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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. i. JUNE 25, 1910.

At p. 252 of the Index volume there is a note of the family of Durand in the island of Guernsey, in which reference is made to the Very Rev. Daniel Francis Durand, Rector of St. Peter Port, and Dean of Guernsey, who was born in 1745, and died in 1832. The authority for this information is quoted as the " Guernsey Magazine for 1873." It is there stated that Fra^ois Guillaume Durand (son of Jean Durand, a Protestant gentleman of Montpellier) was born 11 Sept., 1649: having studied at Geneva he became Pasteur of Genouillac about 1673, and in 1689 he married the heiress of Baron Brueyx de Fontcouverte. At the date of the Revocation he became a refugee at Schaffhausen, his family remain- ing in France. His zeal for religious liberty led him to recruit two regiments known as Loches and Baltasar for service in Piedmont, and for a time he bore the commission of captain in the Baltasar dragoons, until 1691, when he was appointed chaplain of Aubus- sargues's regiment under the name of Durand de Fontcouverte. At the peace of Ryswick he settled at Nimeguen, and it is believed died there in or about 1715.

F. DE H. L.

Mr. Agnew who wrote on the Huguenots was the Rev. David Carnegie Andrew Agnew (1821-1887), third son of the seventh baronet of Lochnaw, Wigtownshire. For a short time he officiated as a minister of the Free Church of Scotland, at a date prior to the period when the majority of the members of that church seceded from it in order to form part of the United Free Church. Mr. Agnew wrote ' Protestant Lectures and Addresses,' 1857; a volume of sermons, 1863 ; and ' Theology of Con- solation, 1 1882. His 'Protestant Exiles from France : Huguenot Refugees ' was published in 1866 in 3 vols. The last edition of it in 2 vols. was issued, Edinburgh, 1886, the price being 11. 10s. W. S. S.

MAJOR JOHN JOHNSON (11 S. i. 309, 418, 456). I quote the following note from Dr. Henry Marshall's ' Ceylon,' London, 1846, p. 130 :

"Captain Arthur Johnston, who displayed so much bravery and resolution in conducting this detachment, was a native of Ireland. He entered the army in 1794, and in 1795 he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the 19th Regiment. In 1804 he obtained a company in the 3rd Ceylon Regiment, and in 1811 a majority in the same corps, from which he was soon after removed to the Corsican Rangers. He went on half-pay in 1816, having become lieutenant-colonel by brevet in 1814. After retiring on half-pay, he was for some time

employed as a professor in the Royal Military College. He died in 1823 or 1824. Captain Johri- ston was a claimant for the Anriandale peerage."

In the 'Army List * of 1817 Lieut.-Col. John Johnson's name occurs at pp. 31, 387, from which it appears that he was gazetted a lieutenant-colonel in the army on 25 October, 1812, and lieutenant-colonel of the 86th Regiment on 18 November, 1813. I have not been able to trace in any early list which I have at hand the officer inquired for at the first reference, unless he be the captain of 27 April, 1756, in the 28th Foot, then serving in Ireland. W. S.

CISTERNS IN KENSINGTON GARDENS (11 S. i. 108). I could only find nine of these curious old strongly and well-made leaden cisterns; the largest about 5ft. by 2|ft. by 4 ft. Six are on the terrace in front of Wren's beautiful orangery, and three are in the basin in the sunk garden.

1. In the sunk garden. Jacobean panel- ling. Front has three panels or frames ;. with rose in wreath in each side panel, crown in centre panel. Above the frames is 1729. Each has three empty panels. Sides have empty panels, temp. George II.

2. In the sunk garden. Central cistern. The largest and most ornamented of the nine. Front has three elaborate frames, each with two female caryatides on the sides, and two boys with a vase of flowers above. In the centre frame within a wreath is j E r Above this is 1722. Side has similar frame containing rose in a wreath. Back has three similar frames, the centre has j E r in a wreath, under a crown, temp. George I.

3. In the sunk garden. Jacobean panel- ling. Front has three panels, two contain- ing a crown above a corn sheaf, one contain- ing rose in a circle, with 1713 above. One side has a crown above a sheaf in a panel. Another side has ED under a crown, above a sheaf, in a panel with roses in corners, temp. Anne.

4. On the terrace. Front divided into forty square panels, with :

16 [crown] 66

C R

on one side the same square panels, the other, side and back are plain, temp.. Charles II.

5. On the terrace edge. Ornamented with Jacobean panelling ; on the front are :

rose 17 rose 17 rose

between two between two ^ between two cornucopias 30 cornucopias 30 cornucopias.