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Lord Borlace of Borlace and Baron Michell (vide Ruvigny's ' Jacobite Peerage '), a dignity, of course, not allowed in England. He died s.p. in 1709 in the Fleet Prison, where he had been incarcerated for debt, the once extensive estate of his family having been entirely eaten up in mortgages, created in the main by losses in the Civil War.

W. D. PINK.

THE TALBOTS. In a recent issue of The Shrewsbury Chronicle an article appeared on the Talbots, ancestors of the Earls of Shrewsbury.

In that article the writer stated that Sir George Talbot (he was really Sir Gilbert, first Baron Talbot, who died 27 Edw. III.) married Ann, daughter of William Boteler, Baron of Wem, and " a great-granddaughter of King Edward I."

Can any of your readers supply me with particulars confirming the descent of Ann Boteler from this monarch ? I should be grateful for replies to be sent to me direct. FRANCIS H. HELTON.

9, Broughton Road, Thornton Heath.

Miss INGALLS. If any one can give information as to a Miss Ingalls, who, marrying Senor Calderon de la Barca, the first diplomatic envoy from Spain to the Mexican Republic, went out with him to Mexico in 1838, I shall be very much obliged. Inquiries in Mexico and in Spain have elicited very little beyond some bald facts. Not even her book on Mexico has caused her to be more than a name in those countries. After being accredited to that Republic, her husband was transferred to Washington, and subsequently became Foreign Minister at Madrid.

HENRY BAERLEIN.

AUGUSTIN HECKELL. I shall feel much obliged for information as to where I can see any oil paintings signed, or authentically known to be, by A. Heckell.

Augustin Heckell lived in Richmond, and painted a number of pictures of the view from Richmond Hill, the Green, and other river scenes from Mortlake to Twickenham, from which a series of well-known engravings by Grignion and Mason were published in 1749-50.

My particular object is to verify as the work of this artist a painting I have recently acquired, of which one of the engravings above referred to is an exact copy.

ALFRED E. T. LONG.

A " TUSCAN " INSCRIPTION. In Mr. Mont- gomery Carmichael's ' In Tuscany,' a book full of out - of - the - way information on matters Tuscan, it is said (p. 175) that " on the summit [of the conical Verruca] are the remains of the most formidable fort of the fighting Republic of Pisa. The fort is well known to students of the Tuscan tongue a having contained what is reputed to be the oldest existing inscription in the vernacular (A.D. 1103). The authenticity of the inscription (which is brief enough ' A-DI-DODICI-GUGNO- MCIII.') has been disputed by the learned, and is now [1901] under consideration of perhaps the most competent authority in all Italy to decide such a subject. He has not yet pronounced judgment."

Who is this " most competent authority " t and has the judgment been pronounced ? If genuine, the inscription would definitely settle the day, month, and year of the erection of the old fort, and certainly supply the oldest inscription in Tuscan as Mr. Carmichael prefers to call the Italian tongue.

It is interesting to note that in the chapter on Leghorn (p. 128) the author refers to 9 S. i. 201, 309, 510, as containing the " con- troversy " anent Smollett's death in the Villa Gamba at Antignano in 1773, and his burial in the old British Cemetery in the Via degli Elisi at Leghorn.

J. B. McGovERN.

St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.

SWEDENBORG : ADVERTISEMENT IN LON- DON NEWSPAPERS FOR DECEMBER, 1783. Robert Hindmarsh and his associates in the organization of the readers of Swedenborg, at their first meeting on Thursday, 5 Dec., 1783,

" caused an advertisement to be inserted in some of the newspapers, stating the objects we had in view, and giving a general invitation to all the readers of Emanuel Swedenborg's Writ- ings, in London or elsewhere, to join our standard." ' Rise and Progress of the New Church,' by Robert Hindmarsh, 1861, p. 17.

I desire to possess an exact transcript of that advertisement which must have ap- peared within the fortnight 5 to 19 Dec., 1783 and shall be grateful for any assistance from a fellow-reader to that end.

CHARLES HIGHAM. 169, Grove Lane, S.E.

KENNETT AND HOWE FAMILIES. (See

II S. ii. 229.) My query respecting the daughter of Bishop Kennett who married Col. John Howe, and was mother of Sophia, wife of Rev. Christopher Walter, has elicited no answer. The ' D.N.B.' says that the Bishop married first, 6 June, 1693, Sarah, only daughter of Robert and Mary Carver