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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. NOV. 13, me.

Newsham Peel's (1) Cuthbert Ellison (2) John Waite

The next regiment (p. 35) was raised in 1689 in Wales and the adjacent counties, and has at various times been designated " The Prince of Wales's Own Royal Welsh Fusiliers," " The Royal Welsh Fusiliers " (as it is called to-day )," The 23rd (or Royal) Regi- ment of Welsh Fusiliers," and "The 23rd Regiment of Foot (or Royal Welsh Fusiliers)." It should be noted that in 1740 there was only one Welsh-named officer in the regi- ment Pryce :

Colonel Peers's Regiment of

\\Vlsh Ku-i Colonel .. .. Lieutenant Colonel Major. . ..

I George Jackson ! Roger Lort

William Hickman < Richard Bendyse

James Carey. . j John Sabine ^ Henry Hickman

Arthur Taylor

I Alexander Johnson

James Drysdale i John Bernard. . 1 John Weaver (3) \ John Pryce (3)

Thomas Rodd ', William Izard. . i Gregory Earners ! Arthur Forster (3) ( John Gregg

( Thomas Baldwin ! Charles Goodall ' German Pole . . -< Joseph Sabine
 * Nathaniel Bateman

William Bolton I WilUam Aubrey i Phineas Bowles \ Horatio Sharpe

Captains

Captain Lieutenant

First Lieutenants.

Second Lieutenants

Dates of their present commissions, . 23 Nov. 1739

Dates of their first commissions. Ensign, 25 April 1706.

. ditto

Captain, 11 April 1723.

4 Sept. 1739

Ensign, Mar. 1719-2n.

. 25 Dec. 1726

Lieutenant, 1 Jan. 1707.

. 16 July 1730

Lieutenant, 11 April 170S.

. 23 Mar. 1730-1

Ensign, 1 July 1717.

1 Nov. 1733

Ensign, 17 Sept. 1721.

. 10 Aug. 1737

Ensign, 1 May 1710.

. 28 Dec. 1738

Ki/xign, 24 June 1712.

3 Sept, 1739

Ensign, 24 Dec. 1710.

ditto

Lieutenant, 21 Aug. 1718.

. 14 Mav 1720

Ensign, 23 May 1712.

. 24 Sept. 1730

Ensign, 1 Aug. 1707.

. 25 Nov. 1731

Ensign, 13 Mar. 1718-19.

8 Nov. 1732

Ensign, 25 June 1722.

. 10 Aug. 1737

Ensign, 16 Mav 1729.

3 Sept. 1739

Ensign, 24 Dec. 1720.

. 17 Jan. 1739-40

Ensign, 1 Feb. 1735-6.

. 16 Jan. 1739-40

Ensign, 10 Dec. 1735.

18 ditto.

." 19 ditto

Ensign, 31 Jan. 1735-6.

3 Mar. 1735-6.

17 ditto.

23 July 1737.

'. 10 Aug. 1737!

17 Julv 1739.

31 Aug. 1739.

2 Feb. 1739-40.

3 ditto.

4 Hi tin.

(1) Died in 1743 from wounds received in the battle of Dettingen.

(2) Eldest son of Robe.rt Ellison, of Hebburn, co. Durham. Was M.P. for Shaftesbury, 1717-51, Died Oct. 11, 1785, then being General.

(3) Killed in the battle of Fontenoy, May 11, 1745. .

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

QUEEN ELIZABETH'S PALACE, ENFIELD :

DR. ROBERT UVEDALE, SCHOLAR AND BOTANIST:

THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL, ENFIELD.

(See ante, pp. 361, 384.) II. DK. ROBERT UVEDALE. (PART II.;

THERE nas been some question as to Uvedale's merits as a botanist. The writer in the ' Diet, of Nat. Biog.,' who was Mr. Boulger himself, describes him as " school- master and horticulturist." He has also been spoken of by other writers as " more of a florist " than a " botanist." I do not think that these attributes should be allowed to detract from his reputation as a botanist.

In Hutchins's ' Hist, of Dorset ' (vol. iii. p. 148) he is described, indeed, as " one of the greatest botanists of his day in Europe." Dr. Pulteney, however, speaks in more measured terms when he says (' Sketches of the Progress of Botany,' vol. ii. p. 30) that although Uvedale

"was not known amongst those who advanced the indigenous botany of Britain, yet. his merit as a