270 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i 2 s.ix.oc T . 1921. the possession of Messrs. Leggatt Bros., 62, Cheapside). The mezzotint of Gyles by Place shows the artist in an oval facing to- wards the right, in curled wig, collar open, and flowing robe, the engraved surface measuring 4|in. high by 3|in. wide. Copies of this portrait are rare and fetch up to seven guineas. There is a reproduction of the original mezzotint by W. Richardson, Castle Street, Leicester Fields, which is of little value. Boyne, in his ' Yorkshire Library,' 1869, mentions another, quarto size. A facsimile of the above portrait engraved on copper and made to face in the opposite direction is in the large edition of Walpole's 'Anecdotes.' There is also a portrait of Gyles executed in black lead, pastel and dis- temper in the Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, which is cata- logued as being by his hand, though this is doubtful. Under the portrait is written " Ye effigies of Mr. Hen. Gyles the celebrated Glasse painter of Yorke." JOHN A. KNOWLES. j It was evidently quite fashionable. Byron i used it instinctively, from habit, and when | its incorrectness was pointed out declined j to change it, on the principle of Lass die
Bestie stehen. It is still often heard, and
| has the sanction of Navy parlance, as in I " the lay of the land." I have often wondered if this confusion 1 is due to the difficulty which southern j English has in distinguishing between the ' two vowels, witness piper for " paper," ! which a German professor before the war i thought would be the orthodox English I pronunciation of the future. T. S. OMOND. ANCESTORLESS. I think this " line " ! put into the mouth of the armour-clad ! John de Bablocke in Mr. John Hastings I Turner's revue, ' Now and Then,' at the Vaudeville, is worth while being remembered by genealogists. He tells the parvenu match-millionaire, George Gridd, O.B.E., " Yours is not a family : it is only a col- lection of spare parts." J. M. BULLOCH. THE ' PHILOBIBLON ' OF BISHOP DE BURY. In 'The Cambridge History of English Literature,' vol. i., p. 214, referring to the
- Philobiblon,' 120, it is said that the author
" not unfrequently lighted on manuscripts lying in a wretched state of neglect, murium joetibus cooperti et vermium morsibus tere- brati" Mr. Thomas, in his edition of the ' Philobiblon,' gives the same reading, and translates " with litter of mice." In a note he refers to the French translation by Coche- ris, which hasfiente (dung) with a note of ad- miration. But on the face of it that reading would seem to be right. Young mice lie still in the nest until they run about, not them- selves covering the books, though the mice's dung may do so. And of eight MSS. that I have been able to consult, one at Durham and seven at the B.M., while four have the reading jetibus, and in one the reading is doubtful, three distinctly havejecibus, which I think must be right. ' J. T. F. Winterton, Lines. " LAY " AND " LIE." Correspondents in The Times Literary Supplement have lately been discussing Byron's " There let him lay ! " in ' Childe Harold,' IV. clxxx., but seem unaware how very common is this solecism in writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Cumberland's ' Memoirs,' for example, has it continually. 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. AUGUSTUS TAYLOR. I should be grateful for any information as to Augustus Taylor. He was " preacher " or curate at Ha warden, Flints, in 1623, when he buried a daughter, Anne. In 1613 he published a tract of eleven leaves entitled ' Epithalamium upon the all- desired Nuptials of Fredericks the fift, Prince Palatine of Rhene, Chiefe Elector, Duke of Bavier, and Arch- Sewer to the Roman Empire. And Elizabeth, the onely daughter of James, by the Grace of God, Kinge of Great Brittaine, &c.' In 1614 he published a tract of sixteen leaves entitled ' Encomiasticke Elogies.' In 1623, ' News from Jerusalem : contain- ing The Beauty of the Citie of the Great King. The Vanities of the Isles of the Sonnes of Men. The Coming of the King's Sonne.' And, in the same year, ' Divine Epistles Dedicated to the Right Honble. and Worthy Guests invited to ye Nuptials of the Greate King's Sonne,' &c. DEINIOL.
