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82 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vm. JAN. 29, 1921, those Town to proceed to the next Town in their respective Routs and so by the magistrate of such next Town to the next marking the Dates of time passing such town and relieved by each Toivn. The Selfish objection is that it would bear hard on the Maritime Counties if reimbursd out of the County store but the inhabitants of such Counties would not wish them to be Inland Counties. They have certainly y ^ superior Benefits by such salva- I

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Some Members of Parliament may fear to express such sentiment. tion from Exports and Imports Eich Travellers, Trade and Manufacturers and those Men- dicant Travellers must have relief as well in the Inland Counties also they necessarily pass through from Port to Port at any considerable distance. These Papers should express a Time allowd for such Rout and be alterd every 3 or 4 Months with marks, Information thereof circulated to each [ Justice or Magistrate of Towns within each I County and on producing to another County | the Pass of that County with their peculiar Marks ' of that County to transmit them further on their j Journey to Port or Home. For I have met with passes that serve not only many Months but years with a very little alteration or Forgery and some indigent Scribes have established offices for such Forgery. The misapplied Charity to the encouragement of Robbery and Murder and Expenditure for Removals and on Litigation for Settlement* would suffice for a great deal more than the Real Wants or even present Poor Rate and! prevent the Diminution of Subjects by Execu- tions and Transportation which is remarked to have little or no effect as still appears more to suffer such Penalty year after year. Thinking I might have an opportunity of men- tioning the within matter to your Lordship on your usual visit to Lord Fortescue when his- observations perhaps might corroberate my assertions I omitted the sending my Thoughts as- within written now take this opportunity of enclosing with the other Memorial and hope your Lordship will excuse any incorrectness or im- propriety therein by My Lord Yours Lordship most Obedient and Humble Servant, DENTS ROLLE. H. WILSON HOLMAN, F.S.A., M.I.M.E. 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, 46.) The next regiment (p. 73) was raised in Edinburgh in 1689 originally called "Leven's," or the Edinburgh Regiment by the Earlr of Leven and other Scottish noble- men and gentlemen who had been refugees in Holland during the reign of James II. It was later designated : 1751. The 25th Regiment of Foot ; 1782. The 25th (or The Sussex) Regiment of Foot ; 1805. The 25th (or King's Own Borderers) Regiment of Foot ; 1881. The King's Own Borderers ; 1887. The King's Own Scottish Borderers, which title it still (1920) retains. Earl of Rothes' Regiment of Foot. Colonel Lieutenant- Colonel Major Captains Earl of Rothes (1) James Kennedy (2) James Biggar (3) James Dalrymple David Cunningham (4) Lord ColviU Henry Ballenden Robert Armiger (5) John Maitland Richard Worge Dates of their present commissions. . 29 May 1732 4 July 1737 . 19 July 1732 6 Mar. 1723 8 Apr. ditto 18 Dec. 1727 25 ditto 18 May 1735 1 Mar. 1738/9 2 ditto Dates of their first commissions. (1) John Leslie, iHh Earl of Rothes ; became Colonel of the 2nd Horse Grenadier Guards, Apr. 26 1745, and of the 2nd Dragoons, Jan. 17, 1750. Died Dec. 10, 1767; See ' D.N.B.' (2) Sixth son of Sir Thomas Kennedy, Kt., of Dunure, Ayrshire ; became Colonel of the 43rd Foot, Feb. 7, 1745/6 ; Major-General, Jan* 28, 1756 ; Lieut.- General, 1761. Died 1761. (3) Lieut.-ColoneL 37th Foot, Ma*. 27, 1742. Killed in the battle of Falkirk, Jan. 17, 1746. (4) Now spelled Cunynghame. Second son of Sir David C., Bart., of Milncraig, Ayrshire ; Lieutenant-Colonel, Feb. 25,1745/6. Succeeded his brother James as 3rd Baronet in 1747; became Colonel of the 57th Foot, Mar. 22, 1757 ; Major- General, June 28, 1759 ; Lieut.- General, Jan. 19, 1761. Died Oct. 10, 1767. (5) To the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards, as Captain and Lieut.-Colonel, Feb. 7, 1747 ; became Colonel of the 65th Foot, Apr. 2, 1768, and of the 40th Foot, Dec. 10, 1760 ; Major- General, June 25, 1769; Lieut.- General, Jan. 19, 1761. Governor of Landguard Fort from May 25, 1768, until his death on Mar. 18, 1770, aged 68.