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which painters stretch their canvas, and bujeta is the name for a box of boxwood or of any other kind of wood. The root buj also occurs in debujar (obsolete) or dibujar (the modern form) to draw, to design, and dibujo = design, drawing. Es un dibujo=it is a picture. Can, therefore, biblia de buxo mean a picture Bible ? A copy of the ' Biblia Pauperum,' Vavassore's celebrated blockbook, with 120 full-page woodcuts within borders, would be such a picture Bible. L. L. K.

AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740 (12 S' ii. 3, 43, 75, 84, 122, 129, 151, 163, 191' 204, 229, 243). MAJOR LESLIE'S notes on the regiments in this Army List may be supplemented, in some cases, by a reference to Millan's ' Succession of Colonels.' My copy of Millan is for 1744, but appears to have been published on Aug. 1, 1743 ; it is corrected in manuscript up to 1750.

In it the 2nd Troop of Horse Grenadier Guards are described as " II d or Scotch Troop Gran dr Guards."

The Royal Regiment of Horse Guards are called the Royal Horse-Guards, Blue, and are stated to consist of nine troops. The King's Regiment of Horse also contained nine troops, but the Queen's and succeeding regiments only six.

Referring to the King's Regiment of Dragoons (p. 86), MAJOR LESLIE notes that in the 1740 list the word "Own" is omitted from the title ; in Millan's list it is included.

Lord Cadogan's Regiment of Dragoons is said (p. 122) to have been formed in 1689, but Millan gives the date of Sir Arthur Cunningham's commission as its first colonel as Dec. 31, 1688.

Of Kerr's Dragoons Millan gives the follow- ing account :

" VII th Queens rais'd in Scotland Unhors'd at Dunkirk for the I st Dragoons who sold theirs in Spain to save Sea Carriage, Sent to Irland as Foot, Broke 1714, The Private men made their Officers & kept up the Reg 1 till they Rec d 12 Pound for each Horse, Restor'd 31 J. 14/5 by 3 Troops from y e Roy 1 Scotch 2 from y e Roy 1 Reg' & one new Rais'd."

The 1st Foot Guards are stated by Millan to have consisted of " 3 Battal" 8 & the Kings Compy viz. 28 Company's," and against the name of their first colonel, J. Russell, it is noted that he sold his commission for 5,100Z.

Of the Coldstream Guards Millan says that the regiment was " form'd bv O. Cromwell for M. G 1 G. Monk at Newcastle." By 1743 it appears to have increased to eighteen companies, divided into two battalions.

The 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards is calle d by Millan " III d or Scotch Regim 1 Guards.' '

He dates the commission of their first colonel, the Earl of Linlithgow, as 1660.

Kirke's Foot is described as " II cl Tangier (or Queens own) Regiment formed from 4 Reduced there into One." In 1743 it consisted of ten companies, containing 815 officers and men.

Of Guize's Regiment of Foot Millan says that " This and the Fifth refused to come from Holland in 1685 for which K. Ja. H d Broke them and their Rank was Disputed."

In Millan's list all the regiments, both cavalry and infantry, have their numbers, which seems to show that the system of numbering was begun between 1740 and 1743.

At the beginning of my copy of the 1740 Army List is inserted a very interesting double-folding sheet giving the rates of pay and subsistence allowance for all grades of officers and men in the Army and Navy.

H. J. B. CLEMENTS. Killadoon, Celbridge.

Richard Whitworth (v. p. 232), colonel of the Queen's Horse, was the father of Richard Whitworth, M.P. for Stafford, his only son by his wife Penelope, widow cf North Foley, Esq., of Stourbridge, and daughter of William Plowden of Plowden.

Col. Whitworth owned land in Northamp- tonshire, and had a house in Conduit Street, but it was said that he lost a part of his property through having to pay a heavy fine levied upon him by the Government for high treason, in consequence of his saying he would rather raise a regiment for the King of France than for the King of England. No doubt he was a Jacobite at heart. His wife's family were staunch supporters of the Stuarts, and he may have imbibed these principles also from his mother, whose brother, Sir Oswald Mosley, had received Prince Charles Edward at his house at Ancoats during one of his secret visits to England. It was owing to these Jacobite principles that Lord Whitworth passed him over and made his younger brother Francis his heir. CONSTANCE RUSSELL.

Swallowfield Park, Reading.

I have recently received through a relative an Army List of 1797 which belonged to H.R.H/ Field-Marshal Frederick, Duke of York, the alterations and additions being in his own handwriting. Though of more recent issue than the Army List which you notice, the fact of its existence, coupled with the name of its original owner, may be of interest to some of your readers.

B. M'NEEL-CAIRD. Edinburgh.