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 372 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s.ix. NOV. 5,1921. AN ANECDOTE ABOUT CROMWELL'S METHODS OF DIPLOMACY. In ' The Provi- dence of God Illustrated ' (Leeds, 1835, and quoted in Pike's ' Quaker Anecdotes,' Nottingham, 1880, pp. 23, 24) there is a story about Oliver's vigorous " diplomacy." A Quaker had lost a vessel through unjust confiscation by the French in time of peace. On complaining to the Protector, he was sent to Paris with a letter to Mazarin. Cromwell told him to wait three days only for complete compensation, and notify Mazarin that he had orders to return to London at the end of that time. The Friend returned without the money. Whereupon Cromwell seized several French ships, sold them, paid the Quaker his price and then gave the balance to the French Ambassador, who now heard of the transaction for the first time ! Is this story true ? ALBERT J. EDMUNDS. Historical Society of Pennsylvania. REFERENCE WANTED (TENNYSON). Where did Tennyson allude to " the garnet-headed yaffingale " ? J. R. H. AUTHOR WANTED. Could anyone complete the following lines and say who wrote them ? Matthew Arnold has been searched in vain. " Beneath the stream shallow and light Of what we say we feel, There flows . . . Of what we think we feel, . . . strong, obscure and deep, Of what we feel indeed." C. R. G. ivcpltes. THOMAS STUKELEY. (12 S. ix. 191, 235, 255, 278, 336.) THOMAS, who was born about 1525, was the third of the five sons of Sir Hugh Stucley of Affeton, though the report was current in his lifetime, and was probably spread by himself, that he was an illegitimate son of Henry VIII. He was also in the habit of alluding to King Charles IX. of France as his uncle. DR. JOYCE is in error in speaking of the year 1579, of " a small squadron of three ships," and of " 700 Italian soldiers." Six hundred soldiers, mostly Tuscans but including some Corsican bandits, sailed with Stucley, who had been created Marquis of Leinster by the Pope, from Port' Ercole on Feb. 3, 1578, on board a ship of 800 tons burden, named the San Giovanni Battista, which was considered large enough to take the whole expedition, including some Irish priests and students, to Ireland. Her owner was Signor Antonio Spinola, and her captain Nicolo Carregha, both of Genoa. She reached Cascaes on April 18. On the way Stucley had picked up 100 additional Spanish soldiers. Immediately on his arrival he asserted his intention of serving with King Sebastiao in Africa for two or three months, but on April 26 wrote to the Pope, the Cardinal of Como (Tolomeo Galli), the Nuncio of Spain (Filippo Sega), and the Archdeacon of Cambrai (Owen Lewis) from Lisbon announcing his arrival without telling them of his intention except vaguely. On May 3 the King reviewed the troops, on May 5 Stucley went ashore to a house in Lisbon which the King had given him, and before May 23 the soldiers were disembarked and sent to garrison a terra- zuola called Deiras, 10 miles from Lisbon. On June 18 the Cardinal of Como wrote to Bishop Sega explicitly consenting on conditions to the employment of Stucley 's forces by the King of Portugal. It is difficult to see what else could have been done. The Cardinal, like every one else, was well aware that it was quite useless for Stucley to go to Ireland without Fitzmaurice, and it was not known precisely where the latter was, nor when he meant to cross to Ireland. In the meantime the troops could not be kept at Lisbon eating their heads off and quarrelling among themselves. If the King would take them away and pay their wages for three months and give the Pope an equivalent number of soldiers on his return, there was some chance that Fitzmaurice would then be in Ireland and the expedition could proceed. Otherwise it would have to be abandoned. Moreover, ever since leaving Port' Ercole Stucley had had constant quarrels with the Irish ecclesiastics who accompanied the expedition. Mgr. Roberto Fontana, the Collector of Portugal, reported that none of them had ever had a good word for Stucley, who had no possessions or friends in Ireland and was hated as an Englishman. He says in another letter that " between these two nations there is a natural hatred which cannot be either in fact covered up nor yet dissimulated." As is well known Stucley lost his life on Aug. 4, 1578, in the battle of Al Kasr al Kebir, or, in Portuguese, Alcagar-Quibir.