A somewhat fuller description of the various catalogues relating to the Strawberry Hill sale may be of interest. There are at least four of the sale catalogues : 1. Portrait, xxiv. 250 pp. At the end of the Catalogue is the following: "Note. Some inaccuracies will be discoverd in the Catalogue, arising from a want of sufficient time for its examination, in order to be prepared by the time it was originally announced; these errors will be carefully rectified in the Second Edition, a small portion of which will be printed on large paper." 2. Portrait, xxiv, 1–53, 53*, 54*, 54–250— 252 pp. The title-pages of 1, 2, and 3 are alike, except for the announcement in 2 and 3 that a few copies are printed upon large paper, at 12s. each," the ordinary catalogues being sold for 78. 3. This is the large-paper copy. Portrait, xxiv, 1-90, 97-250-244 pp., the hiatus being simply in the numbering of the pages, and not in the text. At p. 88 is an announcement that the lots offered for 2 and 3 May (the seventh and eighth days of the sale) will be divided into smaller lots and sold after the conclusion of the present sale. This notice, dated April 16, 1842, states that a very elaborate catalogue" will be ready on the 10th day of May. 4. This is the very elaborate catalogue, with vi, 131 pp. The "Collection of Rare Prints & Illustrated Works, removed from Strawberry Hill for sale in London," to be sold on Monday, June 13th, 1842, and nine following days, Sundays excepted. Price of Catalogue, 28. 6d. Two lists of Names of Purchasers and the Prices were published under the title of Edes Strawberrianæ ': 5. 58 pp., giving the details of each of the twenty-four days' sales. Notwithstanding the fact that the collections in the seventh and eighth days' sales were withdrawn and their dispersal extended over ten days, the lots, purchasers, and prices are catalogued as if the sale had been carried out as originally advertised. The method is somewhat mysterious, but, at all events, in the summary of the various days' sales the totals of amounts received balance. 6. 20 pp., giving a list of purchasers and prices at each of the ten days' sales. Nos. 1-4 were printed by "Smith & Robins, King Street, Long Acre," and Nos. 5-6 were "printed for J. H. Burn, 102, St. Martins Lane." No. 5 was published at 7s. 6d., with an addition of twenty-five There should be mentioned also, as of interest to collectors, the humorous catalogue of The Classical Contents of Gooseberry Hall,' with its "Puffatory Remarks," sale fixed for "The 1st day of April and the 365 Following Days.' Very marked differences are found in Catalogues 1, 2, and 3. Nos. 2 and 3, which evidently represent the recataloguing, have the same number of lots in each day's No. 1 on ten out of the twenty-four days. the same lot at greater length than 2, but The large-paper copy 3 often catalogues it omits the seventh and eighth days entirely, while 2 follows 1 in this particular, and the 305 lots of the seventh and eighth days are expanded to 1,331 in the ten days' sale of No. 4. From p. 97 to p. 250 the discrepancies between the three catalogues are less noticeable. sale, which exceed those catalogued in I trust that I shall not be held too strictly to account in this attempt at a collation of Strawberry Hill catalogues, since, with the exception of Nos. 1 and 3, my catalogues are bound up in one volume, in what appears to be a contemporary binding. The binder, who must have been a Vandal, had unique ideas as to the arrangement of the matter entrusted to him and an absolute disregard of original covers, so that I cannot feel sure that nothing has been omitted. Boston, U.S.A. E. P. MERRITT. [The original article on Strawberry Hill was by MR. WILLIAM BATES, a valued contributor to N. & Q.' for many years. He died 24 Sept., 1884, and notices of him appeared at 6 S. x. 280, 304.] GRANGER ANNOTATED BY CAULFIELD. (See ante, pp. 65, 223, 323.) Lady King [178].-" 27. 28. I have bought the Lady King with her husband Sir E. King as a pair of Prints; the Lady is scarcer than that of Sir Edmund." A copy occurred in the Musgrave Sale, 27th day, lot 27, and was bought by the Marchioness of Bath at 7. This is the only instance I have been able to trace, but the print of the husband was included in nearly all the principal sales, and fetched about 21. Caulfield in his 'Calcographiana ' prices these two prints at 21. 28. and 57. 58. for Sir E. and Lady King respectively. James, Marquis of Hamilton [366]."7s. 6d. Granger here refers to the portrait engraved "a whole-length in Armour, standing in a tent Bromley also writes (p. 48):— "This plate, which is extant, was afterwards wrought off without the inscription." The plate was not offered in Thane's stock when, on his death, it was sold by Jones at 11, Leicester Street, in several portions, during 1820. The only copy of the print that I can trace was priced 4s. in a catalogue of prints issued by the "Magazin des Estampes of Cockspur Street, 1774. There are several other engraved portraits of this Marquis of Hamilton, but Granger and Bromley name only that already mentioned and an 8vo print engraved by Flindall in his Amateur's Vaughan. Pocket Companion; or, a Description of Scarce and Valuable Engraved British Portraits,' &c., 1813, p. 47, says : "James, Marquis of Hamilton, Earl of Arran, is another of those prints which I have not found noticed by Bromley or Granger, a Vandyck. The print of James, Marquis of Hamilton, by Faithorne, was sold for 5. 188. at the sale of Mr. Graves's [sic] portraits," &c. This last-named print was offered, but not priced, in Graves's catalogue of 1809, and presumably it was the copy included in the dispersal of his stock, when it was bought by Sir Masterman Sykes, at whose sale in 1824 it reappears as lot 1227, and was purchased by Molteno for 4l. 188. The Vaughan and Faithorne portraits appeared also in a sale by Richardson, November, 1815, when lot 105 was 66 James, Marquis of Hamleton [sic], Earle of Arren and Cambridge, &c. Ro. Vaughan, sculp., and sold in Lombard Streete, by Roger Daniel, oval 4to in a rich dress, encircled with ribbands [sic] round the waist; arms over the portrait, extra rare. [47. 13. Dodd.] "N.B. This portrait was not in Sir William Musgrave's or Sir James Lake's sales, nor does it occur in any recent printed catalogue." Lot 106 was "James, Marquis of Hamilton, large oval, in armour, by W. Faithorne, very scarce and brilliant impression. [4. 48. Dodd.]" Of the Van Dyck portrait referred to by Flindall, copies were included in a sale by Richardson, May, 1815: 'Lot 22. One James, Marquis of Hamilton, in armour, order of the Garter, helmet and trunchion [sic]. Ant. van Dyck, pinxit. Pet. von Lisebetius sculp. Joannes Meynæus, Excudit. Fine. [78. 6d.] "Lot 23. One ditto. [78.] "Lot 24. One ditto, in armour, left hand on trunchion, ob. 1649. Scarce. [18.]" This sale also included a copy of still another print of James, Marquis of Hamilton, namely, the small oval by Wenceslaus Hollar. It here sold with another portrait for 11. 88. This was not rare, although in earlier sales its value had been considered higher; thus in the sale by Philipe of the collection of John Barnard, April, 1798, it sold with one other for 31. 1s. Mr. Tiffin in his 'Gossip about Portraits: Principally Engraved Portraits,' 1866 (p. 167), names another of the same marquis :— "There is a rare print by W. Passe of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, on horseback, 1625, which was altered to a portrait of James, Marquis Caulfield marks it at 251. In Mr. of Hamilton. In its first state it has sold for very high sums. Marshall's sale in 1864 it sold for 137." The valuation by Caulfield here quoted With occurs in his 'Calcographiana,' p. 12. the exception of the single instance named, I cannot trace a copy of this altered print occurring for sale. Lady Anne Barrington and Lady Mary St. John; H. Gascar, Sc. [177].-7. 78. All the prints after Gascar's pictures are scarce, and some extremely Mr. Bull has one of Lady Barrington, which he told me was worth 77. 78. rare. Copies occurred in the Gulston Sale and Carew Reynell [99].-"12. 12s. The print of Carew Reynell is very rare. Sturt had two at one time, but both in bad condition; he sold both to Manson, who sold one for 6/. 6s., and the worst he put into a sale, which brought 37. 3s., but [it] was in very bad condition; a good one is worth 127. 128." CalcoCaulfield values this print in his graphiana' at 31. 138. 6d. only. A copy from the Mariette Collection belonged to Sir W. Musgrave. At the sale of his prints it was lot 112 on the 21st day, and was bought by Sir Masterman Sykes for 177. 178. At the sale of the Sykes Collection, 1824, it reappeared as lot 1,287, and was bought In a small sale by Clarke for 177. 68. 6d. by Dodd, 27 Jan., 1809, a copy was sold for 41. 48.-perhaps one of the poor impressions referred to by Caulfield. Mary Carleton [221].—Granger refers to only one print : "The true original picture of Mary Carleton, also called by the name of the German Princess; as it was taken by her own order, in the year 1663; Jo. Ch(antry) Sc." Caulfield values this at 17. 11s. 6d., remarking : "There are two prints of Mary Carlton-the one mentioned, and one in an octagon, aged 38, in the manner of Faithorne, and is worth 27. 12s. 6d." This octagon portrait was engraved by Caulfield, 1 Nov., 1793, and published in the first edition of his Remarkable Characters.' 66 SARAH WALKER, "OLD CAM PAIGNER": "MARQUIS OF GRANBY," PUBLIC-HOUSE SIGN. IN' Tales of the Wars' (London, published by William Mark Clark, 1836-9), vol. iii. P. 70, is a biography of Sarah Walker, who lately was interred in the burial-ground of New Windsor." (The date of this number of Tales of the Wars' is 3 March, 1838.) Sarah was born in 1750 at Northampton, her father's regiment, the Royal Horse Guards, then called the Blues," being stationed there. He had then been twentynamed in his MS. note. "of which the Flindall (The Amateur's Pocket Com-two years in the regiment, panion') mentions another portrait of Mary 6 6 In his Calcographiana' he mentions both these portraits, valuing them at the prices Carleton : "The German Princess, with her supposed husband and lawyer'; F. Nicholls, delin. T. Basire, Sculp. This folio print has not been mentioned by Bromley or Granger. There are three men present; the lawyer is on his knee, with a sword held over him." Anna Macallame [225].-2s. 6d. Wilkinson has the plate." This is Wilkinson of Fenchurch Street, author and publisher of the 'Londina Illustrata.' At his death the whole of his stock was sold by Sotheby in a succession of sales; in that held 13 April, 1826, lot 363 included Anna Macallame,' the copperplate, and 20 impressions. 6 Caulfield re-engraved the print, for his Remarkable Characters,' but the original impressions, although of infrequent occurrence, were usually included in sales with a number of others, and rarely realized more than a few shillings. This concludes the series of notes supplied by James Caulfield to an interleaved copy of Granger's Biographical History' (1775), vol. iv. I have not transcribed all his remarks; and the valuations by him and a later hand of all the prints mentioned by Granger must be dealt with in some other form, as they are not of sufficient general interest for these pages. 6 anno Caulfield probably made these tations with a view to publishing a supplement to his well-known work Calcographiana,' 1814. Although these notes in some instances reflected on the business integrity of rival printsellers, and were therefore unprintable, together they formed as useful a Printseller's Chronicle and Collector's Guide to the Knowledge and Value of Engraved British Portraits the volume that was published. 66 39, Hillmarton Road, N. ALECK ABRAHAMS. as 6 66 She recollected the battles of Minden, Wasbourg, and Paderborn. Her mother died at Paderborn from an injury received by the upsetting of a waggon with Lord Granby's baggage in it. Sarah and her sister were sent to Hesse Cassel (where she learnt French and German), their expenses there being defrayed by Lord Granby and Prince Ferdinand. Hesse Cassel having been taken by the French, they were detained there as prisoners until 1763, when peace was proclaimed. They were removed by their father and returned to England, where they lived with a man named Sumpter and his wife. Sumpter, having got his discharge from the Blues, and 66 taking a public-house at Hounslow, was the first person who set up the now common sign of 'The Marquis of Granby,' his former excellent commander. At that house the Marquis's two sons used frequently to stop on their road between Eton and London." Here Sarah reacquired her native language. She subsequently married a man named Walker, and after the riots in 1780 went to Windsor, where she afterwards lived and died. She had thirteen children; four of her daughters married soldiers. One of these daughters was wounded in the Peninsular War, and fell into the hands of some of Massena's troops. When old, Mrs. Walker was for some time in very reduced circumstances. Her case was taken up by the Rev. W. J. Moore, the curate of New Windsor, who procured a liberal subscription. Among the donors were General Pigot, Viscount Ashbrooke, Sir Andrew Barnard, Sir Jeffrey Wyatville, Lord C. Paulet, Lady S. Bridgman, and Col. Hill, as well as "several officers of the Royal 6 Horse Guards, and of other regiments of the household brigade.' King William gave her 5l., and Queen Adelaide an annuity of 121. In 1836, on Easter Monday, 4 April, Col. Hill, on behalf of the Royal Horse Guards, presented her with a copy of the Historical Account' of the regiment (by Capt. Packe). In it was a long inscription, which is given in the text. The expenses of her funeral were defrayed by Colonel, now (1838) General Hill. Many who are now 66 must remember how Mr. Russell used to delight the boys and girls coming into the shop by starting He was a charmingly courteous old gentleman, one of the musical boxes which were sold there. with a rubicund face, and a good supply of fine white hair, always well kept, and by some means inclined to curl at the bottom. Knowing that my late brother, General Earle, was serving in the Crimea, he used to send my father, Sir Hardman "Mr. Man-Earle, his private letters from his son, which were most interesting." Touching the visits of the Marquis of Granby's sons to the public-house called after him, I find that the name ners appears frequently (1763-71) in Eton College Lists, 1678-1790,' edited by "Mr. Manners R. A. Austen Leigh, 1907. Manners." "The Hon. means at Eton The questions whether there are in or near Windsor any descendants of "the old ; whether the campaigner Sarah Walker" presentation copy of Capt. Packe's Historical Account of the Blues is in existence; and whether Sumpter's public-house was the first Marquis of Granby," are perhaps ROBERT PIERPOINT. interesting. 66 SIR WILLIAM HOWARD RUSSELL'S PARENTAGE. AS none of the obituary notices of Sir William Howard Russell, so far as I am aware, gave any particulars of his parents beyond their names, it is as well to place on record in N. & Q.' some facts which I have already communicated to the Liverpool papers. Facing the Huskisson monument in St. Johannis Russell uxoris dilectissimæ, de Lily Vale in Com : Dublin. Filii sec: Johannis et Mariæ Russell, Atque supra dict: Joh Russell, Et in Coemeterio apud Mortlake sepultus est. John Russell, who was a jeweller by trade, lived for many years in Liverpool, where he was shopwalker or manager at "Promoli's Bazaar," a shop on the south side of Church Street, belonging to Mr. F. L. Hausburg, John Russell lived for some time in Windsor View, off Lodge Lane, a spot in He and those days quite out of the town. his family are well remembered by relatives In 1849 he was living at of my own who lived in Lodge Lane over sixty years ago. Manor View, Claughton, on the Cheshire side of the Mersey, and the inscription above suggests that he had removed there in 1847 or earlier. He had a third son, Fred Russell, born about 1827, remembered as an expert thrower of stones, who died while at school in Germany. who achieve The beginnings of men eminence are so often misrepresented that it is well to demonstrate Sir William Howard Russell's very respectable middle-class derivation. The biographers of the future may thus know that the most distinguished of war correspondents neither British born to the advantages of wealth and vantages of poverty and lowly birth. position, nor had to combat the disad was ALEYN LYELL READE. Park Corner, Blundellsands, near Liverpool. THE KEEPER OF NEWGATE.-In none of the standard works upon the recently demolished Newgate Prison is there a complete list of its Governors or Keepers. During the greater part of the eighteenth century the two Akermans-father and son -held the office. According to Knapp and Baldwin's 'Newgate Calendar' (1824), vol. i. p. 88, the elder Akerman occupied the position in 1729, and he was succeeded by his son, who remained the Governor of the prison until his death on 19 Nov., 1792 (Gent. Mag., vol. lxii. pt. ii. pp. 1062, 1150). This is the Mr. Akerman whose praises are chronicled by Boswell, and whose kindness and humanity to the prisoners under his care are often spoken of in the literature of crime. The next Keeper of Newgate was John worse than useless, being full of mere etyKirby, who held the office until his death mological speculations. The work is very on 30 Aug., 1804. A Mr. Newman was arduous-much more so than might have Governor of the prison in 1814; and he been expected-and requires what may be was succeeded, about 1817, by a Mr. Brown. called a topographical turn of mind rather John Wontner, a former Marshal of the than a disposition for speculative_etyCity of London, who lost a leg in a horse mologies. With reference to Pagham, I did accident on 16 Nov., 1821, was the successor not give the county in such case because of Mr. Brown, and remained Governor for of an assumption that the student would eleven years, until his death on 7 Nov., 1833 see from the context to what county it (Gent. Mag., vol. ciii. pt. ii. p. 475). belongs. A full list of these functionaries would no doubt prove of value to students, and along with the catalogue of the Kings of Bath and the Ordinaries of Newgate, which have been given previously in N. & Q.,' might well be added to future editions of Haydn's Book of Dignities.' Fox Oak, Hersham. HORACE BLEACKLEY. MR. D. M. MOORE: NEW YORK UNDER BRITISH RULE.-The following interesting item appeared recently in The City Press "A SEVERED LINK WITH THE PAST.-A few days ago there passed away in the person of Mr. D. M Moore, at the age of 83, the grandson of one of the last Governors of New York under British rule. The family's very considerable landed property was confiscated by the Republic, and the attempts afterwards made to regain it failed, although as recently as 1847 the then Ambassador to the United States, Lord Lyons, took a personal interest in the effort. Some twenty years ago Mr. Moore came to London possessed of an ample fortune. His speculations proved unsuccessful, however, and by degrees he was reduced to absolute penury. He was known personally to Mr. Choate and many leading Americans, but pride prevented him from taking any action that would have served to draw attention to his need. Eventually he was induced to seek the aid of the Mansion House. By the officials he was forwarded to the infirmary, where he remained in comfort and at rest until death came as a blessed release." W. D. PINK. 'CARTULARIUM SAXONICUM.' (See 10 S. vii. 185, 287.)-PROF. SKEAT's note is very welcome. The proper way to deal with place-names is to trace them historically. I found that the Cartularium' had abundant material for a basis of work, and presently set about a topographical index to the entire collection. About half of the charters are done, and the hopes of its being completed are much raised by the opinion of PROF. SKEAT that the thing will be a public service. I have occasionally glanced at Kemble's index to the C. D.,' and with unsatisfactory results; but in the end I shall perhaps collate my work with his before considering it fit for publication. Thorpe's index to his Diplomarium' is 6 Here are three further interesting items: 349. Dunhamstyde is probably Dunhamstead, near Oddingley, Worcestershire, and certainly not Hempstead in Gloucester." a 477. Wenbeorh, Wenbeorgen, has nothing to do with Hinton Ampner; it is now called Wanborough, but according to the charter was at one time Hynyton. The adjacent village of Little Hinton presupposes greater Hinton, which is the place in question. Dunwich. The seat of the bishops of East 528 (also 290, 312, 409). Dommuc is not Anglia was at Dommuc or Dommoc, a town near or on the site of Felixstow that has been washed away by the sea (9 S. x. 312). I should mention that these notes apply solely to the title or heading of each of Dr. Birch's charters, where I have considered them erroneous; and are submitted to my fellow students with a view to correction if EDWARD SMITH. necessary. BROOM PLANT AS FRENCH WORKMEN'S BADGE.-The writer of a review in the Bibliographie' of L'Intermédiaire, 30 Août, 1906, observes that it was fitting M. Pierre Biétry should deal with the antecedents and signification of the movement of protest, which has shown itself among workmen, against the tendencies of State Socialism and its official representatives : "No one has put forward with greater pride this epithet of jaune,' born of an incident in a strike at Montceau les Mines, and the broom which symbolizes liberty of work, as the red eglantine represents irreducible and violent class hatred." L. S. |