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 46 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. VIIIJA*. is, 1021. and painted cloths in the hall and chamber ; .and the "cattle " comprised a cow, 2 store pigs and a little horse. 5. William Bott of tJie Wold. William Bott, Batt or Bett (pronounced, Avith the vowel long, Boot, Bait or Beet) interests us as a Snitterfield man who was a younger contemporary of Richard Shakes- peare and an older contemporary of the latter 's son John, and settled, like John Shakespeare, in Stratford-upon-Avon, where he resided in and acquired the house which John Shakespeare's son William afterwards purchased and made his home, New Place. At Snitterfield William Bott lived at the Wold. He learned to write, and he became the agent of Squire Clopton. He had a wife, Joan, and children in 1552, when Thomasin Palmer left them all "a pied heifer of three year old and two launds of wheat lying in Woodway, the one betwixt .Roger Smith on both sides and the other betwixt William Bracy and John Hancorn." He witnessed the will and 'praised the goods of Hugh Green in Mar., 1553. On Jan. 31, 1554, he witnessed the will, of which he was appointed overseer with Richard Maids, of his friend, Hugh Porter, after the death of the latter's daughter, wife of Robert Maids. Hugh Porter, who lived five or six years after making this will, bequeathed Bott 40.9. On Sept. 8, 1557, Thomas Palmer made Bott overseer of his will and left his children ra little gift of 3d. apiece. A list of Hugh Porter's debtors drawn up on Nov. 26, 1557, includes the following : "Richard Shakespeare of Snitterfield nweth nntq the same 40s. The executors of Robert Arden of Wilmecote and Thomas Stringer of Bearley oweth unto the same for Robert Arden 5. 2. 3. William Bott of Snitterfield 30, for the which sum of 30 William Bott hath to mortgage to the forenamed Hugh Porter all the land within the town of Hatton." The executors of Robert Arden were his daughters, Alice and Mary, the second being in Nov., 1557, wife of John Shakespeare in Henley Street. William Bott was already engaged in those speculations which after- wards got him into trouble. Hugh Porter's will was proved in the Court of Canterbury on the 7th February, 1560, and to Bott and to Porter's natural and loved daughter, Eleanor, fell the task of distributing the residue of his estate " in charitable deeds and works, for the wealth of his soul and all Christian souls," Thus again Bott had the handling of money that was not his own. On Apr. 21, 1559. he made the inventory of the goods of Roger Lyncecombe with Richard Shakespeare and others. He witnessed the will of his 'master, William Clopton, on Jan. 4, 1560. And with Richard Shakespeare and others he made the inventory of the goods of Henry Cole of Snitterfield on June 1, 1560. On the promotion of young William Clopton from New Place to Clopton House, in succes- sion to his father, Bott removed from the Wold to New Place. EDGAR I. FRIPP. (To be continued.). 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.) The next regiment (p. 72) was raised in 1688 by Sir Robert Peyton to support the Prince of Orange in the rebellion against King James II. From 1741 it was designated the 20th Foot, but in 1782 the countv title East Devonshire Regiment was conferred upon it in addition to its number. This title it retained until 1881 when it became The Lancashire Fusiliers. Dates of their first commissions. Ensign 1690 Cornet 1 July 1705. Colonel St. George's Regiment of Foot.. -Colonel Lieutenant-Colonel Major Richard St. George (1) John Batereau (2) Robert Catherwood (3) Dates of their present commissions. . . 27 June 1737 . . 25 June 1722 . . 31 Aug. 1739 Ensign Dec. 1711. (1) Uncle of Sir Richard St. Georga, 1st Baronet (created, 1766). Appointed to the Colonelcy of the 8th Dragoons in Mav, 1740, being succeeded by Colonel Alexander Rose. (2) Cornet in Lord Windsor's Regiment of Horse, July 1, 1705. Captain in the 20th Foot, June, 1715 ; Major, Nov. 12, 1717. Appointed Colonel of a newly raised regiment of Foot in 1742, which was disbanded in 1748. Died in 1749. (3) Captain in this regiment Dec. 21, 1720 ; Lieut,-Colonel in Colonel Battereau's newly raised Regiment of Foot, 1742. Died in 1749.