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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[128. 1. JAN. 1,1916. The objects of the Society are stated in a further circular to be

The earliest meeting of the Society was held at the King's Arms Tavern, New Palace Yard, and later meetings at the Freemasons' Tavern (May 27, 1780), at New Inn Coffee-House (Feb. 15 and May 24, 1782), at Holyland's Coffee-House (Jan. 24, 1783), and at 11 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden (Oct. 29, 1784).

The only list of officials I can find is as follows:—

The Society issued a quantity of leaflets, &c., under the general title of

'THE VICAR OF BRAY' (US. xii. 453). Bray folk, of whom I am one (for I was a resident parishioner for thirty years, and have still a small holding in the parish), have always been taught that the original Vicar of Bray was Simon Dillin (? Allen or Aleyn), Canon of Windsor, d. 1565.

Gough, 'Berks,' 26, Steele's Collection, p. 21 (Bodleian), says : " This is he of whom ye Prouerb ' The Vicar of Bray still.' '

He was the twentieth vicar. I have not the date of his institution, but his predecessor was instituted 1522/3. The author of ' Hundred of Bray,' pub. 1861, confirms the statement about Col. Fuller, but gives no authority. It is not perhaps generally known that there was a Vicar of Bray who to a great extent coincides with the song. His tombstone is in the centre aisle of Bray Church, and the inscription is as follows : '

" Subter jacet Devoniensis Franciscus Carswell sacra3 Theologia? Doctor, Regibus Carolo 2do et Jacobo 2do Capellanus ; Ecclesiae de Remnam Rector. Hujus Bibrocensis Vicarius 42 annos. ^Etatis SU83 70. Obiit 24 Aug., 1709."

It may well be that, if the tradition of the song being written by an officer of Guards temp. George I. is founded on fact, this officer may have been a Bray man, who in recording the tradition had his own vicar in mind. G. H. PALMER.

In a List of Successions of Colonels tl ere occurs Francis Fuller, 29th Regt., Aug. 28, 1739. See 'Army List,' printed by J. Millan, the whole complete for 1773, p. 215. The regiment at that date would probably be known by the name of its colonel.

R. J. FYNMORE.

THOMAS GRIFFIN TARPLEY (US. xii. 482). On his son's matriculation at Christ Church, Oxon (Dec. 24, 1798, aged 17), Dr. Tarpley was given as "of the Isle of Jersey, armiger." He had married Catherine, fourth daughter of Kenneth, Lord Fortrose, eldest son of William Mackenzie, fifth Earl of Seaforth, attainted by Act of Parliament for his participation in the rebellion of 1715. The younger Tarpley, at Christ Church, was Student until 1816, B.A. 1802, M.A. 1805, Proctor 1813, and Vicar of Flower, Northants, 1815.

A. R. BAYLEY.

This family held Moratico in Virginia, and was connected with Griffin, John Tarpley in 1749 being an executor of Leroy Griffin's will.

Th. G. Tarpley must have reached England before 1783, as he married here in 1773 Miss