The Revd Chas. Bean, clerk, executor of the last will and testament of Thos. Pennington,...

The Revd Chas. Bean, clerk, executor of the last will and testament of Thos. Pennington, gent. v. Jno. Lansdell, Esq., the Hon. Anne Hamilton, the Rt. Hon. Jas. Lord Viscount Limerick, of the kingdom of Ireland, Sir John Colebatch, Knt., and Thos. Gibson, gent., executors of the last will and testament of the Hon. Harry Mordaunt, Esq.: Regiment of foot of which the said testator the Hon. Harry Mordaunt was Colonel in the reign of King Wm. 3rd (1692 to 1698), and which before his time had been commanded by the Right Hon. Chas. then Earl of Monmouth, and now of Peterboro' and Monmouth, which regiment was "made marines" about 1798, continued so for 8 or 10 months, and was then disbanded. Touching the regimental accounts of the plaintiff Thos. Pennington, who was army agent to said regiment under both the aforesaid Colonels. Payments made "in money or in orders, and tallyes for reversionary annuities made out in the name of the Rt Hon. Richd Earl of Ranelagh, late paymaster of the land forces of his said late Majesty King William the Third." "Marine offreckonings or clearings." Accounts, &c., &c. [The names,-Johnson, Esq., Lieut.-Col. of said regiment; Edwd. Norton, Esq., Major, and the Hon. Lewis Mordaunt, Richd. Pye, Lewis, Lignere, Edwd. Woodcock, - de la Noe, Thos. Brent, Edwd. Harwood, Bowyer, Wm. Harmer, Hugh Deane, Jno. Brereton, Saml Foster, Thos. Somner, Francis Rufane, Captains; Michl Benedict, Captain Lieutenant; Robt. Smith, Thos. Wiltshire, John Saite, George Ford, Rogrand des Clouseaux, Chas. Salisbury, - Mumpmolent, James de la Boulaye, Joshua Churchill, John Woodcock, Francis Fowke, Lewis Revill, Oliver Hetherington, John Pitt, Peter Taylor, Hugh White, - de Blaize, the Hon. Henry Mordaunt, Paul d'Ancour, Charles Harwich, Theophilus Du Chine, Saml Foster, - Sulgent, John Maynard, the Hon. Chas. Mordaunt, - Trenchard, Charles Mordaunt, Henry Nicholls, Thos. Pritchard, Jas. de la Boullaye, Geo. Patriarch, Hugh Smith, John Jewett, Ensignes; - Rivall, Chaplain; and Lewis Du Plessy, Quarter Master of said regiment, are mentioned.] "Francis Rufane, of the towne and county of Southton, Esq., aged sixty yeares or thereabouts, late a Captain in the Honble Collonell Harry Mordaunt's regiment of foot and afterwards of marines, deposeth as followeth: `To the fifth interr'y this depont saith that the said Harry Mordaunt, dec'ed, as near as this depont can remember the time to be, did, in the year one thousand seven hundred after the said regimte was soe disbanded, make a treat or entertainement for this depont, and Lieutenant-Coll, and Major, and Captains of the said regiment at the Rumer Taverne in Queene Street, London, the occasion whereof was that the said Lieutenant-Colonell, Major, and Captains should settle the accounts of the said regimt with the said Harry Mordaunt the Coll before the same should goe before the Commrs that were then appointed for stateing and determining the debts due to the army. That on such meeting some debates and disputes did arise, and particularly this depont and the said Captain Lignere did complain to the said Harry Mordaunt that they had not been soe well paid the marine offreckonings or clearings of their companies as the other Captains of the said regiment, for want of a due execution of the said Harry Mordaunt's orders, upon which the said Harry Mordaunt ordered the said Pennington to pay this depont and the said Captain Lignere, who were soon after paid to their satisfne by the said Pennington accordy," &c., &c. [See also 12 Geo. 1., East., No. 26, and 12 & 13 Geo. 1., Trin., No. 11.]: Southampton.