Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 120, February 14, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 120, February 14, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
_Bishop Hall's Resolutions._--A small edition of Bishop Hall's
_Resolutions and Decisions of Cases of Conscience_, printed in 1650, and
consequently in the author's lifetime, has, as its frontispiece, a "vera
effigies" of the venerable writer. On a fly-leaf there is, in the
handwriting of the former possessor,--a man of much literary
information,--this note: "The following portrait of Bishop Hall is rare
and valuable." I should esteem it a favour if some one of your
correspondents would inform me how far this is a correct estimate of the
print.
S. S. S.
_Mother Huff and Mother Damnable._--Can any of your correspondents
favour me with an account of Mother Huff? She is mentioned in Bishop
Gibson's edition of the _Britannia_, in a list of wild plants found in
Middlesex. In Park's _Hampstead_, p. 245., is the following extract from
Baker's comedy of _Hampstead Heath_, 4to. 1706, Act II. Sc. 1.:
"_Arabella._ Well, this Hampstead's a charming place: to dance all
night at the Wells, and be treated at Mother Huff's," &c.
The place designated as "Mother Huff's" was, I think, the same as that
known as "Mother Damnable's." The latter personage is mentioned in
Caulfield's _Remarkable Characters_. Who was Mother Damnable? Can any of
your correspondents furnish any additions to Caulfield's account of
Mother Damnable?
S. WISWOULD.
_Sir Samuel Garth._--Can any of your numerous correspondents inform me
when and where Sir Samuel Garth the poet was born, or favour me with a
copy of the inscription on his tomb in Harrow Church? Some say he was
born in Yorkshire; others that he was born at Bolam, in Durham.
S. WISWOULD.
_German's Lips._--In Fulke's _Defence of the English Translations of the
Bible_ (Parker Society, 1843, p. 267.) he speaks thus:
"Beza's words agree to us, as well as German's lips, that were
nine miles asunder."
Can you inform me who German was, and where his lips were situated?
H. T.
[In our first Vol. p. 157. will be found a similar Query, founded
on passages in Calfhill and Latimer, in which the same allusion
occurs, but which has not as yet received any satisfactory reply.]
_Richard Leveridge._--Some years ago, I saw an oil-painting of this
celebrated singer at an auction-room in Leicester Street. Can any of
your readers give me a clue to its discovery?
EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
_Thomas Durfey._--Is there any other engraved portrait of this
"distinguished" wit, besides the one prefixed to his _pills_?
EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
_Audley Family._--Can any of your correspondents inform me whether there
are any male representatives still existing of the family of _Audley_
(or _Awdeley_) of _Gransden_, in Huntingdonshire; or, if not, when it
became extinct?
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