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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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was with it on June 18, 1855, when it suffered so 

 severely and behaved so well. The great changes 

 which have taken place in this regiment, within 

 the brief period of fourteen years, will be told, 

 when stating that Lieut.-Colonel MacMahon is 

 the only one of all ranks, now on the voyage to 

 India, who was with it when on that station 

 before. W. W. 



Malta. 



"The troops whicli Sir Abraham Shipman brought 

 Avith him from England formed the Hon. Companj''s iirst 

 European regiment, and are at this day represented by 

 the gallant Fusileers. It appears that two regiments had 

 been raised in England. One was sent to Tangier, and 

 when that place was abandoned, having returned to Eng- 

 land, obtained infamous notoriety as ' Kirke's Lambs.' 

 This body of men is now represented by the second or 

 Queen's regiment. The other regiment, which was raised 

 in 1638, afterwards comprised the European oificers and 

 soldiers who are mentioned in this work. When Bombay 

 was transferred to the Company, only ninety-three soldiers 

 were living of the five hundred which had left England ; 

 but few as they were, these must be regarded as the corps 

 which has since gained so many laurels in various parts 

 of India." — The English in fVestern India, by Philip 

 Anderson, M. A. Preface, London, 2nd. ed. 1856. 



E. H. A. 



The 83rd, or " Glasgow," is not the present 

 regiment bearing that number, having been dis- 

 banded at the close of the American war. The 

 present 71st (originally numbered the 72nd), 

 raised at first in the Highlands, was afterwards so 

 largely recruited in Glasgow, that all through the 

 Peninsular war it was known as " the Glasgow 

 Light Infantry," though it has subsequently re- 

 turned to its original denomination of " Highland 

 Light Infantry." Signet. 



8IE ANTONIO GUIDOTTI. 



(2°i S. iv. 328. 392.) 



The following grant of arms from Edward VL 

 to Sir Antonio Guidotti may interest Delta. It is 

 taken (with all its flagrant blunders) from Bodl. 

 MS. Rawlinson, B. cii., a volume said to be in the 

 handwriting of Guillim : 



" Edwardus Sextus Dei gratia Rex Angliae, &c. Uni- 

 versis- et singulis regibus, ducibus, marchionibus, comi- 

 tibus, baronibus, provincialibus ac nobilibus quibuscunque 

 ad quos praBsentes literse nostras patentes pervenerint, 

 Salutem. Cum saepius nobiscum cogitaverimus regiae 

 dignitatis culmen nulla magis causa ad tantam apicem 

 erectam quam ut florentibus in omnia actione sua prsemia 

 plena lance referre, admoniti prsecipue sumus ea plus de- 

 bere iis qui non modo suorum progenitorum stemmate 

 his terminis se contineant quibus patres jam sua pro sa- 

 pientia iis reliquerunt, sed propria virtute propriis gestis 

 suorum stemmate ornare ac decorare nitentur. Quoniam 

 virtus laudata majori laudis studio ardet et decernitur, 

 hinc est quod nobiscum perpendentes nobilis viri Anthonii 

 Guidott, Florentinum, laudabilia merita et egregias animi 

 dotes raagnamque in rebus gerendis dexteritatem, mili- 



tique obsequiis praestitare erga nos, fidem nostrse in eum 

 aflfectionis signum ejusque virtutis testimonium aliquid 

 exhibere volumus. Igitur equitis aurati dignitate ilium 

 exornavimus, nostrorum armorum et insignium veluti in 

 honoris praemium addiccione ipsius armis quibus ab an- 

 tique stemmate utebatur, in hunc qui sequitur modum 

 decoravimus : videlicet. In capite scuti de ansarum Leo 

 peditans inter tres flores lilii de auro, et pro cresta super 

 galiam Jerofaulco in proprio colore, elevans aliis rostro et 

 membris deauratis, tcnens ramum olivae viridis coloris, 

 olivis deauratis, ut Latina instituto hie deputo appareat ; 

 mantello prsestito de argento et rubeo tam ipse Anthonius 

 uti possit ut valeat quam sui quoque liberi ac haeredes de 

 corpore suo exeuntes libere ac tuti uti possunt et valeant 

 imperpetuum ; mandantes insuper Garterio Regi Armo- 

 rum praedicti Anthonii insignia in suis libris ad perpetuam 

 eorum memoriam inscribere. In quorum omnium et sin- 

 gulorum pi-semissorum robur et testimonium has nostras 

 patentes fieri fecimus, et sigillum nostrum magnum appo- 

 suimus. Dat. apud Westm. xxij° die Decembris anno 

 regni nostri quarto. 



" The motto. Pax optima rerum. 



"Christopher Barker, alias Garter King of Arms, ex- 

 emplified the aforesaid armes and creast byway of aug- 

 mentation, a° 1. (^sic) Edw. 6. to the saide Sir Anthony 

 Guydott, ambassador to {from?') the French king to king 

 Ed. 6., who concluded a peace betweene the saide kiugs." 



W. D. Maceat. 



For the descent of Dr. Guidotti from Sir An- 

 tonio, see Wood's Athence, iv. 733-4., edit. Bliss, 

 where the eulogist of Bath waters is described as 

 being " so much overwhelmed with conceit and 

 pride, that he is in a manner sometimes crazed, 

 especially when his blood is heated by too much 

 bibbing." 



I quote from a note made some years ago, not 

 having the Athence now at hand. J. C. E.. 



macistus and the telegraphic news of the 

 captuke of tboy. 



(2"" S. iv. 189. 295. 369.) 



The distance from which the light of one of our 

 best lighthouses may be visible is by no means 

 the limit for' a beacon light. * The object of the 

 lighthouse is to warn vessels from shoals, and to 

 guide them into deep water ; and they are usually 

 little higher then the sea-level. A visible distance 

 of fifteen miles is ample for such purposes. But 

 a beacon light is required for the purpose of 

 rousing the country, for which great fires and 

 great elevations are indispensable. Even for 

 trigonometrical surveys Biot and Arago con- 

 structed lamps visible from stations 100 miles 

 apart. It is therefore a mistake to suppose the 

 impossibility of a communication from Troy to 

 Mycenae, under the management of Macistus, who 

 was probably a Persian (Herod, ix. 20.), and was 

 employed as one well fitted for the express pur- 

 pose, if the evidence of JEschylus himself is to be 

 taken. (Agam. 300.) Blomfield's conjecture in 

 reference to the capture of Troy, that there was 



