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At 1 1 S. v. 7 a correspondent of ' N. & Q.' wrote : " I find the source of this phrase was traced by VERTAUR at 1 S. x. 235 to Apuleius." On turning to this, I find the passage to be ' Metamorphoses,' ii. cap. 30, where the witches deprive the sleeping Thelyphron of his nose and ears, and replace them with substitutes of wax :

" Ceram in modum praesectarum formatam aurium ei adplicant examussim nasumque ipsius similem comparant."

When the victim is told of what has been done he takes hold of his nose and ears, and they come off : " Iniecta manu nasum pre- hendo, sequitur : aures pertracto, deruunt." VERTAUB quotes Beroaldus's comment on "sequitur": " quia cereus erat nasus, faci- lisque ob hoc sequelae ; cerae enim lenta sequaxque matena." But Apuleius does not employ the words " cereus nasus," nor has the nose of wax in the story anything metaphorical about it. I cannot see that there is any question of tracing the phrase to Apuleius. What is now wanted is an earlier instance than that in Alain of Lille. EDWARD BENSLY.

AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740. (12 S. ii. 3, 43, 75, 84, 122, 129.)

LiEur.-CoL. JOSHUA GUEST (ante, p. 86) died a lieutenant-general, Oct. 14, 1747. For details of his career see the ' Dictionary of National Biography,' which mentions the iact that his regiment was known as " Caipenter's, afterwards Honeywood's, Afterwards Eland's Dragoons (now 3rd Hussars)." He was appointed a cornet in the regiment, Feb. 24, 1704.

Lieut.-Col. William Bellenden (ante, p. 84) "was residing at St. Quentin in 1752, as the death is recorded of his servant, Philippe Ganson, " negre de nation, domestique du sieur Debellenguens (sans doute Ballenden), colonel d'un regiment anglais," on Dec. 27. He had lived in the parish of St. Catherine for many years. As deceased was not a Catholic he was buried in a garden.

Col. Bellenden's decease is thus recorded: " 1759. Messire 1'honorable Guillaume Ballen- den, colonel des gardes du Boy de la Grande- Bretagne, epoux de dame Jacomina Ballenden. Ddcdde" le 21 fevrier, 1759, sur les 7 heures du soir, rue Ste. Marguerite.* M Michel Mallemain, pretre cure" de Ste. Marguerite, dit que depuis cjuatre ans ou environs que le deffunt demeuroit sur sa paroisse, il ne luy avoit fait apparoitre aucun


 * Now rue du Palais de Justice.

acte de catholiciteV Inhume" dans le jardin de Messire de Brissac."*

Wherever names occur in these lists of officers which are obviously French, refer- ence should be made to Agnew's work and other authorities on the Huguenots.

R. W. B.

This Army List of 1740 is certainly not the earliest list of our standing army. I have a folio copy of the List for 1684. Its contents are :

The Royal Band of Gentlemen Pensioners (Gentle- men at Arms). The Yeomen of the Guard. The King's Troop of Horse "\

Guards and Granadiers present

The Queen's Troop of do. f Life Guards.

The Duke's Troop of do. J

The Royal Regiment of Horse Guards. The King's Own Royal Regiment of Dragoons

(1st Royal Dragoons). The Chaef Officers of the Ordnance and other

General Officers. The Royal Regiment of Foot Guards (Grenadier

Guards). The Cole-Stream Regiment of Foot Guards

(Coldstream Guards). The Royal Regiment of Foot and Granadiers

(Royal Scots). The Queen's Regiment of Foot (Royal West

Surrey Regiment). The Lord High Admiral's Maritime Regiment

(reduced 1689).

The Holland Regiment of Foot (The Buffs). The Duchess of York's Regiment of Foot (King's

Own Lancaster Regiment). List of Governors, Lieutenant-Governors, &c.

Lists of the Army appear to have been published only occasionally till the annual series commencing in 1753. This ceased in 1868, being probably squeezed out by Col. Hart. ASTLEY TERRY, Major-General.

Wm. Wade was the elder natural son of George Wade.

Michael Armstrong d. Aug. 27, 1757.

Ruishe Hassel married Charlotte, only daughter of 3rd Baron Stawel, and d. June 6, 1749.

A man called Ralph Pennyman d. Scamp- ton, Yorkshire, Aug. 23, 1768.

Septimus Robinson was seventh son of Wm. Robinson of Rokeby, Yorkshire, and brother of 1st Baron Rokeby ; he was b.

Craggs, gentilhomme anglais et ancien Capitaine d'infanterie, 20 Oct., 1769." These notes .1 re- taken from ' La R^formea Saint-Quentin,' pp. 271, 272, 275, by M. Alfred Daulle. The original docu- ments, which are voluminous, were in the f'm<- old Hotel-de-ville, bureau de 1'etat civil, in April, 1913, when I was courteously permitted to search them. Let us hope that they were placed in safety before the German invasion.
 * The death is also recorded of " James Nioceris