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Gloucester, and there they were called on to quell 

 riots at Newnhara, where the mob had plundered 

 a vessel laden with flour; for which two men were 

 condemned and suffered death. 



The number of these regiments was thirty, but 

 being raised for service in Great Britain, and the 

 government wishing them to extend their services 

 to Ireland, and not above twelve agreeing to do 

 so, it was decided to disband them ; and the Sur- 

 rey regiment was disbanded at Staines, Middlesex, 

 on March 27, 1800. This was a very fine regi- 

 ment, as will appear from the following, extracted 

 from The Times of Wednesday, February 26, 

 1800: — 



"On Monday last (the 24th) the Prince of Wales 

 breakfasted with Lord Onslow at Richmond. On this 

 occasion the whole regiment of Surrey Fenclble Cavalry 

 was drawn out on the Green, for His Royal Highness's 

 inspection. This regiment is about to be "disbanded, and 

 it is the Prince's wish that this fine body of men should 

 enlist into his regiment of Light Dragoons " (the 10th, 

 or Prince of Wales's own regiment of Light Dragoons). 



Regnus, 



IRISH HIGH SHERIFFS. 



(2"" S. ii. 508. ; iii. 76.) 



Abhba will find in that great (though lament- 

 ably imperfect) repertory of the official history of 

 Ireland, the Liber Munerum puhlicorum Hihernics, 

 vol. i. part iv. pp. 155—160., a list of the sheriffs 

 and commissioners (or justices) of the peace for 

 the several Irish counties, temp. Caroli II. (1663 

 — 1683) compiled from the Records of the Hana- 

 per at the Chancery of Dublin. 



At p. 195. of the 3rd part of the same volume 

 there is a farther imperfect list of the high she- 

 riffs during the reign of George III. It extends 

 from 1761 to 1776, and from 1785 to 1815, the 

 intermediate years (1777 — 1784) being omitted. 

 The succession of high sheriffs is given in the 

 order of counties, arranged alphabetically, from 

 Antrim to Roscommon, with which the list unfor- 

 tunately terminates, the remaining six counties, 

 from Sligo to Wicklow, being deficient. 



I am unable to discover what work of your late 

 valued and lamented contributor Mr. Ferguson 

 is mentioned (2"'' S. iii. 76.) by Mr. Ward, under 

 the title of Exchequer Notes, as containing " the 

 most perfect known list" of Irish high sheriffs. 

 Would he farther enlighten us whether these 

 Notes have been printed ? or, if still in manu- 

 script, where they are to be seen ? 



A document of such interest would well deserve 

 to be published ; deficiencies might be supplied 

 from the offices «>f the Clerks of the Crown and 

 secretaries of the Grand Juries of the several 

 counties, as well as from the records of the 

 Court of Exchequer and the Hanaper Office in 

 Dublin. 



Any farther information on this subject will be 

 acceptable. 



While treating of the succession of legal officials 

 in Ireland, I may remark that a very full and ac- 

 curate list of the chancellors, judges, and other 

 great law officers of the Crown in Ireland, by 

 Constantine J. Smyth, Esq., was published in 1839 

 (London, Henry Butterworth, 12mo-), with co- 

 pious indexes, which render it valuable as a book 

 of reference. 



I have also in my possession a similar work on 

 the succession of the higher law officers in Eng- 

 land, published anonymously in 1685, 12mo. pp. 

 296. As it is very rare I shall give the title : 



" Chronica Juridicialia ; or, a General Calendar of the 

 Years of our Lord God, and those of the several Kings of 

 England, from the First Year of William the Conqueror, 

 successively down to this First Year of the Reign of our 

 Most Drea'd Sovereign K. James II. Together with a 

 Chronological Table of the Names of all the Lord Chan- 

 cellors, and Lord Keepers of the Great Seal of England, 

 Justices of the King's-Bench and Common-Pleas, Barons 

 of the Exchequer, and Serjeants at Law. . . . * . 

 To which is added A Catalogue of all those Arch-Bishops 

 and Bishops who have been intrusted with the most emi- 

 nent and honorary Places in the Civil State of this King- 

 dom. London, printed for H. Sawbridge, at the Bible on 

 Ludgate Hill, and T. Simmons, at the Prince's Arms in 

 Ludgate Street, mdcxxxv." 



An ijidex nominum is appended. Can you in- 

 form me who was the author ? Mr. Haydn might 

 have consulted both these volumes for his Book 

 of Dignities with advantage. 



John Ribton Gabstin. 



Dublin. 



[ Chronica Juridicialia is by Edward Cooke of the Middle 

 Temple. The third edition (1739?) contains a continu- 

 ation, comprised in an Appendix separately paged. A 

 copy of the first edition, 1735, in the British Museum, 

 contains some valuable manuscript notes by Mr. Cliarlcs 

 Bush, formerly Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and 

 afterwards Clerk of the Records in the Tower, from the 

 Records of which, and his various reading, he has cor- 

 rected many errors, and inserted a list of the Masters of 

 the Rolls, and other things omitted by the author.] 



aElejiltJiS ta Minav eaucrte^. 



WhitfieMs Eloquence (2'"» S. v. 109.) — The 

 Sermon of Whitfield's, to which Dr. Rimbatjlt 

 refers, is printed as the last of his Sermons on Im- 

 portant Subjects, No. Lxxv. The edition, which I 

 have before me, is published by Baynes, a.d. 1825. 

 .The words, which Dr. Rimbault quotes, do not 

 indeed occur precisely in the form nor in the con- 

 nexion he supposes, but in substance they are the 

 same. 



The first paragraph, for example, does not stand 

 at the commencement of the Sermon, but after a 

 long exordium ; and is as follows : — 



"You' all know, that sheep, of all creatures in the 

 world, are the most apt to stray and be lost; Christ's 

 people may justly, in that respect, be compared to sheep ; 



