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 12 s. in. JAX. 13, i9i7.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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FELLOWS OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES

2 S. 11. 469, 518). The following list gives

some particulars of the Fellows mentioned,

viz :

William Sheldon, elected 1769. Died 1781. Of Weston, Warwick.

John Motteux, elected 1770. Died 1844. -London merchant.

Major William Cooper Cooper (not William ^eorge Cooper), elected 1838-9. Died 1898. ARTHUR W. GOULD.

COLONELS AND REGIMENTAL EXPENSES

S. li. 529). It would appear that the

practice referred to was in vogue during the

time of the Stuarts, but I am not able to

give definite dates. An account of the

?VrS em 1S to be found in Sir S. D. Scott's

En British Army : its Origin, Progress,

Equipment,' pp. viii + 612, London,

Cassell, Fetter, Galpin & Co., 1880,

pp. 447-9. To quote Sir S. D. Scott, the

system was briefly as follows :

"The pay of the soldier was divided into

bsu5tence ' and ' off-reckonings.' The gross

p;-y of a private Foot-Guardsman was Wd. a day,

5s. Wd. a week. Privates of other foot regi-

its, 8d. According to Fox's arrangement [Sir

& 2, F ? x ' Pa 7master -General], the private

tne .boot- Guards received 4s. a week in cash as

ubsistence. With that he had to diet himself,

that was all he actually received. The

esidue of his weekly pay, viz., Is. Wd., was

reserved as off-reckonings, and applied to the

following purposes :

s d

One day's pay to Chelsea Hospital. . 6 10

M. m the to Paymaster- General.. ..26


 * . a week to Surgeon . . . . ..22

2f/. a week to regimental paymaster ..22

7 8

The remainder over and above these deduc- tions was called net off-reckonings, and was the property of the Colonel, out of which he was jound to provide clothing under the King's

regulations. The soldier's annual account would

stand thus :

s. d.

Pay. ... .. tm 15 4 2

Deduct subsistence, 4s. a week 10 8

4 16 2

078

4 8

Deduct stoppages Leaving net off-reekonings

"Thus 11. 8s. 6d. would remain in the hands of

'the Colonel from each private in his regiment, and


 * 1 s by the 30 Cat. IL (1678) the cost of the clothing

-of a Foot soldier was settled at 21. 3s., a very

considerable profit must have accrued to him.

Et must not be supposed that the difference be-

iween 2L 3s. and 4L 8s. 6d. came net into the

r olonels hands. There were other charges that

devolved on him package and carriage of the

clothing, commission to the agent, &c. Hats are

not included in the 21. 3s. Knapsacks and great coats were apparently supplied by the Govern" ment. Then there were soldiers' necessaries which must have come out of the off-reckonings.''

Much curious information on this subject will also be found in Grose's ' Military Antiquities,' vol. i. p. 314.

ARCHIBALD SPAHKE.

SONS OF MBS. BRIDGET BENDYSH (12 S. ii- 391, 456). ME. A. R. BAYLEY is not quite correct in saying at the second reference that Waylen gives no issue of Thomas Ben- dysh. He writes, ' The House of Cromwell,' p. 107 :

" His [Thomas's] first wife was the mother of his only son, Ireton, a young man of great promise, whose early death was much lamented." ROBERT PIERPOIXT.

BINNESTEAD IN ESSEX (12 S. ii. 391,494). I beg to thank for replies to above query. My aim in inquiring was to try to discover if the annals of this parish contain the mar- riage of my great - great - grandmother, daughter of Thomas, eldest son of Mrs. Bridget Bendysh. My great - grandfather George Bettiss, born 1742, was, I believe, her son, but I cannot find records of his baptism or his parents' marriage. I have three portraits on one canvas, said at the National Portrait Gallery to have been painted by Jonathan Richardson about 1730, of a father, son, and daughter. They have been identified as the above Thomas, who died in the West Indies ; his son Ireton Bendysh, said by Noble to have died in 1730, " unmarried and greatly lamented, as in person, temper, and breeding he was a very amiable young gentleman " ; and the daughter, whose marriage I wish to discover.

F.

AMERICANISMS (12 S. ii. 287, 334, 414 496). I have often been struck by a form of expression which seems now to have taken a firm hold in America. During the past few weeks I have had to read some six or eight American books chiefly novels and find it of very frequent occurrence in all of them. It consists in the omission of " should " or " would " in such sentences as " She was always afraid lest he meet with some accident."

Here are a few examples taken at hap- hazard :

"H. insisted that he keep back and use his in- fluence only as a last resort."

" I proposed that 1 merely take the data for each eclipse."

" H. proposed that C. supply them."

" Their tired horses made it imperative that they keep on."