[Lemon, in his English _Etymology_, has the following remarks on this phrase:--"_Vessel of Paper_: The etymology of this word does not at first sight appear very evident; but a derivation has been lately suggested to me, which seems to carry some probability with it; viz. that _a vessel of paper_ may have derived its appellation from _fasciculus_, or _fasciola_; quasi _vassiola_; a vessel, or small slip of paper; a little winding band, or swathing cloth; a garter; a _fascia_, a small narrow binding. The root is undoubtedly _fascis_, a bundle, or anything tied up; also, the fillet with which it is bound."] * * * * * Replies. KING JAMES'S IRISH ARMY LIST, 1689. (Vol. ix., pp. 30, 31.) My collections are arranged for illustrating, in the manner alluded to in the above notice, upwards of four hundred families. In Tyrconnel's _Horse_, I find a Dominick _Sheldon_, Lieut.-Colonel. His name appears in the "Establishment" of 1687-8 for a pension of 200l. Early in the campaign, he was actively opposed to the revolutionary party in Down and Antrim; and was afterwards joined in an unsuccessful negotiation for the surrender of Derry. At the battle of the Boyne he commanded the cavalry, and in a gallant charge nearly retrieved the day, but had two horses shot under him. When Tyrconnel left Ireland for France, to aid the cause of the Stuarts, he selected this colonel as one of the directory, who were to advise the young Duke of Berwick, to whom Tyrconnel had committed the command of the Irish army, and who was afterwards so distinguished in the wars of the brigades abroad. After the capitulation of Limerick in 1691, Sarsfield, then the beloved commander of the last adherents of the cause of the royal exile, intrusted to Colonel Sheldon the care of embarking all who preferred a foreign land to the new Government; and King James (for, in justice to my subject, I must still style him _King_) especially thanked him for his performance of that duty. When his own regiment was brigaded in France, it was called, _par excellence_, "the King's Regiment;" and Dominick Sheldon, "an Englishman," was gazetted its Colonel. The successes of his gallant band are recorded, in 1702, at the confluence of the Mincio and the Po; in 1703, against the Imperialists under Visconti, when he was wounded; in the army of the Rhine, and at the battle of Spire within the same year, &c. He appears, throughout his career, an individual of whom his descendants should be proud; but I cannot discover the house of this _Englishman_.