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June 12, 1707, stationed in Jersey and Guernsey, until disbanded July, 1713, when -he went on its half-pay. He was app. Surgeon to the Royal Regt. of Horse Guards '(Blue), May 20, 1718 (Dalton, vi,, vii.), renewed June 20, 1720, but sold out Jan 28, .1733/4, and was also at the same time Surgeon to the Buffs, being app. after 1717, -and before 1727, until he res. July 18, 1729 ('Military Records,' in P.R. 6). Of course, \in those days all these positions were ob- tained by purchase, and disposed of by sale. He d. April 8, 1752, and presumably was ifather of " Alexander Small, F.A.S., for- merly a surgeon in London, who d. at Ware, .Aug. 31, 1794, set. 84 " (Gent. Maq.).

W. R. WILLIAMS.

PARISH MARK (12 S. vi. 230). By 3 and 4 William and Mary cap. 11 section 11, it is -directed that

".there shall be kept in every parish, at the charge of the parish, a book or books wherein the name of all such persons who do or may receive -collection, shall be registered, with the day and year when they were first admitted to have relief, and the occasion which brought them under that aiecessity."

By 8 and 9 William III. cap. 30 section 2, it is provided that Tx>oks, and receive relief, and the wife and children of such person cohabiting in the same house, shall wear a badge, as described in the act, on pain o) losing the usual allowance ; and if any parish officer shall relieve any person, not having such toadge, he ohall forfeit 20s."
 * ' every person who shall be upon the collection

This was repealed by 50 George III, 'cap. 52. The badge enjoined by the act was

" a large Roman P. together with the first letter 'of the name of the Parish or Place where such poor person is an inhabitant, cut either in red or blue cloth, as by the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor it shall be directed and appointed.''

It was to be worn on the shoulder of the right sleeve of the uppermost garment, in -an open and visible manner.

WM. SELF- WEEKS. Westwoo'd, Clitheroe

TRENT (12 S. vi. 273). John Trent, only son and heir of Lawrence Trent of the Island of Barbados, gent., matriculated from Queen's Coll., Oxford, May 30, 1754, aged 16, and died in 1786, in Clarges Street, leaving an only son and heir John Trent, b. 1770 of Dillington House, Ilminster, who diec Aug. 6, 1796, and left three sons : (1) John

Constantino Trent, b. Aug. 8, and bapt Nov. 14, 1793, at Spettisbury, Dorset

imatric. from Queen's Coll., May 5, J813

aged 19, Capt. R. Horse Guards, of Ovens VIouth, Barbardos, and died s.p. Dec. 15, 1846 ; (2) Constantino Estwick Trent, b. July 29 and bapt. Oct. 2, 1794, at Spetis- jury, Lieut. 14th Light Dragoons and d. bach. ; (3) Francis Onslow Trent, b. post- lumously Feb. 8, 1797, also a Lieut. 14th Light Dragoons, and d. Apr. 10, 1846, aaving married Judith, dau. of Sampson Wood Sober of Barbados, by whom he had tour sons and three daus.

V. L. OLIVER. Sunninghill, Berks.

I conjecture that John Trent, who be- came D.C.L. in 1793, was son of John, who was born in the island of Barbados, son of Lawrence, Esq., who entered Queen's College as Upper Commoner, May 30, 1754, and matriculated the same day. He was also probably father of John, born at Spetisbury, Dorset, who matriculated from Queen's Col- lege, May 5, 1813, aged 19.

JOHN R. MAGRATH.

Queen's College, Oxford.

PORTRAIT OF .THE " DUKE OF PENT- WEZEL" (12 S. vi. 250). Is there any con- nexion betwee'n this " duke " and the characters who bear a similar name in Samuel Foote's ' Taste,' Alderman and Lady Pentweazel ? Foote is said by Joseph Knight in the ' D.N.B.' to have played Lady Pentweazel on Mar. 30, 1756. ' Taste ' had been produced unsuccessfully at Drury Lane on Jan 11, 1752, and was published in 1753. EDWARD BENSLY.

Probably A. P. A.'s picture represents a man in theatrical character. There is a character of that name in Foote's comedy of ' Taste.' It was written 1756.

E. E. LEGGATT.

FOLK-LORE OF THE ELDER ( 12 S. i. 94 ;

vi. 259). For the medicinal lore of the elder the book to consult is ' The Anatomie of the Elder,' a curious seventeenth-century trea- tise, translated from the Latin of Dr. Martin Blochwich, by C. de Iryngio (apparently an army doctor). The English version referred to runs to 230 pages, and deals exhaustively with the virtues of this plant, its flowers, berries, leaves, " middle bark," pith, roots, and the " Jew's ears " the fungi growing on the roots. It is especially of the latter that Sir Thomas Browne speaks in the ' Pseudodoxia ' (II. vi. not vii., as in the note at the last reference), of which he says that the name " concerneth .not the*