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MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS. Where can I read the most fully detailed accounts of the battles fought on behalf of Mary, Queen of Scots : Dunbar, Borthwick, Carberry Hill, Langdyke, Annan ?

A. J. MITCHELL, Major.

9 Fourth Avenue, Hove.

JOHN JONES, author of ' Natural or Supernatural ; or, Man, Physical, Appari- tional, and Spiritual,' printed 1861. Any information about this person will greatly oblige. ANEURIN WILLIAMS.

BOCCACCIO'S 'DECAMERON.' WTio is the author of the following work ?

" Spirit of Boccaccio's Decameron, comprising Three Days' Entertainment : Translated, Selected, Connected, and Versified from the Italian. Lon- don, 1812. 3 vols."

A. COLLINGWOOD LEE.

Waltham Abbey, Essex.

AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740.

(12 S. ii. 3, 43, 75, 84, 122, 129, 151, 163, 191, 204, 229, 243, 272, 282.)

Lieut.-General Kirke's Regiment of Foot

(ante, p. 204).

WM. WHITMORE (third son of Wm. Whit- more of Lower Slaughter, Gloucestershire, M.P. for Bridgnorth, 1715 to his death, May 24, 1725), b. 1714 ; raised 53rd Regiment of Foot, 1755, and was its first colonel, Dec. 21, 1755, to Oct. 23, 1758, or April 5, 1759 ; colonel of 9th Foot, Oct. 23, 1758, to his death, July, 1771 ; M.P. for Bridgnorth, 1741-7, and 1754 to death ; lieutenant- general, Feb. 22, 1760 ; Warden of the Mint, February, 1766, to death,

Robert Napier, colonel of 51st Foot, Dec. 19, 1755, to April 22, 1757; and of 12th Foot, April 22, 1757, to Nov. 21, 1766 ; lieutenant-general, April 17, 1759 ; probably died 1771.

Hans Fowler, an officer in Prussian army some time, succeeded his nephew as 5th Bart., Nov. 25, 1760 ; and d. March 1, 1771.

Jonathan Forbes, captain Invalids, d. April, 1787, aged 84.

Major-General Howard's Regiment of Foot

(ante, p. 204).

Thomas Howard, lieutenant-general, Feb. 1, 1743; d. March 31, 1753.

Gerard Elrington, captain, d. Litchfield, October, 1735.

Sowle, major, d. 1766.

Benjamin Day, J.P. for Middlesex, d. Feb. 23, 1773.

Dingley, colonel in the Guards, d. Oct. 16, 1755.

Cyrus Trapaud, general, Feb. 19, 1783.

Shuckburgh Hewett, b. 1719 ; major in army ; d. Dec. 10, 1759.

Wm. Fleming, colonel in Guards, d. April 25, 1776.

John Barlow, colonel of 61st Foot, Feb. 19, 1773, to May 14, 1778 ; major-general, Aug. 29, 1777.

Lieut.-General Barrett's Regiment of Foot (ante, p. 205).

George Walsh, lieutenant-colonel, d. Oct. 30, 1753.

George Walsh (fourth and youngest son of Richard Walsh of Ardagh House, Louth), major-general, May 14, 1759 ; colonel of 49th Foot, Jan. 22, 1754, to his death, Oct. 23, 1761, aged 72 ; buried in east cloister of Westminster Abbey.

Delabene, colonel, d. 1763.

John Pett, captain^ in the army, d. February, 1750.

Sheldon Walter of Tremeal, South Pether- win, near Launceston, Cornwall, d. Feb. 4, 1750, aged 29.

Brigadier Guize's Regiment of Foot (ante, p. 206).

Alexander Murray, lieutenant-colonel, d. 1762.

Sir Wm. Maxwell, b. about 1715 ; suc- ceeded his father as 3rd Bart., May 23, 1730 ; d. Aug. 22, 1771.

Major-General Har grave's Regiment of Foot (ante, p. 243).

Wm. Hargrave, son of Capt. Wm. Hargrave, baptized Dec. 26, 1672 ; colonel of ,7th Foot, Aug. 27, 1739, to death ; Governor of Gibraltar, 1739 to 1749 ; lieutenant-general, Feb. 1, 1743 ; d. Bath, Jan. 21, 1751 ; buried near the choir gate in Westminster Abbey.

James Fleming, colonel of 36th Foot, Jan. 9, 1741, to death ; major-general, September, 1747 ; d. Bath, March 17, 1751 ; buried near the choir gate in West minster Abbey.

Marcus Smith, colonel commandant of 60th Foot, Nov. 11, 1761, to his death, Dec. 16, 1767 ; major-general, June 10, 1762-

John Fleming, b. 1702 ; created baronet, April 22, 1763 ; d. Nov. 5, 1763 ; buried in middle aisle of Westminster Abbey.