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appeared in 1579. Commenting; on lines 69 and 70 of ' May,' E. K. says that they "imitate the Epitaph of the ryotous King Sardana- palus, which he caused to be written on his tomb in Greeke : which verses be thus translated by Tullie : Hsec habui nute edi, quseque exaturata libido Hausit, at ilia manent multa ac prjeclara relicta."

Pausing there, I would remark that accord- ing to the authorities the inscription written by Sardanapalus was in Chaldaic. The Greek version was, according to Atheuseus, xii. 39, written by Chcerilus, who flourished four hundred years after the date attributed to Sardanapalus. According to Diodorus Siculus, ii. 23, the Greek version ran :

epwros

i/' fTradov, TO. Se TroAAa /ecu oXfBta.

E. K. also misquotes Cicero, who ('Tuscul.,'

v. c. 35) wrote :

Hsec habeo que edi, quseque exsaturata libido Hausit, at ilia jacent multa et prajclara relicta.

After giving a bad translation of Cicero's lines, E. K. goes on :

"Much like the Epitaph of a good old Earle of Devonshire, which though much more wisedome bewrayeth then Sardanapalus, yet hath a smacke of his sensuall delights and beastlinesse : the rimes be these :

Ho, ho, who lies here ? I, the good Earle of Devonshire, And Mauld my wife that was full deare. We lived togethir LV yeare. That we spent, we had : That we gave, we have : That we left, we lost."

We thus have a more authentic version of this epitaph than that given by Risdon. Kate disappears. Mauld is Maud, who is said to have been the daughter of Thomas, Lord Camoys. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

SON OF NAPOLEON I. (10 th & i. 107). The following extract from 'Former Clock and Watch Makers and their Work,' by F. J. Britten (London, 1894), bears somewhat on this subject :

"Theodore Gordon, Great James Street. Bedford Row ; born at Barbadoes, apprenticed in Aberdeen ; horizontal and duplex escapement maker, also assistant of B. L. Vulliamy, sometime editor of the Horological Journal ; died 1870, aged 81."

Probably this may have been the individual referred to by your correspondent.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

RALEIGH'S HEAD (10 th S. i. 49, 130). The following statement on this subject is culled from 'Sir Walter Ralegh : the British

Dominion of the West,' by Major Martin A. S. Hume (Fisher Unwin, 1897), pp. 417-18 : 1 The day after his death Lady Ralegh wrote a sad little letter to her brother, asking him to allow her ' to berri the worthi boddi of my nobell hosban, Bur Walter Ralegh, in your cherche at Beddington.

God hold me in my wites,' but for some reason,

now unknown, the headless corpse was buried within the chancel of St. Margaret's, Westminster. What ultimately became of the head is uncertain ; but it was long preserved by Lady Ralegh, and on her death by her son Carew, in whose grave at West Horsley, in Surrey, it is believed it was interred.''

HENRY GERALD HOPE.

119, Elms Road, Clapham, S.W.

[It was pointed out, ante, p. 130, that Carew Raleigh was buried in Westminster Abbey, not at West Horsley.]

"Coup DE JARNAC" (10 th S. i. 6, 75). Anquetil, in his ' Histoire de France,' has the following :

"A la mort de Frangois I cr, la Chfitaigneraie renouvela son accusation. Jarnac y repondit en demandant le duel judiciaire. Henri 1'accorda, et voulut en ctre temoin avec une partie de la cour. II inclinait pour la Chataigueraie, son favori, qui etait fort robuste, et qui passait pour un des homines les plus habiles en escrime : mais Jarnac f ut plus adroit. Couvrant sa tete de son bouclier, et se glissant sous le bras de son adversaire, il lui dechargea deux coups d'estramacon sur le jarret gauche, qui etait tendu et decouvert pour la facilite des mouvements. La Chataigneraie tomba au grand etonnement de tout le monde. La sur- prise fut telle que le souvenir de ce fait d'armes s'est conserve et qu'on nomme encore coup de Jarnac toute attaque sourde et imprevue."

E. YARDLEY.

I may refer any readers who are interested in the famous combat giving rise to this proverbial phrase to an article entitled ' Wager of Battle,' by M. S. Gilpatric, which appeared in the Laiv Times of 16 August, 1902 (pp. 360-3), and contains a very full account of the circumstances.

EDWARD LATHAM.

HUNDRED COURTS (10 th S. i. 127). Hundred Courts have not been abolished in so many words, except that form of them known as the Sheriffs Tourn, which was abolished by 50 & 51 Viet., c. 55, sect. 18(4). Such Hundred Courts as are Courts of Record still exist. An example is the Salford Hundred Court. Other Hundred Courts were virtually abolished by 30 & 31 Viet., c. 142, sect. 28, which provides that no action which can be brought in a County Court shall be brought in a Hundred Court not being a Court of Record. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

Whether it is still the case I cannot say, but until as late as 1838 the only Hundred Court of which the constitution was still pre-