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NOTES AND QUERIES.

439

The following Bank. Lieut. -Colonels Major

Captains. . ,Second Lieutenants

Ensigns. . . . -

additional names of officers are

x

Name.

f Francis Leighton [ Charles Campbell John Lee 'Henry Rufane. . Sir Robert Abercrombie J. Purcel Kemp William Murray 'William Wade (1) Thomas Bennett (1) .. Henry Thresall Simeon Corbet ^ J. Swords 'C. Ramsay John Barnes William Graham William Piers. . J. Doyley William Craigie William Ayre (1) John Cliff ^Archibald Scott (1) In Army List of 1755, L

J. H.

(To be continue'.

given on the interlea

Date of commission.

. . 24 April 1741 .. No date. 15 May 1741 1 Mav 1741 . . 24 June 1741. .. 12 Oct. 1741 3 July 1742 .. 14 Jan. 1742. .. 24 Mav 1742 5 July 1742. .. 21 Jan. 1741. . . 22 April 1741

', in MS. :

Date of first commission. 28 Nov. 1705.

3 April 1719. 17 Nov. 1732.

9 Dec. 1739. 25 Jan. 1730.

24 Mar. 1741.

1740. 11 May 1741. 15 May 1741. 16 Mav 1741. 5 July 1742. 14 July 1742. 14 July 1742. 21 July 1742. 7 Sept. 1742. 21 Oct. 1742.

(Retired List).



n half-pay. LESLIE. Major, R.A.

I.)

THE CORRESPONDENCE OF RICHARD EDWARDS, 1669-79. (See ante, pp. 1, 44, 81, 122, 161, 205, 244, 262, 293, 323, 349, 377, 409.)

LETTER LXIV.

Ralph Harwar to Richard Edwards. (O.C. 3483.)

{Ralph Harwar was " shipt Chirurgion in the Dilligence at 50s. per month " on Feb. 8, 1668, and thus sailed to India with the Blackamore, which took out Bichard Edwards and John Smith. On his arrival at Balasor, " the Chyrurgeon " was " taken on shore to officiate in the factory." In June and August of 1669 he is mentioned as siding with the followers of Shem Bridges against William Blake and his adherents. In 1671, according to a letter of Valentine Nurse to the Company, Harwar " strucke himself out of your service, and went a tradeing voyadge up the Coast in a small barke, but perceiving he could not thrive that way, put in his petition to Mr Clavel etca. and was presently Entertained in your Service againe," i.e., at the end of the year 1672. On Dec. 15, 1676, Harwar desired permission to return to England, and was allowed to exchange posts with Bobert Douglas, surgeon of the Eagle.

Harwar probably reached England in the summer of 1677, but no further trace has been found of him until Jan. ,1680, when he made a will, styling himself a surgeon of London, " bound out with Captain Samuel Chamblett for Chormandell and Bay of Bengali." Whether he intended to make the voyage as ship's surgeon does not appear, but for some reason he changed his plans and did not go to Madras in the Sampson with Capt. Chamblet. On .Feb. 8, 1682, he was re-entertained in the

Company's service " to go Chyrurgeon to the Bay of Bengal at the wages of 50s. per mensem, and to have his diet at the Cbmpanyfs] charge." He was permitted to take his wife with him, " he paying the charge for her transportation." The couple probably sailed in the Society, the last ship of the season, which was sent direct to Bengal. When the Council at Hugll heard of Harwar's impending return, they begged that " another " might be sent, " hee being little skill'd, and of so ill a disposition every one is prejudiced against him." Harwar, never- theless, took up his appointment, and except for a short visit to Madras and Masulipatam in 1684, he seems to have remained in Bengal until his death. He died, or was .killed, at Hijili, an island in the western channel of the Hugll, during the "war with the Mogull " in 1687.

In his will he mentions his " father-in-law " (? stepfather) Samuel Harwar and " his wife my mother." Ralph's mother must therefore have married two men of the name of Harwar. An uncle, Ralph Harwar, is also mentioned. Administration of the testator's effects was granted to his brother-in-law Thomas Hard wick on Oct. 22, 1688. The will of a Samuel Harwar, citizen and grocer of London, was proved in the P.C.C. on Mar. 10, 1690, but there is nothing in the document to show if this man were the " father-in-law " of Ralph Harwar. A legacy in the latter's will to the poor of Enfield points to his having some connexion with that parish. See ' Marine Records,' Miscellaneous, vol. xiii. ; O.C. Nos. 3296, 3323, 3344, 3710 ; ' Factory Records,' Miscellaneous, iiia., Masulipatam vol. iv., Fort St. George, vol. xxx ; ' Cour,