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 9*8. VII. MAY 25, 1901.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1901.

CONTENTS. -No. 178.

NOTES : Stow's Portrait, 401 Manor of Tyburn, 402- Neptune and crossing the Line Mayflower and the National Flag. 404 " To join issue " Jowett's Little Garden Battle of Varna " Maguey, " 405 " Alewives " Stock Exchange Centenary Gipsies and Longevity " Life's work well done," 406" Carol," 407.

QUERIES : A Nelson Relic Delagoa Bay-" St. Hubert's rent, " &c. " Shuttles " " Rabbating, ' 407 Bradford Token The Last Judgment Continual Burnt Offering Joan of Arc Archbishop Howley "A hago "William Hone Tragedy by Mr. Gladstone Mortimer George Wallace Cluny and Clunie Button and Seaman Families Marriage Custom C. Talbot, Printer, 408 Jacques Cartier's Voyage Bishop's Head and Foot Book of Morning and Evening Prayer Municipal Coincidences- Baron Grivignce and Power Thomas Marryat, M.D., 409.

REPLIES: Walton Relic Hatton's Monument West- Countrymen's Tails Apostle Spoons, 410 Official Lists "Bull and Last" Hately Family Nelson's Death Patmore and Swedenborg, 411 Friday Superstition " Canouse "Bottled Ale: its Invention The Barclays of Mathers Florio's 'Montaigne' " Theodolite" Sil- houettes of Children, 412 An American Invasion Robert Johnson, Sheriff, 413 Crosse Hall Funeral Cards 'Paddle your own Canoe,' 414 Joseph Bouhnier Breckenridge Governor Haynes's Grandfather, 415 " Kybosh " Dan teiana Defender of the Faith, 416 Coco de Mer Towns with Changed Sites " Morning Glory" The "Crown" behind the Royal Exchange, 417 Lusus Naturae " Gast "English Parsimony and the Cat, 418.

NOTES ON BOOKS : Skeat's 'Concise Etymological Dictionary ' Baddeley's 'Aldermen of Cripplegate Ward ' Calendar of the Patent Rolls ' ' Melusine ' ' L'lnter- mediaire.'

Notices to Correspondents.

JOHN STOW'S PORTRAIT, 1603.

AMONGST the most interesting of the graphic illustrations in the past century's issue or the Gentleman's Magazine was a good reproduc- tion of Stow's portrait (vide vol. vii., N.S., for January, 1837). The then editor, the late J. G. Nichols, F.S.A., who wrote the notice of it, described this portrait on copper as executed in exact facsimile of the unique original belonging to T. Rodd, the book- seller, prefixed to a copy of Stow's * Survey,' edition of 1603. The latest biographer of Stow, Mr. Sidney Lee in the ' D.N.B.,' briefly refers to this, and observes :

" Besides the sculptured portrait on the tomb [in St. Andrew's Undershaft, City], a contemporary engraving of Stow was prepared for his * Survey,' ed. 1603. The original painting belonged to Ser- jeant Fleetwood (cf. Manningham, * Diary '). Most extant copies of the ' Survey 5 lack the portrait. It is reproduced in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1837, i. 48. The inscription on the engraving entitles Stow [should be "Johannes Stowe"] ' Antiquarius Anglise.' His friend Howes described him as ' tall of stature, leane of body and face, his eyes small and crystalline, of a pleasant and cheerful coun- tenance.'"

Mr. Sidney Lee does not state what autho- rity there is for the conclusion that the

portrait was prepared expressly for the 1603 edition of the ' Survey.' And if most copies lack it, where are the minority of the copies, or even one of them, possessing it ] Nichols, writing in 1837, observes that the existence of a contemporary engraving of the por- trait had been hitherto unknown, until the recent discovery of an impression (perhaps unique) which was found pasted to the back of the title of a copy of the ' Survey,' edit. 1603.

" The volume is now in the possession of Mr. T. Rodd, the bookseller, of Great Newport Street, by whom we have obligingly been permitted to copy it, a task which has been executed with great fidelity by Mr. Swaine. Stowe is styled in the circumference * Antiquarius Angliae,' a character in which of all his contemporaries Camden alone can be ranked before him. The portrait represents him, as does the effigy, quite in his old age ; yet his features scarcely appear to bear the weight of seventy-seven years. His temperate and cheerful disposition, which is on record, appears, not- withstanding his misfortunes and poverty, to have maintained a hale constitution to an advanced period of life."

Sir Henry Ellis seems to have taken the same view. His letter to Nichols, 31 Dec., 1836, is now before me. In it he says :

" I am much pleased to see the new portrait of old Stowe in the new Month's Magazine, will you allow me to beg two, each, of the Portrait and the Memoir, if they can be spared. For the age of 77 he looks pretty chubby."

Bplton Corney also wrote to Nichols in similarly appreciative terms, and noticed the facsimile or this hitherto unrecorded portrait in Article vii. p. 41 of his ' New Curiosities of Literature.' There is fortunately no mis- take about the age of Stow when the portrait was engraved, as it has at foot the words "^Etatissuse 77. 1603." It is regrettable that it is without the engraver's name or mono- gram. It certainly gives the impression of a man who has risen superior to all his trials, and of whom it may be said, "Jactatus multum, sed non fractus ab annis."

But there remains something more to mention. When J. G. Nichols's papers, *fec., were sold, amongst the selection that came to the present writer's hands was a second original impression of the portrait, with the following letter from Dr. Dalton :

Dunkirk House, near Nails worth,

26 June, 1841.

MY DEAR SIK, Having now returned home from London, I have the pleasure of sending for your acceptance the ancient engraving of Stowe which a writer in the Gent. Mag. believed to be unique. I feared injuring it by endeavouring to detach it from the fly-leaf of Stowe's ' Chronicle ' in black letter, 1603, small quarto, and therefore you will receive it as originally placed. I shall be interested in know-