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NOTES AND QUERIES.

(.12 S. III. JULY, 1917.

for the joining of hands and the placing of the wedding ring. The two sheep were, perhaps, for the wedding feast, but as to what the sheepskins were for I have no idea.

J. T. F. Winterton, Lines.

36TH REGIMENT OF FOOT (12 S. iii. 272). The colonel from 1757 to 1760 was Lord Robert Manners (appointed March 23, 1751). Lieut. -Col. Edward Whitmore (appointed July 17, 1747) was succeeded by Thomas Wilkinson on July 11, 1757 ; and Wilkinson by William Preston on Oct. 10, 1758. The regiment was stationed in England from 1757 to 1760, but took part in one or two descents on the French coast (St. Malo. &c.) in 1758. J. H/L.

The ' Court and City Kalendar ' says the 36th Regiment was stationed in Great Britain during the years 1757 to 1760/ its field officers being Col. (Lieut. -General) Lord Robert Manners, M.P., March 23, 1751 ; Lieut .-Col. Thomas Wilkinson, Dec. 28, 1755; and Wm. Preston, Oct. 10, 1758; Majors Archibald Montgomery and Wm. Masters, Aug. 31, 1756, and Gervas Reming- ton, Jan. 18, 1757. W. R. W.

Although I am unable to state where the 36th Regiment was stationed between 1757 and 1760, perhaps the following dates as to where it was reviewed and quartered during part of the specified period may be of use :

Reviewed at Barham Camp, Sept. 27, 1757 ; at Dover Castle, March 1, 1759 ; and at Chatham Lines Camp, Sept. 17, 1759.

It was quartered in Salisbury, Nov. 29, 1759. In 1760 three companies were at Reading, two at Henley, two at Basingstoke, c., one at Wallingford, and one at Oatzing- ham [Wokingham].

Major-General Lord Robert Manners was colonel during the above-stated years.

E. H. FAIRBROTHER.

[MR. W. G. WILLIS WATSON also thanked for reply.]

CHARGES LAMB, THOMAS WESTWOOD, AND STACKHOUSE'S ' HISTORY OF THE BIBLE ' (12 S. iii. 269). Since the above note ap- peared, I have had an opportunity of con- sulting other back numbers of ' N. & Q.,' and I find that, at 4 S. x. 456, MR. RANDOLPH describes his copy of the second edition of Stackhouse, and in reply, MR. WESTWOOD, at 4 S. xi. 65, puts forward the suggestion that two sets of engravings may" have been executed for the work in question. The

edition on which he based his first note (4 S. x. 405) was the 5th, dated 1752, and the plates differed in many respects from those in the 2nd edition.

This reply of MR. WESTWOOD'S appeared in January, 1873, and since he wrote on Feb. 5 to Lady Alwyne saying, " I have got Stackhouse, 1st edition ; old man in mantle, elephant, camel and all," it is evident that he had just obtained another copy, and that I was wrong in suggesting that he was inaccurate in what he wrote. G. A. ANDERSON.

FIRST STEAMER TO AMERICA : T. D. DAVENPORT (12 S. iii. 189, 281). The most interesting fact in Mr. W. J. Barry's article on the Sirius's voyage on April 4, 1838, from Cork Harbour to New York is the note that " Mr. Davenport and his daughter, actor and actress, ' were among the pas- sengers. Surely this was T. D. Davenport, the actor-manager who was caricatured by Dickens as Vincent Crummies, and his daughter Jean, who appears in ' Nicholas Nickleby ' as the " infant phenomenon." It will be remembered that in the novel Mr. Crummies, when he bade farewell to Nicholas, was about to sail for America from Liverpool, accompanied by Mrs. Crummies, the infant phenomenon, and the rest of his family, but these are only the liberties which a novelist might take with trifling details. Mr. T. D. Davenport does not appear in the ' D.N.B.' or in Boase, and in Davenport Adams's ' Dictionary of the Drama ' he is so briefly referred to that there is no re- ference to his departure for America. That he did emigrate to America is, however, certain, and his daughter Jean achieved great fame on the stage there.

She married General Lander of the U.S. Army, and served as a nurse in the. hospitals during the American Civil War, in which her husband was killed. She retired from the stage in the seventies, and lived at Washing- ton, where she was the centre of the literary coterie, dying in 1903. Her nephew, Mr. Charles Lander, in a letter which ap- peared in The Daily Telegraph of Dec. 3, 1904, stated that Mr. T. D. Davenport, whose real name was Donald, was an LL.D. of Dublin University, and married an actress of great beauty. Owing to reverses she returned to the stage, her husband becoming a manager. He secured several provincial theatres at Wisbech, Cambridge, Bury St. Edmunds, and Norwich in the old " stock company " days. For a brief period Charles Dickens was a member of his com-