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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. NOV. i, me.

Colonel Howard's Regiment of Foot (continued).

/Michael Legge I William Rousby Roger Crymble James Grove. . .Matthew Bunbury \ Richard Hawley

I George Coote. . Thomas Leake (6) Nicholas Forde (7) Henry Goddard

George Sempill (8) Thomas Maiawaring James Campbell (6) Daniel Legrand (9) Thomas Cuthbert Hugh Sempill (8) Patrick Cockran Robert Douglass (10) .Charles Lumsden (11)

(6) Killed at the battle of Roucoux, Oct. 11, 1746. misprint.

(7) Fourth son of Matthew Forde of Seaforde, co. Down.
 * ' right hand man."

Ensigns

Dates of their present commissions. 23 Jan. 1711

30 May 1720 11 July 1732

3 May 1728. 16 May 1733

18 Nov. 1736

31 May 1737 1 Sept. 1725. 7 Nov. 1739

19 Jan. 1739

25 Sept. 1732. 16 May 1733.

20 Nov. 1734. 31 Mar. 1737.

ditto.

Dates of their first

commissions.

Oct. 1703.

April 1715.

Dec. 1717.

May 1720. Sept. 172.". Nov. 1729.

23 Dec. 1726. 1 Aug. 1728.

19 Jan. 1739-40. 7 Nov. 1739. 4 Feb. 1739-40. Year of commission is possibly 1735 a

Brother of Francis Forde, Clive's

(8) Probably son of Lord Sempill (see above), whose second and third sons were named George and Hugh, respectively.

(9) Killed at the battle of Fontenoy, May 11, 1745.

(10) Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment, April 10, 1758.

(11) Major in the regiment, April 23, 1758.

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

(To be continued.)

' THE READING MERCURY,' VOL. I. NO. I.

-AN early group of provincial newspapers I Tiave already noticed in ' N. & Q.' (11 S. ti. 481). I wish to add one more to the Jittle circle of pioneers in journalism.

The St. Ives circle commenced with the publication of The St. Ives Post, March 18, 1716, to June 16, 1718, by J. Fisher; The St. Ives Post-Boy, June 23, 1718, to Feb. 6, 1719, by Robert Raikes ; and The St. Ives Mercury, vol. i. No. 6, Nov. 16, 1719, printed %y William Dicey ; followed by The North- ampton Mercury, May 2, 1720, and The Gloucester Journal, April 9, 1 722 ; the group concluding with The Reading Mercury of July 8, 1723. This newspaper I am greatly interested in, and as I have lately seen the only extant copy of the first number I venture to describe it. It is in the Bodleian Library, and the title-page is as follows :

Vol. I. Numb. I.

The Reading Mercury

or Weekly Entertainer

Monday, July 8, 1723 (To be continued Weekly)

Reading :

Printed by W. Parks, and D. Kinnier, next door to the Saracen's Head in High- Street. Where all manner of Printing Business is hand- somely done, as books, advertisements, Summons,

Subpoenas, Funeral-Tickets, &c. Shop -Keepers Bills are done here after the last manner, with the Prints of their Signs, or other proper Ornaments. Also Gentlemen may have their Coats of Arms, or other Fansies curiously cut in Wood, or en- grav'd in Mettal. [Price of this Paper Three-Half-pence per week.]

Part of the Introduction seems worth reproducing as it gives a history of the birth of the paper :

To the Gentlemen of Berkshire and Counties adjacent ; more particularly to the Right Worship- ful the Mayor, the Worshipful the Aldermen, and the rest of the worthy- members of the ancient Borough of Reading

GENTLEMEN, The art of Printing having been found out near 400 years, is now so much im- prov'd and become so generally useful to all Mankind of what station soever, that to give you a tedious account of the advantages It conveys to the world, would be needless. We shall only acquaint you (as to Its Progress and success) that Printing for above 200 years has found a kind Reception in the City of London ; and for many years in the cities of York, Bristol. Norwich, Worcester, &c. Where the Printers finding success others have been encourag'd to set up at smaller Places as Cirencester in Gloucestershire, St. Ives in Huntingdonshire, Gosport in Hamp- shire, and several other Places : which makes it to us a wonder that Reading (a Place of far greater Note than any of the last-nam'd) should be so long slighted by our Brother-typos We have however pitch'd our Tent Here induc'd by the