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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 175. 



and I now forward you the required information, 

 viz. : 



Query 1. What was the origin of giving British 

 regiments the name of certain officers, instead of 

 numbering them as at present ? 



Regiments were numbered, but it was generally 

 customary to designate them by the name of their 

 colonel previous to 1751. 



2. If in honour of an officer commanding the 

 corps, was the name changed when that officer 

 died or removed to another regiment, or what was 

 the rule ? 



The name of the regiment changed by death or 

 removal of the colonel. 



3. When did the present mode of numbering 

 regiments begin, and by whom was it introduced ? 



1st July, 1751, by royal warrant of George II., 

 when the number of the regiment was directed to 

 be embroidered on its standard ; even after the 

 numbering became general, the names of colonels 

 were for some time retained. 



4. What was the rule or principle laid down in 

 giving any regiment a certain number ? Was it 

 according to the length of time it had been em- 

 bodied ? 



In 1694 a board of officers assembled to decide 

 the relative rank of regiments, and the regiments 

 formed in England were placed by seniority of 

 raising, but those from Scotland or Ireland on 

 their being placed upon the English establishment. 



5. What is the guide now in identifying a named 

 with a numbered regiment ; for example, at the 

 battle of CuUoden in 1746, Wolfe's, Barrett's, and 

 Howard's Foot were engaged. Now, what is the 

 rule for ascertaining the numbers of these and 

 other old regiments in the British army at the 

 present day ? 



The Army List with colonels of that date. In 

 1746 Wolfe's was the 8 th Foot, Barrett's the 4th 

 Foot, and Howards the 3rd Foot. There were 

 two Howards of the same date (1746), Green and 

 the Buff Howards, known by their facings. 



Abth€r Hamilton. 



P.S. — I shall be happy to give further inform- 

 ation and more details if required, and inclose my 

 card to the Editor. 



VICARS-APOSTOLIC IN ENGLAND. 



(Vol. vi., pp. 125. 297. 400.) 

 I send the following as some answer to the in- 

 quiries made by your correspondent A. S. A. 

 For the more ample account of Bishop Ellis, I 

 am indebted to an article in the Rambler, vol. vii. 

 p. 313., entitled " Collections illustrating the His- 

 tory of the English Benedictine Congregation." 



Richard Smith, appointed Bishop of Chalcis, 

 Feb. 4, 1625, and Vicar-Apostolic of England; he 

 withdrew to France four years afterwards, and 

 died in Paris in 1655, aged eighty-eight, in a 



house belonging to the English convent upon the 

 Fosse St. Victor. He was probably burled in 

 the convent chapel, where a monument to his 

 memory was erected. See the Rev. Joseph Be- 

 rington's Memoirs of Panzani, p. 109. 



John Leyburn, consecrated Bishop of Adrume- 

 tum, and appointed Vicar- Apostolic of England, 

 1685 : on the country being divided into four 

 vicarlats In 1688, he was appointed to the London, 

 or southern district. On the breaking out of the 

 revolution in the same year, he was committed to 

 the Tower ; but his peaceable and inoffensive con- 

 duct soon caused him to be discharged, and he was 

 suffered to remain unmolested until his death, 

 which occurred in 1703. He was greatly beloved 

 and respected by his flock. 



Bonaventure GIffard, of the ancient Roman 

 Catholic family of the Giffards of Chillington, 

 Staffordshire, appointed Vicar-Apostolic of the 

 Midland District, 1688. Like Bishop Leyburn, on 

 the breaking out of the revolution, he was com- 

 mitted to the Tower, but was soon released, and, 

 on the condition of always making the place of his 

 abode known to the government, he passed the 

 remainder of his days unmolested. On the death 

 of Bishop Leyburn in 1703, he was removed to 

 the London, or southern district, where he died 

 March 12, 1734, aged ninety. There is a good 

 portrait of Bishop GIffard at the Roman Catholic 

 College of Old Hall Green in Hertfordshire. 



Philip Ellis, third son of Rev. John Ellis, Rector 

 of Waddesden, Bucks, by his wife Susanna Wel- 

 bore, whilst a pupil in Westminster School, was 

 called to the Catholic faith, and to the grace of 

 religion, in St. Gregory's Convent, Douay, where 

 he made his profession, 30th November, 1670, 

 aet. eighteen. After duly qualifying himself for 

 the ministry, he was sent to labour In the English 

 vineyard. His great abilities recommended him 

 to the notice of King James II., who appointed 

 him one of his chaplains and preachers ; and when 

 Innocent XL, on 30th January, 1688, signified his 

 wish that his majesty would nominate three fit 

 subjects to fill the newly constituted vicarlats, 

 midland, northern, and western (for Dr. John 

 Leyburn, Bishop of Adrumetum, during the last 

 three years had governed the whole of England), 

 Father Ellis, then thirty- six years of age, was se- 

 lected for the western vicariat, and was conse- 

 crated bishop on Sunday, 6th May, 1688, at St. 

 James's, where the king had established a convent 

 of fourteen Benedictine monks, by the title of 

 Aureliopolis. In the second week of July, the 

 new prelate confirmed a considerable number of 

 youths, some of them recent converts, in the new 

 chapel of the Savoy. (Ellis Correspondence, vol. li. 

 p. 62.) In his letter (ibid. p. 145.) to his brother 

 John, dated from St. James's, 26th August, 1688, 

 he describes the uneasiness of the court at the 

 preparations making in Holland by the Prince of 



