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12 s. vm. JAN. 1,1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. Colonel Irwin's Regiment of Foot (continued). fDaniel Pacquer (3) I Arthur Balfour | George Lestanquett Captains . . . < Charles Fitzroy Peter Bruneval George Crawfurd I Gilbert Keene 'Captain Lieutenant .. William Hele .. 'Andrew Crew (4) Gary Godby Ralph Urwen . . John Purcell . . Lieutenants . . . . J Robert Cuthbertson Michael Mitchell (5) John Irwin (6) Lambert Vanriell George Lovell . . {John Fenwrick (7) James Reid (8) Henry Bourne Henry Fletcher James Edmonstoune John Edgworth Mead Vanlewen (9) , The names here following are entered <Captain . ,. Geo. Fowke Captain Lieutenant . . Jno. Corneille . . Dates of their present commissions. 9 June 1721 . 22 Dec. 1728 1 June 1733 . 20 June 1735 1 Jan. 1735/6 . 14 Jan. 1737 20 June 1739 1 Jan. 1735/6 ditto .. 22 Aug. 1722 ditto .. 25 Aug. 1722 ditto .. 24 Nov. 1722 ditto 1 June 1724 ditto . 11 Mar. 1731 /2 ditto 1 Jan. 1735/6 ditto . 14 Jan. 1737 ditto 1 May 1739 ditto . 20?June, 1739 ditto . 13 Oct. 1723 7 Feb. 1737 1 Hay 1739 2 May 1739 . 19 June 1739 . . 15 Dec. 1738 . . 20 June 1739 Dates of their first commissions, ditto 8 July 1708. 2nd Lieutenant 1708. ditto 1728. Cornet 10 May 1721. Ensign 24 Juiie 1710. Lieutenant 2 July 1735' Ensign 11 Mar'. 1710/11. 5 Apr. 1720. 1 Nov. 1710. 25 Aug. 1709. 24 Sept. 1709. 5 Jan. 1715/16. 31 May 1722. 25 Aug. 1722. 8 July 1736. 24 Nov. 1722. 24 Mar. 1730/31. ^Ensigns rWm. Wilkinson Christopher Barbutt . Lewis Nicole . . Henry Troughear .Chudley Deering (10) (3) Major, Feb. 8, 1741. (4) Captain, Feb. 8, 1741. (5) Captain. June 8, 1749. .(6) LieuL-Colonel, Nov. 27, 1752. on the interleaf in ink ; ..13 Mar. 1740/1 .. 13 Mar. 1740/1 .. 15 Jan. 1739/40 .. 15 Jan. 1739/40 .. 15 Jan. 1739/40 .. 13 Mar. 1740/1 6 June 1741 (7) Lieutenant, Jan. 15, 1741. (8) Lieutenant, Jme 6, 1741. (9) Lieutenant, July 9, 1745. (10) Captain, Apr. 15, 1749. J. H. LESLIE, Lieut. -Colonel (Retired List). (To be continued.) LINES BY TENNYSON. The following lines of Lord Tennyson in the autograph of the poet were sold at a sale at Sotheby's as lot 159 on Feb. 28, 1910, and seem to -deserve a wider circulation than the sale ^catalogue : O subtle various world, Not all concealed, Relation ! Difference ! O termless field ! Fair feast of soul and sense In part revealed. O soul reflecting forms No words can reach, Comparing, at thy will, Each form with each. Let tears of wonder fill Thy void of speech. Oxford. FAMA. THE IDENTITY OF FRANCIS LOVELACE* GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK. The writer on the Lovelace family in the 'D.N.B.' states that Francis Lovelace, Governor of New York, 1668-73, was a son of Richard, 1st Baron Lovelace of Hurley, and adds that he " must be carefully distinguished from Francis Lovelace {d. 1664), Recorder of Canterbury, and from Colonel Francis Lovelace, brother of Richard the Poet." Further research, however, would seem to prove beyond a doubt that Governor Lovelace was indeed a brother of Richard the poet, and a son of Sir William Lovelace, Kt., of Woolwich, by Anne Barne his wife. The writer in the 'D.N.B.' seems to have been unaware of an Ashmolean MS. entitled 'Interment of Mr. Wm. Lovelace, New York, 1671,' which has been reprinted in