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Peacock: Skylight" and Twilight" - Harvey's Birthplace -"Femmer Bletchingly Place, 9-"Lady Charlotte Gordon "-" Pro- REPLIES:-Snodgrass as a Surname, 10-The Treaty of -Maghull Yates-Hungarian Grammar-"Angel" of an Inn, 14-"Stymie" at Golf-Finnis Street-Apples: their Names-Proverb on Beating-Unthank, 15-Clergy in Wigs-Authors of Quotations Wanted-Victorian Coin- Caricature: 'Once I was Alive'-Murder at Winnats, 16 -Holy Grail-Latin Lines on Sleep-St. Mary's Abbey, NOTES ON BOOKS:-'The Scots Peerage'-'The Shake- THE BOMBAY REGIMENT, 1662-5. THE writer is indebted to Mr. Salisbury of the Public Record Office for drawing his attention to the Pay Lists and Muster Rolls of the Bombay Regiment (Colonial Corre- spondence, East Indies, bundles 5 and 6). They have a special interest, as they record the levying, embarkation, and payment of the officers appointed to the four English companies of foot sent to Bombay, in the spring of 1662, to garrison that island, part of the dowry of Charles II.'s queen. These companies formed the nucleus of the corps known in the days of John Company as the 1st Bombay European Regiment of Foot, which was, in 1863, brought into the British Line as the 103rd (Royal Bombay Fusiliers).* When the Territorial system was introduced The four new companies were commanded respectively by Sir Abraham Shipman, Kt., who had been appointed Governor of Bombay; Col. John Hungerford; Capt. John Shipman; and Capt. Charles Povey. Each company had a lieutenant, ensign, two sergeants, three corporals, two drummers and a hundred privates. From the MS. dated " London, Feb., 1661 [1661/2]," and headed Monies disburst for his Majties Acct by mee Sir Abraham Shipman, Knt., for ye expedicon of ye following officers and soldiers for ye Island of Bombay in East India," it appears that each of the aforesaid captains received 1007. for levying one hundred men. John Shipman's company was mustered on 2 Feb., 1661/2, when it consisted of only half its strength; but at the second muster, on 7 March following, it was complete. Povey's company was mustered on 4 Feb., 1661/2, being then at its full strength. The two remaining com- panies were mustered on 11 March. All four companies were paid their arrears on the last-named date, and at the same time received advance pay up to 6 April, when they embarked on board the Earl of Marl- borough's fleet for Bombay. From Sir A. Shipman's well-kept accounts it appears that he, as Governor and Commander-in- Chief, received 21. per diem. Col. Hunger- ford got 128. per diem*; while the other two captains had 88. a day each. Under "Paid to all ye officers fower months advance, commencing from 6th Aprill, at which tyme they went aboard shipp, till ye 27th July following." The pay per day was at this rate: lieutenant, 48.; ensign, 3s.; sergeant, ls. 6d. ; poral, 18.; drummer, 18.; private, 9d. Sir A. Shipman's subalterns were Lieut. Price and Ensign Thomas Fowlkes; John Shipman's were Lieut. John Cole and Ensign Squire; Povey's were Lieut. Forster and Ensign John Thorne; Hungerford's were Lieut. Twyning and Ensign Garth. addition to the four companies of infantry sent to Bombay, a small detail of artillery The amount is torn off in the MS., but as Col. |