s. vm. DEO. 21, 1901.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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CONTENTS. -No. 208.
NOTES : Desborough Portraits and Relics, 497 Casano- viana, 498 Christmas Bibliography Christmas Customs, 1610 "Brattle," 500 " Jetsam ": " Lagan " Jewish Recognition of Tolerance Portraits by Dance " As mad as a tup" G. D. Grundy, 501 Proof-reading and Mis- takesBurial of a Suicide Saville Faucit Family, 502.
QUERIES : Majolican Bacini on Old Churches, 503 Van- couver Kinborough as a Female Christian Name Pedi- gree Forms Lewis Ken First Christmas Card Heraldic ^Lyly " UlHg "=Christmas in Manx, 504 Aubrey de Vere, Earl of Oxford Inwood " High-faluting "Keys to Novels' Palatine's Daughter 'Lady Louisa Stuart "Mine host of the Tabard "Cross near Builth Ince, 505.
REPLIES : Obelisk at St Peter's, 505 Motto on Venetian Coin Knifeboard of an Omnibus" Ask nothing more of me, Sweet" Sir John Fryer Ancient Boats, 507 " Wage "=Wages " Byron's tomb "Armada Quotation, 50 S ' Castle of Kilgobben ' London Coffee - houses Napoleon's Last Years " Halsh " Fairy Tales, 509 "Play the goat" "Kell" or "Keld" Needle Pedlars Staunton Ouckland Song Wanted Renzo Tramaglino Spanish Bibliophile Crosdill, 510 "Week-end " "There is a day in spring" St. Teilo Spider-eating Green Crise Castor-Oil Plant, 511 Sweeny Todd Sir I. Pennington Birthplace of Lord Beaconsfield 'The Tempest' Anagram "Ben-clerk" Paris Catacombs, 512 Havre de Grftce Thurlow and Grafton Strawberry Leaves Greek Pronunciation, 513 Prisoners of War Clock and Watch Figures "Parver alley," 514.
NOTES ON BOOKS -.Nichols's 'Epistles of Erasmus' 'Les Portraits de 1'Enfant ' ' Northern Genealogist.'
Notices to Correspondents.
DESBOROUGH PORTRAITS AND RELICS.
IN the great sale at Stowe about 1843 a
pair of portraits, purporting to represent
General and Mrs. Desborough (sister of
Cromwell), were sold to Messrs. Dent, and
are, I believe, now at Sudeley Castle in
Gloucestershire. They had been engraved
by S. Cooper for the Duke of Buckingham,
and these engravings are now extant as
portraits of the above personages. Some of
these engravings of the general are in the
Bodleian Library, and one of them forms
the frontispiece of an edition of * Hudibras.'
The engraving of Mrs. Desborough is in the
British Museum, but not this engraving of
the general. Many years ago I happened to
come across this engraving of the general,
and at once recognized it as exactly repre-
senting one of a pair of portraits I nad
known from childhood, which hung in a
house where my aunts and grandmother had
lived since the early part of last century.
They may now be seen at the South Ken-
sington Museum, to which they have been
lent by my brother, Mr. Richard Du Cane,
their present owner. The man is dressed in
a black robe or gown, with white falling
collar and tassels, the lady in a black dress
with pearl necklace. They are about three-
quarters length. There was always some
uncertainty in our family as to whom these
portraits represented, but the name of
General Desborough was mentioned in con-
nexion with them, though with much doubt.
These portraits came into our family through
my grandmother, whose grandfather was
Cromwell Desborough, grandson of General
Desborough and Jane Cromwell. Cromwell
Desborough's wife was Cornelia, daughter of
Cornelius and Sarah van den Anker, and
with her he acquired an estate called Trim-
nals in Essex, which was left her by her
father. This property afterwards came into
possession of my grandmother Mrs. Henry
Du Cane, and with it these portraits. As too
commonly happens, the tradition as to the
originals of these portraits seems to have
been lost, but it was natural that the name
Desborough should be, though hesitatingly,
connected with them.
I could not understand how exactly similar pictures should be at Stowe, definitely said to represent General and Mrs. Desborough, and it is curious that Mr. Foster, who edited the Stowe catalogue, should have put in it a note saying that they certainly did not represent those personages, but "a worthy Dutch couple."
A note in Noble's 'House of Cromwell,' where he refers to the descendants of General Desborough, seemed to furnish a possible solution of the question whom our portraits represent, for he says that at Trimnals are two three-quarter portraits of Mr. and Mrs. van den Anker, also some relics of General Desborough, armour, &c. A note made in 1860 by my late brother, the Rev. A. Du Cane, in his copy of Noble's ' House of Cromwell,' a copy of which I have lately come across, seems to furnish an explanation of the whole matter. He records that the aunts to whom, as above stated, these pictures belonged Used to say that they had been reduced in size to suit a small room, and that the man who thus reduced them made copies of them and sold them as portraits of General and Mrs. Desborough. This probably is the origin of the Stowe copies, and it may thus be con- sidered certain that the engravings do not represent General and Mrs. Desborough, but Cornelius and Sarah van den Anker.
As regards the armour and relics referred to by Noble, the same note says that my grandmother gave them to the Leverian Museum. I have ascertained, by the kindness of Sir Maunde Thompson, that this museum was collected by Sir Ashton Lever in the
