2nd s. VII. J^. 22. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIED. 



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so I conclude that the MS. was finished before 

 the war broke out. The Duke of Buckinnrham is 

 spoken of in no very flattering terms. He was 

 no favourite of the worthy Baronet. The fol- 

 lowing epigram is a specimen : — 



" In Ducem BuckinghamicB. 

 " Dux and Crux are of a sound, 

 Dux doth Rex and Grex confound : 

 If Crux of Dux might have his fill, 

 Then Eex with Grex might work their will : 

 Five subsidies to ten would turn ; 

 And Grex would laugh, that now doth mourn ; 

 O Eex, thy Grex doth grievously complain 

 That Dux bears Crux, and Crux not Dux again : 

 " Vox PopulL 

 " Felton live for ever, for thou hast brought to dust 

 Treason, murder, pride, and lust." 



The MS. contains many curious matters re- 

 lating to the history and customs of the Isle of 

 Wight, and anecdotes of its principal inhabitants. 

 Sir John seems to have entertained very strong 

 opinions on the characters of his neighbours, and 

 has expressed his approbation and disapprobation 

 in very decided terms. W. H. Gunner. 



THE HUNDREDTH REGIMENT. 



Can you, or any of your readers, give a solution 

 to the following ? It is something which I have 

 never yet seen referred to in print. 



What has been, ever since the fashion of num- 

 bering regiments in England has prevailed, the 

 reason of the singular limitation of the British 

 Line to "Ninety-Nine"? 



Am I not right in ascribing this to a time-out- 

 of-mind old prophecy, that mischief would arise in 

 the addition of a " Hundredth Regiment" to the 

 British force ? 



For the first time since our army was numbered, 

 the ominous " One Hundredth" is added. And it 

 is the Prince of Wales's Own. 



On Monday Jan. 10, the first public act of the 

 Prince of Wales was to present colours to this 

 new, and non-native, regiment, but now adopted, 

 and made the " 100th" of the Line. 



This is a curious matter, regarding which I 

 should like to be informed : — 



1st. Whether there ever existed any prediction 

 or sinister marking (m the ancient sense^ of the 

 number " one hundred" in the numeration of the 

 British regiments ? 



2nd. And if there never did, then what is the 

 reason of the singular limit, so long prevailing, to 

 ninety-nine ? For additions to the force have 

 always been made in augmenting the battalions of 

 particular regiments, and never in instituting a 

 new regiment, to violate, in the succession, the 

 (presumedly) auspicious regimental limiting num- 

 ber '^'^ ninety -nine r Hargrave Jennings. 



Thomas Hudso)i, usher in a grammar-school at 

 Durham, and afterwards a clergyman in London, 

 was author of a volume of poems, Newcastle, .... 

 1752. He is probably also the author of an Ode 

 on the Death of Frederick Prince of Wales, 4to., 

 London, 1751; Four Odes intended/or Choruses to 

 a Tragedy altered from Shakspeare on the Death of 

 Julius Ccesar, London, 4to., 1759; Ode on Her 

 Majesty's Birth-day being kept the Eighteenth of 

 January, London, 4to., 1765. Any information re- 

 specting him will be acceptable. We particularly 

 wish to ascertain whether he held any living in 

 Northumberland ? and if so, what ? also the date 

 of his death, and whether he were the Thomas 

 Hudson of Trin. Coll., Cambridge, B.A. 1745 ; 

 M.A. 1786? C. H. & Thompson Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



Richard Symonds, author of the MS. volumes 

 known as " Symonds's Diary," in the British 

 Museum. The date of his death has.not been as- 

 certained. He was the eldest son of Edward 

 Symonds of Black Notley in Essex, and was liv- 

 ing in 1653, having then returned from Ital}^ 

 where he had gone at the close of the civil war, 

 and during which period he had served in the 

 royal army. C. E. L. 



Wm. Thackwell, Marshal of the Admiralty. — 

 I find it stated in Burke's Landed Gentry that 

 William Thackwell, an ancestor of General Sir 

 Joseph Thackwell, G.C.B., was Marshal of the 

 Admiralty in the time of Queen Elizabeth. Will 

 you kindly inform me what were the duties and 

 position of this officer ? Had he not to take pos- 

 session of all Admiralty prizes, and was he not 

 responsible for the safe custody of prisoners ? 

 His grandson or great-grandson was the llev. 

 Thomas Thackwell, Vicar of Waterperry, co. 

 Oxford, in 1607, from whom descends the present 

 head of the family, John Cam Thackwell, Esq., 

 of Wilton Place, Gloucestershire, and Moretou 

 Court, Worcester, D.L. and J.P. for the former 

 county, the master of the Ledbury fox-hounds. 



A Barrister. 



Scottish Marriages. — I should be glad if any 

 of your correspondents could inform me how I 

 may obtain evidence of a marriage which took 

 place in Scotland about thirty years ago ? Is there 

 a general registry of marriages in Scotland ? 



Wm. Denton. 



The Wych. — Between Great and Little Mal- 

 vern the Malvern Hills make a dip, advantage of 

 which has been taken to construct a road from the 

 Worcestershire to the Herefordshire side of the 

 range. This gap in the mountain is called the 

 Wych — so spelt in the Ordnance Map — and pro- 

 nounced in the neighbourhood soft, like witch. 

 What is ihe origin of this name ? Ought it not to 



