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In the Report of the Committee on Parish Boundaries ( Parl. Papers, 1873, vol. viii p. 225) some examples are given of parishes in two counties. They are : Alfold (Surrey and Sussex), Brandon (Norfolk and Suffolk) Broomhill (Kent and Sussex), Frant (Kent and Sussex), Haverhill (Essex and Suffolk), Kedington (Essex and Suffolk), Lamber- hurst (Kent and Sussex), Mendham (Norfolk and Suffolk).

Eleven municipal boroughs also were similarly situated, viz., Bristol (Gloucester and Somerset), Oxford (Oxford and Berks), Stalybridge (Cheshire and Lancashire), Stam ford (Lincolnshire and Northampton), Stock- port (Cheshire and Lancashire), Sudbury (Suffolk and Essex), Tamworth (Staffs and Warwick), Thetford (Norfolk and Suffolk), Warrington (Cheshire and Lancashire), Yar- mouth (Norfolk and Suffolk), Cardigan (Cardigan and Pembroke).

The same Report also contains examples of parishes in two or more hundreds, and of parishes with parts enclosed in other parishes. F. PURYER WHITE.

The parish of Yspytty If an (i.e., Welsh for " Hospice of St. John ") is divided nearly equally between the counties of Den- bigh and Carnarvon. The Conway river, which is the boundary between the two counties, runs through the middle of the parish, and even through the middle of the village, placing the church in the county of Denbigh, and the vicarage and the village school in that of Carnarvon.

T. LLECHID JONES.

Yspytty Vicarage, Bettws-y-Coed.

THE COLONELS OF THE 24TH REGIMENT : " HOWARD'S GREENS" (11 S. ix. 127, 176). Referring to MR. GWYTHER'S statement that I am in error with regard to the above sobriquet of the 24th, I should like to point out that Thomas Howard, who commanded this regiment, was, as far as I know, no connexion of George Howard who was Colonel of the 19th. The former commanded the 24th from 1717 to 1737. when he was transferred to " The Buffs." In accordance with our records, the 24th obtained its sobriquet of " Howard's Greens " at the time of Thomas Howard's transference, to distinguish it, his old regiment, from " The Buffs," then called " Howard's." When Col. George Howard was appointed to the 19th in 1738, this regiment became known as the " Green Howards," in contradistinc- tion to the old " Howard's Greens," the 24th. B. LEACH, Lieut. -Col., 24th Regt,

PETER THE WILD BOY (US. ix. 146). This protege of George I. appears to have boarded for a time with Mrs. King, who kept one of the dames' houses at Harrow School. Among the other pupils resident in the same house were Dr. Parr and Sir William Jones, then near the end of their school career. As this would be in 1760 or thereabouts, Peter, who is supposed to have been born in Hanover about 1712, must have been a somewhat old boy when he sojourned at an English public school. A. R. BAYLEY.

ADMIRAL SIR CHARLES HAMILTON (11 S. ix. 49). The present representative of Vice- Admiral Sir Charles Hamilton, Bt., Governor of Newfoundland, is Sir Edward Archibald Hamilton, late Captain Coldstream Guards, who in 1892 succeeded his cousin, Sir Charles John James Hamilton, Colonel Scots Guards, and son of the Governor of Newfoundland, as fourth baronet of Marlborough House, Hants, having already, in 1851, succeeded his grandfather as second baronet of Tre- binshun House, co. Brecon. According to the 'D.N.B.,' Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Hamilton was Governor of Newfoundland from 1818 to 1824 (13 May, 1818, to 5 July, 1824, says The Gentleman's Magazine). He attained the rank of Admiral in 1830; was nominated a K.C.B. at the beginning of 1833; and died at his residence, Iping, near Midhurst, Sussex, on 14 Sept., 1849, aged 82. His father, Sir John Hamilton, Captain R.N., was created a baronet in 1776 for his gallant conduct during the siege of Quebec in the previous year, and died in 1784.

I shall be grateful for any information concerning Sir Charles Hamilton's prede- essor, Vice-Admiral Francis Pickmore, New- foundland's first resident Governor, who was appointed 23 March, 1816, and died in the colony, at St. John's, 24 Feb., 1818.

FRED. R. GALE.

MUSICAL CONGRESSES (11 S. ix. 10). I Ind myself able to answer part of this nquiry. A Musical Congress took place at Malines on 12 Sept., 1881, and a com- memorative medal was struck, bearing on one side the inscriptions : " Premier congres musical a Malines, organise par la Societe royale Reunion Grique," and " sous le patronage de Sa Ma jeste Leopold II., 1881 " ; on the other side the arms of the town with the motto " In fide constans."

There is an illustration of the medal in Van den Bergh's ' Catalogue des Monnaies,' &c., Malines, 1899, tome ii. p. 99, plate 35., fig. 71. LEO C.