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 9*8. IV. Sept. 23, m] NOTES AND QUERIES. 249 crown of his cap a chimney ; a glass chain about his neck : his body and legs of olive-colour stuff, made close like the skin ; bases of tobacco-colour stuff, cut like tobacco leaves, sprinkled with orcedure; in his hand an Indian bow and arrow." Mr. Herbert A. Evans, in his excellent volume of 'English Masques,' seems half inclined to believe that the word " orcedure " is a misprint for "ochre dust." Rather would it appear to me to be an early form of " orsidew " or " orsidue " (for even now the orthography is indeterminate), a species of gold-leaf, thicker and more glittering than Dutch metal, much employed by scene painters at pantomime time. What is the derivation of "orsidue"? The late Mr. George Augustus Sala once suggested or and sMuire. W. J. Lawrence. Comber. Churches washed away by the Sea.— I shall be pleased to learn where I can find particulars of churches washed away by the sea. William Andrews. Hull Press. " Swabbers." — What are " swabbers " 1 "Whisk [i.e., whist] and swabbers" ('Rob Roy,' chap. xiv.). Jonathan Bouchier. [The ace and court cards at whist are so called.] Portrait of Speaker Sir Edward Tur- nour.—I possess a very fine half-length life- sized portrait in oil of a Speaker of the House of Commons, in official robes, with mace in foreground, which has recently been declared by a very competent authority to be a portrait of Sir Edward Tumour, Speaker 1661-71. This portrait came to me through my mother, a granddaughter of Henry Bell, of Wallington Hall, Norfolk, and it was in Wallington Hall at least a century ago, probably much earlier. 1 desire to trace, if possible, the probable source whence it came there. Wallington Hall itself came into the Bell family through Philip Bell, at one time Governor of Barbados, who purchased it from his kinsman Daniel Finch, second Earl of Nottingham. This Philip died in 1677. Was there any con- nexion, at that or at any later date, between the families of Tumour and of Bell 1 Man- ning's ' Lives of the Speakers' states that Sir Edward Tumour had two daughters. Did either of them marry Philip Bell above men- tioned 1 The subsequent owners of Walling- ton Hall, until it was sold by my great-grand- mother after her husband's death, were: 1. Philip Bell (nephew of Philip above named), who married, in 1698, Anne, daughter of Sir Algernon Peyton, Bart. 2. Henry Bell (son of Philip and Anne), who married, in 1738, Catherine, daughter of John Warmoll, of Boyland Hall, Norfolk. 3. Henry Bell (son of Henry and Catherine), who married, in 1773, Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Scarlet Browne, of Lynn, Norfolk. John H. Josselyn. Ipswich. Merivale's 'Essays on Landscapes.' — Will any reader please inform me where I can buy a copy of Herman Merivale's 'Essays on the Landscapes of the Ancients"? In an old number of the Athenanim it is suggested as being a useful book for artists. At the British Museum I can find only one essay (by the same author) on ' Italian Landscape Painting.' H. Windsor-Fry. Beatrice FitzReimund.—Can any of the readers of 'N. & Q.' oblige me with informa- tion relative to Beatrice, niece of Walter de Coutances, Bishop of Lincoln, or to her hus- band, Sir Alexander FitzReimund (fl. 1170)1 Philip Redmond. One of Blake's Flag-Captains. — Par- ticulars are wanted and any biographical details available concerning Capt. Lionel Lane, flag-captain to Blake in the Royal Sovereign off Deal in June, 1634, about which time Capt. Lane died. He became a naval officer in 1649, was with Blake as captain of the Victory off Dover in 1651, and served with distinction through the Dutch War. He was apparently a Suffolk man and had property near Beccles. His wife was a sister of Edmund Bohun, and he left several children, some of the descendants of whom may be alive and have some knowledge of papers and letters of Capt. Lionel Lane being in existence and accessible. Edward Fraser. Rimes in Books.—In an old Italian Testa- ment in the B.M. Library (Bruccioli's version, 1541)1 came across the following : "Augustine Bassano oweth this Book god send him grac theron to looke. Amen & praise god. 1590." Can any of your readers supply an earlier example? B. W. S. Matthew Arnold. — In the Star for 9 September there is an article headed ' Actors and Acting ' which purposes to treat of 'Matthew Arnold as Theatrical Critic' Reference is made in the article to some papers contributed to the Pall Mall Gazette over the signature of "An Old Playgoer." The exact date is not given, but from an incidental passage in the article I gather it to have been in the "early eighties." The writer says that "the old playgoer, as most people knew at the time, was Matthew