July 10. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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tains the same tradition : — " The Creator spent 

 6000 years in creation ; 6000 more are allotted to 

 the earth" (Quoted in Fiiusset's Livy). And I 

 have met with the notion elsewhere. Where is it 

 traced to h;ive originated ? Have any modern 

 divines adopted it? A. A. D. 



Sir Foster de Coverley (Vol. v., p. 467.). — 

 When did this dance first receive the name of Sir 

 Roger de Coverley? "My Aunt Margery" is 

 the name under which it is performed in Virginia, 

 U. S. Which is the earlier name ? 



J. Lewelyn Curtis. 



The Names and Numbers of British Regiments. 

 — Under the above title 1 made some inquiries 

 through the " N. & Q. " so far back as November 

 last (Vol. iv., p. 368), with the view of eliciting 

 certain information ; but I regret the questions 

 then put have not been res[)onded to. Hoping 

 that some of your military, or other readers, may 

 yet be able to supply answers, I beg again to 

 inquire — 



1. When did the preserit mode of numbering 

 regiments begin ; and by whom and under what 

 circumstances was it introduced ; tiie former prac- 

 tice having been to distinguish regiments by par- 

 ticular names, such as Barrell's, Howard's, Ligo- 

 nier's, &c., without any number ? 



2. What is the guide now in identifying a 

 named with a numbered regiment; and is there 

 any particular book where this information may 

 be had ? ' Z. 



Glasgow. 



A Delectable Discourse on Fishing. — In Dver'^ 

 Privileges of the University of Cambridge, vol. i. 

 p. 576., is mentioned a manuscript entitled A De- 

 lectable Discourse on Fishing. What is tiiis work ? 

 Has it ever been republished amongst any of the 

 numerous angling reprints ? Bonsali,. 



" Fm the Laird of Windy Walls." — In a copy of 

 Sir Francis Drake Revival (London, 1653), on 

 the back of the portrait of Drake are a few lines 

 in an old hand, beginning — 



" I'm the Laird of Windy Walls, I came here not with- 

 out a cause, 

 And waile I gotten many fawes, and yett I am not 

 slain, Jo." 



They are signed " Bartholomew Rouse." 

 _ Are these the beginning of any ballad of the 

 time, or do they in any way refer to Sir Francis 

 Drake ? Boxsall. 



_ Mrs. Philarmonica. — Can any musical reader 

 give me inf )rmafiou respecting a set of trios en- 

 titled Sonute a due Violini col Violoncello obhli- 

 gato (sic) Violnne o Cinibalo di Mrs. Philar- 

 monica. Parte Prima. A Lnndre Imprime per 

 P. Mearps, a Fenseigne de la Base Viole Dor, duns 

 le Comet eire (sic) d.e St. Paul. T. Cross sculpsit. 

 'i his first part consists of six sonatas : then a fresh 



title-page introduces six more in these words, 

 Diuertimente da Camera a due Violini Violoncello 

 Cembalo. Parte Seconda. T. Cross sculpsit. 



An Amateur. 



Admiral Sir Richard I. Strachan, K.CB. — 

 Being a kinsman of this excellent and ill-used 

 officer, and being engaged in collecting information 

 regaiding his life, may I request the assistance of 

 any of the numerous readers of the "N. & Q." 

 that can give any information on the subject? 

 Beyond the parliamentary papers, the meagre 

 and unsatisfactory notice in Marshall's Naval 

 Biography, and Allan's Battles of the Biitish 

 Navy, 1 have been disappointed in my search ; 

 and can neither procure a portrait nor an engrav- 

 ing of one so distinguished, and who so lately 

 passed away. T. W. 



Edinburgh. 



The Ogden and Westcott Families (Vol. \'i., pp.73. 

 105, 106.). — TwYFORD says that a member of the 

 Ogden family settled in America about the year 

 1790. 1 am a lineal descendant of an Ogden of 

 New Jersey, who settled there about the year 

 mentioned. If Twyford can give any particulars 

 concerning the Ogden who emigrated to America, 

 he would oblige me much. 



Can any of your readers give me any inform- 

 ation as to the family history of Stukely Westcott, 

 who settled in Salem, New Jersey, in 1639, and 

 afterwards went to Rhode Island ? There are 

 many Westcotts now about Provitlence, Rhode 

 Island : and the southern part of New Jersey 

 abounds with them. There is a legend that the 

 Jersey Westcotts are all descendants of three 

 brothers. Stukely Westcott may have been one 

 of the three : but it would be a matter of interest 

 to llieir descendants to know from what English 

 stock they are descended. 2KH. 



Philadelphia, U.S.A., June, 1852. 

 Licenser of the Press. — Where will be fou'nd any 

 list of persims filling this office? When did it 

 commence, and when did it cease ? Gr. 



BERTRAM, EDITOR OF RICHARD OF CIRENCESTER. 



(VoLv., p.491.) 



I do not myself know anvthing of Mr. Bertram, 

 the editor of Richard of Cirencester De Situ Bri- 

 tannice; but one of the most learned men in the 

 north, Mr. E. C. Werlauff, the chief librarian of 

 the Royal Library here, and Professor of History 

 at our University, has communicated to me the 

 following Notes containing some particulars of the 

 life and writings of Mr. Bertram : — 



"C. J. Bertram was, according to Worm, For- 

 fatter Lexicon (Dictionary of Authors'), born in 

 172J. In 1747, he petitioned the consistorium, or 



