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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9 th S. I. MAR. 26, '98.

land garb, from the facility with which they divested themselves of their outward garments and engaged in their shirts. In the ordinary military dress of the time it would be diffi- cult to undress in front of an enemy, while to the Highlander it would be an easy matter. It is believed that at that period the upper and lower part of the outward apparel was in one piece, the philabeg and kilt being combined. There must be paintings and engravings of the battles in the Low Countries in the Religious War. Do any of these show Scottish troops in the Highland dress 1

A. G. REID. Auchterarder.

M.P.s, 1626. I have just purchased a con- temporary list of the members returned to Charles L's second Parliament (1626), with MS. additions showing returns at by- elections. Some of these are to be found in the House of Commons Returns, and I have therefore no doubt that those which do not appear in the Blue-book are also accurate. As the following, so far as I know, do not appear elsewhere, I send them to ' N. & Q.' to ensure their preservation :

Camelford, James Parrott, in place of Sir Thomas Monk.

Clitheroe, Sir Christopher Hatton, in place of George Kirke.

Thetford, Nathaniel Hobart, in place of Sir John Hobart, Bart.

Chichester, Edward Dowse, in place of Algernon, Lord Percy.

ALFRED B. BEAVEN.

Preston.

AMERIGO VESPUCCI. The following notes may have special interest for American readers of * N. & Q.' The first is from the Evening Standard of 9 February :

"The researches recently made to discover the date of the baptism of Amerigo Vespucci at Florence have been crowned with success. In the register of the church of San Giovanni has been found a record dated 18 March, 1452. This, says our Rome correspondent, puts an end to the many disputes relative to the name and date of the birth of the Florentine navi- gator. "

The next note is from the Architect of 11 February :

" In the church of San Salvadore d' Ognissanti, Florence, the discovery has been made of a fresco in almost perfect preservation, painted by Domenico Curradi II Ghirlandajo as an adornment for the tomb of the Vespucci family. Among the figures of this fresco is a portrait of the explorer Amerigo Vespucci, from whom America takes its name."

B. H. L.

ANN CATELEY. In the article on this famous singer in the ' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' s.v.

Catley, she is said to have "then [i. e., by 1784] become the wife of Major-General Francis Lascelles, by whom she was the mother of eight children," &c. This statement, which is also found in the memoirs in the Gent. Mag. and 'Ann. Reg.,' is incorrect, so far as it relates to the marriage. In her will, made at Little Ealing 13 October, 1788, and signed A. Cateley, the testatrix left to her children Francis, Rowley, Frances, Charlotte, Jane, George Robert, Elizabeth, and Edward Robert Las- celles, all her money to be equally divided amongst them, share and share alike; and she appointed "their father Major-General Francis Lascelles" sole executor. In a codicil she mentions her two nephews, Robert and William Fox. In the affidavit appended to the will Ann Cateley is described as formerly of the parish of St. Pancras in the county of Middlesex, but late of the parish of Ealing, spinster, deceased (will in P.C.C. 486 Macham).

ITA TESTOR.

JOHN NICKS. The late Sir Henry Yule, in his 'Diary of William Hedges' (ii. cclviii- cclxi), has given some details of the career of John Nicks, who was for many years secre- tary at Fort St. George, and was dismissed in 1691, for a matter of wrong sorting of calicoes, as an "expensive and unjust person," impri- soned, but subsequently released, and per- mitted to trade on his own account. Col. Yule says: "We have not ascertained the date of Mr. Nicks's death"; but he infers from certain letters that it took place between 1701 and 1706. This inference is wrong, for from the ' Press List of Ancient Records in Fort St. George,' No. 9, 1710-1714, 1 find that, at a consultation held in Fort St. George on 19 March, 1711, the last will and testament of John Nicks was read ; and a copy of this document, dated " 18th day of May, 1710," is preserved among the Madras records. He is therein described as " of Madras, merchant." It is evident, therefore, that his death occurred in the latter part of 1710 or early in 1711. DONALD FERGUSON.

Croydon.

HOGARTH'S ' MARCH TO FINCHLEY.' In Mr. Austin Dobson's concise but charming 'Hogarth,' London, Sampson Low& Co., 1879, at p. 70, reference is made to the

drummer who is endeavouring, with a comical screw of his face, to drown his own grief and that of his wife and child by a vigorous attack upon his drum."

With all possible deference, I hardly adopt this interpretation. The group facing p. 118, which includes the drummer and his wife and child, is a photographic reproduction