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written against them. The 22nd Foot was stationed at Jamaica apparently during the whole of Queen Anne's reign.

3. William Handasyde, brigadier-general, Feb. 11, 1743 ; lieutenant-colonel loth Foot till colonel 31st Foot, June 27, 1737, till he died at Hammersmith, Feb. 27, 1745, his first commission as lieutenant being said to have been dated 1705, but it is not given in Dalton. (See 12 S. ii. 525.) Was Roger Handasyde, ensign in the 31st Foot, Jan. 26, 1741, the son of William ? and was William another brother of General Roger Han- dasyde, M.P. ?

4. Roger Thomas Handasyde, ensign 16th Foot, Feb. 13, 1762 (Army List, 1765).

5. Talbot Blayney Handasyde, ensign 38th Foot in Ireland, April 30, 1771, under Col. Lord Blayney (ibid., 1772), who after- wards matriculated from Queen's College Oxford, Sept. 6, 1780, aged 28, as son of Clifford Handasyde of London, gent, (and is the only one of the name in Foster's 'Alumni Oxonienses, 1715-1886').

Finally, was there any connexion with the Scotch family, of which Robert Handyside of Edinburgh, Lord Handyside, a Lord of Session, 1853 till he died 1858, was the principal member ? W. R. W.

Perhaps the following particulars relating to General Handasyde's loss of his seat at Huntingdon, may interest G. F. R. B. :

1741. July 30. Mitcham. T. Dampier to his friends at Geneva.

" He [Lord Sandwich] exerted himself iu the Huntingdon election with great vigour and success. He got his two men elected, and threw out General Handesyde, who has had a long and established interest there. He gained his point by mere good management, which has contributed a great deal to his character in the world as s very able man. To keep some of his men, who had promised him their votes but were not very steady, out of the way of temptation for no less than 3001. a man was at last offered he sent them out upon various pretences a-travelling about England from one fine house to another, so well guarded that none of the opposite party could possibly come at them." Hist. MSS. Com. Twelfth Report, App. Part IX. 1891, MSS. of R. W. Ketton, Esq.,' C. 3386, i. 203.

Cirencester.

HERBERT E. NORRIS.

MEWS OR MEWYS FAMILY (12 S. ii. 26, 93, 331, 419, 432 ; iii. 16, 52). May I be allowed to correct two slips of mine in the reply, ante p. 52 ? The quartering in Mary Waters's arms, impaling those of Mr. Paulet St. John (born 1704, died 1780), in Farley Chamber- layne Church should be read : " Sable, a spearhead between three scaling ladders argent." This coat was granted to Cadifor

Ap Dyfenwal (ninth in descent from* Roderick, the great Prince of Wales) for taking the castle of Cardigan, by an escalade, from the Earl of Clare and the Flemings, A.D. 1164. Mary Waters's mother was daughter and coheiress of Francis Lloyd of Crichardam, one of the Welsh judges, who had eight interesting quart erings.

Also, I think I used the wrong word when I said that Mr. Carew Mildmayof Shawford,. Hampshire (died 1768), was a " contem- porary " of General Sir Philip Honywood,, who deceased at an advanced age in 1752. There were, in fact, two distinguished soldiers of the same name, uncle and nephew. General Sir Philip Honywood (1) was a younger brother of Robert Honywood of: Charing (Kent), who succeeded a cousin in the Marks Hall estates (Essex) in 1693,. and Philip (2) was the latter's youngest son, and eventual successor. Of the first Philip,,. Morant in his ' History of Essex ' says :

"He was bred up to arms and was created a

Knight of the Bath on account of his bravery at the battle of Dettiugen [June, 1743]. He was made- aide-de-camp to his Majesty George II., Governor of Portsmouth, and died on the 17th of June, 1752,. unmarried " Of Philip (2), Morant adds :

""Being bred up to arms, as well as his uncle- Sir Philip, he distinguished himself at the battle of Dettingen, where he was most dangerously wounded-,

and [afterwards] by gradual advances arrived

to be a General of Horse. By the death of his two- brothers and nephew he succeeded, in 1758, to~ extensive estates, including Marks Hall."

AN OLD EAST ANGLIAN.

I am much indebted to AN OLD EAST ANGLIAN for the most valuable paper he- has so carefully prepared, I should like to mention that Carew Mildmay of Shawford (baptized at Twyford, Hants, 1717) wa* married at St. Lawrence's, Winchester, Feb. 12,, 1761, not 1762. His wife's mother was married to Paulet St. John of Farley and Dogmersfield less than three weeks pre- viously (Jan. 27) in the same church.

A HAMPSHIRE MAN.

SIR WILLIAM TRELAWNY, 6TH BART. (12 S. ii. 508; iii. 37). He was son of William Trelawny, the second son of Henry Tre- lawny, Governor of Plymouth, &c. He was lieutenant R.N". September, 1743, to May, 1754; master and commander, May 10, 1754, to April 9, 1756 ; post captain, April 9, 1756, to 1766; captain of the Port Mahon (frigate) in 1756 ; captain of Peregrine (sloop), 1757; 6th Bart., 1762-17; Governor of" Jamaica, 1766-72 ; died in Jamaica,. Dec. 11, 1772, and his remains were honoured