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to plant themselves in battell, to advance them selves, to recoyle, to turn in battell themselves from one side to another, to make retraite, and in sum to signih'e all other points that the voice of on person alone cannot make so easily to be under stood as doth the sound of many drums," &c.

The list of trumpet calls quoted by MR PICKFORD (ante, p. 96) from Sir C. R. Mark ham is given on p. 298 of Ward's ' Animad versions of Warre ' (1639), in Section XII. ' The Drilling or Exercising of Horse Troopes ' (chap. 115). With the exception of " Carga," " Auquet " (of which I do noi know the derivation), and the " Tucquet,' which is the Anglicized form of the wore " Toccata," they are in the Italian in Ward's list, and he calls No. 6 " the sixth and last.'

On p. 282, chap. 102, on the duties ' Of the Cornet belonging to the Cavalry,' he writes :

"There ought to be two trumpets at the least to each Troope of Horse, whose duty is besides their knowledge in distinguishing their sounds & points of warre. But they must be wise in delivering Embasses & Messages," &c.

C. S. HARRIS.

PANTALOONS v. TROUSERS (10 S. vii. 207, 271). In the editorial note at the former reference mention is made of an order against the wearing of pantaloons or " trowsers " in Hall or Chapel by St. John's and Trinity Colleges (? Cambridge).

In 'Gradus ad Cantabrigiam,' by "A Brace of Cantabs," London, 1824, p. 114, s.v. 'Union,' is a parody on Gray's 'Bard,' by M. Lawson, Esq., M.P. for Borough- bridge, and Fellow of Magdalen College. The subject is the suppression of the Union by the Master of St. John's during his Vice- Chancellorship in 1817. It begins :

Ruin seize thee, senseless prig !

Confusion on thy "optics " wait ! The first lines of the second stanza are : At a window, which on high

Frowns o'er the market-place below, VV ith trowsers on, and haggard eye, A member stood immersed in woe. A foot-note says :

"The savage despair oP the Member is finely pourtrayed by the trowsers. A total indifference to moral guilt or personal danger is argued by his thus appearing before the Vice - Chancellor : that gentleman justly regarding the wearing of trowsers as the most atrocious of moral offences, and having lately deservedly excluded a distinguished Wrangler

his Cofle SUilty f them ' fr m a Fellowshi P of Crure tenus medio tunicas succingere debet.

Juvenal, Sat. vi. 445.

lempora mutantur. Trowsers are now univer- sally and fearlessly sported by men of every standing.

The above places the transition from knee-breeches to trousers at the University of Cambridge at about 1817 to 1823. In the Juvenal reference 1. 445 should be 1. 446. The name of the Vice-Chancellor appears to have been Wood :

Such were the sounds that o'er the pedant pride Of W d, the Johnian, scatter'd wild dismay.

Ye Johnian towers, old W d's eternal shame.

Fond impious man, think'st thou thy puny fist. Thy " Wood-en Sword " has broke a British club ?

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

PRE-REFORMATION PARSONAGES (10 S. viii. 109). THE REV. F. G. ACKERLEY will find a very interesting example of mediaeval vicarages, still showing the original arrange- ment of them, at Muchelney, Somerset ; it is timber-built, and divided into two parts, half being the general room open to the roof, the other having an upper, gallery-like story approached by a ladder. Many ancient manses to use the word which seems best to translate the name for them in ' Valor Ecclesiasticus ' have within memory been improved away ; others, like St. Mary's, Taunton, have been added to and adapted ; others converted to lay uses, as was that of East Coker before being pulled down. MR. ACKERLEY in inquiring about parsonages, and then calling them vicarages, seems to fall into the modern mistake of regarding a vicar as a parson, which he never was in old days.

ALFRED C. E. WELBY.

ELDER-BUSH FOLK-LORE (10 S. viii. 131, 211). A provincialism in the north of Eng- land for the elder tree is " burtree," and t>oys often speak of making "burtree" guns, usually called popguns.

On the battlefield of Towton, co. York, 'ought in 1461, is a large elder tree, not, probably, the identical one from which Lord iDacre was killed by a headless arrow shot jy a boy perched on it. The nobleman had taken off his helmet to drink from the little river the Cock, and the rime is preserved :

The Lord of Dacres

Was slain in the North Acres.

Another local name for the tree in York- hire is the " auberry tree." These names or the elder are not found in Halliwell's Dictionary.' JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

Something of what is said of the elder has >een said of other trees. The Cross is also upposed to have been made of the wood of