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NOTES AND QUERIES. [is. vi. MAY 29, 1920.

The following additional names of officers are given on the interleaf in MS. :

Bank.

Lieut.-Colonel Captain Major Captains Cap/. Lieut.

Lieutenants. .

2nd Lieutenants

Name.

Charles Whiteford (1)

William Blaithwayt.

John Stewart. . f Sir Patrick Murray (2) I Gabriel Sediere

Anth. Wheelock < Richard Went worth. . .' Gustavus Adolphus Kempenfelt I J. Hay

Arthur Ferguson

Daniel Stewart

Gaston Barnardon

Laughlon Macpherson

J. Drink water

J. Campbell

Charles Cleland

J. Ferguson . -i Alex. Gordon.

Date of commissions. Date of first commission. . 27 April 1741 Cornet, 3 May 1720. 10 ditto

Alex. Macpherson Adam Cranstoun Charles Cockran R. Price Pat. Ogilvie Walter Sutherland Toomes Balfour Joseph Etough Thomas White Thomas Achmuty Jas. How J. Usher

9 Oct.

15 May 1741 24 Mar.

1 June 1742

6 Nov. 1741

2 Jan. 1742 5 June

24 Jan. 1740

25 ditto 24 Mar.

10 April 1741

4 May

5 May

16 Jan.

18 Jan.

7 Nov.

7 ditto

8 ditto

1 Jan.

2 ditto

3 ditto

4 ditto

5 ditto

6 ditto

5 Jan. 1742/3 2 Sept. 1742 22 Nov. 1739

19 Mar.

Cornet,

Lieut.,

Ensign, 25 Oct.

Jan.

2 May 1720. 12 Dec. 1739, 1713. 1740.

2 Lt.,

27

Jan. 1739, Nov. 1741.

1742

Adjutant Qr. Mr. Chaplin Surgeon

(1) Whiteford. Captain in Wynyard's Regiment of Marines (see ante, p. 223), Jan. 14, 1740. Third son of Sir Adam Whiteford, 1st Baronet, of Blaquhan, Ayrshire. A long biography of him is given in vol. ii. of Charles Dalton's ' George the First's Army, 1714-1727,' pp. 65-74, with portrait- He died in Ireland on Jan. 2, 1753, then being Colonel of the 5th Regiment of Foot.

(2) Fourth Baronet, of Ochtertyre. Died Sept. 9, 1764.

J. H. LESLIE, Lieut. -Col., R.A. (Retired List), (To be continued.}

SHAKESPEARE'S " SHYLOCK."

OF course this wonderful conception was not could not have been the unassisted creation of the great playwright ! It was the triumphant product of some lesser brain, a prototype which the poet adroitly plagiarised with no acknowledgment of its source. So the world has been taught by literary cynics for the past four cen- turies, and the world has learnt its lesson like a docile scholar. And as " modern instances," are invariably greeted as "wise saws " a service may be rendered to research in this direction by rehearsing our lesson from tutors of our own credulous times. Thus, the " Leopold Shakespeare " (ed. 1881) instructs the unsophisticated reader by the lips of Miss J. Lee that this master-character was " another debt owed by Shakespeare to Marlowe's ' Jew of Malta.' " Dr. F. J.

Furnivall has also conned his lesson to some purpose. After admitting that ' The Mer- chant of Venice ' is the first full Shakespeare,' he follows Miss Lee's lead pretty closely :

" The earliest Englishing of the bond story is in the translation of the ' Cursor Mundi ' of the end of the thirteenth century. But that has no lady in it, though it has a Jew. The next English version is in the translation (ab. 1440 A.D.) of the ' Gesta Romanorum.' But this has no Jew, though it has a lady. Nor is there any lady in the 95th Declamation of ' The Orator of Alex. Silvayn ' ; only the arguments of a Jew and a Christian merchant, and the decision of the Judge, are there given. But in the Italian story in the Pecorone of Ser Giovanni Florentine, written 1378, but not printed at Milan till 1558, we have not only both Jew and Lady (of Belmont too) she is the hero Giannetto's wife, and acts as judge hi the case but also the ring incident, and the Lady's maid being married to Ansaldo, the Antonio of Shakespeare's play. I have no doubt that a report of this Italian story by some Italy-visiting or Italian-knowing friend of