rtification. "John Sommer _pinxit_, 1700."

N. B.--The late Capt. Marryatt, and subsequently another gentleman,
guessed it to be a portrait of Wortley Montague from the peculiar dress;
but the fortification would seem to indicate a military personage. The
picture is well painted.

2. A half-length portrait in oils (small size) on canvas (20-1/2
inches by 17), of an old lady seated; a landscape in the background.
A highly finished and excellent picture; the lace in her cap is most
elaborate. "T. Vander Wilt, 1701."

N. B.--I conclude this is the artist's name, though possibly it may be
the subject's.

3. A pair of portraits (Kit Kat size), of John Knight of Slapton,
Northamptonshire, aged seventy-two; and Catherine his wife, aged
thirty-seven. "Lucas Whittonus _pinxit_, 1736."

N. B.--Inferior portraits by some provincial artist. I conclude Lucas is
the surname, and Whittonus indicates his locality; if so, what place?

Whilst on this subject, I would add another Query respecting a picture
in this house: a very highly finished portrait (small size) by Terburgh,
of a gentleman standing, in black gown, long brown wig, and a book on a
table by him. "Andries de Graeff. Obiit lxxiii., MDCLXXIIII."

Can you tell me anything about this old gentleman?

T. F.

* * * * *

MINOR QUERIES.

_Christian Names._--Can any of your correspondents inform me when it
became a common practice to have more than one Christian name? Lord Coke
says (_Co. Litt. 3 a_):

"And regularly it is requisite that the purchaser be named by the
name of baptism and his surname, and that special heed be taken to
the name of baptism; _for that a man cannot have two names of
baptism as he may have divers surnames._"

And further on he says:

"If a man be baptized by the name of Thomas, and after, at his
confirmation by the bishop, he is named John, he may purchase by
the name of his confirmation.... And this doth agree with our
ancient books, where it is holden that a man may have divers names
at divers times, _but not divers Christian names_."

It appears, then, that during the first half of the seventeenth century
a man could not have two Christian names.

Also, at what period did the custom arise of using as Christian names
words which are properly surnames?

ERICAS.

_Lake of Geneva._--The chronicler Marius (in the second volume