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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. x. DEC. 26,
A. B. BURT, MINIATURE PORTRAIT
PAINTER. Mr. Poynder, the antiquarian
bookseller of Beading, in a private letter,
refers to this artist as " a Beading man."
I have in my possession one of his beautiful miniatures, attached to a book that once must have belonged to him, as his name " A. B. Burt, Oxford, 1841 " is on it. This painting presumably was made in Oxford, as the subject, the Bev. John Jones (Tegid), was at the time (1838) Precentor of Christ Church. Fen wick, in his ' History of Chester,' p. 430, says :
" A. R. Burt was a miniature painter at Chester from 1815 to 1826. He came to Chester from Bath .... His miniatures were very cele- brated as works of art."
Here are Beading, Bath, Chester, and Oxford associated with this clever artist. Would any reader kindly give me, privately, the main facts of the artist's life ?
(Bev.) T. LLECHID JONES. Yspytty Vicarage, Bettws-y-Coed.
a)? 01 octets -- To my personal
knowledge, while a member of a class for
Hermeneutics in a Theological Hall, the
translation " docile," instead of " wise," was
suggested in the comparison </>/>oVi//,oi o>s 01
or/>s (Matt. x. 16). This, it was argued,
is more in keeping with the spirit of the East,
where the tamed reptile was a stock exhibi-
tion, and more consonant with the self-
abnegation of the whole address notable in
verses 9, 19. Has any reader of ' N. & Q.'
come across a book or sermon in which this
interpretation is adhered to ? J. K.
BOBERT CATESBY, JUN., SON OF THE CONSPIRATOR. I should be glad to obtain particulars of the life of Bobert Catesby, Jun., who was baptized at Chastleton, Oxon, 11 Nov., 1595, and was 10 years of age at the time of the Gunpowder Plot. He is said to have married a daughter of Thomas Percy the Conspirator. At the fine old house of Brockhall, in Northamp- tonshire, over the fireplace in the hall, hangs a portrait reputed to be that of Bobert Catesby the Conspirator. But the style of costume, the buff leather jerkin with steel corslet over, plain linen falling band, &c., all proclaim it to be of later date than 1605, and in appearance such as a Commonwealth officer might wear. At the back of the portrait is written : " Catesby, presented to the owner of Brockhall by his friend Mr. Ashley of Ashby Ledgers (about 1780)," Ashby St. Ledgers being the seat of the
Catesbys. In the House of Lords' MSS.,
under date 17 Dec., 1642, is:
" Declaration of Parliament that if any violence is offered to Catesby, Lilborne,and others, prisoners at Oxford, reprisals will be made by the Parliament upon prisoners in their hands."
And in the Duke of Portland's MSS. at Welbeck is a letter from Lord Grey, the Parliamentary commander written from Northampton to William Lenthall, dated 2 March, 1642/3 :
" I marched to Mr. Henry Noell's house in North Luffenham, where he and Mr. Henry Skipwith, with about 200 men, 120 armed with guns, and the rest with pikes and clubs, stood upon their guard. At my first coming thither I sent a trumpeter to- Mr. Noell to demand his person, arms, and horses, who returned me answer that he would stand on his defence while he had breath. Before I used any violence I sent to him the second time, that the shedding of blood might be prevented. He sent me answer again he would die before he would yield, and thereupon we had a skirmish about an hour, and Mr. Catesby, Lieutenant to one of my Captains, was shot from the house, and died thereof."
These references may or may not be to the Conspirator's son, but, in conjunction with the portrait mentioned and the un- common name, they at least seem likely.
MARRIAGE IN THE BRIDE'S PARISH. For how long has it been the custom for the marriage to take place in the bride's parish ? I write in dark ignorance of such matters, but I have found two six- teenth-century instances where the bride would seem to have been brought to her future husband's parish and residence for the solemnization of the marriage instead of his going, as it were, to fetch her in the usual way. The marriage of Sir William Catesby of Ashby St. Ledgers, in Northamp- tonshire, with Anne, daughter of Sir Bobert Throckmorton of Coughton, in Warwick- shire, is recorded in the Parish Begister of Ashby St. Ledgers, under date 9 June, 1566, as if the nuptials took place there. And on 3 Jan., 1590/91, John Leigh, eldest son of Sir Thomas Leigh of Stone- leigh, was, according to a contemporary record at Stoneleigh Abbey, married to Ursula, a daughter of (Sir) Christopher Hoddesdon of Leighton, Beds, in the " dining-chamber " at Stoneleigh, in the presence of the immediate relatives and
- ' many more, at the least to the number of
forty or fifty." In the former case the bridegroom was of mattire age, in the latter he was in his fourteenth year. Are these two instances merely notable exceptions to the rule ? or was the custom then different ? B. M.
