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 12 8. II. SEPT. 2, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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" STOP THE SMITHFIELD FIRES." In the description of the Barbor Jewel (' Memorial of the Woodrooffe Family,' by Selina Mary Woodrooffe) it is stated that on the reverse of the jewel is carved the oak tree in Hatfield Park under which Queen Elizabeth was sitting when she heard the news of her sister's death, and that upon receiving the .intelligence she exclaimed, " Stop the Smith- field fires." Is there any source which might be considered as of historical credibility to confirm the statement that Queen Elizabeth's first concern was to stop the Smithfield fires ?

LEO C.

SIR CHARLES PRICE, LORD MAYOR OF LONDON 1803. Can Sir Charles Price, Bart., M.P., 1748-1818, Lord Mayor of London, 1803, and probably a member of the Ironmongers' Company, be the same person as the Charles Price referred to (1) in ' George Selwyn and his Contemporaries,' by J. H Jesse, p. 409, vol. i., edition 1843 : " Your f-riend Chas. Price had such a tumble last night, that the whole Macaroni rings with it" (1765) ; and (2) in 'The Early Diary of Fanny Burney,' 2 vols. (A. R. Ellis), vol. i. pp. 110, 171, as a macaroni and a young man of fashion, a friend of George Selwyn, Sir TVm. Hamilton, Horace Walpole, Sir Thomas Clarges, &c., and a kinsman to Fulke Gre- ville ? He had just returned from his travels in 1771. LEVERTON HARRIS.

70 Grosvenor Street, W.

AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740. \12 S. ii. 3, 43, 75, 84, 122, 129, 151, 163.)

First Troop of Horse Grenadier Giiards (ante, p. 43).

General Dormer was colonel till he d. Dec. 24, 1741.

Charles Armand Powlett, brigadier-general May 28, 1745; major-general Sept. 17, 1747 ; colonel of the newly raised 9th Marines, Dec. 27, 1740, till disbanded November, 1748; on half-pay, 1748-9 ; colonel of 13th Dragoons Jan. 26, 1751, till he d. Dec. 12 or 14, 1751 ; M.P. Newtown, I.W. (defeated 1727), April, 1729, to 1734; Christchurch, April, 1 740, to 1 751 ; defeated at St. Ives, 1 734 ; K.B., May 2, installed June 23 or 26, 1749 ; of Leadwell, Oxon, having m. June 12, 1738, the widow of Rich. Dashwood of Northbrooke, Oxon. Query if he was second son of Lord Wm. Pawlett, M.P. (or, according to Dalton,

a " son " of Charles, 3rd Dukeof Bolton),to whom he was A.D.C. as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland (from April, 1717) in the period 1717-18. He was Lieut enant-Governor of the Isle of Wight, May, 1733, to 1751.

Lewis Dejean, captain and lieutenant- colonel 3rd Foot Guards, May 10, 1740 ; promoted to lieutenant-colonel 1st Troop Horse Grenadier Guards, vice Powlett, Jan., 1741, till appointed colonel 37th Foot, April 9, 1746 ; of 14th Dragoons, Nov. 27, 1752 ; of 3rd Horse, April 5, 1757, till he died Sept. 29, 1764 ; major-general Jan. 29, 1756 ; lieutenant-general March 29, 1759 ; will pr. at Dublin, 1764. Probably, like others bearing French names at that period in our army, the son of a French Huguenot refugee.

Thomas Forth succ. Dejean as major of the regt., May 10, 1740, to April 30, 1746 ; on half-pay in 1750 and 1755, till he d. Jan. 14, 1757, having m. July 4, 1741, "Miss Bertie, cousin to the Duke of Ancaster, with 10,OOOZ."

JohnDuvernet was first lieutenant-colonel of the regt., April 30, 1746, till he died March 21, 1756.

William Twysden, eldest brother to Thos. T. (ante, p. 4), succ. his father Sir Wm. T. as 6th Bart., Aug. 20, 1751 ; b. about 1707 ; sub- lieutenant (and rank of lieutenant of Horse) in 1st Horse Grenadier Guards, Sept. 7, 1722 ; guidon Oct. 2, 1731 ; captain May 10, 1740 ; major of the regt. April 30, 1746, to March 27, 1751 ; d. 1767.

Courthorpe Clayton, ensign Coldstream Guards, Feb. 16, 1725 ; cornet Royal Regt. of Horse Guards, Nov. 17, 1727 ; lieutenant 2nd Troop Horse Grenadier Guards, Oct. 2, 1731 ; captain and guidon do., May 10, 1740 ; captain and lieutenant-colonel 1st Foot Guards, March 27, 1751 ; major 1st Troop Horse Grenadier Guards, April 25, 1751 ; lieutenant-colonel thereof, March 23, 1756, till he d. March 22, 1762 ; brevet- colonel February, 1762 ; M.P. Mallow (in Irish Parliament), 17^27-60; also M.P. Eye, May, 1749, to 1761 ; a page to the Prince of Wales till November, 1726 ; equerry to H.R.H,. November, 1726, to 1727, and to the King, 1727 to November, 1760 ; avener and clerk marshal, October, 1732, to May, 1734, and December, 1757, to November, 1760 ; an Esquire of the Bath to (Sir Andrew Foun- taine, proxy for) Prince William Augustus. afterwards Duke of Cumberland, when in- stalled K.B. June 17,1725; of Shepherd's Bush, Middlesex ; oon of Lieut. -General Jasper C., and m. Aug. 6, 1745, the daughter of Edw. Buckworth, with 20,OOOZ.