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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[ 12 S. III. OCT., 1917.

Anaxarchus (a philosopher of Abdera, and friend of Alexander) was pounded to death in a stone mortar with iron hammers by order of the tyrant Nicocreon at least, so my Lempriere tells me.

5. Massinger, 'The Roman Actor,' I. ii. 38 : If that, when I was mistress of myself

And in my icay of youth, pure and untainted, The emperor had vouchsafed to seek my favours, I had with joy given up my virgin fort At the first summons, to his soft embraces.

" Way of youth " is an awkward expression. I stispect a misprint for " May of youth," frequently appearing elsewhere in Massinger,

e.g. :

When the Eastern world With wonder, in my May of youth, look' d on me.

' Believe" as You List,' I. i. Having my heat and May of youth to plead In my excuse. ' The Renegado,' IV, ii.

6. Heywocd, ' A Woman kil'd with Kind- ness ' (Pearson, ii. 102) :

Sweete sister, euery straine

Of sorrow from your heart augments my paine, Your griefe abounds, and hits against my brest.

Bead rebounds.

7. Glapthorne, ' Argalus and Parthenia,' IV. i. (Pearson, i. 49) :

O that deathfull word

Comes from the Organs of my troubled soule, As a constant does from a timorous maid To an inforcing ravisher.

Read consent. Thus altered, Glapthorne, more suo, repeats these lines in ' The Lady Mother ' '(Bullen, ' Old Plays,' ii. 174).

H. DUGDALE SYKES. Enfield.

RICCIO' s MURDER. My attention has been called to a stupid blunder in the Official Guide to Holy rood, for which I am responsible. On p. 34 the date of the murder of David Riccio is given as Feb. 13, 1566, whereas the true date is given on p. 136, viz., March 9, 1566. The former date was that of Randolph's letter to Leicester informing him of the plot against Riccio. HERBERT MAXWELL.

Monreith.

A WATERLOO ROLL OF HONOUR. It is a significant comment on our lack of interest in the Army, at least in former days, that, so far as I am aware, the roll of honour of only one of the thirty odd regiments which fought at Waterloo has been published. The exception is the Gordon Highlanders, and that has been done only in the case those who were killed or wounded. The late Mr. Charles Dalton published a list of

officers who fought in the battle, and Capt* B. Norman in his ' Battle Honours of the British Army ' has given the figures of casualties ; but the names of the rank and file engaged still remain immured in the Public Record Office, though they are quite available there. As there is every likelihood that there will be a great interest in regi- mental records after the War, especially in fhe matter of Waterloo, readers may like to know how to set about getting at the facts at the P.R.O.

Officers. The foundation of any such roll is to be found in the ' List of Officers who received Medals as having been present at Waterloo ' (W.O. 1: 206)1 The fata! casualties sustained by officers are notified n the ' Index to Regimental Losses, 1805-17 r (W.O. 25: 2756-2905). Further details are ontained in the ' Register of Officers' Effects, 1810-15' (W.O. 25 : 2963-2964)? Report upon Claims for Losses sustained in Various Services ' (W.O. 30 : 8 and 9) ; and in the Pay Lists (W.O.12). See also Dalton's Waterloo Roll Call,' 1890. Hank and File-. The foundation data iere are contained in the supplement ary Waterloo Pay List, Sept., 1816, which is bound at the end of the 1815 Lists (W.O.12). This should be worked in connexion with he Pay Lists for May- June and the summer of 1815. For fatal casualties (containing names not in the supplementary Waterloo Pay Lists) consult the ' Register of Casualties ' (W.O. 25 : 1359-2410), with its index (Ind. 7880-8223), of which the last volume (8223) medals for Waterloo, Punniar, Ghuznee^ liina, Punjab, and Sutlej. Consult also the ' Muster Master-General's Roll' (W.O.25 : 1196-1358) and the 'Index to Regimental Losses ' (W.O. 25 : 2756-2906), though it is not clear to what this is an index. Some useful facts about the soldiers' origins and relations are given in the 'Register of Authority to deal with Soldiers 1 Effects, 1812-22'' (W.O. 25: 2967-71). Further details will be found in the Inspection Returns (W.O. 27 : 1-4751) and the Monthly Returns (W.O. 17: 1-787).
 * ives the names of those who received

I should advise any one tackling this task to write out every name on a separate slip of paper, and not, in the first instance, in a book, because some of the registers are not alphabetical, and others are not strictly so. The slips can easily be arranged afterwards with very little trouble, and can easily be sent to the printers in their slip form or re- written in a book. J. M. BULLOCH. 123 Pall Mall, S.W.