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MS. Pluto L.E., 360-7), 1561, and was ordered to be kept in close confinement there 28 July, 1562 ('P.C.A.' [N.S.], vii. 119). Thence he was released on bail 19 August, 1574 (ibid., viii. 283). On 18 July, 1577, he was committed to the custody of the Bishop of Lincoln (ibid., ix. 388, x. 4), whence he was transferred on the ground of serious illness to the custody of the Bishop of London, 5 November, 1577 (ibid., x. 54). JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

THE LAST OP THE WAR Bow. (See 9 th S. iv. 424.) The following quotation is taken from J. T. Wheeler's 'A Short History of India,' <fec., 1880 : " It is not always re- membered that bows and arrows have been used in European warfare during this cen- tury. Marbot says the Cossacks at Leipzic were so armed." The battle of Leipzic (16-18 October, 1813), one of the most dis- astrous defeats inflicted on Napoleon, has been called " the battle of the nations " on account of the numbers and different nation- alities of the forces engaged.

M. J. D. COCKLE.

Solan, Punjab.

NAMES OF OUR ENGLISH KINGS. It is some- what remarkable that, amongst all the names of our kings since the Norman Conquest, only one is native English, viz., Edward. Indeed, only five are of Germanic origin, viz. (in addition to Edward), William, Henry, Richard, and Charles, all French forms of Old German origin. The rest are all foreign. Stephen and George are Greek ; John, Mary, Elizabeth, James, and Anne are Hebrew ; and only one is Latin, that name of happy omen, Victoria. WALTER W. SEE AT.

J. R. GREEN ON FREEMAN. In the ' His- torical Studies ' of the late Mr. J. R. Green, lately published, the following sentence occurs, p. 103. The reference is to Freeman's ' Norman Conquest.'

" We must say, in justice to the Count, that when he dedicated his abbey ' in honore ac memoria illarum ccelestium virtutum quas Cherubin et Seraphim sublimiores sacra testatur auctoritas,' it is odd construing to translate this 'in honour of the Cherubin and Seraphim.' Above them in the j celestial hierarchy came the three Persons of the Trinity, and it was to the Trinity that Fulk dedi- cated his house at Loches."

Surely the dedication as given in the original is to 'the Heavenly Host, among whom the Cherubin and Seraphim are highest." The word quas may present a difficulty in either rendering, but the sentence is perfectly clear otherwise, and it certainly seems very " odd " to class the three Persons of the Trinity among the " celestial hierarchy." M.

"Go FOR "= ATTACK. "It is exactly self- evident theories of this kind," says Prpf- Baldwin Brown, in his volume on 'The Life of Saxon England in its Relation to the Arts,' 1903, p. 70,

"far which the scientific critic of the day is inclined to go. For the sake of clearness it may be said here that the orthodox theory just outlined seems to the present writer more than dubious," &c.

For the sake of clearness it may be said in 'N. & Q.' that Prof. Brown's English is not orthodox English at all, but slang, though that, no doubt, is English in the making. So without claiming to be a scientific critic 1 " go for " Mr. Brown ! For his work I have- the highest respect.

WILLIAM GEORGE BLACK.

Glasgow.

THE LAST PEER OF FRANCE. The enclosed' paragraph from the Irish Times of 27 Feb- ruary strikes me as being of sufficient historical importance to interest readers of" 'N. &Q.':-

" The last peer of France has just passed away by the death of M. le Marquis de Gouvion Saint Cyr. There are many dukes, and counts, and barons in France to-day, but they only hold their titles by courtesy, and under the Republic have- no legal right to them. But le Marquis de Gouvion Saint Cyr had really sat in Parliament as an here- ditary peer, for he was born in 1815, and succeeded his father, the Marshal, in 1841."

HERBERT B. CLAYTON. 39, Renfrew Road, Lower Kennington Lane.

"FULTURE." In the lease of a farm at Hansworth Woodhouse, co. York, in 1721, the tenant is bound to "leave all compost, fulture, and manure " of the last year of his tenancy, on the premises. In another lease, of a farm at Eckington, co. Derby, 1739, the tenant covenants to "lay or sett all the mannure, fulture, and compost" on som& part of the land. I do not find this word in any dictionary, but it is doubtless a form of fulyie or fulzie, which the 'N.E.D.' says is (l)'the sweepings or refuse of the streets, (2) manure. W. C. B.

FIRST STEAM RAILWAY TRAIN. The fol- lowing occurred in the Western Echo (Exeter) for 12 February :

"To-day is the centenary of the railway loco- motive. On 12 Feb., 1804, Richard Trevithick, the Cornish inventor, then employed at Merthyr TydviL ran the trial trip of his steam carriage over the old horse tramway from Penydarren Ironworks (now disappeared) to Navigation'Canal Wharf, nine miles lower down in the 'faff Valley. The accomplish- ment of the feat was the means of Mr. Samuel Homfray, the Penydarren ironmaster, winning a bet of l.OOW. which he had made with Mr. Richard Crawshay, Cyfarthfa, that he would convey a load