Lords' Descents.—Is a MS. collection of Lords' Descents, by Thomas Maisterson, Esq., made about the year 1705, now extant?
T. P. L.
Reverend Robert Hall.—Who was Robert Hall, a preacher of some celebrity in the time of James II.?
P. P. P.
"Lydia, or Conversion."—Can any of your correspondents inform me who is the author of the following excellent drama, published nearly twenty years since:—Lydia, or Conversion; a Sacred Drama inscribed to the Jews by a Clergyman of the Church of England: London, 8vo., 1835, published by Rivingtons, and Hatchard & Son?
A. Z.
Personal Descriptions.—Is Sir Walter Scott's description of Saladin taken from any ancient writer, or is it a fancy sketch? If the latter, I think he has fallen into error by describing in Saladin the features of a civilised Arab, rather than the very peculiar and unmistakeable characteristics of the Koordish race.
In a novel now publishing in Ainsworth's Magazine, styled the "Days of Margaret of Parma," the celebrated Duke of Alva is described as a very tall man. I have never seen a portrait or read a description of his person, but had formed a very different idea of it from the circumstance that Count Tilly, who was certainly a short man, was said to be a striking counterpart of him in face, figure, and dress, a resemblance which added not a little to the terror and aversion with which Tilly was regarded by the Protestants of Germany. Can any of your correspondents refer me to a description of Alva?
J. S. Warden.
"One while I think," &c.—Whence are the following lines: