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 i2S.vin.APBiL23,i92i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 327 It soon commenced a magazine, The Bramptonian : Chronicles of St. George's School, Brampton. " Not only words." Michaelmas, 1878. The first number con- tains a calendar ; ' Sir Guy of Warwick ' ; ' The Night before Exams.' ; ' From Milan to Lucerne ' ; ' Prize Day ' ; Chronicle. It was issued four times a year, at 4s. payable in advance. The earlier number, 1879, was printed by Edis and Cooper at Huntingdon. The next in sequence was published at St. Neots. This school was first a Church of England School and afterwards St. Joseph's College of the Roman Catholic Church. Prospect House Gazette, St. Neots : A Paper for the Immortalization of the Wit and Genius of Prospect House, was issued as No. 3 in March, 1890, price Id. " Being an amalgamation of Parts 1 and 2 originally brought out in MS. 4 pp., 4to. N.B. The Editor hopes in the next issue of this paper to be able to give his readers a short original tale." Miss Eliza Oliver became principal of Prospect House, St. Neots, in 1862, and retained that position until July, 1906, when she was presented wLh a purse of 60 by teachers and friends. Miss Oliver died in 1912. A tablet in the Congregational Church has this inscription : In Affectionate Remembrance of ELIZA OLIVER For nearly Fifty Years Principal of Prospect House School Died 12 Jan. 1912. This Tablet was erected as a Tribute of Love and Esteem by her Pupils. Miss Qliver was succeeded by Miss H. B. Prentice, and in 1920 Miss Prentice was suc- ceededjby Miss Bruce and Miss Rogers. I have now finished my list of magazines for Huntingdonshire. I think it shows how useful these publications are to the boys and their parents and also to a larger circle of friends who are interested in county schools and educational matters. Various branches of learning and sport are recorded in the successive numbers, so that a volume contains a good history of the year's work. It also links up some of the old boys, who often look back with great pleasure to their early struggles mentioned in its pages. These magazines are useful also for biogra- phical and genealogical and many other purposes. So many schools now publish their own periodicals that the literature deserves collecting, and lists should be made for reference. The great difficulty of sus- taining a small paper makes their life un- certain, and the series is broken and re -started and then soon finished ; so that it is not easy to get all the magazines even of a single county, and it becomes more important for bibliography to come in and register them, bearing as they do in some measure on the past and future history of the country. All the papers mentioned above were entirely produced in the county and now brought to the notice of the wider public of ' N. & Q.' It is the love of the history of our schools and scholars that keeps up the traditions of our country and its patriotism. HERBERT E. NORRIS. Cirencester. 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, 423; viii. 6, 46, 82, 185.) THE next regiment (p. 75) is one of the six which were raised in 1702, and added to the army as a Marine Corps. From 1751 to 1782 it was designated the " Thirtieth Regiment of Foot " ; from 1782 to 1881 the " Thirtieth (or the* Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot," and from 1881 to the present time (1921) " The East Lancashire Regiment " (1st Battalion). Lieutenant-General Bissett's Regiment of Foot. Dates of their Dates of their present commissions. first commissions. Colonel. . .. Andrew Bissett ( 1) .. .. 25 Aug. 1717 Ensign 1 May 1688 Lieutenant-Colonel. . Richard Harward. . . . 29 May 1732 ditto 1 Jan. 1696-7 Major .. .. Francis Pierson (2) .. ,. 27 Sept. 1732 Captain 25 April 1711 (1) Major-General, Mar. 3, 1727 ; Lieut. -General, Oct. 28, 1735. Died Aug. 22, 1742, aged 82. (2) Captain. Aug. 25, 1717.