_Arms and Motto granted to Col. William Carlos._--Can any reader of "N. &
Q." give the _date_ of the grant of arms to Col. William Carlos (who
assisted Charles II. to conceal himself in the "Royal Oak," after the
battle of Worcester), and specify the exact terms of the grant?
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_Naval Atrocities._--In the article on "Wounds," in the _Encyc. Brit._, 4th
edition, published 1810, the author, after mentioning the necessity of a
surgeon's being cautious in pronouncing on the character of any wound, adds
that "this is particularly necessary on board ship, where, as soon as any
man is pronounced by the surgeon to be mortally wounded, he is forthwith,
while still living and conscious, thrown overboard," or words to this
effect, as I quote from memory. That such horrid barbarity was not
practised in 1810, it is needless to say; and if it had been usual at any
previous period, Smollett and other writers who have exposed with unsparing
hand all the defects in the naval system of their day, would have scarcely
left this unnoticed when they attack much slighter abuses. If such a thing
ever occurred, even in the worst of times, it must have been an isolated
case. I have not met elsewhere with any allusion to this passage, or the
atrocity recorded in it, and would be glad of more information on the
subject.