24 MAY 1902, Page 14

SOLDIERS' ARREARS IN THE TIME OF ELIZABETH: A COINCIDENCE.

PTO TIM EDITOR OP THU " SPECTLTOR."1

SIR,—I take the following from Oldys's Life of Raleigh (p. 141) :— "This officer (Strong his name was) had a sum of money long owing him, it seems, from the Treasury, and knowing how well Raleigh was acquainted with the justice of the debt, no less than what influence his applications would be of for procuring it, prevailed on him to write to the Lord Treasurer's secretary, who was after- wards knighted, and well known by the name of Sir Michael Hicks, that he might obtain his Lordship's order for the payment of the money."