Notes and Queries, Number 182, April 23, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 182, April 23, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Afterwards I learned from another resident in the parish that he well
remembered visiting the shop of the same broker, in company with another
gentleman still living, when this identical portrait was the subject of
conversation, and the broker went into his private room and brought out
a book, conceived to be a magazine, from which he read a description of
the person of whom this was the portrait, to the following effect, viz.,
"That he was born of obscure parentage in the parish of Glemham,
Suffolk; that he was sent to school, and afterwards became a great man
and a dignitary of the church, if not a bishop; and became so wealthy
that he gave a large sum for the repairs of Norwich Cathedral."
These are the only particulars which I have yet ascertained as to the
portrait, for neither of the gentlemen who were present at this
transaction with the broker, though they agree in the circumstances
which I have above narrated, can remember _the name_ of my great
unknown.
I look, however, with confidence to the wide range of your
correspondents, and hope to receive some clue which may guide me to the
wished-for discovery.
The portrait is an oil painting, a fine full florid face, with a long
wig of black curly hair resting on the shoulders, gown and band, date
probably from Queen Anne to George II.
J. T. A.
_Arms: Battle-axe._--With some quarterings of Welsh arms in Bisham
(Marlow) of Hobey, is one of three battle-axes. The same appear near
Denbigh, supposed taken in with a L. R. from Vaughan. Query, What family
or families bore three battle-axes?
A. C.
_Bullinger's Sermons._--Will some of your correspondents kindly give me
some information regarding a volume of sermons by Henry Bullinger, which
I have reason to believe is of rather rare occurrence? It is
_Festorum dierum Domini et Servatoris nostri Jesu Christi
Sermones Ecclesiastici: Heinrycho Bullingero, Authore._ There is a
vignette, short preface (on title-page), with a Scripture motto, Matt.
xvii. Date is, "Tiguri apud Christoph. Froschoverum a. MDLVIII."
I believe there is a copy in the University Library, Cambridge.
ENIVRI.
Monkstown, Dublin.
_Gibbon's Library._--Matthews, in his _Diary of an Invalid_, says, when
visiting Gibbon's house at Lausanne, "His library still remains; but it
is buried and lost to the world. It is the property of Mr. Beckford, and
lies locked up in an uninhabited house at Lausanne" (1st edit. 1820, p.
319.). This was written about 1817. Was the library ever transferred to
Fonthill or to Bath, or does it still remain at Lausanne?
J. H. M.
_Dr. Timothy Bright._--Can any of your correspondents inform me whether
this gentleman, author of a _Treatise on Melancholy_, an edition of
Fox's _Martyrs_, &c., was an ancestor of the Rev. Henry Bright, prebend
of Worcester Cathedral, and instructor of Samuel Butler, author of
_Hudibras_?
H. A. B.
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