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. iv. OCT. 7,1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 281 LONDON. SATURDAY, OCTOBEK 7. 1903. CO NT 15 NTS.—No. 93. NOTES —The Two Sir Thomas Armstrongs. 281—Consul Smiih find hi« Will, 282-Shakespeariana, 284 — Kobes- plerre's Arrest and the Moon— Laurence Washington s Death—"Draper"—"Potto": its Ktymology—Foxes us Food for Men—" Catamaran "—Wel»h Mutations. 286— Jehan Ostermayer—Koblnson Crusoe, 1«19—' Qeuius by Counties,' 287. OUKRIKS—"The most eloquent of ancient writers"— Touching for the Kind's Kvll, 287 — Appleby Magna Grammar School—Tbe Pound, Hochester Row—London Parochial History — Henry Palmer - Henry Hudson's Descendants —"Pudding —Cromwell Swords—Numis- matic—Shaw, a Bengal Lawyer—Bowes Castle, Yorkshire, •f.3— MIXHI Namei—" Fountain" Tavern—House Davye— John Danlster, Wykehamist—Fermor—Giffard—Harding Family, 2o9-General Slmcoe and St. Domingo—Sheriff s Challenge in Domesday—Oxford Matriculatious, 290. BBPLIBS :—Detached HelMes, 290—George III.'s Daugh- ters, 291—Tripos Verses — French Kevolution Pottery- Dowries for Ugly Women. 2»2— Brougham Cast.le — Swe-lish Hoyal Family-A Nameless Book, 293-Authors of Quotations Wanted—"Correct"—Cumberland Dialect, 2»»—Uomanoff and Stuart Pedigree-Copenhagen House, 295—"Coop," to Trap-Charles Keade's Grandmother- Gibbets—American Civil War Verses, 29*—Motor Index Marks — Lamb's Panopticon, 297 — Premonstratensian Abbeys. 2»8. NOTBS ON BOOKS :-'Pedantlus'—'Every Man In his Humor '—' Studien Uber Shakespcares Wirkunic auf zelt- Kenossitche Dramatiker'—R. L. Stevenson's ' Kssays in the Art of Writing' — 'The Burlington Magazine'— Reviews and Magazines. Booksellers' Catalogues. Notices to Correspondents. THE TWO SIR THOMAS ARMSTRONGS. (See 3"> S. x. 353.) THE ' Biographia Britannica,' quoting from Bishop Buruet'a 'Memoirs,' states that the father of Sir Thomas Armstrong, who suf- fered death as a conspirator in 1684, was in the king's service in Holland. The 'Diet. Nat. Biog.' amplifies this assertion by adding that Armstrong's father was a soldier in an English regiment sent on an expedition to Holland temp. James I. These statements are both vague and misleading; it is the object of this article to prove, indisputably that the unfortunate Sir Thomas Armstrong was the son of a distinguished cavalry leader whose name stands out in bold relief in the annals of the Irish Rebellion, and who, for services rendered to Charles I.'s cause, was knighted about 1644. In 1638 Thomas Armstrong the elder was Appointed Governor of Culmore Fort,* anc on 7 February, 1640, was, by the king'. orders, made Quartermaster-General of tin • ' Cal. S. P. Ireland,' under general date of 8 April 1661. iorse in Ireland, at ten shillings per diem.* n 1641 Thomas Armstrong was commis- ioned by Ormond to raise a troop of horse a Leinster, consisting of fifty light horse nd fifty dragoons, for which he received OOJ.t Armstrong's troop did excellent ervice at the relief of Athy, Birr, and Jurrish in Upper Ossory. Sir John Veel Commissary-General in Ireland), writing to lajor William Cadogan, under date of 0 April, 1642, says of this expedition :— " This was a dangerous piece of service, for our len were fought withal upon great disadvantage in their return out of the bogs and roads 'here was Captain Armstrong shot three times, ut the bullets being spent did him little hurt, nly one pierced to his navel, where it made a unch as big as a hen's egg and fell out at his nees.''£ On 23 May, 1642, the House of Commons oted 1,0001. to Capt. Thomas Armstrong ind twenty-seven officers.§ In the following year we find a "grant to Captain Tlioma-i Armstrong of the lands of Corbellis, co. Dublin, which he gallantly recovered from ,he rebel Luke Nettevvill."i[ Within a few months of this grant Armstrong was mighted;! but whether by the king (to whom he may have been sent on a mission) or by Ormond does not appear. In a short journal of warlike occurrences in Ireland, 'or the year 1647, reference is made to Sir Thomas Armstrong's services with his troop at the siege and capture of Athboy; after which events Armstrong was sent in command of 500 horse to raid the country, and returned to camp with 800 cattle.** In the ' List of the [Royalist] Army in Ireland, 1649,' preserved at Trinity College, Dublin, "Colonel Sir Thomas Armstrong's Regiment of Horse" is given as being 200 strong. For the next ten years there is a hiatus in the Irish State Papers so far as Sir Thomas Armstrong's doings are concerned ; but this blank was most happily filled up by the report printed in the ' House of Commons' Journals," under date of 31 May, 1659, which report gives the examination of Sir Thomas Armstrong before a committee of the Council of State at Westminster, and is as follows :— t ' Cal. S. P. Ireland,' under date of 11 December, 1641. ± 'Ormonde Papers,' Old Series, vol. ii. p. 6. § 'House of Lords' Calendar' (printed by the Hist. MSS. Commission). 1643. Luke Nettervill was second son of Viscount Nettervill. IT ' Ormonde Papers,' New Series, passim. •• 'Captain Stewart's MSS.' (Hist. MSS. Com., Tenth Report, Appendix, Part 4).
 * ' Cal. S. P. Dora.'
 * 'Cal. S. P. Ireland,'under date of 18 November,