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 12 ft. vii. OCT. 2, i92o.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740.

(See 12 S. ii. passim ; iii. 46, 103, 267, 354, 408, 438 ; vi. 184, 233, 242, 290, 329 ;

vii. 83, 125, 146, 165, 187, 2Q4.)

The next regtment (p. 66) was raised in the north of England in 1715, as a regiment of Dragoons, commanded by Colonel Owen Wynne.

In 1783 it was converted into "light " Dragoons, and in 1816 into Lancers. In 1830 the additional title " Queen's Royal " was conferred upon the regiment. In 1862 it was styled " 9th (The Queen's Royal) Regiment of Lancers " and now (1920) is the " 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers."

Dates of their present commissions.

Captains

Captain Lieutenant

Lieutenants

Cornets

Dates of their first

commissions. Cornet, 14 Mar. 1706. Captain, 21 Oct. 1718. Ensign, 1704--5.

Ensign, 18 May 1722. Lieutenant, 29 Jan. 172'2. Ensign, 1 Nov. 1707. Ensign, Aug. 1708.

June 1709.

May 1719.

Aug. 1722.

Ensign, Cornet, ditto,

2d. Lie '<., 28 Jan. 1735*.

Major-General Cope's Regiment of Dragoons.

Colonel. . . . John Cope (1). . . .27 June 1737

Lieutenant- Colonel. . Daniel Degennes (2). . 18 Aug. 1739

Major. . . . Paul Malide (3). . 12 July 1737

(Lord Charles Hay (4) . . 1 May 1729

< Hugh Montgomery. . 26 Dec. 1732

IWilliam Humfrey. . 12 July 1737

Owen Wynne (5). . . . 12 July 1737

f William Carleton. . . . 2 Dec. 1717

Francis Reynolds (6) .. 15 Sept. 1727

-{Sir William Gpstwick (7). . 12 July 1737

Thomas Babbington. .. 7 Feb. 1737

[Richard Fitzgerald. 1 June 1739

Edward Clayton (8). . . 21 Mar. 1726

Thomas Darby (9). . . I July 1737

Henry Clark (10). . . 27 Feb. 1737

Thomas Crofton. .. 15 Dec. 1738

Hugh Moore (11). .. 19 June 1739

Joseph Pringle. . . 20 June 1739

The three names here following are entered on the interleaf in ink : Lieutenant. . .. Henry Westonra (12) .. 13 Mar. 1740/1

,,, ( Andrew Rollo 10 May 1740

\EdwardEllis .. .. 7 June 1741

(1) Transferred to 7th Dragoons in 1741. Died in 1760. See ' D.N.B.'

(2) Jean Daniel de Gennes of Portarlington, where he died on Dec. 5, 1766. He had left the regiment before 1755.

(3) Died in 1747.

(4) 2nd son of the 3rd Marquis of Tweeddale. Transferred to 3rd Foot Guards, 1743. Died May 1, 1760. See ' D.N.B.'

(5) Captain, June 7, 1741 ; Major, June 20, 1753 ; Lieut-.Colonel, April, 9, 1756.

(6) Captain-Lieutenant, June 7, 1741 ; Lieut.-Colonel, June 20, 1753. Left in 1756.

(7) Of Willington, Bedfordshire. 5th Baronet. D,ied in 1766, when the Baronetcy became extinct*

(8) Lieutenant, May 10, 1740 ; Captain, Aug. 17, 1747 ; Major, April 9, 1756.

(9) Lieutenant, June 7, 1741.

(10) Captain-Lieutenant, June 20, 1753 ; Captain, Nov. 22, 1756 ; Major, Aug. 29, 1760.

(11) Lieutenant, Nov. 21, 1747 ; Captain-Lieutenant, Nov. 22, 1756.

(12) Or Westenra. Captain, June 20, 1753.

J. H. LESLIE, Lieut.-Colonel (Retired List). (To be continued.).

THE NAME MAYFLOWER.

IT is a very curious fact that the name Mayflower now so renowned is never men- tioned by contemporary writers, and is not found till Nathaniel Morton's 'New England's Memorial,' published 49 years afterwards in 1669. It might have been expected that those who made the voyage in the vessel would in someway, if only incidentally, have disclosed her name. But Bradford, whose

diary is the source from which subsequent writers have drawn most of their facts, while he tells us everything else about the ship, that she was a vessel of nine score tons, that she was hired at London, and was waiting for them at Southampton, and that her master was "Mr. Joans," while he gives us all the details of the starts and puttings back, of the voyage, of the.-