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 9*8. iv. tor. a, •».] NOTES AND QUERIES. 253 hoof oi the mare that is indispensable to her expedition. As the old catch-song goes :— " Will you lend me your mare to go a mile ? " " No, she is lame, leaping over a stile." " But if you will her to me spare, You shall have money for your mare." " Oh, ho ! say you so ? Money will make the mare to go." J. HOLDEN MAcMlCHAEL. Ooftisch is a Low German slang word, mean- ing "money," "cash," "brass," "dibs," "rhino," <fec. The word is quite common in certain German and student circles. I fancy I men- tioned this word before. The spelling may be "ooftich." I have never seen it in print except when I have used it myself. It is usually uttered with a very guttural sound. S. J. A. F. BLIGH (9th S. iii. 427 ; iv. 33, 97, 150, 217).— When recently at Lambeth, I examined Admiral Bligh's tomb in that churchyard. The monument is of the usual solid, heavy, oblong altar shape, having horn-like pro- jections at the corners, large scallop shells beneath them, and wreaths above the in- scriptions on the • sides. The top is sur- mounted by an urn discharging fire. On the south side is the shield of arms ; in the left- hand half (as you face it) is a winged lion rampant with an eagle-like head—perhaps the animal is meant for a griffin. Above it are two crescents, and beneath it one crescent. All are gold on a blue ground. The right- hand half of the shield bears a chief azure, below which is a gold ground indented, crossed by a bend gules. Above the shield is the motto, in gold capitals on a blue ribbon, "In cselo quies." The crest is a knight's helmet, on which rests a hand holding a battleaxe. and preparing to strike. In the wording I noticed the following slight varia- tions from the copy printed in 'N. & Q.': omit "in" after "fought"; for "Blues" read Blue; "Bligh" is in the same line as "Ad- miral"; for "William" read -Win. in last line but two. The shield is too long for its breadth. It has the horizontal lines cut in the stone. K. F. P. ENORAVED PORTRAIT op DEAN VINCENT (9th S. iy. 185).—I have been much interested in reading trie note on the above subject by the REV. JOHN PICKFORD. I have in my possession two portraits of the dean : one framed, and given to my grandfather( who was for many years connected with the Abbey) by the dean himself, and the other one in a collection of sixteen portraits of the Deans of Westminster, commencing with Dr. Kit-hard Cox, D.D., and ending with Dr. John Ire- land, D.D. They are both after the portrait painted by "Wm. Owen, Esq., R.A.," but the style of the engraving of the two pictures is entirely different. The framed one is 9£ in. by 7i in., and I should imagine is a copy of the entire picture, the portrait being three- quarters length, extending to below the knee. The learned divine, who is seated in an arm- chair, wears black clerical dress, red ribbon and badge of the Order of the Bath. The original picture is described as a panel, its size being 17 in. by 14 in. On the right hand is a table upon which there is an open volume and a large roll displaying the east-end view of Henry vll.'s Chapel, and "Owen Pinx', 1812," show- ing it to have been painted just three years before the dean's death, when he was seventy-three years of age; and on the left hand is a large terrestrial globe. Underneath the engraving it is stated to have been " Painted by Wm. Owen, R.A., Portrait Painter to H.R.H. the Prince Regent," and "Engraved by Henry Meyer, Gt. Russell St., Bloomsbury." My other portrait is only a portion of the former one, being 4 J in. by 4j in., and merely the head and a part of the body without any of the accessories in the original. This is described as "Drawn by G. P. Harding" and "Engraved by J. Stow." These portraits of the dean were in- tended to illustrate Brayley and Neale's ' History and Antiquities of the Abbey Church of St. Peter, Westminster,' and are all " proofs," and are further de- scribed as being "Published 31 December, 1822, byG.P. Harding, 18, Hercules Buildings, Lambeth," and this one of Dean Vincent is stated to be "From theoriginal picture by Wm. Owen, Esq., R.A., in the possession of G. G. Vincent, Esq." This was in 1822, or there- abouts ; in 1868 it was exhibited at South Kensington Museum, and in the catalogue is said to oe "Lent by Rev. W. Vincent," so that probably it is still in the possession of the family. The present Chapter Clerk of Westminster, C. St. Clare Bedford, married, as his first wife, a daughter of G. G. Vincent (who was a son of the dean, and held the office of Chapter Clerk), so most likely he could give some in- formation as to its whereabouts since 1868, its then owner, the Rev. W. Vincent, being, I am told, dead, which seems to be right, as his name is not in the 'Clergy List.' W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY. 14, Artillery Buildings, Victoria Street, S.W. I once saw another very fine example of William Owen's portraits not far from Aldenham House, at Aldenham Abbey, in the same parish, then occupied by Mr.