A TRAVELLING NAME.--I have heard or read somewhere of a story about one
of the authors of the "Rejected Addresses"--indeed, I now remember that
he told it to me himself--how that he once travelled in a stage coach
with a very agreeable old lady, who was well acquainted with London
society, and with whom he conversed for a considerable time about
various mutual friends and circumstances that could only be known to
them, or to their immediate circle, with so much familiarity, that the
old lady's curiosity being roused, she ventured to inquire his name.
"James Smith, madam," was the reply. "Oh, that's your travelling name,
is it? But it won't do for me."
J.
SMITH.--Has not some one written, or is not some one going to write, a
history of the Smiths? It really might be made a very amusing book, and
some one--I forget who--actually told me that "the far-famed Ruffian of
the Adelphi," (O. S.) was collecting materials for or from such a book.
I subscribe my real name--identify, if you can, Mr. Willis.
JOHN SMITH.
PILGRIM'S BADGE?--A Correspondent has kindly transmitted to G. W. a
rubbing from which the annexed woodcut has been made, of a small brass
ornament, found at Launde Abbey, in Leicestershire, which abbey or
priory was founded by Rd. Basset, in the reign of Henry III. dissolved
by Henry VIII., and Cromwell, Earl of Essex, had a grant of it. In
the Chapel (all that remains of the Priory) is a monument to his son
Gregory, Lord Cromwell, of the date of 1551. The ornament is supposed
to be a Pilgrim's Badge, brought from Rome, and probably was buried
with him.
[Illustration]
M. C. S.
1st January, 1852.
ANCIENT KEY.--I. D. is thanked for the drawing of an Ancient Key found
in October last, in the parish of Stoke Holy Cross, near Warwick; but
as no particular interest attaches to this key in an antiquarian point
of view, it is not worth engraving.
THE LIBERTY STONE IN CASTLE STREET, LIVERPOOL.--T. B. B. (Burnley, 1st
December) thanked, but the space at G. W.'s command does not permit of
his inserting the extract forwarded to him from the _Liverpool Albion_.
PRINTS OF OLIVER CROMWELL AND "ST. LUKE'S DAY."
A "Young Print and Portrait Collector" would be obliged by any
explanation respecting a portrait of Oliver Cromwell, of an allegorical
nature, surrounded by various emblems and devices, which evidently bear
upon the events of his life. He is represented standing between two
columns, in armour, with a wreath of laurel in place of a helmet. This
print has neither name or date of any kind upon it.
[Illustration]
Another print is one marked published 1816, by J. T. Smith, called
"St. Luke's day," a "poor painter removing;" is this intended as a
caricature upon some artist of the time?
Jan. 6th, 1852.
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