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 236 NOTES AND QUERIES. t w MX. a** 17.1.21. ROYAL EAST INDIA VOLUNTEERS (12 S. ix. 191). This corps was raised Sept. 1796, and consisted of two regiments (London Gazette, Nov. 8-12, 1796), and came under the heading of London Volun- teers. A third regiment was formed in 1798. An order was issued for the dis- bandment of the Volunteers in 1814. In 1820 another regiment, called the Royal East India Volunteer Infantry, came into being, all the commissions bearing date Aug. 9, 1820. This corps existed up to Feb. 1834, when it disappears from the Army List. H. E. GOVIER. Senior Library Attendant. War Office, Whitehall, S.W. Mr. William Foster of the India Office compiled some years ago a ' Descriptive Catalogue of the Paintings, Statues, &c., in the India Office.' The pictures numbered 39 and 42 are the presentation and consecration of Colours to the 2nd and 3rd Regiments of the R.E.I. Volunteers. The Hon. E.I. Company raised and main- tained three regiments of Volunteers from among their employees at Poplar between 1795 and 1799. Mr. Foster gives a com- plete account of the circumstance. The object of the force was " to more effectually secure the Warehouses of the Company against hazard from Insurrection or Tumults," and generally to assist in keeping order. The ceremonies depicted took place on Lord's Cricket Ground. I suggest that Mr. Foster be informed of the discovery of the button. FRANK PENNY. Two regiments of Volunteers were formed by the Honourable East India Company, in London, in the autumn of 1796, " for more effectually securing the Warehouses of the Company against hazard from Insurrection or Tumults," &c. A third regiment was formed in 1798. They were only liable to be called out for service in London and its environs " for the suppression of riots and tumults." They appear in the contemporary Army Lists with all the other Volunteer regiments. They were disbanded in 1814. Much information about them will be found in The Journal of Indian Art, vol. iv., No. 34, of April, 1891, in an article by Sir George Birdwood. J. H. LESLIE, Lieut. -Colonel. This was one of the very numerous Volunteer corps raised in 1803 to protect London from Napoleon's threatened in- vasion. It was chiefly officered by the directors, officials, and clerks of the H.E.I. of Volunteer and Yeomanry Corps,' 1804, in Brit. Mus. W- R. WILLIAMS. HOUSE BELLS (12 S. ix. 190). Dorothy Wordsworth, describing a Scottish inn, in her ' Journals,' writes : There being no bell in the parlour, I had occa- sion to go several times and ask for what we wanted in the kitchen. . . . (1803, Sept. 4.) At a later period, when describing an inn at Calais, she writes : On my bedroom door is inscribed " Sterne's Room," and a print of him hangs over the fire- place. . . . The bell hangs on the outside of the wall, and gives a single, loud, dull stroke when pulled by the string, so that you must stand and pull four or five times, as if you were calling the people to prayers. (1820, July 11.) There is a note on bells, as signals for servants, in Chambers's ' Book of Days ' (July 12). M. ARMS: IDENTIFICATION SOUGHT (12 S. ix. 191). The book stamp is that of Henri de G uenegaud, Marquis de Plancy, 1 609 - 1 67 6, son of Gabriel de Guenegaud (d. 1648) and Marie de La Croix. His arms were : Quarterly, 1, 4, azure a cross charged with a crescent gules (La Croix) ; 2, quarterly France modern a bordure gules and or 3 torteaux (Courtenay) ; 3, argent two bars sable (Harlai) ; over all : gules a lion rampant or (Guenegaud). He was Secretaire d'Etat and Garde des Sceaux during the Fronde ; his barony of Plancy was erected into a marquessate in 1656 ; his fall from power followed that of the Sur- intendent Fouquet. Guigard's ' Armorial du Bibliophile,' ii. 248-9, catalogues three armorial stamps of this personage, in tM'o of which the Guenegaud lion is accompanied in chief by a double traverse cross. Interesting details of Guenegaud' s career, including his will (otherwise unpublished), are given in Baron G. de Plancy 's ' Le Marquisat de Plancy et ses Seigneurs,' Arcis-sur-Aube, 1895, which reproduces the engraved por- trait of the Secretaire d'Etat, after Ph. de Champagne (here the Guenegaud inescut- cheon is without the cross). The Courtenay quartering came to the La Croix by the marriage (1561) of Charlotte, daughter of Hector de Courtenay, Sr. de La Ferte-Lou- piere, to Nicolas de La Croix, Vicomte de Semoine, &c. Gabriel de Guenegaud' s wife, Marie, was the daughter of a Claude de La
 * Co., and a list of them is given in the ' List