MINOR QUERIES.
William ap Jevan's Descendants.—In Burke's Landed Gentry, p. 1465., mention is made of William ap Jevan, "an attendant upon Jasper Duke of Bedford, and afterwards upon Hen. VII.;" and of a son, Morgan Williams, ancestor of the Cromwells. Will some correspondent oblige by giving a reference to where any account may be met with of any other son, or children, to such William ap Jevan, and his or their descendants?
W. P. A.
"Geographers on Afric Downs."—Can any of your correspondents tell me where these lines are to be found?—
"So geographers on Afric downs,
Plant elephants instead of towns."
They sound Hudibrastic, but I cannot find them in Hudibras.
A. S.
Irish Brigade.—Can any of your correspondents furnish any account of what were called "The Capitulations of the Irish Brigades?" These Capitulations (to prevent mistakes) were simply the agreements under which foreign regiments entered the French service. The Swiss regiments had their special "capitulations" until 1830, when they ceased to be employed in France. They appear to have differed in almost every regiment of the Irish brigade; the privileges of some being greater than those of others. One was common to all, namely, the right of trial by their officers or comrades solely, and according to the laws of their own country.
Also, is there any history of the brigades published? I have heard that a Colonel Dromgoole published one. Can any information be afforded on that head?