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no military laurels, and as his law-books were too big to carry about, he had turned to pure literature and translated Sophocles into Latin. The praises of friends had deterred him from destroying his work and induced him to seek a patron for it. I append some of his lines :

Dum studijs totus tempora prima dedi : Dumque proculpatrialustrum mediumqwe peregi

Discere diuersis sedere verba sonis. Turn satis Italise linguas moresqwe notabam ;

Et linguam, et mores, Gallia docta, tuos. Ut potui, colui !V{usas, quocunqwe ferebar ;

Charus et imprimis Justinian us erat. Saepe sed inuitam turbauit Pallada Mauors,

Saepe meo studio bella fuere morse. Castra tamen fugi, nisi quse Phoebeia castra

Cum Musis Charites continuere pias. Bartole magnus eras, neque circumferre ncebat,

Nee legum nodos Balde diserte tuos ; Arripui Sophoclem, docui mitescere Musas ;

E Graecis pepigi metra Latina modis. Taliter absumens turbatas vtilis horas,

Antigonen docui verba Latina loqui. Momenti res magna, meis quoqwe viribus impar,

Ni daret ipsa mihi sedula Pallas opem. Tandem opus exactum volui lacerare, vel igni

Tradere, qu6d Latio Grsecia maior erat. Plurima sed vetuit prudentum turba virorum ;

Me simul Eulogijs concelebrare suis. Inde rudes iterum ccepi limare camoanas,

Et magis intenta consolidare manu. Turn quaerendus erat, mihi qui Patronus adesset,

Et mea qui tegeret numine scripta suo.

The 'Antigone ' contains commendatory

.verses by "Phil Harrison, Juris vtriusqwe

licentiatus " (? Philip Harrison, A.B., Trin.

Coll., Camb, 1572-3 ; A.M. Clare, 1576),

"Francis Yomans " (? Francis Yeomans,

scholar of Jesus College, Oxford, 1571), "Christopher Atkinson Medicus " (? Chr. Atkinson, Fellow of Mertoii College, Oxford, 1565-76, M.D., 1585), " C. Downhalus " and the famous " W. Camden."

Watson's second volume, 'E/caTo/xTra^ta (1582?) has commendatory verses by G. Bucke (the "Sir George Buc " known in the history of the theatre), T. Acheley, C. Downhalus, and the poets, M. Roydon and G. Peele.

The lines of C. Downhall are interesting as expressing the writer's feeling that English versifiers needed to take a lesson,, as Watson had done, from Ronsard and the poets of the " Pleiade " :

Galica Parnasso csepit ditescere lingua, Ronsardique operis luxuriare nouis.

Sola quid interea nullum paris Anglia vatem ? Versifices multi, nemo ppeta tibi est.

Scilicet ingenium maius fuit hactenus arte :

Ingenip tandem praestans Watsonus, & arte, Pieridas docuit verba Britanna loqui.

The British Museum copy of Watson's

the autograph "W. Waad," afterwards Sir William Waad. Waad had in 1581 become secretary to Sir Francis Walsingham, whom Watson that year met in Paris, and on whose death in 1590 he wrote a laudatory
 * Amyntas ' (1585) bears on its title-page

among Watson's friends.
 * Eclogue. ' Waad may probably be counted

G. C. MOORE SMITH. Sheffield.

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, 204, 265, 308, 327, 365.)

The next regiment (pp. 69-70) was first included in the establishment of the British Army in 1678, on its arrival from France, it having been in the service and pay of Sweden or France, since 1613, either as independent companies, or as a regiment. During this period it was in no way connected with Great Britain except that it was composed of British subjects. :

In 1678, then consisting of twenty-one Companies, commanded by George Douglas, Earl of Dumbarton, it was ordered to quit [the service of the French King and to return to England.

In 1686 it was divided into two battalions of eleven and ten Companies respectively being then styled " The Royal Regiment of Foot."

In 1755 its title was changed to the "First (or Royal) Regiment of Foot." There- after it became the First (or the Royal Scots) Regiment of Foot," 1812 ; "First (or the Royal) Regiment of Foot," 1821 ; "First (The Royal Scots) Regment," 1871 ; and "The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)," 1881, which title it still (1920) retains. ,