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NOTES AND QUERIES. no s. XL MAR. e, im

United States.' The edition before me is that of 1882. M. C. L.

New York.

[Further reply from M.C.L. next week.]

SIR ARTHUR LEARY PIGOTT (10 S. x. 426, 513). Francis Barchard, Esq, of Horsted, High Sheriff of Sussex in 1853, m. Margaret Jane, dau. of Elphinstone Piggott, Esq., Chief Justice of Tobago, and niece of Sir Arthur Piggott, Attorney-General, and had issue : 1. Francis, b. 1826, &c. (see Barchard in Burke's ' L.G.').

In St. Anne's Church, Lewes, is a M.I. to " Margaret Jane, wife of Francis Barchard of Ashcombc, Esq., eldest dau. of the late Elphin- stone Piggott of Tobago, Esq., died 26 May, 1829, aged 27, " &c.

The Gent. Mag, for 1807 (p. 376) notices the death : Jan. 17 at Tobago, James Pigott, Esq., youngest brother of the late Sir A. P.

In the West Indies barristers were fre- quently shifting their quarters from one island to another. The newly ceded islands attracted many persons from the old settled ones, so it is quite probable that the Pigotts removed from Grenada to Tobago.

V. L. OLIVER.

'FOLKESTONE FIERY SERPENT' (10 S. x. 508 ; xi. 72, 97). The woodcut representing a railway train in the form of a fiery dragon crawling along a viaduct, mentioned by MR. A. RHODES, does not appear on a copy of the old ballad entitled ' The Fiery Serpent of Folkestone,' but forms the frontispiece to a skit bearing the following title :

" A True History | of the | Re-appearance | of the | Folkestone Fiery Serpent ; | or, | Flaming Dragon | With An Account of | The Monster's Misdeeds | And how he and | His Master, | (a wicked wizard,) | Were Overcome by I A Valiant Knight, ] By Mark Oldstyle, | at his Dwelling over and against the Sign | of the Folkestone Turkey, Scribbler's | Street, Sandwich, And Sold by all Booksellers."
 * Printed & Published by T. Rigden, Dover. |

This skit contains 68 verses of four lines each, and although there is no date of publication, it clearly alludes to the railway rivalry between Dover and Folkestone, what- ever the original ' Fiery Serpent ' ballad may have referred to. I have an old MS. copy of the latter, but unfortunately it is not dated. I have also a copy of the third edition, " Dedicated to the Right Honourable the Earl of Radnor, Lord Folkestone, &c., &c., &c." This edition contains several woodcuts, one depicting the " Monster " flying through the air and belching " flames of fire." It is a pity the date of the first edition is not forthcoming. G. O. HOWELL.

" IT IS THE MASS THAT MATTERS " (10 S.

x. 470 ; xi. 98). May I add that in 1609 Ben Jonson issued a play under the title of " His Case is Altered. As it hath beene sundry times acted by the Children of the Blackfriers " ? This piece is J thought to have been performed eight or ten years earlier, and Jonson may have derived his title from the incident mentioned on p. 98. WILLIAM JAGGARD.

THIRD FOOT GUARDS AT THE BATTLE OF BAYONNE, 1814 (10 S. xi. 69). This regi- ment was raised in Scotland in 1608, and called the Scots Regiment of Guards. In 1708 the title was changed to the 3rd Foot Guards, and this was changed in 1831 to the Scots Fusilier Guards, which in 1877 was again changed to that it still retains the Scots Guards. Though having seen long service in different parts of the world, it seems to possess no regimental record book, so I cannot answer the first portion of F. K. P.'s inquiry. Its last service previous to embarking for the Peninsula was in the Walcheren expedition.

At Bayonne, on 14 Feb., 1814, Major Charles Cameron was severely wounded ; and on the 15th Capt. William Clitherow, A.D.C. to Major-General Byng, was severely wounded, and died shortly afterwards. In another engagement on 2 March, Lieut.- Col. Frederick W. Hood was wounded and taken prisoner. In the sortie from Ba- yonne on 14 April, 35 rank and file were killed ; 4 lieutenants, 1 staff, 8 sergeants, 3 drummers, and 95 rank and file were wounded ; 1 ensign, 1 sergeant, and 56 rank and file were returned as missing. The wounded were returned as Lieut, and Capt. Charles L. White, severely (since dead) ; Lieut, and Capt. Charles Augustus West, slightly ; Lieut, and Capt. John Bridger Shiffner, severely (since dead) ; Lieut, and Capt. Luke Mahon and Adjutant Francis Holbourne, severely.

The names of the officers on joining and their promotions can be seen in The London Gazette for the various years, from which the latter portion of my reply is taken (1814, pp. 619, 898, 900). The earlier portion is from Trimen's ' Regiments of the British Army.' A. RHODES.

The 3rd Guards' Cemetery, about a couple of miles outside Bayonne, is a mere plot some few yards square, but is very nicely kept. It contains the graves of Capt. and Adjutant F. R. T. Holbourne and Capts. Luke Mahon, C. L. White, and