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and disease. The blessing of horses and cattle on St. Anthony's Day (17 January) at his church in Rome will be familiar to your readers. In Glaire I find that a church founded by Josselin of Poitiers at La Mothe- Saint Didier in the diocese of Vienne, in honour of the saint, in the eleventh century, was a great resort of pilgrims, many of whom were cured by his relics, especially from the disease known as St. Anthony's fire. So great was the resort to the shrine that hospital was built in 1095, and an order of Hospitallers established, which spread over many countries. St. Anthony's Chapel on Arthur's Seat belonged to a hos- pital of the name at Leith. Evidently the rights of the London house over other English foundations were contested.

St. Anthony of Padua had nothing to do with these hospitals, nor, I think, with the pigs. J. W. M.

Moorlynch, Bournemouth.

The appellation St. Anthony of Vienne is of the same nature as Notre Dame de Paris or de Loretto. The St. Anthony is the great St. Anthony, and the Order of St. Anthony of Vienne was so called because its church and head-quarters were at Vienne. There is a full account of it in Helyot's ' Histoire des Ordres Monastiques,' torn. ii. p. 108 (Paris, 1714), with plates of the dresses of the members of the order.

W. C. BOLLAND. Lincoln's Inn.

ARMY AND MILITIA LISTS (10 S. x. 489 ; xi- 55). The ' List of War Office Records published by the Record Office,' 1908, which can be bought from Messrs. Wyman & Sons for 8s. 6d., contains the best information about Army Lists, both MS. and printed. The earliest MS. Army List is for 1702 ; the first printed Army List mentioned in the Record Office Index is for 1754, which is also the date of the earliest in the British Museum Library. But there is a printed Army List for 1740 at the Royal United Service In- stitution. CONSTANCE SKEI/TON.

CARMARTHEN FAMILIES : PADDINGTON HOUSE (10 S. xi. 89). No one has done for Carmarthenshire what Fenton did for Pem- brokeshire, Jones for Breconshire, Coxe for Monmouthshire, Williams for Radnorshire, and Meyrick for Cardiganshire ; but A. M. may find what he desires in the first volume of Nicholas's ' Annals and Antiquities oJ the Counties and County Families of Wales (London, 1872). Information about placei may be obtained from Lewis's or from

'arlisle's ' Topographical Dictionary of Wales,' or from vol. xviii. of ' The Beauties of England and Wales ' (' South Wales,' by Thomas Rees).

I may also mention Spurrell's ' Carmarthen and its Neighbourhood ' (Carmarthen, 1879), and ' Royal Charters and Historical Docu- ments relating to the Town and Coxinty of !armarthen,' by J. R. Daniel-Tyssen, edited y Alcwyn C. Evans (Carmarthen, 1878). DAVID SALMON. Swansea.

The old house that stood on Paddington Green belonged to my family up to 1880, when I sold the site. If your correspondent applies to me, I may be able to give him some of the information required.

CHAS. FITZWILLIAMS.

Cilgwyn, Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire.

A. M. will probably find the information he requires in ' Lewys Dwnn's Visitations of Wales and the Marches,' by S. R. Meyrick ; ' Pedigrees of Carmarthenshire and Pem- brokeshire in continuation of Dwnn,' by Sir Thos. Phillipps ; and ' Carmarthen Miscellany and N. and Q. for S. Wales,' by A. Mee. G. H. W.

Sir Richard Steele married into the family of the Scurlocks of Ty Gwyn, many of whom are buried in Carmarthen Church (St. Peter's). Steele died at the old "Ivy Bush " Inn at Carmarthen, which was formerly a gentleman's residence, though whose is not stated ; and he also was buried in Carmarthen Church. Bishop Bayley, who wrote ' The Practice of Piety,' which passed through a vast number of editions, was a native of Carmarthen, as were also Sir Thomas Picton and Sir William Nott. Sir William Nott, one of the heroes of the Afghan war, was the son of an extensive mail-contractor and proprietor of " The Ivy Bush." The most remarkable monu- ment in the church is that of Sir Thomas ab Thomas and his lady, on the north side of the chancel. Nearly opposite is that of " virtuous Anne, the Lady Vaughan," bearing an interesting inscription. Merlin, the British writer and magician, is also claimed as a native of the town.

Paddington House on Paddington Green was built by Denis Chirac, jeweller to Queen Anne. It was situated at the east side of the Green, very near the Harrow Road. According to an entry in the vestry minutes for May, 1821, Chirac was permitted to enclose the portion of the Green in front of his house. This was a narrow strip along