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WK 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.
" POPJOY." In ' Sport and Travel,' by
G. H. Kingsley (ed. 1900), 472 (dated 1853),
I find " his stream in which he himself was
wont to popjoy in a very aboriginal manner."
And T. Hughes, * Tom Brown,' chap, ii.,
has " After a whole afternoon's popjoying
they caught three or four small coarse fish."
What is this verb popjoy ? Is it school slang
or local dialect ? how is it made up ? and
what does it exactly mean ?
J. A. H. MURRAY.
Oxford.
" PORTOBELLO." What is this game, and whence the name ? John Howard, ' State of the Prisons in England and Wales ' (1780), p. 206, has :
" At my first visit [to the King's Bench Prison] there was a wine-club and a beer-club ; and one can scarcely ever enter the walls without seeing parties at skittles, missisippi, portobeUo, tennis, fives, &c." Also (ed. 1792) p. 13 :
"Gaming in various forms is very frequent; cards, dice, skittles, missisippi and portohello, billiards, fives, tennis, &c."
Information will oblige.
J. A. H. MURRAY.
' COLLECTION OF THOUGHTS,' 1707. This early collection of poetical quotations is anonymous. Can any one supply the com- piler's name ? Its full title is as follows : " A Collection of the Most Natural and Sublime Thoughts, viz., Allusions, Similes, Descriptions, and Characters of Persons and Tilings, that are in the best English Poets. London, printed by S. Buckley, 1707," 8vo, 482 pages, followed by ' A Dic- tionary of Rhymes,' pp. viii, 36.
C. W. S.
SIR THOMAS MALORY. In 1469 Thomas Glegg, of Gayton, was granted by Ed- ward IV. a general pardon for all offences committed by him in siding with the house of York. The pardon, which is enrolled on the Recognizance Rolls of Chester (No. 141, in. 9, 2), is of great length. Towards the end a proviso is inserted that it shall not extend to Humphry Nevyle, miles; "Thomas Malarie, miles ; Robert Marchall, late of Culneham Oxon, Esq. ; Hugo Mulle, late of London ; Gervase Clifton ; Wm. Verdon, late of Lon- don, " skryvener," and various Welshmen- or to any person by authority of any Parliament
attainted for high treason, &c. ; or to the
Mayor and Company of the Staple of Calais ;
and many others. Is this not Sir Thomas
Malory of ' Morte D'Arthur ' fame ? The
period coincides, and the juxtaposition with
Welshmen is significant. I cannot find,
however, that he was ever concerned with
the Wars of the Roses. R. S.-B.
[Would a knight be described as "miles"? There were several families of the name of Malory ; see the ' D.N.B.']
REV. R. GRANT, DIED 1826. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' give me information concerning the Rev. R. Grant ? He was born in 1744, usher of Westminster School 1764-72, vicar of Blackuourton 1771, Wen- nington 1772, and Stanstead Mountfichet 1782, where he died in 1826. I should be glad to know anything concerning either himself or his descendants. L. E. T.
STED COMBE OR STUDCOMBE HOUSE, NEAR AXMOUTH. This house figures in the great Civil War. Who was the original owner of it ? A. R. BAYLEY.
St. Margaret's, Malvern.
BRETT, BARONET, KILLED 1644. Who was the above ? A. R. BAYLEY.
BIBLE CONTAINING GENEALOGY. Could any of your readers tell me of the present whereabouts of a Bible printed in black- letter in 1613, containing the genealogy of the London and Hewit (?) families ? The Bible was last seen at Honiton, in Devon- shire, many years ago.
PERCY E. NEWBERRY.
40, Bedford Street, Liverpool.
PICTURES AT TEDDINGTON. In the refer- ence room of the Carnegie Free Library at Teddington have been placed eight alle- gorical life-size paintings which have just been restored and removed here from the walls of Elmfield House, one of the oldest buildings in the parish, where they had remained unobserved for years. The paint- ings bear names as follows : Silvia Samai, Silvia Edifica (?), Silvia Europea, Silvia ^Eritrea, Silvia Agrippina, Silvia Persica, Silvia Frigia, and Silvia Tiburtina. Can any one tell to what personages these subjects, refer ? The name of the painter is not visible on any of the portraits, but the opinion expressed by most of the connoisseurs who have seen them is that they are the work of a Dutch or Flemish master. By whom they were placed in Elmfield House is not known ; but it is believed that they were there before Herzen, the Russian revolu-
