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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. in. JAN. e, 1917.

1753, the youngest daughter of Edmund Turner of Stoke, Lines. He was made brevet-colonel, Oct. 5, 1747 ; major-general Feb. 4, 1757 ; lieutenant-colonel of the regiment, April 27, 1749, till death ; and was wounded and drowned in the unfortunate affair at St. Cas, on the coast of France, Sept. 11, 1758.

Hon. William Herbert, Groom of the Bedchamber, April, 1740, till death ; pay- master to the garrison of Gibraltar, March, 1740 (v. his brother Thomas, see ante) ; A.D.C. to the King, and brevet-colonel, May 31, 1745 ; colonel of 6th Marines, Feb. 21, 1747, till Dec. 1, 1747; father of 1st Earl of Carnarvon.

Richard Hemmington, who retired Nov. 5, 1755, was one of the four Grooms of the Privy Chamber to George I., 1714 to 1727 ; and one of the four Gentlemen Ushers of the same (2001.) to George II., 1727 till 1756.

Charles Rambouillet retired April 12, 1743.

Sir Edward Bettinson retired April 23, 1743.

Edward Carr was lieutenant-colonel of the regiment, Sept. 30, 1758, to May 5, 1760 ; major-general, Feb. 13, 1757.

Gideon Harvey, killed at Fontenoy, April 11, 1745.

Wm. Courtenay resigned Feb. 20, 1744. Francis Gibbon d. May 9, 1740. Samuel Mitchell retired Nov. 29, 1745. John Rivett retired April 19, 1743. Francis Hildesley, wounded at Fontenoy, resigned Sept. 8, '1756; was a Gentleman Usher, Quarterly Waiter (100Z.), to the Princess of Wales in 1734 till 1758.

Joseph Hudson, major-general, June 25, 1759 ; lieutenant-colonel of the regiment, June 12, 1765, to May 9, 1768 ; A.D.C. to the Duke of Cumberland, November, 1746 ; A.D.C. to the King and a Gentleman Usher, Quarterly Waiter in Ordinary (50Z.), to the King in 1748 till 1756 ; and a Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber (200Z.), 1756 till 1766 or 1767, when succeeded by Wm. Hudson.

Capt. Robert Greenway retired July 25, 1747, and was a Gentleman Usher, Quarterly Waiter (100Z.), to the Dowager Princess of Wales in 1755 till 1758, and the same, Daily Waiter (16<M.), 1760, till H.R.H. d. February, 1772.

Richard Battie (sic in Hamilton, instead of Rattue) d. Aug. 26, 1747.

John Parker, wounded at Fontenoy ; colonel 82nd Foot, April 8, 1758, till dis- banded, 1763 ; major-general, Feb. 25, 1761 ; colonel 41st Foot (Invalids), Sept. 6, 1765,

till he d. at Twickenham just before Aug. 5^ 1770.

John Wilson exchanged to major of (Barrell's) 4th Foot, April 20, 1743 ; fought at Culloden, 1745 ; lieutenant-colonel of 48th Foot, March 26, 1748, to Oct. 15, 1754 ,- only surviving son of Capt. John Wilson (26th Foot, A.D.C. to Gen. Mackay at Killiecrankie ; served throughout Marl- borough's campaigns). B. 1703; m. Elizabeth,, only daughter of Christopher Williams of Havoedwen, co. Carmarthen.

W. R. WILLIAMS.

(To be continued.)

A TABTAR'S Bow (12 S. ii. 469). Surely the quotations from Shakespeare and Bacon mean nothing more than that the Tartars were exceedingly expert bowmen, and could turn in their saddles and shoot their arrows behind them as easily as they could in front. See Marco Polo (" Everyman " edition),. p. 130 :

" When these Tartars come to engage in battle,, they never mix with the enemy, but keep hover- ing about him, discharging their arrows first from one side and then from the other, occasionally pretending to fly, and during their flight shooting arrows backwards at their pursuers, killing men and horses as if they were combating face to face. In this sort of warfare the adversary imagines he has gained a victory, when in fact he has lost the battle ; for the Tartars, observing the mischief" they have done him, wheel about, and, renewing: the fight, overpower his remaining troops and make them prisoners in spite of their utmost exertions. Their horses are so well broken-in to- quick changes of movement that, upon the signat given, they instantly turn in every direction."

Also Giles Fletcher's ' Account of Russia ' (' Hakluyt's Voyages,' " Everyman " edi- tion), ii. 316 :

" Their maner of fight or ordering of their forces is much after the Russe maner. . . .save that they are all horsemen, and carie nothing els but a bo we, a sheaf e of arrowes, and a falcon sword after the Turkish fashion. They are very expert lorsemen, and use to shoote as readily backward as forward."

There is an illustration of a Tartar horse- man with his bow and arrow in ' Some Russian Saints, Heroes, and Sinners,' by Sonia P. Howe, 1916, p. 91, taken from Edes's ' Three Years' Travels from Moscow to China,' 1706. MALCOLM LETTS.

In my opinion there is nothing in the quo- tation from ' A Midsummer Night's Dream ' that would lead one to think that Shake- speare meant the Tartar's arrow returned to he bowman. It would have to be an arrow of an ingenious design that would extricate-