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LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 191V.

CONTENTS.-No. 33.

'NOTES : A British Heroine in the American War, 121 An English Array List of 1740, 122 ' The Observer,' 1791-1916, 124 Inscriptions in St. Mary's, Battersea, 125 "Blue pencil," 126 'An Ancient Irish Manuscript : the Book of the MacGaurans or McGoverns ' Ching : Cornish or Chinese ? Cenotaph : Catafalque, 127.

QUERIES : Martin Parker, 127 Calverley : Charade IV. _Topp Family Crest " Panis, amicitise symbolum" " Doctrine of Signatures " Folk-Lore : Red Hair Darcy, Master of the King's Artillery" Check" and " Cheque " Henriette Renan Hare and Lefevre Families. 128 Heraldic Query: Silver Cup -Author Wanted Mundy : Alstonfleld " St. Bunyan's Day" Grave of Margaret Godolphin - "Tadsman " Field Names Cromwell's Baronets and Knight* Matthew White, M.P., 129.

HEPLIES : An English Army List of 1740, 129 A Coffin- Shaped Garden Bed- St. Luke's, Old Street : Bibliography, 133 Latin Contractions Colours of Badge of the Earls of Warwick Waterloo Heroes Asiago, 134 Thomas Hussey, M.P. for Whitchurch Archer : Bowman Pano- ramic Surveys of London Streets, 135 Elder Folk-Lore Chime-HoursStatue at Drury Lane Theatre Rabsey Cromwell alias Williams The Kingsley Pedigree " Hat Trick " : a Cricket Term, 136 Sir William Ogle : Sarah Stewkeley Fieldingiana : Miss H and, 137-Steel in Medicine Brass Plate in Newland Church, Gloucester- shireThe Lion Rampant of Scotland-Gorges Brass- House and Garden Superstitions Richard Reman, Jun. Richard Swift Col. Charles Lennox" A steer of wood," 138 Peas Pottage Largest Bag of Game, 139.

7JOTES ON BOOKS :' London Street Games' "The Celtic Christianity of Cornwall ' ' Selections from the Poems of S. T. Coleridge ' ' Burlington Magazine.'

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Notices to Correspondents.

A BRITISH HEROINE IN THE AMERICAN WAR.

AMONGST the War Office records of the past, there are none which fill us more with sorrow and dismay than those relating to the Pension and Compassionate Funds, wherein the appeals of half-pay officers, widows, and children for assistance and relief are most heart- rending.

But the accompanying memorial (War Office Records 25 /3097 at the Public Record Office) is of a less mournful nature. It was forwarded to the Secretary at War by the Major of the 104th Regiment, who vouched for the veracity of the account therein set forth by Mrs. Hopkins.

We are given such a vivid and thrilling picture of the hardships and adventures which a British woman was called upon to face during the American War, that the memorial cannot fail to interest readers of ' N. & Q.,' especially at this time.

To the Right Honorable the Secretary at War, &c., &c., &c.

The Memorial of Elizabeth Hopkins, wife of Jeremiah Hopkins, Serjeant of the 104th (New Brunswick) Regiment of foot, Most humbly sheweth

That she was born of British Parents at Philadelphia, in the year 1761, has her husband, six sons, and son-in-law, as per margin,* serving His Majesty in the Hundred and fourth ; and during the course of her life, from her zeal and attachment to her King and Country, she has encountered more hardships than commonly fall to the lot of her sex.

That in the year 1776, being with her first husband (John Jasper), a serjeant of Marines, on board the Brig Stanley, tender to the Roebuck, she was wounded in her left leg in an engagement with three French Vessels, when she was actually working at the Guns.

That the marines having been landed at Cape May in America, her husband was taken prisoner by a Capt. Plunkett of the Rebel Army, near mud fort, tried and sentenced to suffer death, that by her means he was enabled to escape, with 22 American deserters, to whom she served arms, and ammunition, and on their way to join the Army, the Party was attacked by the Enemy's Light Horse. She was fired at, and wounded in her left arm, but undismayed, took a loaded firelock, shot the rebel, and brought his horse to Philadelphia (the Head Quarters of the Army), which she was per- mitted to sell to one of General Sir William How's Aid de Camps.

That after many fatigues and campaigns, her first husband died, and she married (Samuel Woodward) a soldier in Col 1 Chalmer's Corps, was with the troops under the command of General Campbell, taken at Pensacola, having however, during the siege, served at the Guns, and tore her very clothes for waddings.

Sons

Jerem h Hopkins (Husband).

Ram 1 Woodward

Tim> Woodward

Rob 1 Woodward

Nathan 1 Woodward

Arch rt Woodward

Rich d Hopkins

Ja' M c Donough (son-in-law)

(.For convenience of printing, this marginal note had been transferred to the foot of the page. EDITOR.]