AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740. (12 S. ii. 3, 43, 75, 84, 122, 129, 151, 163, 191, 204, 229, 243, 272, 282, 311, 324, 353, 364, 391, 402, 431, 443, 473, 482, 512, 524; iii. 11, 46, 71, 103, 132, 190, 217, 234, 267, 304; v. 270; vi. 17, 42.) 66 Col. Descury's Regiment of Foot IN a footnote to the list of Col. Descury's Regiment of Foot, the 32nd (now D.C.L.I.), COL. LESLIE says of the second lieutenants (8) Probably should be ensign." I venture to suggest that there were no ensigns at the time in this regiment, which, raised as a regiment of Marines in 1702, till disbanded 1713, was revived as a regiment of Foot two years later, but still retained the rank of second lieutenants which was (otherwise) only usual in Fusilier and Marine regiments. (Curiously enough of the other two Marine regiments similarly treated the 30th Foot retained its second lieutenants, but the 31st had ensigns appointed to it in 1715.) It would be going too far to ask if the 32nd at some period of its career was a Fusilier regiment, and yet in the Irish as well as the English Commission, Registers for 1735, there is an instance of a commission of second lieutenant being granted in "that regiment of Fusiliers of which Thomas Paget is colonel"; and in the Eng. C. R. are similar grants in Col. Simon Descury's regiment of Fuziliers in 1740, and in Husk's Fuziliers in 1743. In the latter year Henry Skelton was made colonel and captain of Our regiment of Fuziliers," in the room of John Huske; and in 1745 William Douglas was made colonel of and captain of a company "in the regiment of Fuziliers, whereof Brig. Gen. Henry Skelton was late colonel." There were also other similar instances, but, as in the great majority of cases commissions were granted in the same regiment given variously as Paget's, Descury's, Huske's, Skelton's, or Douglas' regiment of Foot, it may well be that the term Fusilier was wrongly and in ignorance applied to this regiment by some of the War Office clerks who drafted the commissions. The change from second lieutenant to ensign appears to have taken place in 1748, and in the MS. Army List, 1752, in the Record Office, all are styled ensigns. The senior captain, Melchior Guy Dickers, was promoted direct to lieutenant-colonel of the newly raised 47th Foot, Feb. 6, 1740-1, He may have been one of those Germans from Hanover who followed George I. to England. He was a cornet in Col. Charles dragoons, Feb. 16, 1715-16, until it was disLa Bouchetiere's newly raised regiment of banded in June, 1717, and its officers placed on half-pay, from which he was promoted to captain in the 32nd Foot in Ireland, Aug. 9, 1717. He was the Col. Guy Dickens who m. (secondly) Miss Tracey, April 17, 1762 (Gent. Mag., p. 194). On May 31, 1763, Melchior Guy Dickens, Esq., was granted an annual pension of 500l. for thirty-one years on the Irish Establishment. This was for his diplomatic services for he had been Secretary of Embassy to Prussia and Chargé d'Affaires there, August, 1730, to August, 1740, Minister to Prussia, August, 1740, to January, 1741, to Sweden, January, 1742, to July, 1749, and to Russia, July, 1749, to 1751, and again 1753 to April, 1755. His second son, Gustavus Guy Dickens, named after the King of Sweden, because born during his mission there, matric. from Ch. Ch., Oxford, Feb. 16, 1748/9, aged 17; B.A., 1752, as son of Melchior of St. Giles's, London. arm. (Foster. Alumni, Oxon.'). He was made cornet 6th Inniskilling Dragoons, Nov. 25, 1754, and lieutenant in the same, Sept. 2, 1756, served in Germany in 1761; promoted to lieutenant and captain 3rd Foot Guards, May 1, 1761; captain and lieutenant-colonel therein, Feb. 22, 1775; senior on the list in 1784; brevet-colonel, May 16, 1782; second major, Oct. 20, 1784; first major, April 18, 1786; lieutenantcolonel of the regiment, Sept. 13, 1791, till he retired or more probably died shortly before July 31, 1793; major-general, April 28, 1790. 66 the following gentlemen who Among kissed the Queen's hand on their several promotions in her Majesty's household on March 13, 1783, is the name of “Gustavus Guy Dickens, Esq., gent. usher of the privy chamber" (2001. and board wages), to which he was promoted from one of the three gent. ushers' daily waiters (1501., which he had held from 1765). He filled this post until 1793, when presumably he died. The Rev. Frederick William Guy Dickens, who _d. Oct. 14, 1779, was his elder brother. He matric. at the same College and date, aged 20; barrister-at-law, Lincoln's Inn, 1753. I cannot trace any others of the name. Charles Campbell, captain in Harrison's 15th Foot (ibid. 324) was made ensign in the 12th Foot, Sept. 2, 1726 (Dalton's George 66 66 "THE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN" (12 S. vi. 38).-The following is taken from the Encyclopædia Britannica under article Allestree," or Allestry, Richard (16191681).' :— 66 "A share in the composition, if not the sole authorship, of the books published under the name of the author of the Whole Duty of Man has been attributed to Allestree (Nichols's 'Anecdotes,' ii. 603), and the tendency of modern criticism is to regard him as the author. His lectures, with which he was dissatisfied, were not For Allestree's authorship of the Whole Duty of Man,' see Rev. F. Barham, Journal of Sacred Literature, July, 1864, and C. E. Doble's articles in The Academy, November, 1884. ARCHIBALD SPARKE. There is an article on this and kindred books in The Bibliographer, vol. ii. (1882), foot-note, "Out before 1727," is misleading, would, apparently, be the third brother as his commission as such was renewed by to serve in the army, the eldest one being George II. on June 20, 1727, and the note the John Campbell mentioned in 12 S. should have been "Out of the regiment ii. 402. W. R. WILLIAMS. before 1729," as he was preferred to a Colours in the (3rd) Foot Guards, Dec. 25, 1728," being thence transferred to Harrison's on April 5, 1733). He was identical with the Charles Campbell said (12 S. iii. 439) to have been made lieutenant-colonel of Robinson's 2nd Marines (no date, but, of course, some time in 1741, at Carthagena), and apparently in succession to Francis (sic) Leighton, said to have been made lieutenantcolonel thereof, April 24, 1741. Now the Com. Regs. in Record Office correct several errors by giving the commission of John Leighton to be lieutenant-colonel of Robin-published." son's Marine regiment of Foot on Oct. 9, 1741, which he held until it was disbanded in 1748 so there was no place for any one after him. I suggest that Campbell was for a few weeks in April and May, 1741, major of Robinson's, basing this upon the MS. additions "maj. 45, L.-C. 61," placed against his name in a copy of the Army List 1740, kindly lent me by a correspondent; and supported by the statement in Gent. Mag., 1741, p. 443, that Campbell was Lt-Col. promoted to the Americans " (e.e., Gooch's 61st Foot). This would be probably in May, 1741. Foster's 'Scots M.Ps.' gives him as Capt. Charles Campbell of Auchnacrieve, M.P. for Argyllshire, March, 1736, until his death shortly before Feb. 5, 1742" (an error simply made because his successor was elected that date, a new writ having been ordered Jan. 14), and identifies him as second son of Hon. John Campbell of Mamore, and next brother to John (aft.) 4th Duke of Argyll, and says he d. unm. Jan., 1742 (an error also given in the Annals of Europe,' and The London Magazine). I wonder what Douglas or Wood's Peerage of Scotland' says about him. Burke's 'Peerage' differs from Foster's by giving (wrongly, I think), "Charles, M.P. for co. Argyll, in 1741; d. the same year, unm,' as third son, and Neil, d. unm., as fourth son of Archibald, 9th Earl of Argyll, and therefore brothers of the 1st Duke, while Debrett's Peerage,' 1731, gives "Charles Neil " as the second son of John of Mamore. A Return of the Four Eldest Regts., Kingston, Jamaica, Dec. 5, 1741' (in the Record Office), settles the matter by the statement: "Col. Fraser's Regt. Lt. Col. Campbell died in Jamaica, Oct. 8, 1741, suced. by Lt.-Col. Leighton of 6 66 66 Lewes. The author of this book, and of the other ones referred to by your querist, has generally been considered to have been Lady Dorothy Pakington (d. 1679). It is now however thought that this lady was only a copyist and not the author. The 'D.N.B.' states that these works were probably written by the Rev. Richd. Allestree (1619-81). See articles in the 'D.N.B. on 'Lady Packington' and 'Richd. Allestree,' and the authorities referred to therein. H. G. HARRISON. In the issue of The Yorkshire Weekly Post of Feb. 28, Mr. J. S. Fletcher, in his concluding chapter on Yorkshire Worthies,' writes in respect of Obaliah Walker as follows: "He was one of the many to whom the authorship of the highly popular Whole Duty of Man' was attributed; Thomas Hearne, the Oxford antiquary, has a good deal to say on this point in relation to both Obadiah Walker and his friend Abraham Woodhead: nowadays it is pretty well established Woodhead, nor Henry Mure, nor Lady Pakington nor Archbishop Sterne, but was, without doubt, Allestree, who in that case should be more celebrated than he is, seeing that his book for some fifty or sixty years was the most popular volume in England." BRYAN COOKSON. In an inventory I jotted down the name S. Puffendorf as the reputed author of this better known and other possibly anonymously published religious works. Though I have not the original memorandum extract by me nor gleam of particular, is it a correct guess at truth? ANEURIN WILLIAMS. Menai View, North Road, Carnarvon. WILLIAM HARPER, WINCHESTER SCHOLAR (12 S. iii. 334).-Mrs. Frances Rose-Troup has devoted Appendix E of her most valuable book, The Western Rebellion of 1549,' to William Harper, chaplain to Queen Katharine Parr, and, from 1549 to his resignation in 1558, rector of Sampford Courtenay. She thinks it " quite possible that he is to be identified with the Vicar of Writtle. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. J. J. KLEINSCHMIDT (12 S. v. 295).— According to Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers ' (edit. by Dr. G. C. Williamson), the German engraver of the above name flourished at Augsburg about 1700, and engraved the frontispiece and several of the plates for a folio volume, Representatio Belli ob Successionem in Regno Hispanico,' and some plates of horsemen, after Georg Philipp Rugendas. EDWARD BENSLY. [MR. ARCHIBALD SPARKE and H. K.also thanked for replies.] MONKSHOOD (12 S. vi. 13).—The inquiry concerning the Latin name of Monkshood, is readily answered. Aconitum is used by Virgin and Pliny for a poisonous plant presumably that now in question. The name comes from the Greek, but is not the same plant as that so named by Theophrastus. Napellus is mediæval Latin, meaning a little turnip, derived from Napus. We have therefore two nouns in apposition, not a noun and adjective. When, as in this case, a pre-Linnean generic name is attached as a specific name to a generic epithet, a capital initial is used by botanists to mark that usage. 6 B. DAYDON JACKSON. Linnean Society, Burlington House, W.1. According to Sowerby's English Botany,' vol. i., 1863, p. 65, the specific name Napellus signifies a little turnip, in allusion The name Aconitum Napellus might be translated 66 the little-turnip aconite." Napellus is not an adjective: it is said to be a diminutive of napus (a turnip). See 'Flowers of the Field,' by the late Rev. C. A. Johns, rewritten by G. S. Boulger, Professor of Botany, City of London College, 1899. C. A. Cook. Sullingstead, Hascombe, Godalming. Napellus is a substantive, the diminutive of napus, a kind of turnip. In Parkinson's Paradisus' (1629), Aconitum Napellus is styled Napellus verus flore cœruleo. The name is accounted for as follows: "The rootes are brownish on the outside and white within, somewhat bigge and round above and small downwards, somewhat like unto a small short carrot roote, sometimes two being joyned at the head together. But the name Napellus anciently given unto it, doth show they referred the forme of the roote unto a small Turnep." C. W. FIREBRACE, Capt. [MR. CHAS. HALL CROUCH also thanked for reply.] 6 BRAMBLE (12 S. vi. 10.)-According to Family Names and their Story,' by S. Baring-Gould, 1910, p. 182, sub: 66 PlaceNames," Broomhall has become Brammel and then has degenerated to Bramble." There are several Broomhalls, one is a hamlet of Sheffield, one a village in the parish of Wrenbury, Cheshire and another a village in the parish of Longfogan, Scotland, while there is an estate of the name in the parish of Dunfermline, also Scotland. CHAS. HALL CROUCH. 204 Hermon Hill, South Woodford. 'PHILOCHRISTUS': ECCE HOMO' (12 S, vi. 14).-The author of Philochristus' is Dr. Edwin A. Abbott, formerly head master of the City of London School. of "Ecce Homo" was Sir John Seeley. formerly Professor of Modern History at Cambridge. 66 The author AFRANIA. I am not aware that any life of this gentleman CAPT. J. W. CARLETON (12 S. vi. 13).— has ever been written. He was at one time an officer in the 2nd Dragoon Guards, and under the sobriquets of 'Craven" and "Sylvanus" was a constant contributor to sporting literature. Quite his best and most interesting book-now out of print and scarce is The Bye-Lanes and Downs: of England.' He also wrote 'Rambles in Sweden and Gottland, with Etchings by the Wayside,' as well as the book mentioned devoted three lines to the mention of his WALVEIN FAMILY (12 S. vi. 14).-MR. WALLIS-TAYLER should refer to Burke's 'Landed Gentry,' 1853, wherein, under the heading of Walwyn of Longworth, he would find the lineage of this ancient family. It is said to be descended from the son of King Arthur. Several ancient works on genealogy are referred to. Exmouth. G. D. McGRIGOR The name looks like a continental version of the English surname Walwyn or Walwin, wide-spread in Herefordshire. The Walwins of Much Marcle in that county were armigerous and bore anciently Gules, a bend ermine, and at a later date quartered it with gules, a bend sinister ermine in chief a talbot passant or within a bordure of the second. They obtained lands at the conquest of Brecknock; and Longworth temp. Henry IV. There was also a family of that name at Witham in Sussex, with almost identical arms, as well as others J. HARVEY BLOOM. favourite meet of the Royal Buckhounds of 66 EMERSON'S 'ENGLISH TRAITS' (12 S. vi. 9).-4. Both thought and expression are older than Napoleon's day. W. F. H. King, in his 'Dictionary of Classical and Foreign Quotations,' 3rd ed., p. 61, under No. 470, "Deos fortioribus adesse "(Tacitus, Hist.,' iv. 17), cites from Bussy Rabutin, Correspondances,' Paris, 1858, vol. iii., p. 393, in a letter of Oct. 18, 1677: "Dieu est d'ordinaire pour les gros escadrons contre les petits," and from Voltaire, Ep. à M. le Riche,' Feb. 6, 1770: 6 12. In the Tenth Series of N. & Q.,' vol. iii., p. 195, there appeared, under the heading Statutes of Merton,' a communicaLORD BOWEN (12 S. vi. 41). The refer- tion signed LLYD, in answer to the query ence to Daniel in the lions' den, made in whether the correct form of the famous the course of an after-dinner speech when saying was "Nolumus leges Angliæ mutare Mr. Justice Charles was entertained by the or ....mutari." According to LLYD'S Western Circuit, will be found in Pie-. statement :Powder' by a Circuit Tramp (John Murray, 1911), p. 27. J. PAUL DE CASTRO. G. E. P. A. "BOCASE " TREE (12 S. vi. 15).-Mr. H. A. Evans in his interesting Highways and Byways of Northamptonshire' (p. 93) refers to the stone which marks the spot where once grew the Bocase Tree....a word which a writer in N. & Q.' connects with the old French bochasse, a wild chestnut." Mr. Evans adds in a footnote that Prof. Montagu Burrows in his Family of Brocas' suggests that Bocase may be a corruption of " Brocas " and that the Brocas 66 ,, the words are in the ninth chapter of 20 Henry III; commonly called the Statute of Merton, and are printed in the Revised Statutes' thus: & omnes Comites et Barones una voce responderunt q'd nolunt leges Anglie mutare que usitate sunt et approbate. He added that the words are the same, with immaterial differences, in Ruffhead's Statutes at Large.' 17. A version of this story, differing in most of the details, is found in the 'Life of Hugh Latimer' in 'Abel Redevivus' (sic), the collection of short biographies edited by Thomas Fuller : "At New Year's tide the bishops used to present the king with a New Year's gift; and BishopLatimer, amongst the rest, presented him with a New Testament, wrapped up in a napkin, with this poesy about it: Fornicatores et adulteros. judicabit Dominus.' The authority is John Foxe, 21. See p. 393 of King's book referred to above. King in a list of Adespota' gives: and, after remarking that "No apology is 4. A correspondent in The Spectator of offered for this fine old crusted saying, or for Mar. 18, 1916, referred to this question, the sham Norman-French in which it is stating that Bartlett attributed it to worded," states that: "It is traditionally Voltaire, and that it occurred in a letter to ascribed to Froissart, and Froissart, when M. le Riche: It is said that God is always consulted, disclaims the parentage." On on the side of the heaviest battalions." p. 16 of the same book the words :Bartlett further quotes from De la Ferté to Anne of Austria: "I have always noticed that God is on the side of the heaviest battalions." An editorial note stated that in 1677 Bussy-Rabutin said: "Dieu est d'ordinaire pour les gros escadrons contre les petits." Anglica gens optima flens, sed pessima ridens noted by Hearne are suggested as the source of the saying ascribed to Froissart. This Latin, however, seems merely a modification of the lines : Rustica gens est optima flens, sed pessima ridens; Ungentem pungit, pungentem rusticus ungit, given in Neander's 'Ethice vetus et sapiens' (1590). King apparently overlooked the passage in Heine's Memoiren,' p. 65, in the Reclam edition, where the company of ancient headsmen spoke little and "amüsierten sich in ihrer Weise, das heisst 'moulaient tristement,' wie Froissart von den Engländern sagte, die nach der Schlacht bei Poitiers banquet tierten." This is a curious variety of the saying. Much Hadham, Herts. 2, William Hamilton Maxwell (1792-1850) wrote Wild Sports of the West' (1833), and Wanderings in the Highlands and Islands: a sequel to Wild Sports of the West' (1844). See D.N.B.' 26. There is a reference to Bentley in Max Müller's biographical essay on Colebrooke (Chips from a German Workshop,' ed. 1895, ii. 258). Bentley attacked Colebrooke on the subject of Hindu astronomy, the antiquity and originality of which he denied. His animosity lasted for many years, and Colebrooke at length vouchsafed an answer in the Asiatic Journal of March, 1826. His Christian name is not given by Max Müller, but would probably be found in the Life of Colebrooke written by his son, Sir T. E. Colebrooke (Trübner, 1873). C. W. FIREBRACE, Capt. 4. Writing to the Duchess of Saxe-Gotha, May 8, 1760, Frederick the Great says: "Je ne saurais me désabuser du préjugé dans lequel je suis que, à la guerre, Dieu est pour les gros escadrons. Jusqu'ici, ces gros escadrons se trouvent chez nos ennemis. - Euvres de Frederic le Grand,' Berlin, tom. xviii. 186 (1851). This is partly quoted in Carlyle's ' Frederick,' Bk. XIX., ch. viii., where see Carlyle's remark on the true authorship. Why this saying should be attributed to Napoleon I 7. The Mark Lane Express and Agricultural Journal and Live-Stock Record. This is a weekly newspaper, devoted, as its name implies, to agricultural interests. It was founded in 1832. J. R. H. 12. It is historical to this extent that chap. ix. of the famous Statute of Merton, 20 Henry III. (1236), records in Latin that a question had been put by the king whether a son born before marriage could inherit, and that the bishops said yes, because the Church held such legitimate, et omnes Comites et Barones una voice responderunt quod nolunt leges Angliæ mutare quæ hucusque usitatæ sunt et approbatæ." 66 It is often stated that the earls and barons cried out : Nolumus leges Angliæ mutari." Lord Justice James (in Re Goodman's Trusts, 17 Ch. D., at p. 297) spoke of this as an historical or mythical legend, and probably the lords gave their unanimous opinion in the vernacular, but whether they cried out in Latin or not their view prevailed, and the law of England and not the canon law remained. C. A. COOK. Sullingstead, Hascombe, Godalming. [MR. L. BUNT also thanked for reply.] CONGEWOI (12 S. v. 264).-This refers to a marine animal, one of the compound ascidians, which is abundant on rocks and piles all along the Australian coast. It forms large rough masses, having a soft body enclosed in a hard tough outer case, varying up to about a foot in length. When cut up it is largely used for bait. The name is now usually spelt "cunjewoi." seen THOS. STEEL. Stephen's Street, Pennant Hills, N.S.W. LAWRENCE WODECOCKE (12 S. v. 318).— Has MR. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT Hennessy's 'Chichester Diocese Clergy Lists,' 1900? Hennessy gives Lawrence Wodcoke as Vicar of Wartling from 1539 (not 1529) to 1545. The other places and dates |