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Dorsets.—Green Linnets, Flamers.
South Lancashires.—Excellers (X. L.).
Welsh Regiment.—Old Agamemnons.
Oxford Light Infantry.—Light Bobs.
Notts and Derbyshires.—Old Stubborns.
North Lancashires.—Cauliflowers, Wolves.
Northamptons.—Steelbacks.
West Kents.—Celestials.
Yorkshire Light Infantry.—Brickdusts.
Manchesters.—Bloodsuckers.
Irish Rifles.—Irish Giants.
Connaught Rangers.—Devil's Own.
5th Northumberland Fusiliers.—Fighting Fifth.
9th Royal Scots.—Dandy Ninth.
Camerons.—Jocks.
K.F.A.—Blazers.
R.A.M.C.—Linseed Lancers.
There is a long list in Lieut.-Col. C. Cooper King's 'Story of the British Army,' 1897, but many of these are now out of use. Some phrases are being made up from the initial letters of the names of corps, e.g., R.A.M.C., "Rob all my comrades," and "Run away, mammy's coming"; and A.S.C., "Ally Sloper's Cavalry." Archibald Spark.
I believe that barrack-room slang has dubbed the 1st and 2nd Life Guards the "Bangers" and the "Gallopers" respectively,, while "The Blues" are known as the "Old People." Horace Bleackley.
Thomas May, Recorder of Chichester, 1683 (12 S. i. 28).—Considerable obscurity
exists as to the precise identity of several
of the seventeenth-century members of this
otherwise well-known Sussex family. Mr. Williams is however, I think, undoubtedly
right in his surmise that the M.P. for Chichester in the three Parliaments of 1689-90,
1690-95, and 1701 was one and the same
man, viz., Thomas May of Rawmere, who
received knighthood March 9, 1696/7. He
was son of John May of Rawmere (died 1677)
by, according to one authority, Hester,
daughter of John Tralcott, but others say
by Constance, daughter of ——— Panton.
He married Anne, daughter of Richard
Aldworth of Stanlake, Reading, and died in
Nov., 1718, without surviving issue. At
one time I had thought him to be the same
Thomas who was Recorder of Chichester in
1683, but the following item from Luttrell's
'Diary' casts doubt upon that identity:—
"11 May, 1697. We hear that Mr. Itfay, Recorder of Chichester in the late reign (who was bail in 800l. for Combs, committed for counterfeiting stamp paper), but Combs absconding, Mr. May is ordered to pay the said 800l."
The ex-Recorder would hardly be styled "Mr. May" in May, 1697, when he had been knighted two months before. W. D. Pink.
" MEDDLE AND MUDDLE " (11 S. xii. 422,
. It may be convenient to state that
these words were used by Lord Derby in
his speech in the House of Lords on the
Address on Feb. 4, 1864 (see Hans aid's
' Parliamentary Debates,' Third Seriep,
vol. clxxiii. p. 28). He said :
" The foreign policy of the noble earl [Russell], as far as the principle of non-intervention is con- cerned, may be summed up in two short, homely, but expressive words, ' meddle and muddle.' " HAHRY B. POLAND.
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