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worthy of notice that not only Stempe, but his predecessors in the office of Warden, John White, the Bishop of Winchester, and John Boxall, Mary's Secretary of State, went to the Tower in the first year of Elizabeth's reign. Stempe was one of the commissioners appointed in 1556 to visit the diocese of Winchester, and one cannot therefore be sur- prised to learn that he hesitated to accept the changes which followed Elizabeth's acces- sion.

The following notes may assist MR. WAINE- WRIGHT in his search for information about the Wykehamists mentioned in his list :

1. William Adkins died, a fellow of the college, on 18 December, 1561. His brass still remains in the college cloisters, and the inscription was printed at 2 nd S. ii. 195.

2. Thomas Crane, the fellow, was presum- ably Thomas Crane who compounded for the first fruits of Winnall Kectory, Hants, on 1 March, 1553/4.

3. John Durston, the fellow, compounded for the prebend of Bursalis, Chichester, on 29 June, 1554. His successor, William Long- ford or Langford, compounded on 2 July, 1560.

5. Nicholas Langrysshe, the fellow, is said (Kirby's ' Scholars,' p. 9) to have been vicar of East Meon, Hants. Edward Banks, M.A., compounded for this vicarage 24 October, 1559, having been presented thereto by letters patent dated 13 October (Patent Roll, 1 Eliz., part 1). The letters patent state that the living was vacant by the last incumbent's death (name not given), and they are addressed to Thomas Beacon, Robert Weston, and Robert Nowell, three of the commis- sioners appointed to visit the four dioceses mentioned above.

6. Roger Jamys, the fellow, is said (Kirby, p. 9) to have been rector of Bradford Peverel, Dorset (a college living). His name is not in the list of rectors in Hutchins's * Dorset,' ii. 538 (1863), but that list has a gap between the death of Robert Roberts (circa 1552) and the institution of Robert Meaber (1563).

H. C.

TROOPING THE COLOURS (10 th S. ii. 49). It is quite correct to speak of "Trooping the Colour" and "The Troop of the Colour," inasmuch as on nearly every occasion of the kind referred to only one colour is used. But " The Troop," as part of the ceremonies observed at the mounting of guards in a garrison, is, historically, quite independent of there being any colour. Military dic- tionaries of about the year 1705 show that the "Assembly" and the "Troop" were the same drum-beat ; and in Humphrey Bland's

'Military Discipline,' fourth edition, 1740 r pp. 154-6, we find an account of the elaborate ceremony then performed at the mounting of garrison guards, in which no mention is made of a colour.

A few short extracts may be of interest : "The regiment which mounts the Main-Guard draws up on the right of the parade ; the detach- ments of the other regiments are to draw up accord- ing to the Lot drawn for them. The reason why

they draw for their posts appears as follows

Should the regiments have a fixed post on the- parade, by drawing up constantly by seniority of: regiments, the men could then know what guard they were to mount, and have it in their power to carry on a treacherous correspondence with the

enemy founded on sad experience When the

guards are formed, the Drum-Major with all the drummers are to beat the Assembly along the head of the guards, marching from center to right,

thence to left, and back to center During the

time the Assembly is beating, all the officers are to-

draw lots for their guards When the whole

parade is to be exercised together the eldest officer is to proceed as is directed in the Exercising of a battalion, but to go no farther than the Manual

Exercise As soon as the Exercise is over, the-

Town-Major orders the guards to march off."

For the historical development of the ceremonies at the mounting of guards in

arrisons, see also Thomas Reide's * Present ystem of Military Discipline,' 1798, pp. 52-7 ; 'The King's Regulations,' 1837, pp. 289-92; 1 Standing Orders of the Garrison of Gibral- tar ' (various dates). " The Troop " at guard- mounting was originally the beating of the "Assembly" or "Troop" by the drummers along the front of the line of soldiers about to mount guard in a garrison. W. S.

A detailed description of this ceremony will be found in the "Infantry Drill. By Authority. London, Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Harrison & Sons, St. Martin's Lane." I have the edition of 1892 ; see p. 207. It is too long to copy. The definition of the 'Century Dictionary' is, correct. (Dr.) G. KRUEGER.

Berlin.

Has the sense of " trooping " in this phrase- ever been made clear 1 Does it not mean " drumming," i.e., saluting by beat of drum % One of the various drum-beats is called the " Assembly " or the " Troop," and is the signal for the troops to repair to the place of ren- dezvous, or to their colours.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

The colour, in the singular, is correct,, because it is only the regimental colour of the regiment finding the garrison guards for the day that is trooped. The actual manoeuvre on the word "Troop," given by the field officer of the day, is that the colour