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country lanes, barns, or woods, taken from old estate maps or tracings of these maps if they are in the hands of private owners. 5. Old local Folk songs or agricultural customs. Also peculiarities of dialect.

6. I should like to hear of any local guide

books, private historical records, or to receive any copies of the Parish Magazine that have notes upon past history.

7. It will also be helpful to me to be given the names and addresses of any local persons living in your parish who are interested in Sussex archeology, folk-lore, customs, place-names, foot paths, genealogy, etc.

8. Any legal records or old estate maps would also be valued.

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In short, it will be a kindness to bring me in touch with any means of acquiring interesting historical recollections. Her collection is eventually to be deposited in the "Lady Wolseley Agricultural and Horticultural Library at Library, Hove. THE Journal of the Society of Army Historical Research is to be congratulated on having acquired a set of fifty-four letters written between the years 1737 and 1746 by Captain Philip Browne, who began his life as a soldier with a commission as Cornet in the King's Own Regiment of Horse, and passed in 1745 into the 3rd Troop of Horse Guards. The first seventeen letters throw some little light on life in the army in time of peace, and amid preparation for war, the eighteenth was written aboard a transport, and in the remaining seven we see the writer taking his part in the movements leading up to the battle of Dettingen, and then giving account of his own and his regiment's share in that action. He came through it without hurt himself, but my left hand and shirt sleeve was covered, with blood which must fly from the wounded upon me," and, indeed, his squadron suffered severely. Writing in the same Journal, Mr. J. Murray Kendall explains "lance used qualifying prefix prefix to non-commissioned rank. It is derived from the Italian lancia spezzata-a shattered lance said to have been a title of rank given to a horseman serving temporarily as a foot-soldier because he has had his horse killed under him. The explanation has been accepted, but there is some reason for doubting it and for taking the lancespessades to have been a body of picked men who could be brought

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together for special desperate service. English, by the seventeenth century, the word (in various spellings) had come to denote an infantryman pure and simple. THE Paris correspondent of the Morning

Post sends word from La Liberté that the Soviet Government have recently opened the tombs of the Tsars in the Fortress of SS. Peter and Paul. The tomb-breakers made a sensational discovery: they found the tomb of Alexander the Great empty. Legend long ago declared that this Tsar was living after having been officially announced as dead in 1825. Many years after there died at Tomsk a mysterious hermit who would never reveal his origin or name, who was believed by many people to be Alexantakeable resemblance to him. der, and by some declared to bear unmisThe discovery made by the Bolsheviks certainly, as the writer suggests, goes some way to confirming the legend.

T the Annual Meeting of the Society for AT the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, which was held on June 29, at Burlington House, the President (Mr. Arthur Hamilton Smith) gave an address on the Building Inscriptions of the Parthenon. The basis of his survey was the Inscriptiones Græcæ, editio Minor,' vol. i., by Hiller von Gærtringen which brings together into order and legibility the vast mass of fragments accumulated by scholars and excavators in the work of a century and a half. He dealt with the record of decrees and competition in design for the erection of the doorway, temple and altar of Victory planned by Callicrates after the peace of Čallias, and showed that the building accounts of the Parthenon now give us a fairly connected history of the building from the first quarrying of the stone on Pentelicus onwards to its completion.

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school of black whales along the American coast. They have been breaking fishingnets during the past few weeks, and on June 29 were frightened away by a party of New Jersey Coastguardsmen, who went out in a small boat. Remembering affrays with a single whale as described in The Cruise of the Cachalot' and in Moby Dick' we should like further account of this exploit. About twenty-five whales altogether have been sighted, a number almost unprecendented in this region, where whales are very rarely seen. About a mile out at sea two of the whales were observed fighting.

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IRISH FAMILY HISTORY. REYNOLDS OF LOUGHSCUR, CO. LEITRIM.

a 'Description of Ireland Arms, 1598,' written by (probably) Stephen Haynes, first published in 1878 by the Rev. Edward Hogan, S.J. at p. 149, there is the following note by the editor, the said Hogan:The territory of the Magranails ог Reynolds, comprised Magh-Rein or the Southern and level portion of the County of Leitrim. The late Squire Reynolds, who was murdered at Sheemore, Co. Leitrim, was the last head of this family [i.e., the Reynolds of Loughscur], his daughter is Mrs. McNamara, of Lough-Scur House.

By her second husband, Richard McNamara, she had no issue, but by her first husband, John Peyton of Laheen, she had issue a son, John Reynolds Peyton (on the death of whose grandson, John Reynolds Peyton, a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1918 from pneumonia, following influenza contracted on active service, her issue in the male line became extinct) and a dau. who married John Lambert of Castle Lambert, Co. Galway, and had issue.

There is an extensive pedigree of the Magranails in Ulster's Office in Dublin Castle, in which the ancestry of this family can be traced back for many generations.

Cathal More or Charles, first MacRanall, b. about 1180; d. 1265, married and had issue, a son :—

Ranell, Lord of Muinter Eolus, who left issue, a son :

Isvar MacRanall, who left issue two

sons:

1. Tiege MacRanall, of whom presently. 2. Melachlin MacRanall, for whose descendants see pedigree of Reynolds of Lough Rhynn, Co. Leitrim (post).

Tiege MacRanall, the elder son, left issue, five sons:

1. Charles Roe MacRanall, of whom presently.

2. Richard; 3. Tiege; 4. Morach; 5. Magnus:

Charles Roe MacRanall, the eldest son, d. 1401, having married the dau. of Mac

issue, seven sons:-

1. Ior MacRanall, of whom presently. 2. Morogh; 3. Rory.

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Charles MacRanall, who left issue Melachlin and Tiege Mor. Melachlin, the elder son, left issue Charles MacRanall, who left issue Tiege, who_left_issue Roger and Morach. Roger MacRanall, the elder son, left issue Edmond Galda, who left issue Edmond Oge, who left issue:-Charles Reynolds of Lisnogan, a Capt. in the army, he married Mary Taafe, and by her had issue: i. Edmond Reynolds, a Capt. in the Army, he married Bridget, dau. of Patrick Langley, and had issue, a dau. Mary.

ii. Mary Reynolds married Capt. John Reynolds of Rhynn, for issue (see Pedigree of Reynolds of Lough Rhynn, Co. Leitrim ').

5. Brian; 6. Maolruana; 7. Conor. for MacRanall, the eldest son, d. 1464, having married the dau. of O'Rorke, and had issue: William MacRanall, of whom pre

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2. Thomas Reynolds, called Magranall The first of the Galda, i.e., the Foreigner. family who left_out "MacRanall " and called himself Reynolds." He married Amelia, dau. of Sir Olivier Welshe or Walshe of Moyvally, Co. Kildare, Knt., by his wife the dau. of the Earl of Kildare, and had issue, a son

Humphrey Reynolds, who died May 14, 1576. Governor of Muinter Eolais and Co. Leitrim in the first year of Queen Elizabeth. Called MacRanall Galda. He married Julia (Gile or Gyles) dau. of John MacGeoghan, Lord of Kinel Fiacha or MacGeoghan's Country in Co. Westmeath (by Marian his wife, dau. of Scurlogue of Rathregan by his wife, dau. of O'Connor Phaley,

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John Reynolds, the eldest son d. 1632. Of Loughscur, Co. Leitrim, Governor of Co. Leitrim. A Captain in the Elizabethan Army in Ireland. He was known as Seaghan-na-g-ceann or John of the Heads," on account of a dreadful massacre he instigated of the leading chiefs of his tribe, at his Castle of the Ireland of Lough Scur, which he built about 1570. He was the first of his family to conform to the Protestant Church. In 1611 John Reynolds was keeper

William Reynolds.-On 18 Dec. (19 Jas. I), 1621, he had a Grant in Co. Leitrim of Lisnegan, Dromkerin, etc., and a water-mill in Correishowtragh, 150 acres arable, 100 acres bog and wood, Taishe, the two Fargrims, Bunnemore, etc., etc. To hold by fealty, in fee and Common socage, rent for arable (about 700 acres) £9 16s. 8d. Irish, and for bog and wood (about 425 acres) 4s. 3d.: all the aforesaid Lands created into the Manor of Lissenegane with 300 acres for the demesne, and a Court Baron with jurisdiction under 40s. In May, 1613, a Petition was presented to the King (James) conveying particulars of abuses in the Parliamentary Elections, by the members of the then Parliament, and prayed a hearing. This was signed by William Reynolds of Loughscurr and Garrett Nugent; they had been elected in the previous April.

of the gaol in Co. of Leytryme, by Letter Patent dated 23 May, 1604t. He married Margery, dau. of O'Malley, and by her had issue:

I. Humphrey Reynolds, of whom presently.

II. Charles Reynolds of Seaghan, Co. Leitrim. Died 27 Sept., 1636. Will dated 10 Sept., 1636, was proved 30 May, 1702, by his nephew William Reynolds, son and heir of his brother Humphrey Reynolds, it reads as follows:

I, Charles Reynolds of Seaghan, Esq., bequeath my body to be buried in the Parish Church of Ffynagh. I bequeath to my brother Humphrey Reynolds all my patent lands to the use of my son Christopher_Reynolds, and after his death to my brother Humphrey Reynolds, and after his death to my brother Thomas Reynolds, then failing heirs to my uncle William Reynolds. I leave and bequeath unto my wife a plow of 6 garrons, etc. To my dau. Mary £- sterling. Unto my dau. Gen £100; to my dau. Rose £100, to my son Cahill Reynolds the cartron of land called Leitrim. To my son George right and title to the cartron of land called Trewleagh, etc.

He married Catherine, dau. of Christo

John Reynolds, of Lough Scurr, Co. Leitrim, had a grant of the office of Gaoler of Leitrim County, 23 May (2 Jas. I), 1604, this office he surrendered on 1 April (6 Jas. I), 1609, and it was on the 2 April regranted to him, and Humphrey his son, and the survivor of them. On 8 Nov. (9 Jas. I), 1611, the King demised to him and Humphrey his son, all the Fort or Castle of Clonmagh, otherwise Cloyne, and one-quarter of land adjoining, at years, if they or either of them should so a total rent of 60s. English, to hold for 21 long live, and to be employed for the common gaol of the county of Leitrim. In 1611 John Reynolds was paid his annuity of £10 as keeper of the gaol co. Leytrym, due Michaelmas. On 18 Oct. (19 Jas. I), 1621, he had a grant in the co. of Leitrim of sixteen properties, including Rassie and Dryny, 120 acres arable and 223 acres wood and bog; Clorie, etc., 160 acres arable and 328 acres wood; Scardan, 30 acres arable and 270 acres wood and bog and the lake or river called Loughscurr and its fishing, castle of Loughscurr in the lake, and the islands, Ballymoor, Inchentancalane, Rossyn, Flanmoghan (and Ilanedyin-to hold in fee and common socage, rent for arable land £8 48. 4d. English; wood and bog 10s. 8d. All the lunds (?) erected into the manor of Loughscurr, with liberty to hold a Court Baron, with jurisdiction to amount of 40s., all ancient glebes, vicarages, and rectories excepted.

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III. Thomas roe Reynolds, of Clunties in the Co. of Leitrim. His will dated 21 Nov. 1632. Probate granted 1 Dec., 1632, to Humphrey Reynolds, his brother, of Loughfinn, Co. Leitrim. The will reads as follows:

Memorand, that the one and twentieth day of November, 1632, I, Thomas Reynolds of Clunties, in the County of Leitrim, Esq., make this my last Will, having first appointed my well beloved Brother Humphrey Reynolds of Loughfinn in the aforesaid county, Esq., to be my Executor, Administrator and disposer of all my Goods, Lands, Chattells, etc.

Witness our hands that the said Thomas Reynolds, Esq., uttered the aforesaid words, (signed) John Ryan, (signed) Ter Connolly. Probate granted 1st December, 1632, to Humphrey Reynolds, Esq.

He married and had several daughters but

no sons.

Humphrey Reynolds, the eldest son, of Loughscur and Letterfyan, Co. Leitrim. He died 19 May, 1661, and was buried in St. John's Church, Dublin. Will dated 26 July, 1660, in which he desired to be buried in Fenagh Church, Co. Leitrim. Elected M.P. for Co. Leitrim 27 Feb., 1639. He married 12 Jan., 1614, Russell, third dau. of Sir James Ware, Knt., Auditor-General for Ireland, and by her had issue:

1. John Reynolds, who died in his father's lifetime. He married Margaret, dau. of Col. John Kelly, and had issue, a dau. Mary Reynolds, under 18 in 1660, who married Col. Myles O'Reilly and had several children, some living in 1734.

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ii. Mary Reynolds, who married firstly Robert Sandys,* and secondly in 1704/16, James Peyton of Driney House, Co. Leitrim. By her first husband, who died in 1703, she had a son, Edwyn Sandys of Durham, Co. Roscommon, who took the surname of Reynolds. He was defendant in the Equity of Exchequer Bill filed 3 April, 1734. He married (his wife died Aug., 1767), and dying Feb., 1770, at Durham, Co. Roscommon (will dated 8 Feb., 1770) left issue Robert and other children.

3. Joan Reynolds, who married Colonel Hugh O'Rorke, and had a dau. Mary O'Rorke, who married Capt. Henry Pagett, brother to Lord Pagett, and had several children.

4. Mary Reynolds, who married Col. Tirlagh Crossach Magwyre, of Fermanagh.

5. Susanna Reynolds, who married and had a son Owen, and two daughters.

6. Katherine Reynolds, who died 19 May, 1664; married John Peyton of Boyle, Co. Roscommon, and had issue, a son Humphrey (or Oliver) Peyton who married Elizabeth

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gace. Col. Nugent died 1 Nov., 1704), and by her (who died intestate, admon. granted 8 Feb., 1769, to her dau. Anne. In a lease dated 29 Oct., 1747, she is described as widow of James Reynolds, who was father of George Reynolds of Letterfyan, Co. Leitrim) had issue:

1. Henry Reynolds of Loughscur.

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Catherine Reynolds who married 3. Anne Reynolds, Administratix to her mother's estate 8 Feb., 1769.

4. Elizabeth Reynolds of Letterfyan, Co. Leitrim. In her will dated 20 Oct. 1787,

account of his murder and Mr. Robert Keon's trial for the same, from which it appears they were going to fight a duel, but on arriving at the appointed place, and without waiting for their seconds to arrange the usual preliminaries, Keon fired at Mr. Reynolds killing him on the spot. He was found guilty and executed February/March, 1788. In his will dated 4 May, 1783, which is entered in the Registry of Deeds Office, Henrietta Street, Dublin (Book 428, p. 82, No. 278647) Reynolds says:

To my dear wife Jane Reynolds otherwise Connell. My eldest son George Reynolds. My two daughters Bridget and Mary ReyConnell, brother of my said wife.

proved 23 June, 1791, described as a spin- nolds. My wife's sister Mary Dungan. Hugh

ster.

5. George Reynolds, of whom presently. 6. John Reynolds, of Drumcrommon, Co. Leitrim, d. 1776. In his will dated 7 March, 1776, proved 31, Jan. 1777, he says: To my eldest son William Reynolds the Town and Lands of Drumcrommon, Edenmore, Drumparsons, and Gurteen I give to my son John Reynolds my tolls, customs and profits from the Fairs and Markets of "Kescargin, co. Leitrim."

He married Margery Egan, and by her had issue:-William, John, Mary, Ann, Susanna and Frances.

7. Mary Reynolds, b. 1713/4, d. 26 April, 1751, aged 37 years (M.I.). Bur. in Fenagh Abbey, Co. Leitrim, having married a Mr. Taylor.

George Reynolds, the second son, died August, 1769, at Loughscur, Co. Leitrim, having and by her, who died October, 1788, in Church Street, Dublin, had issue :

married Susanna

1. George Nugent Reynolds, of whom presently.

2. James Reynolds, b. 1740/1; d. 22 April, 1763; bur. in Fenagh Abbey, Co. Leitrim. Described with his brother George, as of Grange, Co. Leitrim, in a lease dated 10 April, 1760, made between their father George Reynolds of Loughscur, and James Reynolds of the City of Dublin, gent. He was also a witness to the lease together with Timothy Reynolds of Drumcuckhill, Co. Leitrim, gent.

George Nugent Reynolds, the elder son, of Loughscur, Co. Leitrim, d. 16 Oct., 1786, being shot by a Mr. Robert Keon of Keonbrook, at Dinane, Co. Leitrim, on the morning of 16 Oct. Walker's Hibernian Magazine for 1786, 7 and 8, contains a full

He married Jane Connell; she was born 1745, and died 18/30 July, 1802, at Loughscur, Co. Leitrim.

The notice of her death is given in Walker's Hibernian Magazine, as follows:—

Universally lamented, at Loughscur, in the Co. of Leitrim, aged 57, Mrs. Jane Reynolds, relict of George Nugent Reynolds, Esq. She bore the severest trials with the most Christian fortitude, performed the duties of this life in the most exemplary manner-being an affectionate mother, a sincere friend; charitable, pious, amiable, and hospitable, such were the virtues that secured her the esteem and respect of all who had the happiness of her acquaintance while living, and unfeigned regret at her departure.

They had issue:

1. George Nugent Reynolds, of Loughscur, Co. Leitrim, died 24 Feb., 1802, at Buckingham, of inflammation of the lungs, on his way to, and was buried at, Stowe, the residence of his near relative the Marquis of Buckingham. His will dated 30 April, 1795, and unproved, was lodged 11 May, 1855, in the Public Record Office, Dublin. In it he left all his estates &c., in the event of his two sisters dying without issue, to Hugh Connell of Čranary, Co. Longford.

He was of a poetical turn of mind, as were several others of his family, and wrote the , 'Exile of Erin and other poems.

2. Mary Ann Reynolds, of whom presently.

3. Bridget Reynolds, who married in 1793, Richard Young, of Ford Lodge, Co. Cavan. He assumed by Royal Licence in 1808, the name and arms of Reynolds, in occordance with the will of his brother-inlaw, George Nugent Reynolds.

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