Minor Queries.
"To try and get."—The word and is often used instead of to after the verb to try: thus, in Moore's Journal (June 7, 1819), "Went to the theatre to try and get a dress." What is the origin of this erroneous mode of expression?
Uneda.
Philadelphia.
Fleet Prison.—Where can a list of the officers of the Fleet Prison, especially the under officers, and more especially the tipstaffs, A.D. 1696, and shortly previously and subsequently, be seen?
J. K.
Colonel St. Leger.—Where can I find an account of the celebrated Colonel St. Leger, the friend and associate of George IV. when Prince of Wales? In what year did he die? What age was he when his picture, now in Hampton Court, was painted by Gainsborough?
W. P. M.
Dublin.