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a successor being chosen on 1 August (City Records, Journal 47, fo. 284). Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' tell me anything more about him ? ALFRED B. BEAVEN.

Greyfriars, Leamington.

BENJAMIN D' ISRAELI OF DUBLIN. What relation was Benjamin D' Israeli of the city of Dublin, notary public about the end of the eighteenth century, to Lord Beacons - field, and what is known of his career ? I believe he left money to some Irish charities.

J. T.

Dublin.

TEESDALE LEGION. Can any of your readers assist me to find particulars about a volunteer corps called the Teesdale Legion ? It existed in the south of co. Durham some time during the latter part of the eighteenth century or the first few years of the nineteenth. W. L. VANE.

Thornfield, Darlington.

CAPT. WITH AM AND THE SIEGE OF GIBRAL- TAR. In 'England's Artillerymen,' by J. A. Browne, published in 1865, the follow- ing passage occurs in reference to the sortie of the garrison in November, 1781, during the great siege of Gibraltar :

" Two Spanish Officers were taken prisoners. One, a Lieutenant, was taken in the middle of the battery by Capt. Witham, of the Royal Artillery, who commanded the detachment of the Corps out upon this service. The Spanish Officer was armed with a drawn sword, when Capt. Witham, with a fire-brand only in his hand, -seized him by the sword arm, and in Spanish demanded the key of the magazine of that battery. The Lieu- tenant, Don Vincente Friza, replied, ' Todo es Bombas ' (the whole is a magazine), and gave up his sword."

Can any one give the authority for this story ? The author of the book does not remember from what source he obtained it. The present representatives of the Witham family possess a seal with the motto " Todo es Bombas " upon it, which confirms the existence of the story.

Ancell and Spilsbury refer to the incident, but no one else, as far as I know, mentions the " Todo es bombas " part of the story. Bomba means a " shell." J. H. LESLIE.

Dykes Hall, Sheffield.

GRANGE COURT, ST. CLEMENT DANES. Can any one tell me if there is a record or list of the solicitors who lived in the above court between 1730 and 1750 ? Information is wanted about Edmund Combe, de- scribed as of Grange Court, and Hartley - Wintney, Hants. T. R. M.

THACKERAY AND PUGILISM. The article on * Pugilism ' in ' Chambers' s Encyclo- paedia,' 1901, vol. viii. p. 486, says*. ' Thackeray .... devoted one of his ' Round- about Papers ' to the fight between Sayers and Heenan." Where did this originally appear ? Has it been reprinted ?

Also, in Temple Bar for January, 1864, under the heading of ' The Millers and their Men ' appeared a most racily - written account of the fight between Heenan and Tom King, signed "P." I should be glad to know the author's name, and if he wrote any more * Idylls of the Ring.' H. P.

[See Mr. Lewis Melville's useful ' Bibliography ' in his ' Thackeray : a Biography ' (Lane, 1909). The account desired is No. 1062 in the list: " Roundabout Papers. V. On Some Late Great Victories. With an Illustration. Cornhill Maga- zine, June, 1860 ; vol. i. pp. 755-60."]

THACKERAY AND THE STAGE. About twenty years ago Mr. Chas. P. Johnson said in The Athenaeum that he had acquired a playbill of a piece called ' Jeames, the Rail- road Footman of Berkeley Square,' which was produced at the Theatre Royal, Liver, Church Street (Liverpool), 13 July, 1846. I shall be glad if any one will put me in communication with Mr. Johnson if he is still alive. S. J. ADAIR FITZ-GERALD.

8, Lancaster Road, Bowes Park, N.

THOMAS JAMES THACKERAY. This rather versatile writer and adapter of plays seems to have " flourished " between 1826 and 1854. Two of his plays are ' The Barber Baron,' from the French (through the Ger- man), Theatre Royal, Haymarket, 8 Sep- tember, 1828, and ' The Force of Nature/ same theatre, 4 August, 1830. He also wrote and lectured about rifle shooting. The ' D.N.B.' is silent as to his career. Was he in any way related to W. M. Thacke- ray ? S. J. A. F.

"OR. GOLDSMITH, B.A." I have before me a copy of ' The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, to which are added an Essay upon his Language,' &c. (by T. Tyrwhitt), pub- lished in 4 vols., small 8vo, by T. Payne, London, 1775. The title-pages of yols. i. and ii. respectively bear the following inscrip- tions in a contemporary clerkly hand (cer- tainly not that of the author of ' The Vicar of Wakefield'): vol. i., "the Gift of O r Goldsmith to Edw d . Bratt"; vol. ii., "The Gift of O. Goldsmith, B.A., to M r Edward Bratt." As Dr. Oliver Goldsmith died in April, 1774, it seems difficult to identify him with " O. Goldsmith, B.A." ;