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Throughout Prague then from cottage to cottage he

speeds, Thus St. Wenceslaus serves our Lord Christ in His

needs.

When at rest on his bed from the toils of the way, God's Son stands before him in glorious array.

" Faithful servant," thus spake He, " tell out thy

desire ; Gifts eternal dost thou for thy service require ? "

"Nought but this, Lord, that I at each instant

may be To my people a servant thus ever serve Thee."

FRANCIS P. MARCHANT. Streatham Common.

HIGHLANDERS " BARBADOSED " AFTER THE 1715 AND '45 REBELLIONS (10 S. viii. 68, 135). Hotten printed only a few lists of prisoners transported. I have since dis- covered all the other lists, and they contain many thousands of names.

Apart from the Jacobites and a riot at Glasgow c. 1727, very few of them would be political prisoners ; in the record they are called felons. The exact offence could be traced in the records of the Clerk of the Peace.

The following heading and a copy of the first ten names describe the contents and value of these records :

" A true list of all the Prisoners taken from the Counties of Surry, Sussex, Hertford, Essex, and Kent, and shiped on board the Csesar, W m Loney Com r, for Virginia, which were ship' 1 by M r Jon an Forward of London, Merchant, Oct. 26, 1732, Surry :

"1. Ann Wood ; 2. Ann Jones ; 3. John Chick ; 4. Benj. Gurney ; 5. Tho. Lee ; 6. W m Wilkinson ; 7. Jesse Addison ; 8. John Harvy ; 9. Ric. Batchelor; 10. Hanah Salter."

The Caesar on the same journey also carried 117 prisoners from Newgate.

GERALD FOTHERGILL.

11, Brussels Road, New Wandsworth, S.W.

MR. CRTJICKSHANK has given himself a

most useful and a most difficult task in

trying to trace the destination of the

Jacobite prisoners who were deported to

the West Indies. I have been able to verify

one or two cases. It has always been a

family tradition, for example, that James

Gordon, the son of Charles Gordon, Laird of

Terpersie (who was executed in November

1746), went to the West Indies after being

reprieved at Southwark on account of his

youth. A confirmation occurs in the ex

tremely interesting list of Scotsmen whom

Lord Adam Gordon met in 1764 on his ,

to America. Among others he encounterec

in Jamaica on 18 July, 1764, was Jame

Gordon, whom he describes as " late Ter

percy," a mahogany cutter (Genealogist, xiv

16). J. M. BULLOCK.

DTJKE OF WELLINGTON ON UNIFORMS (1O viii. 8). I have not been able to trace he saying referred to by KOM OMBO, though o doubt it might be found by some diligent earcher in Col. Gurwood's monumental dition of ' Wellington's Despatches.' At he same time the sentiment seems to be- omewhat at variance with what is known o have been his usual attitude on the subject ;. ee Prof. Oman's ' History of the Peninsular ,Var,' vol. ii. pp. 295-6, where the author [uotes Grattan's ' Adventures in the Con- laught Rangers.'

The most direct testimony on this point may perhaps be found in Sir Herbert Max- ell's ' Life of Wellington,' vol. i. p. 318- note), where the following quotation from me of the Duke's letters is given :

I think it indifferent how a soldier is clothed, >rovided it is in an uniform manner ; and that he ia orced to keep himself clean and smart as a soldier hould be."

Apropos of Maxwell's ' Life,' just referred

,o, I find that the frontispiece of the second

dition is a portrait purporting to be " Major-

General Sir Arthur Wellesley, K.B., aetat.

36, 1806." In this portrait, however, he is

depicted as wearing the Order of the Golden,

leece and the Peninsular Gold Cross, with

four clasps ! T. F. D.

" HONI SOIT QtTI MAL Y PENSE " (10 S. viii.

47). There is a slightly different wording of this proverb occurring in a poem pos- ibly older than that quoted by MR. PLATT. [n the ' Historiettes ' of Tallemant des- Reaux (2nd edition, ed. Monmerque, Paris, 1861, vol. i. p. 38) is a ballade, " Rien n'est si beau que la jeune Doris," &c., ascribed to Tallemant. The three complimentary dizains need not be quoted here ; the envoy will suffice :

Jeunes blondins, qui soupirez pour elle, Et qui souffrez ses rigoureux mepris. Si vous vpuliez estre aime"s de la belle, II faudroit estre amants cheveux gris Et ne 1'aimer que d'amour fraternelle. Mais de vous tous on diroit par la France, Comme de mpy, Ton dit par tous pays : Que honni soit celui qui mal y pense !

A note in the third edition of the ' His- toriettes ' (Paris, 1862, ed. Monmerque and Paulin Paris, vol. vi. p. 406) declares that Menage was the author of the verses, and not Tallemant.

Relying on memory only, I am not quite certain of my authority, but some informa- tion relating to the origin of this sentiment will, I think, be found in the first volume of Hargrave Jennings's ' History of the Rosi- crucians.' R. L. MORETON.