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LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER k, 1915.

CONTENTS. No. 297.


 * NOTE$ : Scott Records at the War Office, 173 A

Webster-Massinger Play, 175 Words in Bishop Douglas's ' Eneados,' 177 Statues and Memorials in the British Isles, 178 The House of Coburg Old-Time Dinner Bills- Records of Military Courts Martial, 180 "Opoltcheniye" Skull and Iron Nail The Publisher of the First Quarto of 'Henry V.,' 181.

QUERIES : MS. Clergy Lists : Collections of Foster and Hennessy A Tethered Goat for Luck Thomas Hurd, d. 1791" Die .EgyptUca " : " Hora ^Egyptiaca," 181 "Hungary wine for cheesemongers" " Shak," " skape," " scape " Sponge-plant Willett Family of Gloucester- shire ' Racing for Lambeth' Biographical Information Wanted The Cuckoo in Folk-Lore, 182 Mr. Rainey : a Bible before 1611 Authorized Version of the Bible- Medieval Fur -Names William Nicol Rev. William Jackson Cat Queries Site of an Old Plague-PitRev. Dr. Roger Mander, 183.

(REPLIES : Public Fasts, 1756 and 1776, 183 Clerks in Holy Orders as Combatants, 184 'The Cloister and the Hearth' Bookworms, 185 Royal Chaplains Walter Bagnall Employment of Wild Beasts in Warfare Acilius Date of Comet, 186 Authors of French Quotations Wanted Folk-Speech : " Plain," 187 Napoleon's Bequest to Cantillon Inscription to be Deciphered Sir Richard liulkeley, Bart., 188 Richard Marty n Weight after Meals, 189 King of Poland, 1719 Payne & Foss A Sonnet by Wordsworth, 190.

3JOTES ON BOOKS :' Calendar of the Fine Rolls, 1337-1347' ' Catalogue of Ancient Deeds,' Vol. VI.' The Compleat Angler ' Reviews and Magazines.

Notices to Correspondents.

SCOTT RECORDS AT THE WAR OFFICE.

THE following documents relate to the family of Thomas, brother of Sir Walter Scott, who, as his wife's petition sets forth, died at Quebec in 1823 as Pay- master of the 70th Regiment, without having been able to secure a competence for her and her children. The eldest daughter at the time of her father's death had, as the accompanying certifi- cates show, recently married a Thomas Huxley, and I should be interested to learn what is the exact connexion, if any, between him and the Thomas Huxley of wider fame, as also to discover anything further concerning the family of Elizabeth McCulloch, and the career of her son Walter Scott.

Letter from Sir Walter Scott to Lord Palmer* ston relating to pension of the widow of his brother Thomas Scott, Paymaster in 70th Foot.

W.O. 43/20/3270.

[Rec d 12 March, 1824.]

MY LORD

While I feel how little I am entitled from the very slight personal knowledge existing between us to intrude myself upon your Lordship, either in my own affairs [or] as advocating those of another, I feel confident that in the case of a Widow & orphan children Lord Palmerston will permit himself to be easily accessible.

My brother the late Thomas Scott, a man of very considerable talent and of many accomplishments, served His Majesty for many years as paymaster of the 70 th regi- ment, which will appear from the petition of his widow & the report of Colonel McGrigor, commanding the regiment. The object of that petition is to obtain the pension and bounty which His Majesty confers upon persons in M rs Scott's distressed condition, and on which, but for the support of her friends, she would be in a great measure dependent. The answer she has received refers to the closing of the regimental accompts previous to the granting her pension, and upon applying at the War Office for further explanation she has* .... not to any claim against her late husband which ad- mitted of immediate settlement, but to some transaction of several years old when the reg fc lay in Ireland previous to sailing for Canada, where they have been a long time. I am informed by Colonel McGrigor and other gentlemen of the regiment that this claim on the part of Government origi- nates in a mistake, and I presume that the circumstance of its being suffered to lie over BO long strongly confirm this belief. At any rate I myself and M r McCullock of the Navy Pay Office, Suritees for my brother to Government, are equally ready & willing to make payment of whatever may be due, and I humbly presume that as the state of accompts inferred no penal consequences as to my brother, who continued Paymaster of the regiment for many years after the supposed claim was incur'd, it cannot now, when he is gone who probably could have completely explained as cause for his

widows forfeiting that provision w r hich is a considerable part of the advantageous [sic']


 * Some omission here in the original.