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 406 NOTES AND QUERIES, Colonel Johnson's Regiment of Foot. Dates of their Dates of their present commissions. first commissions. r Thomas Bate . . 16 Feb. 1715 Ensign, 8 July 1711 John Longfield . . 30 Aug. 1723 Ensign, 31 Julv 1719 Thomas Wood . . 26 Jan. 1725 Ensign , 1 April 1708 i Adam Usher . . 30 April 1728 Ensign 1 June 1712 Lieutenants ' Robert Ecles. . i. John Caulfield 3 . . 25 Feb. July 1728 1731 Ensign, Lieutenant, 15 25 Aug. July 1722 1731 Bandle Jones 9 Jan. 1712 Ensign, 1 April 1705 David Roberts (5) . . 13 May 1735 Ensign, 1 Dec. 1722 . . 13 Aug. 1739 Ensign, 1 April 1724 iDigby Berkeley (7). . 22 Nov. 1739 Ensign, 29 Mar. 1726 ( Arundel Strangway . . . . 23 Aug. 1712 Lucass Savage . . 16 June 1727 John Penyfather 6 Nov. 1729 George Campbel . . 11 Sept, 1730 Ensigns. . . . . . < Richard Borrough 4 April 1734 John Browne 6 Mar. 1707 Alexander Maxwell . . . . 13 May 1735 William Dundass .. 13 Aug. 1739 Henry Greeme 22 Nov. 1739 (5) Died in 1740. (6) Captain, Sept. 12, 1745 ; Major, Sept. 1, 1756. Died in 1758. (7) Major, June 11, 1753. Captain of an Invalid Company at Sheerness, Dec. 8, 1756. J. H. LESLIE, Lieut. -Colonel. (To be continued.) GLASS-PAINTERS OF YORK. (See ante, pp. 127, 323, 364.) IV. THE SHIRWYN FAMILY. THOMAS SHIBWYN, glassyer (' Freemen of York,' Surtees Soc.). Free of the city 1473. An account of this artist presents consider- able difficulties, for though Thomas Shirwyn's name is entered in the Freemen's Roll for the year 1473, a Thomas Shirwyn died in 1481 and it is difficult to determine whether these were one and the same person or two separate individuals, probably father and son. It is difficult even to say which of these alterna- tives is the more likely. We can only sup- pose that the Thomas Shirwyn free in 1473 was identical with the Thomas Shirwyn who made the will in 1481 under the supposition that for some reason or other he did not take up his freedom until he was forty or more years of age, for he left a son Matthew old enough to take over the business. On the other hand, he cannot have been a very old man at the time of his death, for in his will he mentions his mother, Alice, as being still alive. But if we suppose the Shirwyn who took up his freedom in 1473 and the one who died in 1481 were the same, it would have to be explained how a man who had been less than eight years in business had managed to acquire in so short a time an amount of property and articles of luxury such as could only belong to a man of comparative wealth. If, again, the Thomas Shirwyn free in 1473 (at which time he would be twenty -one years of age) was the son of the Shirwyn of the will, he would be born in 1452, his father about 1431, and his grandmother, Alice, say, in 1411, so that in 1481, when the will was made, at which time she was still alive, she would be aged seventy or more. But there is no mention of a Thomas in the will, though he may have died between the year in which he was free and that in which his father made his will, leaving the business to a son named Matthew, who had evidently been trained to take it over. Moreover, according to the above reckoning the elder Shirwyn would have been 32 years of age in 1463 and, we must presume, a master glass-painter ; yet his name does not appear amongst those of the eight glass -painters to whom ordinances were granted in that year. In 1471 a Thomas Shirwyn was working at the Minster, probably as a workman or partner of Matthew Petty, who, with others, was doing the armorial glass in the great tower. He is also mentioned in the Fabric Roll of the following year, and was probably the Thomas Shirwyn who was free in 1473 and also identical with Thomas Shirwyn who was a witness to the will of Matthew Petty in 1478. The fact that the son of the Thomas Shirwyn of the will was also called Matthew seems to point to the fact that all these were one and the same, in which
 * Peter Daulhat (6)