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Governor of Gpree, a fortress garrisoned by desperadoes, picked from convicts in gaols and military prisons. On 10 July, 1782, he ordered Serjeant Benjamin Armstrong to receive 800 lashes (offence not stated). On Col. Wall's arrival in England he was tried at the Old Bailey, 20 January, 1802, under 33 Henry VIII., c. 23, was convicted of the wilful murder of Benjamin Armstrong, and was executed on the 28th of the same month. His trial is in print as a separate pamphlet, 8vo., 1802. See also 'Annual Register,' xliv. 560-8 ; Gentleman's Magazine, Ixxii. (i.) 81 ; 'N. & Q.,' 3 rd S. viii. 438, 450 ; 6 th S. viii. 208. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

Governor Wall was a native of Dublin. But his execution was at the Old Bailey, London, in 1802, for the murder of Sergeant Benjamin Armstrong in the island of Goree by the infliction of 800 lashes with a rope, on 10 July, 1782. He came to England in 1784, when he escaped from his arrest. He came back in October, 1801, to give himself up for trial. This took place by a special commission in January. His plea of the mutinous con- duct of his men failed in want of evidence. The execution took place on the 28th of the month. ED. MARSHALL, F.S.A.

This cause cdlebre is most fully treated in G. Lathom Browne's 'State Trials in the Nineteenth Century,' a review of which in the Edinburgh Review for January, 1883 (vol. clvii. pp. 83 sqq.), contains an abstract of the case. Detailed reports of the trial and execution appear in the European Magazine (vol. xli. pp. 74, 154), and, there are brief accounts in the Gentleman's Magazine (1802, pt. i. p. 81) and the 'Georgian Era' (ii. 466). Wall was tried at the Old Bailey, not in Dublin, and executed outside Newgate gaol at the date stated by the editor of 'N. & Q.'

F. ADAMS.

106A, Albany Road, Camberwell.

WALKER FAMILY (IRISH) (7 th S. iv. 108 ; 8 th S. ii. 298, 373, 457). In supplement to previous notes let me state the following items. Lieut. -CoL Walker, who was married to Anne Chamberlain, granddaughter of Sir Hugh Myddleton, Bart., was related to Sir Edward Walker, Garter King, and descended from an ancient family in Leicestershire. Col. Walker's sixth son, John Walker, of Gurteen, Queen's County, armiger, married to Anne Digby, daughter of Col. Digby Foulke, of the College, Youghal, by Angell, daughter of Sir Boyle Maynard, Curriglas, co. Cork, had two sisters-

in-law : Angell Foulke, married to Edward Denny, Esq., M.P., 1695. son of Barry Denny, M.P., and great-grandson of Sir Edward Denny, by Ruth, daughter of Sir Thomas Roper, Lord Viscount Baltinglas, and Mary Foulke, married to the Rev. Richard Davies, son of the Very Rev. Roland Davies, Dean of Cork, by Elizabeth Stannard, great-grand- daughter of Richard Boyle, Archbishop of Tuam. Their daughter Martha married Henry White, Esq., of Bantry, grandfather of Richard, first Earl of Bantry, and great- grandfather of Lady Ardilaun and Lady Ferrers. The nephew of Anne Digby Foulke, ne'e Maynard, William Maynard, of Curriglas, M.P., 1734, married Henrietta, daughter of second Baron Wandesford and Viscount Castlecomer, by Elizabeth, daughter of George Montague, of Horton, and aunt of George, Earl of Halifax. Col. Digby Foulke above named was kinsman of Richard Boyle, Earl of Cork, and of the Lords Dungarvan, Orrery, and Shannon, and was agent of their estates in Ireland. He was brother of Sir Francis Foulke, Knt., a distinguished soldier in the Parliamentary wars, and cousin of Col. John Foulke, whose arms, Vert, a flower-de- luce arg., differenced with a mullet in a crescent, are registered in the Heralds' Office, Dublin Castle, with a copious pedigree of the Foulkes of Brewood and Gouston, Stafford- shire, comprising some twenty generations.

F. F. C.

COLIN TAMPON (9 th S. ii. 28V According to Rozan (' Petites Ignorances ae Conversation,' 1887, p. 322) :

"Cemotest 1'onomatopee du bruit du tambour battant la marche des Suisses. Les Franqais, tou- iours prodigues de sobriquets, ont et frappes de ce bruit qui annongait la presence ou 1'arrivee dea Suisses, et en maniere de derision Us les ont appele"s comme Us les entendaient, c'est-a-dire Colintampon. On fait dater ce surnom de la victoire de Marignan. C'est a cette victoire qu'il faut sans doute rapporter aussi 1'expression proverbiale, car 1'occasion etait belle pour nos soldats de faire fi des Suisses et de dire de"daigneusement : Je m'en moque comme de Colintampon. "

The name is printed also as one word in ' Ducatiana,' 1738, p. 486.

But Colin was the by-name for a Swiss long before the battle of Marignan, as appears from a passage in Coquillart's 'Droitz Nouveaulx,' composed about 1481 (' (Euvres,' ed. Hericault, 1857, i. 46-7) : Chascun en lit une legon ; Tantost vela Colin le Suysse Qui en va faire une chanson ; Quelque tabourin ou bourdon En orra, peult estre, le bruyt ; C'est pour dancer ung tourdion Et faire une aubade de nuyt.