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Montague Drake, Esq., of Shardeloes M.P. for Amersham in 1695, the father o: Montague Garrard Drake who died in 1728, is stated by Lipscomb to have married Mary (not Jane), daughter and heiress of Sir J Garrard, Bt., of Lamer, Herts. He hac three brothers : William, d. 1672 ; Charles d. 1676 ; and John. Perhaps one of these may have been the father of William Drake of Adderbury. L. H. CHAMBERS.

Amersham.

ST. MARK'S, NORTH AUDLEY STREET (11 S. ii. 368). Probably the notice board at St. Mark's, North Audley Street, was temporarily removed on account of the death of the late vicar, the Rev. R. H. Hadden, and replaced on the induction of his successor, with his name and new announcements. CLERICUS.

In the County of London, St. Peter's, Brockley, S.E., has no notice board of services, &c. F? D. WESLEY.

"THE OLD MOGUL," DRTJRY LANE (11 S. iii. 86, 153). The following far-fetched oonnexion of the Great Mogul with a play at Covent Garden may be of interest. Charles Smith, of the family of Turmiston in Stenness, Orkney, " painter to the Great Mogul," published two plays, as follows :

" A Trip to Bengal, a musical entertainment in two acts [with portrait of Charles Smith, painter to the Great Mogul, ipse pinxt., S. W. Reynolds sculpt.]." London, 1802.

" A Day at Rome, a musical entertainment iu two acts, as it was damned at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, on Thursday, October 11 1798." London, 1798.

ALFRED W. JOHNSTON. 29, Ashburnham Mansions, Chelsea.

EAR-PIERCING (US. iii. 149, 171). I was told as a child by a country lad who came to work in our garden, and whose ears were pierced, that his mother had had them pierced because his eyes were " bad." He wore small rings in them. This was in Sussex. Some farm labourers also had their ears pierced, I believe for the same reason, though I do not remember asking them about it. JESSIE H. HAYLLAR.

19, Highdown Road, Hove.

Quite a number of boys and girls had their ears bored" when I was a boy. With some the object was to cure sore eyes, to make weak eyesight stronger, or even to cure such ailments. The "ear-boring" was done by an elderly woman as a rule, though I have known both a barber and a cobbler do the piercing.

The method which I remember to have been followed by an old woman was to pink the lobe of the ear till the blood was out, and then to thrust a needle through the flesh, allowing it to remain for a short time. For several days the hole was kept open in the same way, the ear being bathed with warm milk and water. If, as was usually the case, there was festering, the lobe was kept moist and clean in the same way, and the hole kept open by again passing the needle through. Some had their ears bored for the purpose of wearing earrings.

Of the many gipsies always about in the lanes, nearly all had their ears bored, and they wore a sort of button in the hole. Certainly the general idea was that the boring did the eyesight good.

THOS. RATCLIFFE. [MR. TOM JONES also thanked for reply.]

GOVERNORS OF THE ROYAL HOSPITAL, CHELSEA (US. iii. 127). Portraits, engrav- ings, or other illustrations of the persons named in the query are unknown to me. In Gleig's ' Chelsea Hospital and its Traditions,' London, 1839, single-volume edition, lists are given of the Paymasters-General, begin- ning with Sir Stephen Fox, the Governors, and the Lieutenant-Governors ; but no mention is made of portraits of them being in existence. As Gleig was for a time chaplain of Chelsea Hospital, his omission to note pictorial representations is perhaps significant. His list of Governors does not quite agree with that given in the query. He omits the name of Sir Thomas Ogle, and begins with Col. John Hales, appointed 10 November, 1702. Then follow Brigadier- Greneral Thomas Stanwix, 13 January, 1714 ;

l. Charles Churchill, 6 June, 1720 ; Lieut. - General William Evans, 7 June, 1727 ; and seven others. W. SCOTT.

"TERRA SUSANNA" (11 S. iii. 83). Somner's derivation from O.F. susanne, for mranne, looks like a guess. I imagine that le consulted Cotgrave, who has " Suzanne. ook suranne" and " Suranne, above a eare passed or old, of more than one yeares Late or age ; also, stale, past the best, >verworne with yeares." This peculiar, ind sporadic, pronunciation of intervocalic r- (surviving in mod. Fr. besides, chaise) is generally supposed to be not earlier than the ourteenth century. It is very unlikely hat a M.L. susanna should have been nodelled on the exceptional form susanne. Ne should expect, and we find, superannata Du Cange).