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J. B. Shiffner. These four captains were wounded during the French sortie from Bayonne on 10 April, 1814, and died in the 3rd Guards' camp, which stood on this spot. There is, I believe, a 2nd Guards' Cemetery (for the Coldstreams) not far away. These cemeteries have been fre- quently visited by English royalty when staying at Biarritz Queen Victoria and Princess Beatrice in 1889, and King Ed- ward VII. and (I believe) the present Queen of Spain at later dates.

Under the title of ' A Forgotten Fight ' Lieut.-Col. William Hill James gave an account of Sir R. Hill's battle outside Bayonne (13 Dec., 1813) in Macmillaris Magazine for September, 1894. This, like several of the same author's articles on ' Battles round Biarritz,' has since been published in pamphlet form by M 'Lagan & Curnming of Edinburgh. A little volume containing a full account of all British " Peninsular " graves on French soil is the work of the same pen.

Alison's ' History of Europe ' refers to the battle of Bayonne ; and the concluding chapter of ' The Subaltern,' a personal narrative by Gleig, may also be consulted.

The entrance tower of St. Andrew's Church, Biarritz, is appropriately decorated with slabs recording the names of those who fell in the King's service in these parts in 1813-14. F. A. W.

EUHTJ YALE'S EPITAPH (10 S. x. 502 ; xi. 111). I do not know whether or not Elihu Yale is a common name, but there was one of this name living in Wincanton in 1799. In that year a Mr. William Gapper in his will bequeathed Elihu Yale, gentle- man, a gold ring. Elihu was still living here in 1818, as I find his name in a sur- veyor's award ; but whether he was a descendant of Elihu of Boston, or when or where he died, at present I know not.

A party left here in 1638, and founded the town of Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

GEOBGE SWEETMAN.

Wincanton.

SUFFRAGAN BISHOPS : THEIR ARMS (10 S. xi. 109). A suffragan bishop holds no official position, therefore he possesses no official seal : he has no use for one. Further, a suffragan bishop has no diocese ; nor can lie claim any authority from the town from which he may take his title, to impale its arms with those of his own family. A suffragan bishop is not generally granted the use of a croisier, nor is any charge of a

key committed to his care, so his own arm* cannot possibly be correctly represented resting upon one or both of these. There- would be no objection to a mitre surmount- ing his private arms if he chose to place it there. A suffragan bishop simply possesses his title as a convenience, and in everything is subject to the bidding of his diocesan. The latter appoints his suffragan his Com- missary on certain occasions.

HARRY HEMS. Fair Park, Exeter.

'VILLAGE BLACKSMITH' PARODIED (10 S. xi. 10). The following list, compiled from Hamilton's collection of parodies, vols. i. and ii. published 1884-5, may perhaps include the desired poem :

The Village Blacksmith as He Is. Figaro- Programme, 6 Feb., 1873.

The Night Policeman. Funny Folks, 22 May,. 1875.

The Village Grog Shop. Mirth, March, 1878.

The English Judge. Truth, Christmas Number,. 1879.

The Village Beauty. The Dunheved Mirror T March, 1880.

The British M.P. Punch, 24 March, 1883.

The Village Pax.

The Village Woodman. Moonshine, 19 Jan.,. 1884.

Under Britannia's Spreading Oak. Globe* 10 Sept., 1884.

The Low Bohemian. Truth, Christmas Number, 1878.

The Village Schoolboy. Sporting Times, 5 July, 1884.

The Village Blacksmith. Topical Times, 13 Sept., 1884.

The War Blacksmith. Punch, 29 Sept., 1866.

The Lord Chancellor. Finis, Beeton's Christ- mas Annual, 1877.

The Village Pet. Wheeling Annual, 1885.

The City Blackleg. Judy, 4 Sept., 1867.

Before a Study of the Nude. Funny Folks* 6 June, 1885.

P. JENNINGS.

St. Day.

A parody appeared in The Globe in 1898 r called ' The Agitator.' It begins :

Under the famed Reformer's Tree The Agitator stands.

W. BRADBROOK. Bletchley, Bucks.

[Replies also acknowledged from W. F., MR. J. R. FITZGERALD, MR. R. PIERPOINT, and ST. SWITHIN.]

" CRIPPLE CARRYING " (10 S. x. 269). I think this merely means passing on crippled paupers under the old Poor Laws. A fuller entry runs : " To poore people that came with passes and to cripples given to pass them away, twelve and sevenpence."

A. T. M.