S""! S. V. 118., Arnn, 3. '58.] 



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found in the AngUa Notitice of the two Chamber, 

 laynes, during a series of years from about 1669 

 to 1755. The Court and City Register, publislied 

 annually (with the almanack of Cardanus Rider), 

 gave also, at the above period, lists of the Field 

 Officers and agents of His Majesty's forces. At 

 length after these imperfect registers had had 

 theia full sway, there appeared a complete one, 

 and which has been the model of all subsequent 

 publications of the kind, viz. — "A List of the 

 Colonels, Lieut. -Colonels, Majors, Captains, Lieu- 

 tenants, and Ensigns of His Majesty's Forces on 

 the British Establishment, &c. &c.," folio. ; pub- 

 lished by order of the House of Commons, dated 

 from the War Office, March 20, 1739-40, apd 

 signed Wm. Yonge, (Right Hon. Sir Wm. Yonge, 

 Bart., K.B.) This was followed in 1754 by " a 

 List of the General and Field Officers on the 

 British and Irish Establishments," which has been 

 continued annually ever since, and is the present 

 War Office List, in 8vo. In 1778, Mr. J. Alraon 

 published a " List of Militia Officers " for the year 

 1778, corrected to August, — where they were en- 

 camped, &c. 



Towards the close of the last century the great 

 augmentation of our army, arising from the un- 

 settled state of France, and the belligerent pro- 

 pensity prevalent in Europe, made it a desidera- 

 tum to have more frequent notices of changes 

 which took place in our military establishments. 

 To accomplish this purpose there was produced a 

 " Monthly Army List corrected to the 1st of 

 June, 1798, containing the whole of the regular 

 Army, the Fencibles, and Militia ; published by 

 Hookham and Carpenter, Bond Street." The size 

 was that of a pocket-dictionary about five inches 

 square, was admirably arranged, and gave the 

 actual stations of all the regiments in the service ; 

 the price was Is. To establish it and keep it pro- 

 perly in existence was attended with great ex- 

 pense, and the disbursement on account of postage 

 was enormous. It notwithstanding flourished and 

 wns highly remunerative, when a formidable com- 

 petitor entered the field, in the present Monthly 

 War Office List, and finally defeated Messrs. 

 Hookham and Carpenter's publication, which ex- 

 pired June, 1808, after an existence of ten years. 

 The advantages were all on the side of the War 

 Office list, but the public have been materially 

 suiferers by the monopoly (which has otherwise 

 been very accurately conducted) in withholding 

 the information so interesting to most people who 

 consult it, viz. where every regiment is quartered. 



Delta. 



the present time, and also a complete set of the 

 latter. If J. H. desires to refer to any vols, of 

 the above set, and will call upon me at the War 

 Office, I shall be happy to give him an opportu- 

 nity. John Maclean. 

 Hammersmith. / 



In the library of the Honourable Society of the 

 King's Inns, Dublin, there is a volume, the title of 

 which I transcribe — 



" Gloria Mundi. The succession of Colonels to all Hia 

 Majesties Land Forces from their rise to 1746. Bre- 

 cedency of each Regiment, with dates to promotions, re- 

 moves, deaths, &"=. The same of y^ Regiments broke in 

 the two last Reigns. To which is added A list of y» 

 Roj'al Navy; when built, rebuilt, number of men and 

 guns, tonnage, dimensions, &"=. Pay, Subsistance, Half- 



Eay, Pensions, &<=. of y^ Army, Navy, and Garrisons at 

 o'me and sxhro^. 174G. Lond". printed for J. Millan, op- 

 posite to the Admiralty Office, Whitehall." 



The book is printed from engraved plates, and 

 of a small 8vo. size. F. R. Stewart, 



Assist.-Lib. Hon. Soc. K. I. 

 Dublin. 



The publication of the Annual Army List com- 

 menced in 1724, and the Monthly List in 1809. 

 Whether or not there is anywhere a complete set 

 of the former I do not know, but at the War 

 Office, Pall Mall, there is a set irom 1757 down to 



" BOROUGH ENGLISH." 



(2"d S. v. 214.) 



There are several notices of this customary 

 mode of descent of lands and tenements in " N. & 

 Q." Louisa Julia Norman will find a chapter 

 on Borough-English at the end of Robinson's 

 Gavelkind (3rd edit. 1822), with an imperfect list 

 of places where the custom prevails. 



Some years since I made considerable collec- 

 tions relating to this singular custom, and I have 

 to acknowledge the assistance therein of " N. & 

 Q." I endeavoured to elucidate the subject in an 

 Essay on the Custom of Borough-English, as ex- 

 isting in the County of Sussex, a county in which 

 the custom more generally prevails as regards 

 copyholds (and at Battle as to some freehold 

 lands), than in any other part of the kingdom. 

 (^Sussex Archaeological Transactions, vol. vi.) 



The result of my researches has convinced me 

 that the custom of Borough-English took its rise 

 from the period when copyhold lands were held 

 really and substantially, and not as now, nomi- 

 nally, " at the will of the lord." 



This custom is, in fact, to be accounted for in 

 the same manner as the various other customs 

 which exist in different manors ; especially as to 

 descent of the copyhold tenements. In some 

 manors the lands descend to the eldest son ; in 

 others to all the sons equally, as in gavelkind. 

 " Custom of some manor is, that if the tenant dies 

 seized of five acres or less, the youngest son ought 

 to inherit ; but if above, then all the sons, as in 

 gavelkind " {Kitchin on Courts, p. 203.). Custom 

 of some ra^nor is, that the youngest son, or young- 



