[9] _Preston_, contracted from _Priests' town_, the early proprietors of the soil being the monks of Holyrood and Newbattle, who erected on the sea-shore _pans_ for the manufacture of salt, from which circumstance it received the name of _Preston-Pans_.
[10] _Return of the Officers and Men in each regiment of Infantry on the day of the Battle of Culloden_:--
Serjeants, Officers. Drummers, and Rank and File.
Royal Scots now 1st Foot 26 455 Lieut.-General Howard's regiment " 3rd " 16 448 " Barrell's " " 4th " 20 353 Major-General Wolfe's " " 8th " 22 352 " Pulteney's " " 13th " 22 352 Brigadier-General Price's " " 14th " 23 336 " Bligh's " " 20th " 20 447 Major-General Campbell's " " 21st " 19 393 Brig.-General Lord Semple's " " 25th " 23 392 Major-General Blakeney's " " 27th " 20 336 Brig.-General Cholmondeley's " 34th " 24 435 " Fleming's " " 36th " 26 389 Colonel Battereau's " " (disbanded) 27 396 " Dejean's " " 37th regt. 23 468 " Conway's " " 48th " 24 362 --- ----- Total 335 5,914 --- -----
[11] The _seven_ regiments, raised in 1741, were numbered as shown in the following list, and the _Numerical titles_ of six of them, which have since been retained on the establishment of the army, were changed after the Peace of 1748, as specified, viz.:--
54th regt., com. by Col. Thomas Fowke, now the 43rd regt. 55th " " James Long " 44th " 56th " " D. Houghton " 45th " 57th " " John Price " 46th " 58th " " J. Mordaunt " 47th " 59th " " J. Cholmondeley " 48th " 60th " " H. De Grangue disbanded in 1748.
[12] Cape Breton was captured by the troops under Lieut.-General Amherst, on the 26th of July, 1758.
[13] _Ticonderoga_, or _Ticonderago_, was the name of a fort built, in 1756, by the French in Canada, on the north side of a peninsula, for communication between Lakes George and Champlain. The fort afterwards became a heap of ruins, and formed an appendage to a farm. Its name is derived from a word in the Indian language, signifying _Noisy_. In 1759, the fort was captured by the British, and in 1775 it was surprised by the Americans, but was retaken by Major-General Burgoyne in July 1777.
[14] It was in this action at St. Lucia that the fifth foot acquired the privilege of wearing a _white plume_ in the cap, instead of the red and white tuft worn by the other regiments of the line: the FORTY-SIXTH regiment had already obtained the distinction of _red feathers_, under the circumstances stated at page 25.