Dwon Notts and Queries. 225 181. Thomas Stuksly. — In Stebbing's biography of Sir Walter Ralegh it is stated (on p. 142) that one of the items of his busy life about 1597 and 1598 was the presenting of a petition for a licence for a translation from the Italian of a history of King Sebastian's and Thomas Stukely's invasion of Morocco, on the ground that he had perused and corrected something therein. Can any one tell me the name of the author and the exact title of this history ? Was it actually translated into English ? What is the best accessible account of the battle of Alcasar, at which Stukely, '< surrounded and overpowered, fought till he could fight no more, and then died like a hero with all his wounds in front " ? R. Pbarsb Chops. 182. Nicholas Vaughan. — I shall be obliged for infor- mation regarding relationship between descendants, if any, from, or other particulars concerning: — (i) "Nicholas Vaughan, of Exon, gent.,'* who is noted as subscribing
- ^ioo in the List of Adventurers for Lands in Ireland given
in Prendergast's Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland, Such subscriptions were paid under various Acts, etc., from 1642 to 1646. (2) Captain Nicholas Vaughan, Muster Master of the *' Trayned " Bands in the county of Devon and city of Exeter, who, whilst in the execution of a warrant for the taking away malignant arms designed for the assistance of rebellious forces against Parliament, was treacherously "slayne" by a shot out of a window at Dunsford, Devon. A stone to the memory of this Nicholas Vaughan, who was interred, December 1642, in the burial ground of St. Bartholomew, Exeter, is now close to the south wall of the Church of All Hallows-on-the- Walls, Exeter. The epitaph on the stone is illegible in places. A shield is engraved on the stone charged with what appears to be three boar-heads. This stone is referred to in Lysons' Devon, (3) Nicholas Vaughan, of Exon, born 1596, a son of Hugh Vaughan. A mural tablet to the memory of this Hugh Vaughan, died 1606, who was Steward and Secretary to Francis, Earl of Bedford, is in the Church of St. Lawrence, Exeter. T. T. Vaughan, Lieut.-Col. late r.a. 183. Dartmoor Mining. — The methods of Dartmoor mining— early, middle and late — are by this time too well Q
