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 12 s. vii. JULY 31, 1920.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 83 Simpson,* Dr. Cogan, f and we visited the Abbey Church, very neat, but not magnificent. A vast number of monuments and tablets covering the walls and pillars, several of them of persons of note. Saw the old rooms. Company at dinner. The hours so late that the whole day is forenoon. September 6, Friday. A ride in the afternoon with the ladies to Newton Park, a beautiful place, with a great variety of ground well planted. The family being at home, our walk was restricted Viewed the New Booms, extremely grand and spacious : the ballroom 105 feet by 43 and 43 high. Dined at Mr. Simpson's, with Dr. Cogan, Mr. Watson, &c. September 7, Saturday. A ramble about the town in the forenoon. Called on Mr. Twiss t and had a pleasant chat with him and Mrs. Twiss. Drank tea with Mrs. Percival.il September 8, Sunday. Breakfasted with Mr. Watson. Went to church at the Octagon chapel very nea^ and elegant. A curious sermon on places of public worship. Dined at Dr. Parry's, ^j with Sir Rd. Clayton,** Mr. Hobhouse, &c., Mr. Barnard of the Foundling and Mr. Davy at supper. September 9, Monday. Called on Wallace Currie,|t a fine manly youth, and had an interest- critic, who was at school under John Aikin, senior, at Kibworth and at Warrington Academy ; he held various ministries and in 1791 settled at Bath for the remainder of his days. t Thomas Cogan, physician and philosopher (1736-1818), who was for two or three years at the well-known dissenting school at Kibworth, in Leicester] Aikin's birthplace. He practised medicine for some time in Holland ; and was settled at this period with his wife at Bath and farmed scientifically near Bradford-on-Avon. i Francis Twiss (1760-1827), compiler of an index to Shakespeare ; " ' a hopeless passion for Mrs. Siddons ' is believed," says the ' D.N.B.', " to have been once nourished by him " ; but he married her sister, Frances (1759-1822), usually called Fanny, Kemble. Mrs. Twiss, " a lovely woman, of great sweet- ness of character," according to the ' D.N.B.' ing conversation about his excellent deceased 1 - father. At eleven, we, with the whole Haygarth- family and Miss Percival, embarked on the Avon and Kennet canal, and proceeded to Bradford. A most delightful tract, winding among richly wooded hills and verdant vales, affording a> perpetual change of beautiful prospects. Stopt just opposite to Bradford, and climbed a high bank, whence we had a curious panorama view of the whole town, filling the slope of a hill,- neatly built with stone houses, all of which were presented to the eye. A very fine day heightened the beauty of every object, both going and returning. Got back to a late dinner. Mr. Barnard, one of the company, a man of great information and public spirit. September 10, Tuesday. I ascended the highest inhabited part of Bath, the Beacon hill, whence is a fine and singular prospect of the subjacent town. Called on Mr. and Mrs. Broadhurst. At half one we left Bath in the coach in which we came, and arrived safe in London on the morning: of September llth. PBONEPOS. gave up the stage on her marriage, and from 1807 kept a fashionable girls' school at 24 Camden Place, Bath, and was assisted in the management by her husband and three daughters. She died at Bath on Oct. 1, 1822. (1740-1804) physician and author, who was bora at Warrington and educated, like Aikin, at the Academy there, and like him a M.D. of Leyden ; he practised in Manchester ,where Aikin also had lived. U Dr. Caleb Hillier Parry (1755-1822) a physi- cian and pathologist who settled at Bath in 1779, " and hardly quitted that city for a day during the remainder of his life " (' D.N.B.'). baronet in 1774, was a lawyer and antiquary ; he apparently lived, or was often in Bath, as the list of his works in the ' D.N.B.' implies. ft The son of Dr. James Currie (1756-1805), of Liverpool, who died on a visit to Bath for hi* health on August 31 ; so that Dr. Aikin called only a few days after his father's death. The younger' Currie edited his father's writings in 1831. AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740. (Sea 12 S. ii. passim ; iii. 48, 103, 267, 354, 408, 433 ; vi. 181, 223, 242, 290, 329.) PAGES 63 to 79 contain : " A List of the Colonels, Lieutenant-Colonels, Majors, Captains, Lieutenants, and Ensigns of His Majesty's Forces on the Irish Establishment, with ther Dates of their several Commissions as such, and also the Dates of the first Commissions which such Colonels, Lieutenant-Colonels, Majors, Captains and Lieutenants had in the Army." There are ten regiments of Horse and ten of Foot, all of which survive at the present time 1920. Their titles to-day are : HORSE. 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards. 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards. 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers). 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers. 8th (King's Royal Irish) Hussars. 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers. 12th (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers, 13th Hussars. 14th (King's) Hussars
 * The Rev. John Simpson (1742-1812) biblical
 * Probably the widow of Thomas Percival
 * Sir Richard Clayton (died 1828) created