall Gazette, 14 Feb., 1889. Amongst modern pictures of Cromwell exhibited at the Royal Academy the two following are deserving of special mention : 'Cromwell at Ripley Castle' by Rud. Lehmann and ' Oliver Cromwell visits John Milton ' by David Neal. These were repro- duced in the Illustrated London News, 30 July, 1892, and the Graphic, 21 Nov., 1885, re- spectively. JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

Oliver Cromwell, in the possession of his Grace the Duke of Grafton. Engraved by J. K. Sherwin." In the Hope Collection at the Bodleian Library at Oxford there is a copy of Clarendon's ' History of the Rebellion ' containing a very large collection of portraits of Cromwell and Charles I., and there are many others in portfolios. No doubt the curator would reply to any questions that might be asked. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

I should have supposed your correspondent would have been acquainted with Bromley's 'Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits,' London, 1793, wherein he will find a list of forty-three portraits of the Protector (pp. 93-4), though I must admit Bromley's particulars are alwa,ys most meagre.

F. L. MAWDESLEY.

PUDDLEDOCK (9 th S. i. 329, 478 ; ii. 157, 211). My attention has just been recalled to MR. SKEVINGTON'S query, which I had intended but forgot to answer, by reading the follow- ing title of a book or tract in the Guildhall Library (' Catalogue,' p. 762) :

"News from Puddle-dock in London: or a per- fect particular of the strange apparitions and transactions that have happened in the house of Mr. Edward Pitts, next door to the Still, at Puddle- dock. London, 1674."

"A beautiful engraving of the head of Oliver Cromwell, once his property," on a fine seal, is referred to in ' N. & ^.' (I 8<t S. vii. 427) as being in existence at Dublin in 1853.

R. B.

Upton.

Allow me to refer your Transatlantic corre- spondent to Noble's ' Memoirs of the Crom- wells ' (vol. i., Letters FF., third edition, 1787), where he will find a long catalogue of en- graved portraits of Oliver Cromwell. There is a curious engraving of a bust of the Pro- tector, representing him perfectly bald with a wart over his right eye. Underneath is inscribed, "From a Bust of the Protector,

It was suggested at the second reference that " any interment in Bedfordshire might repre- sent a former occupant "of the place named in the above title ; and a spot so called in South Essex was mentioned at the third reference.

But we need not wander so far away from Turvey, the burial-place of "William Skeving- ton, senior." In the Bedfordshire map of Gary's 'English Atlas,' published in 1787, there is a place marked "Puddle Dock," equidistant one mile from Souldrop and Knotting, and (judging by the map measure ment) eight miles, as the crow flies, north-east of Turvey. An inquiry of the rector of Knotting might elicit further information.

F. ADAMS.

106A, Albany Road, Camberwell.

TARR (9 th S. ii. reading of carr ?

46). Is not

this a mis Q. V.

DANISH PRONUNCIATION (9 th S. ii. 328). This inquiry comes opportunely, now the name Roeskilde is on every lip in connexion with the burial of the Queen of Denmark. Its diphthong is no diphthong; the two vowels should be separately pronounced, making four syllables. This is, however, an old ortho-