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with the management of church property in Wales 

 in the time of Cromwell. Walker, in his Suffe?-- 

 ings of the Clergy, under the head of AVales, fre- 

 quently refers to Scobell's Reports, where probably 

 the names of these commissioners may be found.* 



I should also be thankful for a list of the offi- 

 cers of the forces raised for the Parliament in 

 South Wales in the time of the rebellion. 



Cymro. 



Jacksok, Arms and Pbbigree of. — Can any 

 of your correspondents inform me the arms of 

 Jackson of Jamaica, and the pedigree of Sir Geo. 

 Jackson, Bt., who took the name of Duckett, and 

 ■which baronetcy is now Duckett ? Also, will any 

 frequenter of the reading-room, British Museum, 

 favour me with notes respecting Jackson of Ja- 

 maica from " the collection of West Indian records 

 and monumental inscriptions in MS. lately pre- 

 sented to the British Museum." (2°'' S. x. p. 419.) 



C. 



[This collection of West Indian records being unbound 

 are not yet available. — Ed.3 



Bbazii.. — Very conflicting accounts are given 

 respecting the discovery of Brazil. By some 

 authorities it is attributed to the Spaniards ; by 

 others to the Portuguese, and even the date fluc- 

 tuates between 1499 and 1501. In the last edi- 

 tion of the Encyclopoedia Britannica, it is stated 

 that Cabral reached the coast April 24, 1500, and 

 anchored on Good Friday. It happens that Good 

 Friday fell on April 17 in that yeai-, so that there 

 must be some confusion of dates. I shall be much 

 obliged to any of your intelligent correspondents 

 who will throw a little light on the subject. 



Delta. 



Admiral Sir Thomas Dilkes. — What is known 

 of the descent, place of residence, &c. of this dis- 

 tinguished officer, who was knighted for his ser- 

 vices in the ]\Iediterranean in 1704, and died at 

 Leghorn in 1707? There is a good portrait of 

 him, I am informed, in Greenwich Hospital. 



The Dilkes of Maxstoke Castle h.ave a tradi- 

 tion that he was a connexion of their family, but 

 he does not appear in their pedigree. 



Thomas Dilke, Esq., of Maxstoke, who died in 

 1632, had for his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter 

 of William Bonham, Esq., of Ash Booking, co. 

 Suffolk. William Dilke, his son, had a son 

 Thomas, by Honor, eldest daughter of Humble 

 Lord Ward, who was living in 1682. Is anything 

 more known of this Thomas which may identify 

 him with the admiral ? 



I should like also to know who Sir Thomas 

 married, as he was connected with my family, and 

 we possess a silver signet with his arms, a lion 

 rampant, crest, a dove close. 



[* The names of these Commissioners are given in 

 Scobell's Collection Of Acts and Ordinances, fol. 1658, p. 

 347. The list is too long for quotation. — Ed. j 



The arms of Dilke on a chimney-piece, temp. 

 Eliz. at Maxstoke, are, gu. a lion ramp., party per 

 pale, arg. and or. 



Thomas Dilkes, Esq., a major in the army, 

 married Margaret, third daughter of Robert 

 Denny, Esq. of Eye in Suffolk, and his son was 

 General Thomas William Dilkes, late of the Scotch. 

 Fusilier Guards, and Lieut. Governor of Quebec, 

 whose obituary appears in the 18th vol. of the 

 Gentleman's Magazine. He died at Teignmouth 

 about twenty years since. E. S. Taylor. 



Charlks Wesley. — Will any correspondent 

 kindly give me the names of the descendants of 

 Charles Wesley, the brother of John Wesley ? 



Cymko. 



Foreign Names of Playing-Cards.. — I should 

 be much obliged to any correspondent in posses- 

 sion of a good collection of dictionaries, to furnish 

 me with the Russian, Hungarian, Bohemian, and 

 Silesian names for the two series of suits, Dia- 

 monds, Clubs, Hearts, and Spades, and Money, 

 Batons, Cups, and Swords. 



It may be necessary to state that in some 

 countries both varieties of packs are in use, the 

 French piquet, and the Southern or Trappola. 

 Also the corresponding titles in the same lan- 

 guages, for King, Cavalier, or Ober, and Faute or 

 Unter, in the one description, and King, Queen, 

 and Knave in the other ; and lastly, those of the 

 Ace and Deuce ditto. What is the best deriva- 

 tion of the German Daus ? I have seen lately a 

 Teview of some work on early Aryan history, 

 where or when I cannot remember, in which the 

 Almighty Being was spoken of as the Dyaus. I 

 should be glad of a reference to this. 



E. S. Tatlob. 



Witty Renderings. — Can any one complete 

 the translation of Horace's well-known ode which 

 begins — 



" Persicos odi, puer, apparatus : " 



" Bring me a chop and a couple of potatoes " ? 



Who was the translator ? Mortimer Collins. 



West Indian Engineers. — Spal seems to have 

 at his fingers' ends much that is interesting of 

 West Indian history. It is just possible that he 

 may be able to afford some information relative to 

 the subjoined engineers of the Ordnance, who died 

 in the West Indies during the last century. 



Daniel Sherrard, at Barbadoes, about June, 

 1703. 



Francis Hawkins, at Jamaica, Sept. Quarter, 

 1724. 



Brigadier Christian Lilly, at Jamaica, in 1738. 

 Is he a descendant of the famous astrologer 

 Lilly ? 



John Selioke, West Indies, in 1741. 



Thomas Craskell resigned his commission in 

 1765, and settled as an engineer at Jamaica. He 



