NICKNAMES.--"The Old Bucks" (before 1809, when the county
title was exchanged with the 14th). "The Peacemakers." "The
Featherbeds."
NOTES.--One of twelve regiments raised in 1688. It and the 17th
Foot alone remain (1900).
BIBLIOGRAPHY.--_Historical Record of the 16th, or Bedfordshire
Regiment._ 1688-1848. Illustrated. [London: Parker. 1848.]
The Leicestershire Regiment,