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time previous to the death of Queen Victoria that she restored to them their original name of Scots Guards. THORNE GEORGE.

British Grenadiers date from 1677, first as a few specially trained men, and immediately afterwards as a whole company, in each regiment. Evelyn mentions having seen some of them at the camp at Hounslow in 1678. A regimental drinking song of some dozen stanzas, dated 1681, commemorates the heroic deeds of the Grenadier Company of the First Royals "the brave Granadeers," " the brave Scottish boys." Chappell, in his ' National Airs,' says that the march known as ' The British Grenadiers ' is two hundred years old. A very rare book is ' The Grena- dier's Exercise of the Grenado in H.M. First Regiment of Foot Guards,' 1745. W. S.

It would be easy to infer from MR. NORTH'S remarks that the name of "grenadier" as applied to those soldiers of the line who practised the use of the band-grenade was unknown until 1815. Before this, however, it was generally customary for every battalion of foot to possess a company of Grenadiers, who were first known in the British service in 1685, and first instituted in France in 1667, where four or five only were allotted to each company. (See Ch. James's ' Military Diet.,' 1816.) In the Weekly Journal of 29 January, 1722, is the announcement that " the Grena- diers of the Army in Hide-Park are before their decamping to perform an Exercise of throwing Hand-Grenadoes, &c., before his Majesty." There were two troops of Horse Grenadier Guards in England, the first being raised in 1693, and the command given to Lieut. -General Cholmondeley ; and the second in 1701, commanded by Lord Forbes. Horse Grenadiers were first established in France by Louis XIV. in 1676, and formed into squadrons.

"Wednesday the several Troops of Horse and Horse-Grenadier Guards, incamp'd in Hyde Park, were muster'd." Weekly Journal, 2o Aug., 1722.

"We hear that on Friday last, about twenty Gentlemen of the Second Troop of Horse Grena- diers, have been discharg'd on Account of their Age, or being under Size, or some such Reasons, and not for disaffection to the Government, or Misdemeanors ; and that a certain Sum of Money was order'd for each of them as a Compensation ; however one of those Gentlemen shot himself that evening." Ibid., 22 Oct., 1723.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

MUNDY (9 th S. xii. 485). Sir John Mundy, goldsmith, of London, was Lord Mayor in the years 1522-3. He is stated to have been a son of Sir John Mundy, Knt.,

by his wife Isabel, daughter of John Ripes, Alderman ; but pedigrees and historians alike differ with regard to his parentage. He married firstly a wife Margaret, who was buried in St. Peter's, Cheapside, and by whom he had one daughter, Margaret, who married Nicholas Jennyngs in 1526, and afterwards became the wife of Lord Edmund Howard, Marshal of Horse in the battle of Flodden, a son of Thomas, second Duke of Norfolk, and father(by his wife Joyce, daughter of Richard Colepepper) of Queen Catharine Howard. Sir John Mundy married secondly, before 1514, Julyan, daughter of Sir William Browne, Lord Mayor 1513-14, by his first wife Katherine, daughter of Sir Edmund Shaw, Lord Mayor 1482-3, and by this marriage he had several children. Having been knighted at Whitehall in 1529, Sir John Mundy died in 1537, and his will (proved P.C.C. in the same year) contains many genealogical data. In it he mentions his children Vincent, John, Nicholas, William, Mildred, Anne, Elizabeth, and "Margeret Hawarde" his daughter. By codicil, dated a month later than the will, he appoints "my lorde of Norff" to be overseer to his daughter "Anne Darcy and her husband Thomas Darcy, and to Anthonye Darcy, father of the said Thomas, and to the child that the said Anne is conceived w th ."

Dame Julyan Mundy, widow of the Lord Mayor, died in the same year, 1537, and, together with her husband and his first wife, was buried at " St. Peter's in Chepe." Her will (proved 1537, P.C.C.) is valuable genea- logical evidence. Of Sir John Mundy's sons, Vincent (will proved P.C.C. 1573 ; slain by one of his own children, according to all pedigrees) succeeded to the property of Markeaton, co. Derbj r, which has remained in the family from the year 1510 until the present day. Thomas was Prior of Bodmin (will proved P.C.C. 1554), and is probably identical with the "Thomas Monndaie" of Wriothesley's Chronicle, who was condemned to death for having preserved as a relic and conveyed across the water the left arm of John Houghton, who suffered death for treason, denying the king's supremacy. Of the remaining sons of the Lord Mayor little has been ascertained. Anne and Elizabeth married respectively Thomas Darcy of Tolles- hunt (second wife/ and Sir John (?) Tyrrell of Heron. The Lord Mayor's name occurs several times in the Calendars of Patent Rolls, and is associated with the suppression of the May Day riot of 1517, when the Lon- doners resented an invasion of alien workers skilled in the silk trade. Roger Mundy,