"Decimas, calchanti, liquor, mineral, metal," &c.
are given to the grantee for a term of twenty-one years: probably your readers can also enlighten my ignorance of the term calchanti; the other words are obvious. If any authorities are to be met with, probably in the answers to these queries your correspondents will have the goodness to cite them.
F. S. A.
"Ned o' the Todding."—May I beg, through the medium of your excellent publication, to ask if any of your correspondents can inform me in which of our English authors I may find some lines headed "Ned o' the Todding?"
W. T.
Minor Queries with Answers.
Bridget Cromwell and Fleetwood.—Can you inform me whether Bridget, daughter of Oliver Cromwell, who was first married in 1651 to Ireton, Lord Deputy of Ireland (and had by him a large family), and secondly, to General Fleetwood, had any family by the latter?
And, if so, what were the Christian names of the children (Fleetwood)?
A New Subscriber of 1854.