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NOTES AND QUERIES,

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"Rag" and "ragging" are given in 'The English Dialect Dictionary,' bub neither there nor in 'Slang, Jargon, and Cant' is there any mention of military bullying as specially involved in the words.

I am inclined to think that the words as now used in military slang are comparatively new say, ten to fifteen years old.

The only French and English dictionary in which I have found brimer and brimades (plural) is that of John Bellows. It gives "to fag" and "fagging" as the translations erroneously, I think.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

RICHARD TOWNSEND'S EPITAPH. In his will, dated 6 April, 1684, proved at London 11 August following (P.C.C. 108 Hare), Richard Townsend, of Rowell, co. Gloucester, left the following directions, which seem to deserve a place in ' N. & Q.' :

"I desire to be buryed in Uper Gyteing Church- yard within a Tombe raised about an Ell from the ground with a Faire Tomb stone and this in- scriptionHere lyeth the body of Rich : Townsend, gent, who departed this life the day and yeare specifyed. I recon I am fifty nine yeares of the eighth of March One thousand six hundred eighty three, I would have these words sett upon the Tombe stone : Hee liv'd while age agreed to beare him to bis

Grave

In this Sepulcher as his own dying words did crave In peace then rest his Earthly mortall Dust Till Trumpett raise the Dead and glory crowne the

Just

His Life our Copy writt his Death Mortality By life and death amend to live eternally.

GEORGE F. T. SHERWOOD. 50, Beecroft Road, Brockley, S.E.

JOHN, LORD TREVOR. At the entrance of the library of Trinity College, Cambridge, is a fine marble bust on which is inscribed "Lord Trevor," who was presumably educated at that college. He was the second son of Thomas, Lord Trevor of Bromham (one of the twelve peers created by Queen Anne in one day), was a Welsh judge, and died in 1764. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Steele, and had an only daughter, who was born an idiot. Two of his brothers, Robert and Richard, are known to have been educated at Queen's College, Oxford, and were subsequently Fellows of All Souls College. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

BLOOMSBURY'S FAMOUS HOUSES. (See 10 th S ii. 425.)-The Duke of Bedford is doing a good work on his estate in the neighbour- hood of Bloomsbury by marking houses of note with a special tablet. Such tablets have been recently placed on Nos. 100-102,

Great Russell Street, commemorating Top- ham Beauclerk and Lady Diana Beauclerk ; on No. 54, Gower Street, the home of Sir Samuel Romilly ; on No. 31, Bloomsbury Square, the residence of Sir Anthony Panizzi, the well-known Chief Librarian of the British Museum ; and on No. 67, Russell Square, where Lord Loughborough resided. It is stated that the Duke of Bedford has undertaken this work, if not at the suggestion of the London County Council, certainly with its concurrence, so it is pleasing to record that these and any future tablets in the Blooms- bury district will be included in the official handbook of the Council, entitled 'Indication of Houses of Historical Interest,' a useful reference volume.

W. E. HARLAND OXLEY. Westminster.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

JOHN DYER, of Bristol, England, b. 1717, d. 1758 (?), m. Ann Thompson, 1748 ; she was b. 1722, and d. 1827, aged 105 years. Issue : John, b. 1750, went to London, prospered in business, d. unmarried ; Ann, b. 1753, m. Count Adam Fossey (Fossi), of France, and lived and died there ; and Sam., b. 8 Oct., 1756, bound by his mother to a school for seven years, then bound by her to a merchant, Breckinridge, with whom he came to America in 1770. He fought in the Revo- lutionary War as "Assistant Commissary" and * Superintendent of Military Stores ' " ; m. CeliaBickley, d.of Sir Francis Bickley, Bt, of Hanover Co., Va., in 1787 ; died at his house, Plain Dealing, Albemarle Co., Va., 24 Dec., 1839. Issue: Wm. H., Sam., John, Ann, Francis B., Eliza, and Robert. Can any one tell me who the father of John Dyer of of 1717 was? Please send any reply to

JOHN RANKIN DYER.

Webster Grove, St. Louis Co., Mo., U.S.A.

' SUSSEX DRINKING-SONG.' In Mr. Hilaire Belloc's 'Sussex Drinking-Song ' (the best thing of its kind, I venture to think, since Bishop Still's in the English language) occur the following lines :

There is a good brew in Amberley too, And by the Bridge also.

Where is "the Bridge"? Probably it is familiar to the South- Saxons, of whom I have not the honour to be one. Two of the places celebrated, Hazlemere and Guildford,