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 III. AUG., 1917.

NOTES AND QUERIES.

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d. 1842). (c) Joseph, b. 1762, d. 1827, married in 1787 Ann Everett, sister of his elder brother's wife (b. 1765, d. 1795). James and Joseph Kirkpatrick were the firm of private bankers of Newport.

' The last house in England in which General Wolfe slept before his departure to the scene of his glory and death was the house of James, the son of James Kirkpatrick, who entertained him during the time he was detained in the Isle of Wight."

The foregoing details are partly taken from a ' Memoir respecting the Family of Kirkpatrick of Closeburn,' published in 1858, and from information very courteously furnished me by Mr. J. G. Kirkpatrick of Edinburgh. JOHN L. WHITEHEAD, M.D.

Ventnor.

ENGLISH TRAVELLERS IN THE NETHER- LANDS (12 S. iii. 333, 364). The following particulars will serve as a guide to those who may wish to help your Dutch correspondent. (1 ; Dr. E. Yeryard arrived in Amsterdam in April, 1682, and published his ' Divers Choice Remarks' in 1701. (2) A Capt. Owen, " aboard the Dragon in the Downs," sent home a letter dated March 15, 1651/2, which was printed in pamphlet form under the title ' Bloudy Newes from Holland.'


 * (3) R. Fell was "captured by a French

privateer on the Yorkshire coast, and taken

. to Holland ; his first letter is dated from Briel, October, 1800. (4) John Milford jun., " late of St. John's College, Cam- bridge," quitted college about 1813, and reached Lord Wellington's head-quarters at the beginning of 1814. (5) Charles Tennant dates the Introduction to his ' Tour ' from " Russell Square, 1824." The tour itself was made in 1821-2. (6) The 4th edition of the "late" Harry Peckham's 'Tour' was published in 1788.* On the title-page he is described as " one of his M. Council and Recorder of the City of Chichester." The only indication as to the year in which he made his tour is that Aug. 7 fell on a Monday. Perhaps some other reader can give the date of the first edition.

L. L. K.

JEATT : MORETUS (12 S. iii. 300). Maria' Isabella Jacoba Moretus, who died in 1768, was probably a member of the famous family of printers at Antwerp. According to M. Max Rooses, ' Catalogue du Musee Plantin- Moretus,' 5th ed., 1902, the head of the Plantin Press from 1757 to 1768 was Francois Jean Moretus (1717-68). He married Marie Therese Josephine Borrekins, who directed the business from 1768 till her own death

in 1797, when she was succeeded by her four sons, Jacques Paul Joseph (1756-1808), Louis Franyois Xavier (1758-1820), Fran?ois Joseph Thomas (1760-1814), and Joseph Hyacinthe (1762-1810).

If we assume that Maria Isabella Jacoba was a daughter of Fra^ois Jean Moretus, her first baptismal name would be that of her mother, and the third, the feminine counter- part of her eldest brother's, would be due to her grandfather Jean Jacques Moretus (1690-1757). Three of Francois Jean's sons,. it may be noted, were given the masculine equivalent of their mother's name Josephine. EDWARD BENSLY.

74TH REGIMENT OF FOOT (12 S. iii. 331). From 1760 to 1763, in which year the regiment was disbanded, six companies were stationed in Jamaica, and four in Senegal. There was a Lieut. John Pigot in the regiment, whose commission was dated May 1, 1760 (army rank dated June 19, 1755),- He had probably served in some other regiment prior to being in the 74th. In the ' Army List ' of 1766 he is shown as being on half-pay (p. 195). J. H. L.

In the ' List of the Army ' for 1763 the 74th is recorded as being stationed in Jamaica. The colonel was John Irwin, and the lieutenant-colonel commanding William Masters. There* were 2 majors, 10 captains, 1 captain- lieutenant, 25 lieutenants, and 13 ensigns, a chaplain, an adjutant, a quartermaster, and a surgeon.

In the ' List of the Army ' for 1765 the corps is entitled " Seventy-fourth Regiment of Foot, Invalids," and presumably had been brought home, more than decimated by yellow fever. The list of officers consists of 1 major commanding, 5 captains, 5 lieu- tenants, and 5 ensigns. Of 57 officers of the regiment in 1763, not one is named as holding a commission therein in 1765.

HERBERT MAXWELL.

Monreith. [F. M. M. and W. R. W. also thanked for replies.]

EDWARD JOHN COBBETT (12 S. iii. 301). This painter was born in 1815 in London, where he lived nearly all his life. He exhibited 50 works at the Royal Academy,. 1833-80; 49 at the British Institution, 1840-67 ; 312 at the Royal Society of British Artists, 1856-94; 41* at the* Liverpool Academy, 1845-65 ; and 16 at the Liverpool Autumn Exhibition, 1871-84. In 1856 he lived at 23 Hawley Road, Kentish Town. N.W. : in 1858 at * 20 Oakley Square, St. Pancras'; in 1885 at Woodbury, Addlestone ;