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12 s. ii. NOV. 11, 1916. NOTES AND QUERIES.


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Lieut. -General Columbine's Regiment, not

Lincoln Regiment (ante, p. 246). Lieut. George Brereton, afterwards captai in this regiment. His will, dated May 7 1754. was proved in the Prerogative Court Dublin, on Nov. 15, 1758, by the executors his niece Mary, wife of John West o Drumdarkin, co. Leitrim, gent., and daughte of Rev. Edward Munns, Vicar of Drumcliffe co. Sligo, and the said John West.

Lieut.-General Clayton's Regiment of Foot

(ante, p. 285).

Captain-Lieut. Nicholas West, " of New town, co. Wexford," was eldest son o Tichborne West of Ashwood, co. Wexford by his wife and cousin Mary, daughter o Nicholas Ward (vide Bangor, V.), anc grandson to Major Roger West of Bally dugan, co. Down, and the Rock, co. Wicklow by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Tichborne, P.C., Field-Marshal, in Ireland Capt. Nicholas Westd. intestate and appar ently s.p. in vitapatris, andadministrationo his estate was granted out of the Prerogative Court, Dublin, on Nov. 26, 1747, to his sister Jane West.

Major-General Harrison's Regiment of Foo

(ante, p. 324).

Just ley Watson (?the same as Justlej Watson, afterwards lieutenant-colonel R.E., elder son of Col. Jonas Watson, R.A. ; see 'Diet. Nat. Biog.').

ERSKINE E. WEST.

Brigadier Cornwallis's Regiment of Foot (ante, p. 282).

John Edwards, officer in Army, d. March 25, 1755, aged 86.

Greenwood, lieutenant-colonel, d. Sept. 20, 1748.

John Henry Bastide, lieutenant-general, April 30, 1770 ; d. 1770.

Charles Lawrence, captain-lieutenant 54th Foot, 1741 ; major of it, 1747 ; Lieutenant- Governorof Nova Scotia, 1754-6 ; brigadier- general, Dec. 3, 1757 ; commanded a brigade at siege of Louisburg, July, 1758 ; colonel- commandant 60th Foot, Sept. 28, 1757, to Dec. 20, 1757 ; d. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Oct. 17, 1760 ; monument to him in St. Paul's Church, Halifax.

General Whetham's Regiment of Foot

(ante, p. 283).

John Cossley, Lieut enant-Governor of Chelsea Hospital, July 3, 1748, to death, Nov. 4, 1765.


Col. Pulteney's Regiment of Foot

(ante, p. 284).

Christopher Legard, lieutenant-colonel,, d. Oct. 11, 1765, aged 74.

Lieut.-General Clayton's Regiment of Foot

(ante, p. 284).

John Severn, colonel of 8th Dragoons,. Nov. 27, 1760, to death ; general, Nov. 20,. 1782 ; d. July 6, 1787, aged 88.

Major-General Harrison's Regiment of Foot

(ante, p. 324).

Henry Harrison, lieutenant-general, Feb. 1,. 1743 ; d. March, 1749.

Major-General Handasyd's Regiment of Foot (ante, p. 324).

Roger Handasyde, general, March, 1761 d. Jan. 4, 1763.

John Mostyn, son of Sir Roger Mostyn r 3rd Bart., b. 1710 ; educated Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford ; captain 2nd Foot Guards, 1743 ; colonel of 7th Foot,. Jan. 26, 1751 ; of 13th Dragoons, July 8,. 1754 ; of 5th Dragoons, 1758 ; of 1st Dragoon Guards, May 13, 1763, to his death ; M.P.. for Malton, 174 -68 ; Governor of Minorca,. 1768 ; also Governor of Chelsea Hospital,. 1768 ; general, May 26, 1772 ; d. Dover Street, London, Feb. 16, 1779.

FREDERIC BOASE.

Ante, p. 283.

Sampson Archer, ensign, 1704 ; captain- ieutenant, Nov. 7, 1739. Dalton's Army Lists have the following references to


Lieut. Sampson Archer, of Colonel Skeffington's- 1-ondonderry Regiment of Foot, " The Antrim Volunteers, which regiment served during the siege, and was disbanded 1698.

1697, June 20. Cocklebury. Sampson Archer to- >e Lieutenant to Captain James Waller in Major- general Win. Stewart's Regiment of Foot. He- eft the regiment, 1702.

1706, Sampson Archer, Lieutenant in the Earl f Inchiquin's Regiment of Foot, raised in Ireland, March, 1704, and disbanded 1712.

G. H. R.

St. Annes-on-Sea.

Ante, p. 285.

A further note to be added to (5) against he name of " James Montresor " might be r ee 'D.N.B.' for life of this officer.

F. M. M.

Ante, p. 324.

Major-General Handasyd. The following: s the inscription on the monument in.

  • aines Chapel, Great Staughton, Hunting-

onshire, to the memory of this general :