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vol. v. p. 27) ; and an image-light of St. Sunday is recorded to have once stood in Strood Church (see Smetham's ' History of Strood,' p. 53). A well named after this saint is now, or was formerly, at Wettenhall, Staffordshire (see Antiquary, vol. xxii. p. 205).

I do not remember ever meeting with a Scottish example, but such a thing may well be, for it seems to be certain that the name settled in Ireland, for Oliver Cromwell, in his well-known letter to Lenthall the Speaker, dated 17 Sept., 1649, describing the storming of Drogheda, mentions a gate called St. Sunday's. EDWARD PEACOCK.

At 2 S. vi. 215 F. C. H. wrote :

" The saint thus designated must be Saint

Dominic, in Latin Dominicus, and from Dominica,

the name of Sunday in the Liturgy of the Catholic

Church, quaintly called in English Saint Sunday."

But it appears from 4 S. x. 350 that this explanation did not carry conviction.

Is it possible that nothing more than " Holy Sunday " is meant ? We often find " Saint Charity " in writers of the four- teenth and fifteenth centuries.

MATTHEW H. PEACOCK.

Wakefield Grammar School.

If this place-name involves the name of a saint, what is to be said of St. Raven and similar saintly names in the same part of the country ? Do they not represent simply the Scandinavian prefix Seat, common in the same neighbourhood, e.g., Seat Sandal, and Seat Robert ? If a saint be requisite, St. Sunniva is a name not unlike it.

SABTJM.

Some account of this saint will be found in Hazlitt's ' Dictionary of Faiths and Folk- lore,' vol. ii. pp. 573-4. The compiler, however, does not state who St. Sunday was. W. B. GERISH.

Bishop's Stortford.

See 2 S. vi. 132, 215 ; 4 S. x. 350 ; 5 S. ix.

169, 254. The general opinion of the con- tributors of these notes is that it means St. Dominic. DIEGO.

[MR. J. B. WAINEWRIGHT also thanked for reply.]

THIBD FOOT GUARDS AT THE BATTLE OF BAYONNE, 1814 (10 S. xi. 69, 192). Much valuable information as to this regiment is given by Chichester and Burges-Short in ' Records and Badges of the British Army ' (Clowes, 1895). They say the Scots Guards date their existence from 23 Nov., 1660 (not 1608, as mentioned by MR. RHODES at the last reference), when some companies

probably not more than two or three were formed in Scotland under the command of the Earl of Linlithgow. The Privy Council records in the Register House at Holyrood show that five additional companies were ordered to be raised in 1 662 ; but the earliest mention of the corps to be found in the English State Paper Office is a memorandum of 5 July, 1666. King Charles II. had appa- rently been making inquiries respecting his Scots Guards with a view to their being brought southward in anticipation oi a Dutch invasion, and the memorandum states that " the regiment corresponds in all things to the King's Foot Guards," but adds that the Scots are in want of a physician and that the men claim tenpence per day. The ' Records and Badges ' also differs from Trimen's ' Regiments of the British Army * by definitely stating that "in 1713 the regi- ment received the title of the 3rd Foot Guards, and thenceforward performed all duties about the Sovereign in the same way as the two other regiments of Foot Guards." Recent research among the Scottish records has revealed the existence, in the Register House at Edinburgh, of some ninety odd old muster rolls of the Guards, which should throw new light on the composition of the regiment antecedent to its change of title.

Col. Sir Daniel MacKinnon's ' Origin and Services of the Coldstream Guards ' should afford a good account of the campaign in the Peninsula from the passage of the Douro in 1809 to the investment of Bayonne in 1814, the first battalions of both regiments (the Coldstreams and the Scots) being brigaded together. It was only part of the second battalion that served at Walcheren (men- tioned at the second reference) ; while,, again, it was the second battalion which represented the regiment at Quatre Bras and Waterloo, being in the second Brigade^ of Guards under Byng.

G. YARROW BALDOCK.

Much information regarding the battle of Bayonne and an alphabetical list of officers killed in the South-West of France in 1813-14 are to be found in a little volume entitled ' The Guards' Cemeteries, St. Etienne,. Bayonne,' London, Bemrose & Sons, n.d. (circa 1880). It was compiled on the spot by Philip A. Hurt, and contains many in- teresting illustrations. JOHN S. CRONE.

" DEFIXIONUM TABELL^E " : DISRAELI (10 S. xi. 186). The passage about the- drawer quoted from ' Beaconsfield Maxims ' is taken from the present Lord Esher's ' Yoke of Empire.' G. W. E. R.