Portraits of Wolfe.
—I have by me a print well known by "hearsay" to all the admirers of Hogarth (though evidently none of his performance), the print of "A living dog is better than a dead lion." It shows a profile likeness of Wolfe, which certainly corresponds with every other likeness I have seen of him. I never saw any other print of it but that in my possession.
Now we are upon the subject of Wolfe's portraits, it may not be amiss to state that in the celebrated print by Woollett, every face there was engraved by the celebrated Ryland; for this I had the authority of my father, who was acquainted with him.
B. G.
Jenings or Jennings Family (Vol. iv., p. 424.).
—Mr. Jennings or Jennens (William), of Acton Place, Suffolk, who died at the close of the last century, was a son of Robert Jennens, who served as aide-de-camp to the great Duke of Marlborough. His grandfather Humphrey was settled in Warwickshire, became an eminent iron manufacturer in Birmingham, and afterwards purchased extensively in Leicestershire. The father of Humphrey was settled for some time at Hales Owen in Shropshire; but I have reason to believe his family came from Yorkshire, as suggested by A. B. C. of Brighton. The will of Humphrey was dated Feb. 25th, 1651; and, as it was proved, may throw some light on his kindred. Various works touching on the pedigrees of Yorkshire may also give the querist information, especially Whitaker's Ducatus Leodiensis and his Leodis and Elmete, Surtees' publications, Part I. for 1836; Cleveland's Cleveland; Davis's York Records; Hunter's South Yorkshire; Nichols's Collectanea Topographica et Geneologica, vols. iv. and viii. &c. &c. Doubtless, too, there are local histories of Craven and Ripon which might aid his object; but if it would justify expense, he should examine the diocesan and parochial registries of York in regard to those localities. Mr. Jennens died at a very advanced age, having been the godson of William III., and afterwards page of George I. He amassed an immense property in lands and stock, much of which is, I believe, unappropriated and yet unclaimed.
JOHN D'ALTON.
48. Summer Hill, Dublin.
The Father of Cardinal Pole (Vol. v., p. 105.).
—I. J. H. H. does not state by what authority Sir Richard Pole is styled "a Welsh knight:" and the surmise that this name was a corruption of Powell is clearly unfounded. The not uncommon names of De la Pole, Atte Pole, and Poole, are of English origin; belonging to the minor class of local cognomina, like Brook, Gate, Wood, &c. The family from which the cardinal sprang was wholly distinct from the De la Poles, earls and dukes of Suffolk, and can only be traced for three generations: but the series of "Pedigrees of Noble Families related to the Blood Royal," made, it is believed, by Wriothesley Garter, and printed in the first volume of the Collectanea Topogr. et Genealogica, throws some light upon it. It appears that Sir Richard Pole and Alianor, who was married to Ralph Verney, Esq., and had issue, were the children of Geoffrey Pole of Buckinghamshire by Edith, daughter of Sir Oliver St. John, and half-sister to Margaret, Countess of Richmond, the mother of King Henry VII. Sir Harris Nicolas, who edited the pedigrees in question, remarks upon this alliance: