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 252 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s.ix. SEPT. 24,1921. COLONEL JOHNSON'S REGIMENT OF FOOT. (12 S. viii. 405.) As the dates of Colonel John Johnson's commissions are omitted in the account of this regiment from ' An English Army List of 1740,' it is probable that LIEUT. -COLONEL J. H. LESLIE was unacquainted with their dates, or from the fact of the Colonel's Christian name and surname being of a somewhat common type he may have been unable to identify them. I have therefore the pleasure of being able to supply them from notes in my possession. His commissions are as follow : Appointed Cornet to that Troop in the Regt. of Horse commanded by Major- General Daniel Harvey, whereof Colonel Edward Hooper is Captain. Given at the Camp before Ciudad Rod- rigo this Thirteenth day of May, Anno Dni. 1706. (Signed) GALLWAY. Appointed Captain in the Regt. of Foot com- manded by Brigadier Thomas Pearce, vice Captain Edward Spragg. Given att Lisbon the first day of August 1708. (Signed) GALLWAY. t To be Major of Foot. Given att Lisbon the Twenty fourth day of June 1710. (Signed) GALLWAY. To be Lieutenant Colonell of the Begt. of Dra- goons commanded by Coll. Constantine Magny, as allso Captain to a Troop in the Same. Given at Lisbon the twenty-fourth day of December 1710. (Signed) POBTMOBE. Appointed Captain of that Company whereof William Vachell Esqr. was Captain in Our Second Regiment of Foot Guards called the Coldstream, commanded by pur Bt. Trusty & Bt. Welbeloved Cousin & Councillor Bichard Earl of Scarborough, and to take the Bank as Lieut. Colonel of Foot. Given at our Court of St. James's the First day of March 1727/8. (Signed) HOLLES NEWCASTLE. To be Colonel of Our Regiment of Foot, where- of Robert Dalzel Esqr. Lieutenant General of Our Forces was late Colonel, and likewise to be Captain of a Company in Our said Begiment. Given at Our Court of St. James's on the Sixteenth day of November 1739. (Signed) HARRINGTON, To be Brigadier General. Given at Our Court at St. James's the Twenty-fifth day of February 1743/4. (Signed) CARTERET His commission as Major-General bears date June 3, 1744. To be Lieutenant General. Given at Our Court at Kensington the Nineteenth Day of Sep tember 1747. (Signed) HOLLES NEWCASTLE. Previously to his appointment as Colone, of the regiment which in the ' English Army List of 1740 ' bore his name, and which I Dresume was so designated at the battle of bettingeii in which it took part, June 16, 1743 (as it did not receive the title of the 33rd Regiment until the year 1751), Lieut. - General Johnson was Lieut. -Colonel of the 12th Dragoons, as appears from Beatson's Political Index' (vol. ii., pp. 132 and 231). Query, did he command his regiment in person at Dettingen ? General Johnson came of an ancient family originally settled at Glaiston, in the ounty of Rutland ; allied to that of Arch- deacon Robert Johnson, founder of the two Grammar Schools of Oakham and Upping- ham in that county, and bearing the same coat of arms and crest, viz., Argent, a chevron sable between three lions' heads coupee gules crowned or ; and for crest, On a wreath argent and gules a lion's head coupee gules crowned or. His father is stated to have been a pros- perous Turkey merchant trading with Smyrna, and tradition has it that he was at Lisbon at the time of the great earthquake, Nov. 1, 1755, and was buried in the debris, but was rescued alive by his friends after three days' interment. If this be true he had survived his son, the General, who died in Clarges Street, London, November 19, 1753, and was buried in Thames Dittoii churchyard. General Johnson was an in- timate friend of Mr. Peter de la Porte, of Burhill, Surrey (now the well-known golf links), who bequeathed him his estate. Any particulars as to the General's parentage, ancestry, date and locality of his birth would be welcome. I have particulars of his two marriages and of his descendants. CROSS- CROSSLET. REVIVAL OF OLD ENGLISH MARRIAGE CUSTOMS. (12 S. ix. 209.) THE first rubric in the Sarum Office pre- scribed : " In primis statuantur vir et mulier ante ostium Ecclesiae coram Deo, Sacerdote, et populo, vir a dextris mulieris et mulier a sinistris viri. . . . Tune interroget Sacerdos banna dicens in lingua materna sub hac forma, Ecce convenimus hue fratres coram Deo et angelis et omnibus sanctis ejus in facie Ecclesiae ad conjungendum, et cetera." The espousals then proceed in much the same form as to-day, the man and woman