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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 248. 



to his share of this breakfast a piece of bread and 

 the leg of a cold fowl ; which he was eating 

 tvithout knife or fork, when an officer rode up 

 with the report that the enemy was visible beyond 

 the specified point. Upon which the Duke threw 

 the half- eaten leg of the fowl over his shoulder, 

 and galloped away : the rest following as soon as 

 they could mount. This was about two o'clock, 

 and the battle was decided in two or three hours ; 

 but it was not till late in the evening that the 

 Duke was out of the saddle that whole day. 



I take this occasion of recurring to a former 

 communication about the Duke's having said 

 •' Up guards, and at them ! " I have not the 

 volumes of " N", & Q." at hand, and cannot there- 

 fore refer to volumes and pages ; but I recollect 

 that your last correspondent produced against my 

 statements (made from the Duke's own lips) two 

 letters alleged to have been written by the late 

 Lieut.-Col. Batty, which would not have decided 

 the question ; as it does not appear that the writer 

 was near the Duke, or in a position to have heard 

 whatever he did say: but the latter were not 

 written by Col. Batty, then an ensign, who was 

 wounded early in the day, and could not by any 

 possibility have been in the circumstances of the 

 writer of the letters, who evidently was only re- 

 peating the gossip of the army, and not any 

 observation of his own. C. 



KING James's ibish aemy list, 1689. 



(Vol. ix., p. 544.) 



As I only receive " N. & Q." monthly, I did 

 not arrive at the above page of the last June 

 Number until this day, or I should have earlier 

 replied to C.'s kind remark and suggestions, j 

 am quite aware of King's State of the Protestants, 

 and have noted it off, wherever it contained names 

 or facts applicable to the plan of my proposed 

 *' Family Illustrations ; " but a short extract from 

 Colonel O'Kelly's Macaria Excidium (p. 150.) 

 will show that Sheldon, a lieutenant-colonel in 

 my " Army List," was identical with the lieut.- 

 general of Dr. King : 



_ " This Scilla (Sheldon) was a Cilician (Englishman) by 

 birth, of the worship of Delphos (Rome). He was 

 brought into Cyprus (Ireland) by Corydon (Tyrconnel), in 

 the first year of the reign of Amasis (James II.), and by 

 him made the captain of a company of men at arms. He 

 advanced him afterwards to be his Under-Tribune (Lieu- 

 tenant-Colonel), to command his Legion (Regiment) in 

 his own absence ; and by his uncontrollable power with 

 Amasis (James II.), he procured for him a Commission 

 to be one of the General Officers, though still a Sub- 

 Tribune (Lieutenant-Colonel); and got his commission 

 dated before that of Lysander (Sarsfield), whom he de- 

 signed to undermine.''.^ 



He is accordingly styled General Sheldon by 

 Norris in the Earl of Westmeath's Letter of 



August 22, 1749, — in O'Conor's Military Me- 

 moirs, — and lieutenant-general in King, as cited 

 by C. I have very many notes collected concern- 

 ing him, but my Queries of his lineage remain 

 unsolved ; yet I am inclined to think he was of the 

 English house of Brailes, and connected with the 

 family of the present Viscount Dillon, to whom I 

 directed a special inquiry, but received no reply. 

 After the Revolution, he had the command of a 

 brigade in the French service as colonel : his regi- 

 ment was pre-eminently styled " the King's," i. e. 

 James II.'s. He so distinguished himself in 1701 

 against the Baron de Mercy, that the French 

 monarch gave him the rank of lieutenant-general 

 in his service. In 1702, Sheldon's Horse was 

 distinguished against Prince Eugene ; in 1703, 

 against the Imperialists under Visconti, when he 

 was wounded ; subsequently, in the army of the 

 Rhine, and at the battle of Spire, where he was 

 again wounded. The name of his brigade was 

 after some years changed to "Nugent's;" again, 

 in 1733, to " Fitz- James's," and was disbanded in 

 1763. 



If C. would look to my Prospectus, as some 

 months since in " N. & Q.," he would see that I 

 confine my present labours exclusively to the Jaco- 

 bites and Cavaliers. Of these I have upwards of 

 four hundred families represented in the Army 

 List, and to the illustration of their names must my 

 work be confined. The attainders in King James's 

 Parliament would open a quite different character 

 of genealogies, but one well worthy of distinct 

 exposition. 



C. is apprehensive that my publication will be 

 delayed : when I issued my Prospectus, I little 

 thought it would be so long unadopted. There is 

 however now subscribed a sum of 80^. towards 

 the required indemnity fund of 200/., and two 

 hundred copies are engaged of the five hundred 

 expected. The moment the indemnity fund is 

 made up, I am ready to put to press. And while 

 I earnestly solicit such aid of MSS. as may, more 

 than any exertions of mine, make the volume a gem, 

 I awain offer to answer any inquiries as to names in 

 the List that may be put to me. John D' Alton. 



48. Summer Hill, Dublin. 



WAEBTJRTON S EDITION OF POPE. 



(Vol. X., p. 41.) 



Mb. Markland says : 



" We are told by Walpole that Warburton's edition of 

 Pope had waited because he had cancelled above a hun- 

 dred sheets (in which he had inserted notes) since the 

 publication of the Canons of Criticism. — Letters, i. 232." 



I doubt not that Mb. Mabkland is correct in 

 his reference ; but I do not find the passage at 

 vol. i. p. 232., either of the edition of WalpoWs 

 Letters in 6 vols. (1840); in Letters to Mason, 



