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veller is represented as taking his repose under a tree. In the cut, which is repro- duced in Wright's ' Domestic Manners and Sentiments of the Middle Ages,' 1862, p. 326, it is perhaps intended to be understood that the traveller is passing the night in a wood, while he is plundered by robbers, who are jokingly represented in the form of monkeys. While one is emptying his " male " or box, the other is carrying off his girdle, with the large pouch attached to it, in which, no doubt, says the author of that valuable work, the traveller carried his money, and perhaps 'his eatables (p. 327).

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

WALTON, LANCASHIRE (10 S. vi. 450). Walton-on-the-Hill is a church of pre- Norman foundation, built near the banks of the Mersey, and is the mother Church of the whole of the Liverpool district.

Walton-le-Dale Church is also of ancient foundation. It stands on the banks of the Ribble, about two miles to the east of Preston.

I see that in the ' Dictionary of National Biography ' the life is given of Thomas Warton, Professor of Poetry at Oxford (1688 [?]-1745).

In Lancashire there is a village of Warton seven miles north of Lancaster ; another eight miles west of Preston.

HENBY TAYLOR.

Birklands, Southport.

WEST INDIAN MILITARY RECORDS (10
 * S. vi. 428, 476). MR. STAPLETON has not

mistaken II (two) for 11 (eleven), as sur- mised by MR. COCKLE. The llth West India Regiment was formed in or about 1795, and disbanded in 1802, after the Peace of Amiens. Prior to 1795 there were a num- ber of colonial corps of negroes serving in -the West Indies ; but although some of these were in the pay of the Home Govern- ment, the officers' names did not appear in 'the ' Army List,' neither were their appoint- ments given in The London Gazette. In 1795 'the mortality amongst the English troops then serving in the Antilles was so great that the Government of the day decided -to replace them, as far as possible, with natives, who could better stand the climate, and twdvz West India Regiments were iformed from the semi-official black corps between 1795 and 1800. At the Peace of Amiens the 9th, 10th, llth, and 12th West India Regiments were disbanded, leaving eight of these regiments, which served some abroad until after the general peace ; -then, between 1815 and 1825, six more regi-

ments (the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th West India Regiments) were disbanded. A 3rd Regiment was again formed in 1840, and a 4th and a 5th West India Regiment after the Russian War ; but they were subsequently disbanded, the 1st and 2nd West India Regiments only remaining, and these form the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the present West India Regiment. The 1st Battalion was originally the Carolina Black Corps ; subsequently Malcolm's Black Rangers, from Lieut. Malcolm, of the 41st Regiment, who picked and trained the men from the old black corps in 1795, and on 2 May in that year they were drafted into Major-General Whyte's Regiment of Foot, the 1st West India Regiment. The 2nd Battalion was originally one of the corps of negroes paid by the Imperial Govern- ment, and was known as the St. Vincent's Black Rangers. In 1797 it became the 2nd West India Regiment, Brigadier-General Myers being its colonel.

I am indebted for most of these facts to the excellent summary of the history of the West India Regiment appearing in the by Mr. H. M. Chich ester, and Major Burges- Short, published by Clowes in 1895. Major Ellis wrote 'A History of the First West India Regiment,' which was published in 1885 by Chapman & Hall, and is repeatedly referred to in ' Records and Badges.'
 * Records and Badges of the British Army,'

G. YARROW BALDOCK, Major.

" QUAPLADDE " (10 S. vi. 429). Does the phrase in which the word occurs allow It to be read as a place-name ? If so, it means Whaplode, in Lincolnshire. The Domesday spelling is Quappelode (see ' Murray's Hand- book for Lincolnshire,' 1890, p. '129), but the orthography varied during the Middle Ages. When the modern form succeeded in ousting other variants seems uncertain.

M. P.

MR. WILLIAMS does not mention where he has seen this word. It occurs in the form of Whaplode, Lincolnshire, and is spelt Cappelade in the well-known charter of Peterborough. I have hitherto failed to find any analogous word or name.

EDWARD SMITH.

The context in which this word appears is not quoted. If it be a place-name, it is probably one of the many spellings of Whap- lode, in Lincolnshire. ALFRED WELBY.

" POOR DOG TRAY " : ' OLD DOG TRAY ' (10 S. vi. 470, 494). I learned some fifty years ago the song ' Old Dog Tray,' of which