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12 s. in. FEB. 17, WIT.] NOTES AND Q UERIES.


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Edward Windus was major 2nd Foot, Nov. 22, 1756 ; lieutenant -colonel (new) 93rd Foot, Jan. 17, 1760.

John Meade d. Jan. 12, 1747.

Studholme Hodgson was an Equerry (300Z.) to H.R.H. the Duke of Cumberland, June, 1749, and his (Gentleman or) Master of the Horse, 1757 till the Duke's death, 1765.

Launcelot Baugh, captain and lieutenant- colonel, May 1, 1758, till colonel 58th Foot, Feb. 10, 1770 ; colonel of 6th Foot, April 18, 1787, till he cl. shortly before April 28, 1792 ; brevet-colonel, Aug. 6, 1771 ; major-general, Aug. 29, 1777 ; lieutenant-general, Feb. 19, 1779.

Hon. Gilbert Vane, fourth son of 2nd Lord Barnard, was wounded at Fontenoy ; lieutenant-colonel, Oct. 4, 1745 ; lieutenant- colonel of the Earl of Berkeley's new 72nd Foot, raised Nov. 23, 1745, reduced June 27, 1746 ; Deputy Treasurer of Chelsea College, 1761 till he d., unm., 1772.

Edmund Wynne (sic in Hamilton) retired Sept. 30, 1758 ; second son of Sir Rowland Wynne, 3rd Bart., of Nostell, Yorks ; b. about 1708 ; d. June 4, 1763 (the " Col. Winn, brother to Sir Rowl.," mentioned in Gent. Mag.).

George Gray, second son of Sir James Gray, 1st Bart. (? of Denmiln), was promoted to captain of Lascelles' 47th Foot, Jan. 26, 1741 ; captain of Mordaunt's 18th Foot, April 25, 1743 ; major thereof, March 19; 1745 ; guidon and second major 1st Troop of Horse Guards, Sept. 7, 1746 ; first major, April 9, 1748 ; second lieutenant-colonel, July 17, 1749 ; first lieutenant -colonel thereof, June 5, 1754, to 1759 ; d., s.p., Feb. 14, buried Kensington, Feb. 17, 1773 ; title extinct; will dated Feb. 29, 1760; proved February, 1773 ; major-general, Aug 15, 1761 ; m. Charlotte, daughter of

was also an amateur architect ;

siicceeded his brother, Sir James Gray (Ambassador to Spain, 1769), as 3rd Bart., Jan. 9, 1773 ; was M.P. Winchelsea, January, 1759, till he resigned, March, 1760.

Lord George Bentinck appears in ' Wor- cestershire Members, 1213 to 1897.'

John Colleton cannot be traced in the Baronet's family. Was he related to James Edward Colleton, M.P. Lostwithiel, 1747 to 1768 ?

Hon. Borlase Wallop, second son of 1st Earl of Portsmouth, b. about 1720 ; d. unm. in the expedition to Carthagena in 1741, being then A.D.C. to General Wentworth.

Francis Boynton resigned March 17, 1743 ; third and youngest son of Sir Francis


Boynton, 4th Bart., of Boynton, Yorks ^ m. Charlotte, daughter of Sir Warton Penny man, Bart.

Richard Wills retired June 28, 1742.

Hon. Charles Pawlet, captain in Hough- ton's 56th Foot, Jan. 27, 1741 ; major in Cornwall's 7th Marines, April 24, 1743 ; lieutenant -co lone|l of Jeffreys's 10th (Marines,. May 1, 1745, till "broke," Nov. 11, 1748; afterwards 5th Duke of Bolton, 1758; d.- 1765.

Richard Bradshaigh retired April 17, 1741 ? fourth and youngest son of Sir Roger Bradshaigh, 2nd Bart., M.P., of Haigh, Lancashire, and brother to Charles (12 S. ii. 5) ; was one of the two Pages of Honour (150Z.) to the Queen Consort in 1734, till, her Majesty's death, November, 1737.

Wm. Ekins Piers retired April 22, 1741.

Maurice Johnson, who fought at Dettingen and Culloden, and resigned March 24, 1755,- was of Ayscough-Fee Hall, Spalding, co. Lincoln, and Stanway Hall, Essex ; the- elder son (among twenty-six children) of Maurice Johnson, F.S.A., barrister-at-law, founder of the Gentleman's Society, Spalding, who d. 1755. He m. (1) Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Edward Bellamy, Kt., Lord Mayor of London ; and (2) Mary Baker (' Landed GenVry ').

Hon. Matthew Aylmer, eldest son of Henry,. 2nd Lord Aylmer of Ireland (who had also served in the army), but d., v.p., Sept. 2,- 1 748. (I cannot trace a Sir Matthew Aylmer,. Bart. ; see 12 S. ii. 230).

W. R. WILLIAMS.

( To be continued. )


FROM LIVERPOOL TO WORCESTER A CEN- TURY AND A HALF AGO (12 S. iii. 21, 63, 89, 106). The following notes relating to persons and places named in the diary may serve to explain one or two matters on which MR. PENRY LEWIS seeks information.

At Warrington the traveller " passed by an elegant brick house built by Mr. Thomas Patten." This is the present Town Hall of" Warrington. It was designed by Gibbs, and the Patten family took for many years a prominent place in local history. The Red Lion, where the traveller stayed, is still, as it was then, the principal hotel in the town.

Saturday, Oct. 12. He visits Worsley and " inspects the works," that is to say,, the tunnels as well as the workshops and yards of the Duke of Bridgewater, in con- nexion with the Bridgewater Canal. Mr. Gilbert was the agent and confidential