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 ii s. m. MAY 27, i9iL] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Wilson is described as " Clerk, Keeper, and Registrar of His Majesty's Papers and Records for Matters of State " ; and subsequent holders of the post were described as " Keepers." The last Keeper, the Right Hon. Henry Hobhouse, died in 1854, and the State Papers were transferred from Duke Street to the Recoid Office, and placed under the Master of the Rolls.

Kingsmill, mentioned in the MS. namec in the query, was not " Clerk of the Papers ' in 1693, or at any time. From 1661 to 1702 the office was held by Joseph William son. But various subordinate clerks were employed in the Office, and the entry may refer to one of these. See a Calendar of Documents relating to the History of the State Paper Office, which is an appendix to the Thirtieth Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records.

R. S. PENGELLY. [R. B. also thanked for* reply.]

SIB JOHN ARUNDEL OF CLERKENWELL (11 S. iii. 367). Can he have been the Sir John Arundell of Lanherne who died in 1589 or, according to the Isleworth Register (Oliver's Collections), in 1591 at Isleworth ? He was converted to Catholicism, according to Dodd's ' Church History,' by the Jesuit John Cornelius, a native of Bodmin ; and, in defence of Father Cornelius, lost his own liberty, and was confined for nine years in Ely Palace, Holborn (see Morris's ' Troubles of our Catholic Forefathers,' 1875 ; Simp- son's ' Edmund Campion,' 1867 ; and Challoner's ' Memoirs of Missionary Priests,' 1803). The ' Acts ' of the martyr Cornelius (1557-94) were written by Sir John's daughter Dorothy Arundell (who became a nun at Brussels), and are among the archives of the Jesuits at Rome. A grandson of Sir John was Thomas, first Lord Arundell of Wardour (1560-1639). A. R. BAYLEY.

FREEMAN: BEAUCHAMP (11 S. iii. 169, 238). A. cousin of mine of the Beauchamp family in America informs me that there is a good deal about John Beauchamp, merchant of London, in the Massachusetts Society's Historical Collections. The Mus- congus Patent was granted to himand Thomas Leverett, of Boston, England, 13 March,

29, and was signed by Robert, Earl of Warwick, his kinsman. The Earl of War- wick at this time was the second Robert Rich, who succeeded to the title in 1619, and died in 1658 (Doyle, Baronage,' 1886). In what way was John Beauchamp related to him ? He was a son of Thomas Beau-

champ of Cosgrave, Northants (St. George, ' The Visitation of London in 1633, 1634, and 1635,' Harleian Society, 1880). Is the parentage of this Thomas Beauchamp known, or from what branch of the Beauchamp family he descended ?

Is John Beauchamp, the London merchant, to be identified with " John Beauchamp of Cosgrave, co. Northton, gent., widr., abt. 70," who in 1685 was to be married to " Sarah Norris of Fry an Barnett, Midd., widow, abt. 55 " (Harleian Society Pub- lications, XXX. 216) ? The name Beau- champ does not appear in the ' London Directory ' of 1677 ; so he may have retired from business and removed to his father's home. But in this case he must have been very young on his first marriage to have six children by 1634, the date of the Visita- tion ; or his age was understated at his second marriage. Is the date of his death known ? and where can any further in- formation about him and his family be obtained ? FREDK. A. EDWARDS.

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HANOVERIAN REGIMENT (11 S. iii. 327, 378). -- The regiment about which SIB JAMES MURRAY inquires on behalf of his foreign friend will most likely be one of those formerly in British pay. According to ' A History of the British Army,' by the Hon. J. W. Fortescue, on 23 March, 1756, Hanoverians and Hessians were imported to defend this island (vol. ii. p. 290). On the accession of George III. the English Army consisted of 200,000 men, including the forces of Hanover, Hesse, and Brunswick in British pay, 60,000 men (ibid., p. 520).

In 1803 the officers and men of the Hano- verian Army, which had been broken up by bhe capitulation of that year, drifted over
 * o England, where

" in rage and shame they entreated George III. to reform them and take them into his service ; and n December, 1803, was begun the levy of a King's jrerman Regiment, which was very soon expanded nto that of a King's German Legion. The force grew apace. In January, 1805. it already included me regiment of dragoons, another of hussars, two mttalions of light and four of heavy infantry, with two batteries of horse artillery and three of field artillery." (See Fortescue, vol. v. p. 279, &c.)

I recently came across a German account of Queen Victoria's Hanoverian soldiers in Die deutsche FremdenJegion in England,' an octavo pamphlet of 84 pp., published at ^eipzig in 1855. A copy is in the British Museum, bound up in a volume of ' Tracts relating to Military Affairs, 1839-70.' From his it appears that a certain M. de Stutter- leim, an ex-officer of the Brunswick Army,