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Minar Queries. 
Colonel George Talbot. — The name of a certain 
Colonel George Talbot occurs in the early history 
of the province of Maryland. He was the son of 
Sir George Talbot of Kildare, Bart., and of Grace, 
daughter of the first Lord Baltimore. Colonel 
Talbot, in October, 1684, killed in a quarrel 
Christopher Reresby, collector of the customs in 
Maryland, and was sent to England to be tried 
for murder. Can any of your correspondents 
give any information about the event of the trial, 
and the subsequent fate of the prisoner ? 
K, P. J. 
Bacon's “ Reflections on Death.” — Are the “Re- 
flections on Death” at the end of Montagu’s 
edition of Bacon's Essays genuine? Which is 
the earliest edition of them ? S. W. Singer. 
Lovelace’s Lucasta. — This disguised lady, im- 
mortalised by Lovelace’s charming lyrics, is now 
generally understood to have been the Lady Lucy 
Sacheverell. In Dulwich College there is (or was) 
a portrait of Althea, but without any clue to lead 
to the discovery of her real name. Lysons; in his 
Environs of London, speaks of her as the same 
with Zzcasta. Is there any authority for such a 
supposition ? Epwarp F, Rimpautr. 
The Drunken Sermon at Grantham. — Can any 
of your readers give a fuller account of this matter 
than is rendered in Turnor’s Grantham ? —where 
it is merely stated that — 
“ Michael Solomon, Gent, gave, out of the Angel Inn, 
in Grantham, in the year 1706, 40s. per annum for ever, 
for a sermon to be preached against drunkenness, the 
Sunday next after the Alderman’s choice, in the after- 
noon.” 
Who, and what, was Mr. Solomon? Did he re- 
side in Grantham? Had he any especial motive 
or reason for instituting an annual sermon against 
inebriety? Were the Granthamites of that day 
unusually bibulous? If the worthy Solomon in- 
tended to deter people from getting “bosky,” it 
was strange that he should direct his sermon to be 
preached on the Sunday after the alderman's 
choice, when it would merely amount to a post 
mortem examination. His appointing the sermon 
for the afternoon no doubt arose from his con- 
sidering that it would be too personal to have it 
preached in the morning, when the alderman and 
corporation attended the church, in state, after 
partaking of what is, even to the present day, 
hs neatly wrapped up” in the innocent term “ cho- 
colate,” with the new chief magistrate. 
ENRY. KENSINGTON, 
Lord Dongan, —Who was Lord Dongan, killed 
at the battle of the Boyne? Was he William 
Dongan, Earl of Limerick, or the son of this 
nobleman ? G. Sremwan Speman, 
“ England and Wales.” — What is the date of a 
Topographical Account of England and Wales, 
with maps, by John Bill. Iam led to suppose it 
of the time of James IL, or Charles I., but the 
title-page is wanting in my copy.* J. K. 
Batterdashes. — Mr. Aubrey, in a MS. Preface 
to his intended History of North Wiltshire (a 
MS. in the Ashmolean Library at Oxford), in 
treating of the manners and habits of the noble- 
men and gentlemen who lived in the time of his 
grandfather, Mr. Lyte, temp. Hen. VIII. (this 
Preface being dated April 28, 1670), says: 
“Every baron and gentleman of estate kept great 
horses for men at arms. Lords had their armories to 
furnish some hundreds of men. The halls of Justices 
of the Peace were dreadful to behold; the skreenes were 
garnished with corsletts and helmetts, gaping with open 
mouth, with coates of mail, lances, pikes, halberts, brown- 
bills, Latterdushes, bucklers, and the moderne colivers and 
petronells (in King Charles’s time) turned into musketts 
and pistolls.” 
A part of this MS, Preface (not the whole of 
it) was printed by Curll in his MWiscellanies, in 
1714, and there this word is printed “ Batter- 
dashers.” What were batterdashes, or batter- 
dashers? In the reign of King George IIL, 
spatterdashes were military gaiters, and in the 
farce of the Jteview on the Wags of Windsor, 
written by George Colman the younger, Phebe 
Whitethorn, who follows her lover in wmilitary 
attire, sings of “‘ Spatterdash neat, and my hair in 
a club.” — Military Costume of the Reign of King 
George FIT. F. A. C. 
The Tythe Improprietors of Benefices in Capi- 
tular Patronage.— in looking over the list of 
benefices in the gift of the various deans and chap- 
ters, appended to the Clergy List, I perceive that 
only about 135 of them are rectories, the rest 
being vicarages and perpetual curacies. 
Is there any book which affords accurate in- 
formation as to who are the improprietors (in plain 
words, the receivers) of the tithe-rent-charge of 
all the vicarages and perpetual curacies in the 
sift of deans and chapters? (I may add, of those 
in the gift of colleges, and other public corporate 
bodies also?) In some cases, I know that the ca- 
pitular patrons themselves are the improprietors. 
Is it so in all cases, or at least in most of them ? 
If so, when and how did they become possessed 
of them? I mean, of course, as a general rule, 
when and how did they become possessed of them ? 
C. H. Davis, M.A. (Clergyman). 
Erck's “Trish Ecclesiastical Register.’ — Can 
you, or any of your readers, tell me (what I am 
anxious to know) how many editions there have 
been of the late Dr, Erck’s Irish Ecclesiastical 
C i correspondent should haye given the size of the 
work, 
