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 is s. ii. OCT. 21, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Major General Handasyd's Regiment of Foot

Dates of their

Dates of their first

(continued).

present commissions.

commissions.

(John Chalmers

.. 25 Dec. J1726

Ensign,

1704.

(if.n'u'r Collingwood ..

.. 12 Sept. 17:51

Ensign,

1700.

Fenwick Dornier

.. 23 April 173<;

Ensiyn,

1721.

Captains. .

Edward Thurlow

4 Nov. 1730

Ensign,

1704.

John Mostyn. .

6 ditto

Ensign,

29 Feb. 1732.

ThoMins Middleton

.. 18 Julv 1737

Ensign,

23 Mar. 1730-31

t George Richardson

.. 12 Jan. 1730-40

Ensign,

1709.

Captain Lieutenant Walter Devereux

ditto

Ensign,

1706.

i Robert Bradford

.. 15 July 1710

Ensign,

1704.

Hugh Patrick

.. 22 Dec. 1726

Ensign,

1709.

Robert Donworth

3 Oct. 1732.

Williaiu Whiting

. . 12 Sept. 1734

Ensign,

1720.

William Scot ..

5 Nov. 1736

Ensign,

24 Aug. 1715.

Lieutenants. . ") Mathew Revnolds

7 Feb. 1738-9

Ensign,

1709.

Peter Campbell

ditto

Ensign,

25 Dec. 1726.

John Jennings

5 Nov. 1739

Ensign,

26 Dec. 1726.

Sir William Fleming (3)

.. 12 Jan. 1739-40

Ensign,

ditto.

(, Woodroff Gascoign ..

.. 19 ditto

Ensign,

17 Jan. 172S-9..

( David Duvernet

. . 20 June 1735.

William Charters (1). .

5 Nov. 1736.

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Griffith 1 John Maylin. .


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.. 17 July 1739.

Ensigns. . . . -{ James Agnew. .

5 Nov. 1739.

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William Agnew

. . 1 j >i-i. j. i.i.>.

.. 12 Jan. 1739-40.

John Younee

.. 19 ditto.

I Mathew Watkins

4 Feb. 1739-40.

(3) Third Baronet, of Rydal, Westmorland. Died in 1756, in which year he had been elected 1 M.P. for Cumberland.

(4) The only officer, besides the Colonel, who was still serving in the regiment in August, 1755, then being a Captain.

J. H. LESLIE, Major, R.A. (Retired List).

(To be continued.)

'THE TRAGEDY OF OESAR'S REVENGE.' (See ante, p. 305.)

Cp.

1. 1021. With. Read " Which." Cp. 1. 1443, note.

1. 1046. vertues. Perhaps " vertuous." Cp. 1. 1455. If " vertues " stands, cp. 1. 750, note.

1. 1057. my. Seems to have crept in from the line above.

1. 1060. Defective.

1. 1072. which. Query " it " ?

1. 1077. and. Read "end."

1. 1079. fearest. Read " farest " (M.).

1. 1082. songes. Query " signes " 'i 1. 1462.

1. 1092. hand. Query " hart " ? Cp. 1. 1100, " A brest."

1. 1112. favor. Query " sauor " ? Cp. 1. 1538, note.

1. 1114. He. Query " Ide " ?

1. 1121. constant vertues. Query " vertue " ? Or may " constant vcrtues " mean " men of constant vertue"? Cp. "noble bloods," &c.

1. 1156. Rome. Vocative case.

I. 1176. come. Query "comes"? (M.)

II. 1181-2. Pluebus Mounted vpon the firy

Pbiegetons l>ark-s. For " Phlegelons " query ' 1'hactoiis " ? Cp. ' Od.,' xxiii. 246 :

' oi'r' 'Hw irwXot dyovcriv.

Cp.

M. points out that the passage is based on ' F. Q.,- I. v. 2.

1. 1189. whose. Query "whom"?

1. 1197. these. Query " those " ?

1. 1207. it bound it. M. would omit the first, " it " : better to omit the second.

1. 1215. these. Query " those " ?

1. 1219. my. Query " thy " ?

1. 1224. from. Query "from [forth]"?

1. 1229. Africans. Query " Africane " ? 1. 289.

1. 1245. Persius. Read "Perseus" (M.).

1. 1254. by. Read "by."

1. 1264. fetch. Read " fetcht " (M.). Perhaps "fecht" (cp. 1. 857).

1. 1275. Saramna. Read " Garumna."

1. 1285. to the field. Query " tokc the field " 'f

1. 1321. winde [minde, Malone edd. and M.J depressing. One would expect for "depressing' a word of contrary meaning, e.g., " refreshing."

1. 1325. Cp. 1. 2215, note.

I. 1340. bondes. Read " boule " (bowl).

II. 1380-81. I think the words " thy courage dead " are an intrusion from below, and tin-so lines are only one : " O vtinam Brute

W r hat meaneth this ? "

1. 1399. neere=" ne'er." Cp. L 2440.