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 se s. VL DEC. 1, 1900.1 NOTES AND QUERIES. 421 LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1900. NOTES :-Banished Befiment, 421-The Revised Version, 422-Whitgift’s Hosp tal, 423- “Astre ”-=Hearth, 425- “Let them all come "-Juvenal Applied-“ Electioneer" - Time for Pig - killing - Young and Wordsworth - " N othlng like leather,” 426-Fables-‘° Bonner,” 427. QUERIE8 :-“ Mullen "-“ Munsie ”-Passages ln Bulwer Lytton-Skulls found at Westminster-Author Wanted- Armorial -Source of Song Wanted-Davison-The Marble Arch, 428-Gordon in the Bastille-Cruden’s fConcord- ance -Hereward the Wake-Pabeinham-Pansy or Passey -Irish MS.-Independent Invallds-Inscription on Por- trait-Lally Tollendal - “ Llg-dewes ”-Scanty Wedding Dress, 429-Camden Ancestry-Book gy Baxter-Penny- Mansfield and the Rubicon-Authors anted, 430. BBPLIBS :-Unclaimed Poem by Jonson, 430-Marylebone Church-Language to conceal Thought, 432-Davenant's Essays-Etherington-Simon Fraser-Ruins at Roscoff- Tenure by Burnt Offering-Theatrical “ Run”-Wesley, 433 - Crack-nut Sunday - " Recchelees ” in Chaucer - “ 'Sdeyns "-“ Chap as married Hannah ”-Early Men- tlon o Rlfllng, 434-Pelllng-Gender of ‘°Church"- “ Subslst Money " - Shakespeare’s ‘ Sonnets! 435-Reli- gon: a Definition - Losses ln American Civil War - ieroglyphics-Watch-chain Omament-Early News- paper, 436 - Charnock - Shepherds’ Rlngz- “ Christmas cheers ”-"Pldcock and Polite"-Braose amily-Corpse on Shipboard-Welsh Alliteratlon, 431-I-I§?don’s Pictures -Installation of a Midwife-Culpeper- ellard Family, 438-Guevara, 439. NOTES ON BOOKS :-Boulton’s ‘Amusements of Old London ’-Hore’s ‘ History of the Church of England '- ‘ Edinburgh Review! N otlces to Correspondents. gsm. THE BANISHED REGIMENT, BOOTING, COBBING, AND SCABBARDIN G. A conrnovnnsv was waged for a long time as to what punishments necessitated that the sufferers should under osome sort of urifica- tion before they could be reinstated) in the goodwill of their officers and comrades. Sir James Turner, writing in 1671, says: “ I have known some who thought that soldiers who are whipp’d at atloupe should be turned out of the army ” (‘Tallas Armata,’ p. 349). About a hundred years later, in an ‘Essay on the Art of War,’ 1761, we are told that in the army of the Prince of Orange it was cus- tomary to sentence a deserter “ to be chained to a wheel-barrow, and work at the public works ” for a term of years, after which, if he had conducted himself well, he was returned to his regiment, and, the man kneeling, the colours were waved over his head, the colonel pronounced him an honest man, and he was received into the ranks and got his arms (p. 108). Fine distinctions between unish- ments were drawn in those days, andpSimes, in his ‘ Military Guide/ 1772, says :- “ It is very) necessary to prevent those from being branded wit the name of infamy, which should be regarded in a milder light; as the gantlope, for instance, which in France is reputed ignominious ......The reason of its being thus extravagantly vilified proceeds from the custom of inflicting it ..... . on such offenders as fall within the province of the hangman ; the consequence of which is, that one is obliged to pass the colours over a soldier’s head after he has received this punishment, in order, by such an act of ceremony, to take off that idea of ignominy which is attached to it.”-P. 3. There was no such reinstatement for a soldier who had been sentenced to serve in a “banished” or “condemned” regiment, of which Uuthbertson thus writes in 1768:- “It would be a considerable chectgue upon the conduct of such incorrigible villains, i every soldier who had the insolence to desert a second time was to be tried by a General Court-martial; in hopes, if he was not sentenced to Death, that he mi ht to perpetual banishment in the corps of infantry stafigncd on the coast of Africa.”- ‘System,’ p. 4. Donaldson tells us that in 1813 two sergeants, who in a drunken frolic had gone to see some friends a few miles off and absented themselves for a short time, were tried by court-martial and sentenced to be reduce to the ranks, to receive five hundred lashes, to be branded with the letter D, “and afterwards to be sent to what is usually termed a banished regiment” (‘Eventful Life,’ p. 337). Morris, in his ‘Recollections,’ when writing of the year 1816, mentions the case of a deserter who “ was eventually sent to a con- demned regiment in Africa for life,” and, shortly afterwards, the case of a deserter who “ was tried by a court-martial and ordered to be sent to a condemned regiment” (pp. 203, 206). t is difiicult to ascertain the dates when some punishments ceased to be inflicted in our army, for it is plain that not a few com- manding ofiicers continued to award unish- ments which had been forbidden by the highest authority; and there is good reason for suspecting t at punishments were not always “booked” N o wonder that there is a tone of indignation in some assages of Lord Hill’s circular to commanding officers, dated 24 June, 1830:- “ Lord Hill is satisfied that a vice [drunkenness], unfortunately so prevalent in the British army, may be prevented and checked by due attention on the part of the commanding officer and by the zealous and cordial co-operation and Example of those subordinate to him ; and his lordship expects that commanding ofiicers will exercise their autho- rity over t-he officer, in this respect, as well as over the soldier, and that they will not suffer a vice to pass unnoticed in the officer which is so seriousl to reprehended and punished in the soldier ...... The reports received from different regiments of their scales of punishment ...... have exposed the continu- ance of various objectionable practices, many of