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tillery was formerly the Fusilier regiment raised in 1671 ? When was the Royal Regiment of Artillery raised ? R. R. A.

"A sudden thought," Sfc. (2 nd S. i. 252.)- ZEUS will find the above passage in the first Act of The Rovers (see the Poetry of the Anti- Jacobin'). BRAYBROOKE.

Audley End.

Spanish Enigma (2 nd S. i. 193.) I beg to offer a metrical translation of the enigma of Aloysius Legionensis, and also an attempt at its solution.

Translation.

Once at a table poor, yet rich and fine,

One well, one sick, one dead, sat down to dine :

The sick man medicine took, for food, to eat,

The dead man paid the cost of all the treat ;

But he who came there well, declared that he

Was come to bury all the company.

Solve this enigma, when you've conned it well,

If your mouth dares its hidden sense to tell.

Solution.

Bethania's table, poor in things of earth,

Was made by Jesus rich above all worth.

He, in full health and majesty divine,

Sat at that humble board a guest, to dine.

Judas was also there, but sick of soul,.

And Lazarus lately freed from death's control.

Judas received a healing medicine there,

His Master's just reproof compelled to share.

The dead man Lazarus was there the host,

And of that banquet gladly paid the cost.

But He, the source of health, and life, and grace,

Saw buried all assembled in that place.

He too was dead and buried, but again

He rose the God and Saviour of all men.

F. C. H.

Sperling Street (2 nd S. i. 195.) I have looked through a large collection of books on London, but have not succeeded in finding mention of this street. The most complete list of London streets is a small 12 mo. of 306 pages, published (to all appearance) at the commencement of the present century. Its title is as follows :

" Boyle's View of London and its Environs ; or a Com- plete List of all the Squares, Streets, Lanes, Courts, Yards, Alleys, &c., in and about five miles of the Metropolis. To which is added a Separate List of all the Churches, Chapels, Quays, Wharfs, Public Buildings, Law and other Offices, Societies, Decenting [sic] and Religious Meetings, Companies, Halls, Hospitals, and other Charities ; Coffee Houses, &c., &c. London : Printed and Sold by P. Boyle, at his Court and City Guide Printing Office, No. 14. Nor- ris Street, Haymarket."

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

Running Footmen (2 nd S. i. 9. 80. 121.) Now that " N. & Q." has drawn attention to these re- tainers of a. former day, the following extract relating to one of them in the service of an Irish family may not be without interest. The extract is from Recollections of the Life of John O'Keeffi,

vol. i. p. 120. O'Keeffe, who was born in 1747, is speaking of mansion-houses, near Dublin, during what he calls " my early times : "

" My Lord's," or " the Squire's was called the Big House, and had its privileged fool or satirist, its piper, and its running footman : the latter I have often seen skimming or flying across the road ; one of them I par- ticularly remember, his dress, a white jacket, blue silk sash round his waist, light black-velvet cap, with a silver tassel on the crown, round his neck a frill with a ribbon, and in .his hand a staff about seven feet high with a silver top. He looked so agile, and seemed all air like a Mer- cury : he never minded roads, but took the shortest cut, and, by the help of his pole, absolutely seemed to fly over hedge, ditch, and small river. His use was to carry a letter, message, or despatch ; or, on a journey, to run be- fore and prepare the inn, or baiting-place, for his family or master, who came the regular road in coach and two, or coach and four, or coach and six: his qualifications were fidelity, strength, and agility.

" It was the general rule of every man, in the character of a gentleman, never to gallop, or even trot hard, upon a road, except emergency required haste."

ROBERT S. SALMON.

Newcastle-on-Tyne.

Genealogical Queries (2 nd S. i. 210.) Your correspondent Y. S. M. would have added much to the facility of finding replies to his queries if he had given dates as well as names in his dif- ferent questions. I can give him some little in- formation respecting the following families :

Richardson. The first Lord Gosford (for- merly Sir Archibald Acheson) married in 1740, Mary, youngest daughter of John Richardson of Rich (not Rick) Hill, co. Armagh. For further particulars see Burke's Peerage, ed. 1849. p. 445.

Sinclair. Sir James Sinclair (third baronet of family of Sinclair of Dunbeath, co. Caithness) was descended from Sir Alex. Sinclair of Lathrone, youngest son of Hon. George Sinclair, third son of George, fourth Earl of Caithness. He married Isabel, daughter of Sir Archibald Muir, Provost of Edinburgh, and died in 1742. (Burke, p. 904.)

Folliott. There is an account of the Foliots, Baron Foliot, in Burke's Extinct and Dormant Peerages (p. 213., ed. 1846), but it does not men- tion that they were of Ballyshannon. There was a Gilbert Foliot, Bishop of Hereford, in 1149, and of London in 1161, distinguished for his fidelity to Henry II. in the struggles between that monarch and Thomas a Becket. The arms of the family were Gu. a bend, ar. ALFRED T. LEE.

Tetbury, Gloucestershire.

"Tour in Ireland in 1813 and 1814" (2 nd S. i. 192.) This work, though purporting from its title to be written " by an Englishman," was written by an Irishman, John Gough, of the So- ciety of Friends, who kept a bookseller's shop, first in Meath Street, afterwards in Eustace Street, Dublin. 'A\tfVL'.

Dublin.