The late Mr. Portman, father of Lord Portman, used supporters, as do Sir W. Carew, Bart., and some other baronets. GUINEGATE. [Baronets are not entitled, _as such_, to bear supporters, which are the privilege of the peerage and the knights of the orders. There are many baronets who by virtue of especial warrants from the sovereign have, as acts of grace and favour, in consideration of services rendered to the state, received such grants; and in these instances they are limited to descend with the dignity only. No doubt there are some private families who assume and improperly bear supporters, but whose right to do so, even under their own statements as to origin and descent, has no legal foundation. "NOTES AND QUERIES" afford neither space nor place for the discussion of such questions, or for the remarks upon a correction of statements in the works quoted.] _Answer to Fisher's Relation._--I have a work published at London by Adam Islip, an. 1620, the title-page of which bears-- "An Answere to Mr. Fisher's Relation of a Third {225} Conference betweene a certaine B. (as he stiles him) and himselfe. The conference was very private till Mr. Fisher spread certaine papers of it, which in many respects deserved an Answere. Which is here given by R. B., Chapleine to the B. that was employed in the conference." Pray, who _was_ the chaplain? I have heard he was the after-famous Archbishop Laud. I pray your assistance in the resolution of this Query. J. M. Liverpool. [This famous conference was the _third_ held by divines of the Church of England with the Jesuit Fisher (or Perse, as his name really was: see Dodd's _Church History_, vol. iii. p. 394.). The first two were conducted by Dr. Francis White: the latter by Bishop Laud, was held in May, 1622, and the account of it published by R. B. (_i.e._ Dr. Richard Baylie, who married Laud's niece, and was at that time his chaplain, and afterwards president of St. John's College, Oxford). Should J. M. possess a copy printed in 1620, it would be a literary curiosity. Laud says himself, that "his _Discourse_ was not printed till April, 1624."] _Drink up Eisell_ (Vol. iii., p. 119.).--Here is a passage in _Troilus and Cressida_, in which _drink up_ occurs (Act IV. Sc. 1.): "He, like a puling cuckold, would _drink up_ The lees and _dregs_ of a flat-tamed piece." The meaning is plainly here _avaler_, not _boire_. Here is another, which does not perhaps illustrate the passage in _Hamlet_, but resembles it (Act III. Sc. 2.): "When we vow to weep seas, live in fire, eat rocks, tame tigers, thinking it harder for our mistress to devise imposition enough, than for us to undergo any difficulty imposed." C. B.