Notes and Queries, Number 173, February 19, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 173, February 19, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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It is not attached to
a pole, but fastened against the front of the inn: and a few years ago, an
idea prevailing that "The Loggerheads" had been painted on the back of an
unfinished landscape, an artist offered the innkeeper a sum of money to be
allowed to take it down, and ascertain the fact. But it was indignantly
refused, with a protest that the sign which Wilson had painted should never
be removed from its place, as long as he lived.
CAMBRENSIS.
_Lord Nelson and Walter Burke_ (Vol. vi., p. 576.).--An obituary memoir of
Mr. Burke appears in the _Examiner_ for October 1, 1815.
H. G. D.
_Parochial Libraries_ (Vol. vi., pp. 432. 559.).--An ancient parochial
library existed some seven or eight and twenty years ago at Gillingham in
Dorsetshire. I was for a short period at that time the _locum tenens_ of
the then rector of Gillingham; but at this distance of time remember
scarcely more than that the books were kept in a small room devoted to the
purpose in the rectory house, and were probably above two hundred in
number.
COKELY.
_St. Botulph_ (Vol. vii., p. 84.).--The life of St. Botulph, contained in
the Harleian MS. No. 3097., is by Fulcard, a monk of Thorney, as appears by
the dedication. It is the same as that printed by Capgrave, who omits the
dedication. Fulcard wrote the lives of certain other saints buried at
Thorney (Torhtred and Tancred). The dedication does not belong exclusively
to the life of Botulph, but forms the introduction to all three lives. It
was for this reason, I suppose, that Capgrave (or rather John of Tynemouth,
from whom he borrowed) omitted it.
C. W. G.
_Turner's Picture of Eltham Palace_ (Vol. vii., p. 90.).--J. H. A. mentions
a picture of "King John's Palace at Eltham, by the late Mr. Turner." Could
he inform me what has now become of that picture, and also whether it was
rated among that celebrated artist's best works or not?
A. W. S.
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