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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[2nd g. NO 26., JUNE 28. 'S

"N. & Q.," by presenting an analysis of the serial writings of Mr. Law, upon those topics, which have been recommended for perusal, as an intro- duction to the right apprehension of Bohme's deep writings and revealments. Thus "N. & Q." will contain (1.) a general account of the eminent orthodox mystics and theosophists of later times (Sept. 10, 1853), and the nature of their writings ; (2.) the last-named analysis of Law's mystical writings ; (3.) the above account of Bohme's writings ; (4.) an account of Freher's writings, p. 395. supra ; and, lastly (p. 93. supra}, a clue to all the treatises and writings wherein the subject of mystical theology is treated according to the purest evangelical light and the highest experiences of the regenerate life. ANON.

(To be continued,)

NOTES ON REGIMENTS.

(2 nd S. i. 423.)

The 80th are called the Connaught Rangers; the 50th are called the Half Hundred ; the 56th the Pompadours, from their purple facings (pompa- dour colour); the 42nd the Black Watch (why?) ; the 28th the Slashers, from using their swords (then worn by the Infantry) in the American war ; and the 87th " the Faughra-ballagh boys," from Fag an bealac, " Clear the way," their cry at Barrossa; having been the old shout in a faction- fight of the Munster and Connaught men who furnished their ranks. Several of the badges are very appropriate to the scene of the services of the corps by which they are borne : the sphinx of Egypt, the elephant and tiger royal of India, the eagles of Prussia and France, and Primus in Indis of the 39th, the first that rounded the Cape ; Montis Insignia Calpe, key and castle of the 12th, 39th, 56th, and 58th. Some to the royal name of the regiment or the place where it was raised, as the white horse of Hanover ; the dragon of Wales ; prince's plume ; or the castles of Edin- burgh and Inniskilling ; rose and crown, and rising sun, and the badges of the great national orders of knighthood. Some seem to have had a more peculiar origin : the paschal lamb of the 2nd Foot; the dragon of the 3rd Buffs (East Kent), the only regiment that has the privilege of marching with drums beating and colours flying through the city of London, as having been origin- ally recruited by its "prentices ; and the antelope of "the 6th ; the death's head "or glory" of the 17th Lancers.

Some regiments carry peculiar mottoes, to trace which would be interesting : as the " Firm " of the 36th ; " Cuidich'n Jlhi " of the 78th ; and the " Gwell Augau neu Chwilydd" of the 41st. Others recal forgotten events : such as " Virtutis

jSTamurcensis premium" with the lion of Nassau of the 18th; "In veritate religionis confido " of the 25 th.

The remaining mottoes are the following : " Quis separabit?" of the 4th; "Vestigia nulla retrorsum (Horace, Ep. i. 1. 74.) of the 5th Dragoon Guards; " Spectemur agendo" of the 1st Royal Dragoons; " Nee Aspera Torrent," 3rd Light Dragoons, 8th, 14th, 23rd, and 25th Foot; " Pristime virtutis memores," 8th Hussars and 2nd Foot ; " Viret in asternum," 13th Light Dragoons; " Vel exuviae triumphant" of the 2ndFoot; " Quo Fata vocant" (^neid, iii. 7.) of the 5th; "Nemo me impune lacessit," 21st; " Celer et audax," 60th; " Aucto splendore resurgo," 85th ; " Quo fas ct gloria ducunt," Engineers ; " Ubique," Artillery ; -' Per mare per terras," Royal Marines.

I am not able to trace the regiment which boasts

the cry " Shoulder to shoulder," nor that which

carries the plate on the front and back of the cap.

MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A.

EATON S SERMON AT KNUTSFORD.

(2 nd S. i. 373.)

The Sermon concerning which MR. A. TAYLOR inquires, was, I suspect, never printed separately and entire. The only notice of it I have, after much attention to the subject, been able to find, is in Sir Thomas Aston's Remonstrance against Presbytery, 4to., 1641. Sir Thomas reprints, in this curious pamphlet, an anti-prelatical petition which had been spread abroad in the county of Chester amongst the common people, and annexes, " Certain Positions preached at St. John's Church in Chester, by Mr. Samuel Eaton, a minister lately returned from New England, upon Sunday being the third day of January, 1640, in the after- noone." Also, " Certayn other Positions preached by the same man at Knuttesford, a great market Toune in the same County." The positions ad- vanced by Eaton at Knutsford show him to have been an early asserter of Independency. He holds that " any particular Congregation is an absolute Church;" and "must enter into Co- venant amongst themselves, and without such Covenant no Church;" that "the power of the Keyes is committed neyther to the Pastors nor Governors, but to the whole congregation, and to every particular member of the same;" and that " it is a heynous sin to be present when prayers are read out of a Book, either by the Minister or any other." Sir Thomas Aston states, that by these " and other such Doctrines, many of the common people ai*e brought into that odium of the Book of Common Prayer, that divers of them will not come into the Church during the time of Divine Service."