In Cox's _Hibernia Anglicana_ it appears that "Loftus, Archbishop of Armagh, was consecrated by the Popish Archbishop Curwin; Thomas Lancaster, the first Protestant Bishop of Kildare, was consecrated by Archbishop Brown; and John Merriman, the first Protestant Bishop of Down and Connor, was consecrated by Lancaster when Primate." This Bishop Merriman had been chaplain to Queen Elizabeth; he was made Vicar of St. John's, Atheboy, in the first year of her reign, and was consecrated Bishop of Down and Connor, Jan. 19, 1568/9. He died in 1572. The probable father of Bishop Merriman may be found in the _Rutland Papers_, published by the Camden Society, where _Mr. Meryman_, in a second list called _William Meryman_, who held some office in the "Kechyn," is selected as one of the attendants on Henry VIII. and Queen Katherine to the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520. There was formerly a family of the name of Merriman residing in Ireland: does it now exist? In England there are several families of this name: are any of them descended from this source? T. D. P. _The Escubierto._--Where can the effusions of the Capateiro da Bandarra be seen in England? And has any of your correspondents read them, so as to be able to explain the nature of his language and teaching concerning the Escubierto? I believe it is admitted, that the doctrine of the Sebastianistas is superadded, exegetically, to that of the Capateiro, and is not to be found in him. A. N. _J. Scandret._--I should be much obliged for any information respecting "J. Scandret, priest of the Church of England," the author of a little treatise entitled _Sacrifice, the Divine Service_, originally published in 1707; with a recommendation from the celebrated Charles Leslie, Chancellor of Connor. Mr. Parker, of Oxford, reprinted it in 1840; but as "N. & Q." had not then begun its useful career, the editor was unable to satisfy that curiosity which most readers feel respecting the authors of such books as merit their attention. E. H. A. _Mary Horton._--I find in Burke's _Extinct Baronetage_, p. 269. (article "Horton of Chadderton"), that "William Horton, of Coley, in Halifax parish, died in 1739-40: by Mary his wife, daughter of (Thomas) Chester, Esq., he left an only daughter, _Mary_, living and unmarried in 1766." Can any one inform me whether this Mary Horton ever _married_, when she _died_, and where she was buried? TEWARS.