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Western Prussia.' See also Otto Donner's 'Scottish Families in Sweden and Finland' (Helsingfors, 1884). J. M. BULLOCH.

118, Pall Mall.

A. C. Hobart Pasha was a Turkish admiral and minister. The Egyptian Government service is hardly a case in point, but many Englishmen obtained the title of Pasha for distinguished conduct.

Prof. W. R. Morfill, in his history, has much to say on the subject of Britishers in Russian service, e g., General Patrick Gordon, who assisted Peter the Great to suppress the Strelt&i. FKANCIS P. MARCHANT.

Streatham Common.

CHARLES I. IN SPAIN (10 th S. iii. 48). DON FLORENCIO DE UHAGON would read with interest several letters in James Howell's ' Epistoke Ho-Elianse' (vol. i. sect. 3, ed. 1713), which are dated from Madrid, 1622-3, and comment on the royal courtship then pro- ceeding. Here is a graphic passage from No. xviii., addressed to Capt. Tho. Porter :

" There are Comedians once a Week come to the Palace, where under a great Canopy, the Queen and the Infanta sit in the middle, our Prince and Don Carlos on the Queen's right hand, the King and the little Cardinal on the Infanta's left hand. I have seen the Prince have his eyes immovably fixed on the Infanta half an hour together in a thoughtful speculative posture, which sure would needs be tedious, unless affection did sweeten it : It was no handsome comparison of Olii'ares, that he watcht her as a Cat doth a Mouse. Not long since the Prince understanding that the Infanta was us'd to go some mornings to the Casa de Campo, a Summer-house the King hath tother side the River, to gather May Dew, he did rise betimes and went thither taking your Brother with him, they were let into the House and into the Garden, but the Infanta was in the Orchard, and there being a high partition wall between, and the door doubly bolted, the Prince got on the top of the wall and sprung down a great height, and so made towards her, but she spying him first of all the rest, gave a Shriek and ran back ; the old Marquis that was then her Guardian came towards the Prince and fell on his Knees, conjuring his Highness to retire in regard he hazarded his Head, if he admitted any to her Company ; so the door was open'd, and he came out under that Wall over which he had got in : I have seen him watch a long Hour together in a close coach in the open Street to see her as she went abroad : I cannot say that the Prince ever did talk w T ith her privately, yet publickly often, my Lord of Bristol being Interpreter : but the King always sat hard by, to over-hear all. Our Cousin Archy hath more Priviledge than any, for he often goes with his Fool's Coat where the Infanta is with her ifexmas and Ladies of Honor, and keeps a- blowing and blustering amongst them, and flurtes out what he list."

It occurs to me to wonder if the picture of a dwarf by Velazquez in the Prado Gallery

at Madrid, entitled ' D. Antonio el Ingles,' can be a presentment of Archie : Antonio is near enough to Archibald for any speaker of Romance to come. ST. SWITHIN.

My friend DON F. DE UHAGON has anti- cipated a long formed intention of mine by asking for a collection of contemporary allu- sions to the matrimonial visit paid by the Prince of Wales to Madrid in 1623. In the cosy Biblioteca Sagarminaga, in the Palacio de la Diputacion Provincial at Bilbao, con- taining about 12,000 volumes, there is a book entitled "Amistades de Principes por Don Fadriqve Moles (En Madrid, En la Imprenta Real, Afio de 1637)." On f. 64 occurs the following allusion to the question :

" Singular fauor, y proteccion f ue, la q' tuuo Dios de nuestro gran Monarca Filipp Quarto, en desba- ratar por causas justas el matrimonio, que por tan hecho se tuuo a los 9. de Otubre de 1623. entre el Rey de Escocia [stc], e Infante Maria, con que nos libro- de caer en los males que han caido otros ; razo que deuiera enfrenar mucho, a los que tan sin rienda lleuan en sus exercitos, enemigos de Dios, y de la Religion."

On f. i. verso there is a phrase which serves as an answer to the recent discussion in 'N. & Q.' (9 th S. xi. 129, 377) about the origin of the name Diego. It evidently was regarded by the author as equivalent to Tiago in " Sant-Iago," i.e., lacobus :

" Para acreditar esta verdad, es valiente exemplo el de Christo Senor nuestro, respeto de luan y Diego sus primes, "

i.e., to confirm this truth the example of Christ our Lord is useful, with respect to John and James His cousins.

EDWARD S. DODGSON.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON DICKENS AND THACKERAY (10 th S. iii. 22, 73). It would be interesting to identify T. J. Thackeray, who, as shown by MR. R. E. FRANCILLON and MR. WALTER JERROLD, was the librettist of ' The Mountain Sylph.' On referring to the account of the Thackeray family in The Herald and Genealogist, ii. 315-28; 440-55 (1864), I find the only member who bore the initials T. J. was Mr. Thomas James Thackeray, who was a second cousin of the novelist. The father of Mr. T. J. Thackeray was Thomas Thackeray, born 1767, died 1852, who held an appointment in the medical service of the East India Company on the Madras Establishment, from which he retired with an ample fortune, and settled at Bath. He was the eldest son of Thomas Thackeray, born 1736, died 1806, who was a surgeon at Cambridge, and who himself was the eldest son of Dr. Thomas Thackeray, born 1G93, died 1760, Head Master of Harrow and