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NOTES AND QUERIES.

s. in. APRIL -29, '99.

and at the close of the year (the copyright reverting to Mr. Ainsworth) it was reissued in three hand- some volumes, lavishly illustrated by Franklin."

From this it will be seen that the informa- tion retailed to MR. PICKFORD was founded on fact.

The portrait of Ainsworth in Chetham College Library is by Pickersgill. It was presented by Ainsworth to the college in 1878.

Following Blanchard's memoir in 'Rook- wood' is a biographical sketch by James Crossley, Esq., F.S.A. Mr. Crossley does not there allude to Ainsworth as a handsome man, but states that " the portraits of Pickers- gill and Maclise will always give, as far as painting can, to those unacquainted with the original, a perfect idea of the author of 'Rook- wood ' when in the full bloom of age and authorship." The portrait by Maclise be- longed to John Forster, and is now in the South Kensington Museum. A sketch of this picture appeared in the Graphic of 14 Jan., 1882.

From an article on Ainsworth in the Literary World of 4 April, 1840, I quote the following :

" Mr. Ainsworth's personal appearance is pre possessing. His figure is tall and elegant ; his face is replete with intellect and expression ; his fore head is of fine expanse, and his eyes have that peculiar softness which better associates with the charming heroines of Henri's court than with the lawless wights of Southwark Mint. He has like wise a pleasing voice ; his manners are frank anc unaffected, and those who enjoy his friendship car bear ready witness to his unfeigned liberality anc kindness.

This paragraph was penned just when Ainsworth was in the prime of life and in the full tide of popularity as a writer. Afte: his death Sala penned some interesting para graphs concerning him in the Illustratec London News of 7 Jan., 1882. Amongst them is one in which he says :

" I am old enough to remember William Harriso Ainsworth as a very handsome man, almost a handsome, indeed, as Count d'Orsay. It was a Irish gentleman, I believe, who at a conversazion at Gore House, observing the beautiful hostes engaged in conversation with D'Orsay, the handsom Ainsworth, the handsome Frank Sheridan, and th handsome ' Tom ' Duncombe, compared her lady ship to ' Venus surrounded by the Three Graces only there were four of them."'

In the series of 'Punch's Fancy Por traits,' No. 50 is devoted to W. Harriso Ainsworth. He isthereinost characteristicall delineated by Mr. Linley Sambourne as " th greatest axe-and-neck-romancer of our time This to me is the most charming portrait possess of the great novelist.

JOHN T. PAGE.

LENDING MONEY BY MEASURE IN DEVON-! HIRE (9 th S. ii. 367, 492 ; iii. 32, 191). One of I be old family legends related to me in my I hildhood was about a mysterious great-l reat-great-grandmother, "Kitty Lemal," of I >t. Ives, Cornwall, of whom it was said thatl he was fabulously rich, and used to lendl noney, measuring the guineas in a quart pot. I She is also said to have lent "a stockingful )f guineas" to a popular Parliamentary candi- late arid lost them.

JOHN HOBSON MATTHEWS.

Town Hall, Cardiff.

RED CASSOCKS (9 th S. iii. 188). Is there not! ome confusion here between Chapels Royal | and churches to which the Crown has the right of presentation? At St. James's, Ij relieve, the boys wear scarlet.

EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A.

ENSTONE, OXON (9 th S. iii. 128). It is stated (I cannot remember where) that the name is derived from Ina's Stone. There is,

mile or so from the town, an immense jlock, now known as, and marked on some I maps as, the Hoar Stone. It may formerly lave been known as Ina's Stone. There are also two villages, seven miles from Cirencester, Winson and Winstone, both of which are said to derive their name from a stone erected by or called after Ina, King of Wessex, to commemorate a victory in the neighbourhood. The two villages are not adjacent, probably fourteen miles apart, and more than twenty-two (the nearest) from Enstone.

PLACE-NAMES (9 th S. iii. 105, 177).-Wet- wang is a small parish joined to Fimber, near Driffield, West Riding, Yorkshire. The prefix "wet" is self-illustrative, unless put for west. "Wang-ery" is defined as "soft, flabby"; Wangford is found in Suffolk^ancl see Wansford in Northamptonshire. Wong is a marsh in Lincolnshire. A. B

Wetwang is a place-name in the Yorkshire wolds not far from Mai ton. R T I

MR. H. HURST may be glad to hear of Wet- wang in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

ST. SWITHIN.

PORTRAIT OF HUGH O'NEILL, EARL OF TYRONE (9 th S. iii. 89). There is a portrait on p. 22 of 'Old Belfast,' by R. M. Young (Belfast, Marcus Ward, 1896).

ARTHUR SHEPHARD.

Cromer, Norfolk.

Dr. Joyce, in his 'Smaller History of Ire- land' (p. 276), reproduces an engraving c