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NOTES AND QUERIES. uo* s. v. JUNE 9, im
WE must request correspondents desiring in-
formation on family matters of only private interest
to affix their names and addresses to their queries,
in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
JEAN NICOT. I hope to learn through
- N. & Q. 1 the whereabouts in England of
the portrait of Jean Nicot by Henri Goltz {Miilebrecht, 1558 ; Harlem, 1616), engraved in 1822 (in ' Physiognomical Portraits ' 1) by Charles Pye, a pupil of James Heath, and the elder brother of John Pye, the celebrated landscape painter of Birmingham. Jean Nicot (1530-1604), a councillor, diplo- matist, lexicographer, and parson of Brie- Comte-Robert was the importer of tobacco. JACQUES SAINTIX.
Paris.
COL. HUGH FORBES. Can any one give information about the parentage or previous career of Col. Hugh Forbes 1 He commanded a regiment in the service of the Roman Republic in 1849, and in that capacity accom- panied Garibaldi's famous retreat from Rome (after the siege), joining the Garibaldians at Terni, and marching thence to Cesenatico. He put to sea with Garibaldi and the last 200, but was captured by the Austrians and imprisoned at Pola. He wore a white top hat in the field, and was known as the "eccentric Englishman." He was a good soldier, and was passionately devoted to the Italian cause, at a time when it was not yet fashionable in England. His son, a boy of twenty, acted as his aide-de-camp. He was aged forty. This is all the Italian autho- rities tell us. I want to find his connexions and history in England. Neither he nor his son is identical with the Sir Charles Forbes who wrote the book about Garibaldi's Sicilian expedition. GAMMA.
" IN A HUFF." The rector of Little Chart, Ashford, Kent, tells me that he has recently heard this phrase used in a sense hitherto unknown to him. The rector, visiting the husband of a poor woman who had just died somewhat suddenly, was told that "she went off in a huff" This must be a very rare use of the expression, as no instance is given in * E.D.D. 5 of the phrase in this sense in any part of England or of the mainland of Scotland. The only authority supplied in the dictionary is The Shetland Neivs (16 Oct., 1897). I should be glad to hear of instances of this use in any English dialect.
A. L. MAYHEW.
Oxford.
CORN-RENT. Can you inform me what a
corn-rent is 1 ? It almost sounds like another
term for tithe, when we remember that
before the Commutation Act the parson took
every tenth sheaf of corn, and stowed it
away in a large barn until lie chose to thrash
his collection. But it might be a small pay-
ment to the feudal lord, the result of an
arrangement in lieu of a certain toll ren-
dered long ago. Such a corn-rent is still
demanded at Cumnor, Bucks, on land pur-
chased from the Earl of Abingdon.
W. W. GLENNY.
Barking, Essex.
[The definition in the 'N.E.D.'is: "A rent for agricultural land paid in corn, or one the amount of which is determined each year according to the price of corn." See the illustrative quotations appended.]
EDOUARD PINGRET. I have an oil painting of an officer of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers ; the picture is signed Edouard Pingret, and dated 1818. Can any reader give me infor- mation about the artist ? I believe he was a Canadian painter of note.
(Major) OSBORNE GLYNN.
Abbotsfield, Wrexham, N. Wales.
[A painter of this name contributed four portraits in 1819 to the Royal Academy. This appears to be his sole appearance as an exhibitor.]
MOUNTAIN FAMILY. In response to a query inserted in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography for April (xxx. 251), some documents on this family in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, have been supplied by Mr. O. D. Wilkinson. From them a quotation follows :
44 John Dellamano made his will and deceased in ye year 1672 (which will 'tis supposed is at Win- chester, where it was proved) ; he left only a
daughter, who was first wife to Richard
Mountain [of Andover, Hampshire], who made his will ye 5th day of January, 1701, by which will he gave a messuage, ten'm't, lands and premises lying in Andover (which he saith he purchased of Amy Walters, widow) unto his wife Ann (being his second wife by report) "
It appears that this Richard Mountain had by his first marriage a son Richard Mountain, brewer, of Andover, later of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, who married and had a son Joseph Mountain, cooper, or the latter place.
Can any reader supply particulars of the Mountains in Andover.
EUGENE FAIRFIELD McPiKE.
1, Park Row, Chicago, U.S.
" DEPLOYMENT." Can any reader inform me who invented the manoeuvre so called, which means the "unfolding" of columns
