Page:Notes and Queries - Series 12 - Volume 6.djvu/54

 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vi. FEB., 1020.

HENRY WASHINGTON.

(12 S. vi. 290.)

THE autograph in Chaucer's Works, now in the possession of SIR HERBERT MAXWELL is most likely that of Henry Washington who married on Oct. 7, 1689, Eleanor Harrison of South Cave, Yorks. By this marriage Henry Washington ultimately became lord of the manor of South Cave and he had four daughters and two sons. Susanna was born at South Cave in 1694 and died the same year ; Elizabeth was baptised at the same place in 1696 ; Anne married John Idell, who obtained the manor of South Cave in 1719 ; the elder son, Richard Washington, was in 1710 living in London. His son William and his daughter Mary are only mentioned in his will. According to some Chancery Proceedings at the Public Record Office' (Whittington, Easter, 1700, No. 254) Henry Washington was nephew to Katharine, wife of John Arthur of Doncaster, gent. : he was her half-sister's son. He occurs^again in other Chancery proceedings (Whittington, Michaelmas and Hil., 1707, No. 305), where he is described ,as of Lincoln's Inn, gent. He was then acting on behalf of Elizabeth Gellott, who before her marriage with Stephen Gellott was Elizabeth Washington, one of the four daughters of Col. Henry Washington, the gallant defender of Worcester in the Civil War.

Henry Washington's will (Tenison 248), dated Oct. 6, 1717, mentions his wife Eleanor, his manor of South Cave, his three younger children Anne, William and Mary, his trusty friend George Washington of Covent Garden, apothecary, his house in Cookham. Berks. The will was proved by Eleanor Washington, widow, on Dec. 15, 1718.

f'Her burial entry " Mrs. Elienora Washing- ton, widow," occurs on June 9, 1735, in the parish church register of Redgrave, co. .Suffolk.

SIR HERBERT MAXWELL, if he likes, can have a copy of Henry Washington's pedi- gree connecting him with the Flemings of Rydal and the Earl of Lonsdale.

' rn r T. PAPE.

Orme Boys' School, Newcastle, Staffs.

AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740.

(12 S. ii. 3, 43. 75, 84, 122, 129, 151, 163, 191, 204, 229, 243, 272, 282, 311, 324, 353, 364, 391, 402, 431, 443, 473, 482, 512, 524 ; iii. 11, 46, 71, 103, 132, 190, 217, 234, 267, 304.)

3rd Foot Guards (12 S. ii. 165, 231; v. 270; vi. 17.)

Daniel Jones, app. captain-lieutenant and lieutenant-colonel, Nov. 7, 1759 ; captain and lieutenant-colonel, Sept. 1, 1760 ; second major, Nov. 3, 1769 ; first major (and brevet- colonel), April 18, 1770 ; lieutenant-colonel of the regiment, Feb. 22, 1775, till 1777 ; major-general, Aug. 29, 1777 ; lieutenant- general, Feb. 19, 1779 ; colonel 2nd Foot, Aug. 7, 1777, till he d. Nov. 18, 1793.

Edward A' Court, brother to, William (12 S. ii. 165), and 4th son of Pierce A'Court, M.P., was a captain in De Grangue's (new) 60th Foot, Jan. 27, 1741, till he d. in Ireland, December, 1745.

William Lindsay, lieutenant and captain in the regiment, March, 1744, d. Nov. 1745. Hon. John Maitland, lieutenant and captain, September, 1743 : wounded at Fontenoy ; third and youngest son of 5th Earl of Lauderdale ; was the Capt. John Maitland who was a Gentleman Usher, Quarterly Waiter (100?.), to the Princess of Wales, 1736, till 1753 or 1754. He was the John Maitland appointed captain of the Independent Company of Invalids doing duty at Landguard Fort, December, 1753, till Nov. 8, 1756.

James Leslie d. March, 1745. Montagu Blomer, lieutenant and captain, January, 1744 ; captain-lieutenant and lieutenant-colonel, Aug. 27, 1753 ; captain and lieutenant-colonel, Dec. 24, 1755 ; left 1765; brevet - colonel, Feb. 19, 1762; d. September or October, 1772. Presumably the Montagu Blomer who matriculated from Christ Church, Oxford, May 26, 1726, aged 17, as " son of Ralph Blomer of Canterbury, doctor." His kinsman Dr. Thomas Blomer d. Jan. 29, 1764, aged 85, Vicar of Lavington, and for thirty years Chaplain to George II. (Gent. Mag.).

Richard Lyttelton of Little Ealing, Middle- sex, fifth but third surviving son of Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 4th Bart., M.P., of Frankley, co. Worcester, was* a Page of Honour to Queen Caroline in 1734 till 1737 ; captain in Jeffreys' s 10th Marines, Jan. 27, 1741 ; brevet -lieutenant-colonel April 11, 1744; a deputy quartermaster-general in 1742