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Joseph Ash and C'lias. Hen. Lee were still cornets in 1745.

Joseph Ashe of Ashfield, co. Meath, first son of Rich. A. of same (M.P. Trim, d. 1727), wasH.S., co. Meath ; m. Susannah, daughter of Dudley Loftus of Killian, and had five sons: 1. Richard Ashe, M.P. Trim, barrister, d. s.p. and v.p. 2. Dudley. 3. Sir Thomas Ashe, Knt., M.P., baptized Sept. 10, 1732. 4. Joseph, killed with his brother Dudley in storming the battery of Moro Castle at the Havannah, 1762. 5. Major William Ashe, who m. 1793. But was he the cornet ?

James Mure Campbell of Rowallan, co. Ayr; M.P. co. Ayr, 1754-61; son of Lieut. - General the Hon. Sir James Campbell, M.P., K.B., killed at Fontenoy ; b. Feb. 11, 1726 ; major llth Dragoons, June 26, 1754; lieutenant-colonel do., June 2, 1756 ; lieu- tenant-colonel 2nd (or the Queen's Own) Regt. of Dragoon Guards, May 7, 1757, till May 20, 1763; served in Germany in 1761 ; brevet-colonel, Feb. 19, 1762 ; major- general, Oct. 19, 1781 ; on half-pay of lieu- tenant-colonel of late 21st Dragoons, or Royal Forresters [sic], disbanded 1763, from that year until he d., April 28, 1786; assumed the surname of Mure on succeeding to (his grandmother's) the Countess of Glasgow's estate, Sept. 3, 1724 ; succ. his kinsman John as 5th Earl of Loudoun, April 27, 1782.

William, 8th Earl of Home, captain and lieutenant - colonel 3rd (or Scotch) Foot Guards, 174- ; second major thereof, May 9, 1749, to 1752 ; brevet-colonel, Nov. 29, 1745 ; major-general March 13, 1755; lieutenant- general, Feb. 13, 1759 ; colonel 25th Foot. April 29, 1752, till he d. s.p., April 28, 1761.

John Cope may have been son of John Cope who was one of the four Gentlemen Ushers of the King's -Privy Chamber (annual salary 200Z.) in 1734 till 1760.

W. R. WILLIAMS. (To be continued.)

In the list of Ensigns of the Grenadier Guards, styled " First Regiment of Foot Guards," (ante, p. 164), appears the name " Studh me Hodgson," commission dated 1727/8. This name. I think, merits a note, if it is, as I suppose, that of Field-Marshal Studholme Hodgson, " the conqueror of Belle Isle," concerning whom MR. DALTON contributed an interesting note at 8 S. xi. 265. He was appointed Governor of Forts George and Augustus in 1765, and in 1768 became colonel of the 4th King's Own Foot. His wife was Catherine, daughter of either " Lieut.-Gen. Thomas Howard " or " Field -

Marshal Sir George Howard of Effingham.'" John, his heir, WHS wounded while in. com- mand of his father's regiment in Holland in 1799, and was subsequently Governor of Bermuda and of Curagoa. In succession he was colonel of the 3rd Garrison Battalion, the 83rd, and of his old corps, the 4th King's Own ; becoming a full general in 1830, and dying in 1846, aged 90. Studholme John Hodgson, John's eldest son, entered the army in 1819 in the 50th Foot, and served many years in India. Ceylon, and Burma, command- ing the forces in Ceylon and the Strails Settlements. In 1876", like his father, he became colonel of the Royal Lancaster Regiment (the King's Own), and died at Torquay in 1890. John Hodgson's second son, John Studholme Hodgson, major-general in H.M.'s Bengal Army, served with gallantry and distinction in India, and was wounded at Sobraon. He raised the first Sikh regiment embodied in^ the British service, and com- manded the 1st Sikh Infantry in the second Sikh War of 1848-9.

I am unaware if any descendants of this martial group now exist, or are fighting at the present time. The family was an ancient one, settled for some centuries at Wormanby in Westmorland, and Field-MarshalHodgson's immediate relatives were Quakers.

F. P. LEYBURN-YARKER.

20 St. Andrew's Street, Cambridge.

"WATCH HOUSE," EWELL, SURREY, (12 S. ii. 9, 113, 157.)

THERE are numerous allusions to Watch Houses in parochial records. The Watch House was used for petty malefactors and vagrants. It sometimes bore the name of " the cage." At Fulham there was one- which stood close to the workhouse. An old inhabitant, " Honest " John Phelps, \\<- -; the last person to remember its existence in Bear Street. He described it as a sin; 11 outhouse entered by means of iron doors. In the parish books of Fulham there are a number of references to it. Thus under date- 1630 :

"ffor the burying of a boie that died in the _ cage- and stripping viikC

The "cage" was taken down in 1718, and there is an entry in the books in this year :

" Paide for pulling down the old watch house

4s. 2rf."

At Islington there was a similar " cage " and Watch House combined which, with the-