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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. XIL OCT. 2, 1915.

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as in

There is as much virtue in a an " if " !

Edmund Langley, Duke of York, I gather from another source, was the first of his house to bear the white-rose badge, and his creation as Duke dated from 1385.

ST. SWITHIN.

TRANSLATION OF VERLAINE WANTED (11 S. xii. 160, 210). As The Academy, vol. Ivi., and Ernest Dowson's poems are far from me, I shall be glad if the Editor will suffer M. P. or MR. REGINALD HOWITT to quote an English version of the brief verses which I desire to see, if either of the correspondents will be so kind as to supply a copy.

ST. SWITHIN.

EPITAPHS : WINTERTON, LINCS (11 S. xii. 118, 210). The line quoted by Cowper, ' On the Receipt of nay Mother's Picture,'

Where tempests never beat nor billows roar, is evidently from canto iii. 1. 226 of Garth's
 * Dispensary,' where it runs,

Where billows never break, nor tempests roar.

R. A. POTTS.

CAPTURE OF TRINCOMALEE (11 S. xii. 28, 76, 126, 229). The following extract from Wilson's ' History of the Madras Army ' (vol. ii. p. 63) clears up to some extent the difficulty felt by MR. PENRY LEWIS :

" In July the garrison was further strengthened by the arrival of about 200 men of H.M.'s 78th and of the 2nd Battalion 42nd (72nd and 73rd Regiments) under," &c.

According to this statement the 72nd and 73rd Regiments together formed the 2nd Battalion of the 42nd. I do not know whether the statement is accurate or not. The East India Company's records show that the 73rd Regiment was lent to the Company in 1778 (Dispatch to Fort St. George, 23 Dec., 1778). It was commanded by Col. John Mackenzie, Lord Macleod, and had a strength of 1,169 officers and men when it embarked. This seems to show that it was a complete battalion in itself. The 72nd and the 78th Regiments were equally complete battalions. The latter regiment went out in 1781 commanded by the Earl of Seaforth, and had a strength of 1,168 officers and men (Dispatch to Fort St. George, 31 May, 1781). These Scotch regiments were raised and sent out " because of France's vigorous preparations for India" (Dispatch to Fort St. George, 25 Jan., 1782, 58 to 61). All three regiments are frequently mentioned in the Madras records, especially the ecclesiastical register books, Pearson's ' Life

of Schwartz,' the Missionary Reports of the S.P.C.K., Wilson's ' History of the Madras Army,' and in ' The Church in Madras,' vol. i. The above extract from Wilson is the only reference I know of to the 42nd Regi- ment in connexion with India in 1782.

FRANK PENNY.

JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN (11 S. xi. 357; xii. 13, 147, 231). ' Adversaria, ' a quota- tion from which appears at vol. ii. p. 547 of Thornbury and Walford's London,' was a little four -page demy 8vo publi- cation of John Camden Hotten's. I have never seen, and never even seen cata- logued, a complete set of numbers, and do not know over what period of time the publication extended. I possess three num- bers. One is No. VI., dated December, 1857, and contains the article upon ' Chatter- ton's Lodging in Brook Street, Holborn,' from which the above-mentioned extract is made, the article being! signed " Iscariot Hackney, Grub Street, London, 12 Dec., 1857," assumably a norti de guerre, and

SDSsibly deriving from Hotten himself, ther contributions in this number are from F. W. Fairholt, R. S. Charnock, and W. J. Fitzpatrick. The other two numbers are, first, No. IX., October, 1858, containing an article' upon ' The Literature of Seven Dials : Christmas Carols,' with two illustra- tions ; and an article upon ' Occasional Forms of Prayer for Fasts, Thanksgivings,' &c. (with some titles of the time of James I. ), signed (in "black-letter") " E. S. T." ; secondly, No. X., dated December, 1858, with a further article upon ' The Literature of Seven Dials,' this one dealing with ' Gibbet Literature.' I have only two pages of this number, and it does not appear that the article ends on the second page, though it does end with a complete sentence.

F. J. HYTCH. Crouch End.

MARTYRS IN ENGLAND, 1400-1611 (11 S. xii. 198). I have not seen the ' List of Persons burned for Heresy in England ' to which MR. McMuRRAY refers ; but I observe that it gives 284 persons as having suffered "under Philip and Mary, 1553-8." The list given by S. R. Maitland, ' The Reforma- tion in England ' (London, 1906), pp. 449-55), shows 277 persons. It would be interesting to know what seven names should be added to Maitland' s list.

The ' List ' cited by MR. McMuRRAY also summarizes " under Elizabeth and James L, 1558-1611, 7." This should have been