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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. OCT. 7, me.

Col. Pulteney's Regiment of Foot was raised in June, 1685 the Earl of Huntingdon being its first Colonel in the southern counties of England, with head-quarters at Buckingham. It was later known as the 13th Regiment of Foot, and in 1782 assumed the county title of the 1st Somerset Regiment. In 1822 it was constituted a Light Infantry regiment, and is now designated " Prince Albert's (Somerset Light Infantry) " :

Dates of their first

commissions. Ensign, 10 Jan. 1703. Captain, 24 Aug. 1709. Ensign, 25 April 1704. Ensign, 11 Nov. 1709. Lieutenant, 1708.

Ensign, 14 May 1706. 6 April 1709. 15 June 1716.

Colonel Pulteney's Regiment of Foot.

Colonel

Lieutenant Colonel Major

Captains

Henry Pulteney (1). Moses Moreau James Cunningham.

C James Stuart. .

Charles Walker

John Quinchant (2). < James Charleton

Thomas Cockayne (3)

Robert Bullman t Maule

Captain Lieutenant

Lieutenants

Ensigns

Thomas Williams

Thomas Lister (4)

Daniel Nicholas

Christopher Legard

Samuel Beecher

John Hadzor

Edward Scott

John Farie

David Robert De Lajonquire

William Burnet . George Mackenzie

Richard Hargrave. . "

George Middleton

William Jones

Peter Lyons

Charles Maitland

James Haliburton

Gilbert Gray

John Crawford . John O-Carroll

(1) Younger brother of William Pulteney, Earl of Bath see

Dates of their present commissions.

5 July 1739 . 20 Jan. 1735-6

ditto , 13 Oct. 1720

3 Feb. 1724-5 1 Feb. 1726-7

7 May 1729 5 July 1735

, 20 Jan. 1735-6 , 18 July 1737. 20 Jan. 1735-6

24 Nov. 1716

17 July 1717

4 Jan. 1717-8.

18 Nov. 1726

1 Feb. 1726-7

14 Sept. 1730 20 Sept. 1735 20 Jan. 1735-6

25 Jan. 1737-8

19 Jan. 1739-40 13 July 1728.

15 Mar. 1733-4

20 June 1735. 23 Aug. 1735. 20 Sept. 1735. 25 June 1736 11 Aug. 1737.

8 Feb. 1737-8. 19 Jan. 1739-40.

D.N.B.'

Ensign, Ensign, Ensign,

27 Jan. 1705-6.

Ensign, 8 Sept. 1708. Lieutenant, Nov. 1716. Ensign, 27 Jan. 1705-6.

Ensign,

Ensign,

Ensign,

Ensign,

Ensign,.

Ensign,

Ensign,

5 June 1704. 11 June 1712.

28 Feb. 1717-8.

29 Feb. 1709-10. 4 Aug. 1709.

14 April 1715. 1 Feb. 1726-7.

21 April 1725.

Ensign, 19 July 1735.

Had served in the l>t and 2nd Regiments of Foot Guards. Governor of Hull. Died on Oct. 28, 1767, then being a General.

(2) Of Park Hall, Shropshire. The spelling of the name was later changed to Kinchant. Killed at Fontenoy, May 11, 1745. In earlier lists of commissions the Christian names are given as Jean Janvre.

(3) Younger brother of Francis Cockayne, Lord Mayor of London 1751-2. Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment, May 29, 1744. Died Oct. 9, 1749.

(4) Major in the regiment, Oct. 9, 1749.

The regiment next following was raised at Canterbury in June, 1685, by Sir Edward Hales, Bart., of Woodchurch, Kent. Later it was called the 14th (or Bedfordshire) Regiment of Foot, and in 1809 the Buckinghamshire. Since 1881 it has been designated " The Prince of Wales' s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) " :

Lieutenant General Clayton's Regiment of Foot.

Lieutenant Gen. .. Lieutenant Colonel Major

Captains

Jaspar Clayton, Col, (1)

Robert Moore

Per. Thomas Hopson (2) f George Heighington

John Gough. .

Peter Carew. . < Jaspar Clayton

I John Severn Andrew Simpson ( William Stanhope

Dates of their present commissions. 15 June 1713 3 Jan. 1738-9 , ditto

26 May 1721 21 May 1725 26 Dec. 1726 13 June 1734 13 May 1735 11 Mar. 1735-6 10 Jan. 1738-9

Dates of their first

commissions. Lieutenant, 24 June 1695. Ensign, 29 Nov. 1709. Lieutenant, 6 Dec. 1703. Ensign, 29 Nov. 1704. Captain, 5 Feb. 1710-11. Captain, 18 Dec. 1710. Lieutenant, 25 Mar. 1708. Ensign, 26 Sept. 1715. Ensign, 30 April 1711. Ensign, 7 Feb. 1737-8.

(1) Lieutenant- Governor of Gibraltar, 1727-30. Killed at Dettingen, 1743. See note on p. 340, vol. i. of Dalton's ' George the First's Army, 1714-27.'

(2) Thomas Peregrine Hopson, Colonel of the 29th Foot, 1748-54, and of the 40th, 1754-9, dying in 1759 at Guadeloupe. Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Nova Scotia, 1752-4.