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officers killed, and the counties to which they belonged. Is there published a de- tailed account of the battle ? F. K. P.

[There was five days' fighting at Bayonne, 9-13 Dee., 1813; and on 14 April, 1814, the garrison made a desperate sortie, in repulsing which 800 British soldiers were killed, and Lieut. -General Sir John Hope was wounded and taken prisoner. Have you consulted Sir William Napier's ' History of the War in the Peninsula and South of France ' ?]

SIR PATRICK HOUSTON. It is stated in Burke's ' Extinct Baronetage ' that " Sir Patrick Houston of Houston, created 1668, married Anne, daughter of John Hamilton, Lord Bargeny." Had he another wife, Lady Janet Cunningham, by whom he had a daughter Sarah Houston, married to Walter Dennistoun of that ilk, and of Col- grain, co. Dumbarton ? Whose daughter was this Janet Cunningham ?

WM. JACKSON PIGOTT.

OXEN DRAWING CARRIAGES. Can any reader kindly say whether it was Fuller or Defoe who saw " an ancient lady " being drawn to church in her own coach by six oxen ? The locality was near Lewes in Sussex. In G. Roberts' s ' Social History of the People of the Southern Counties of England' (1856), p. 487, the authority is given as Fuller ; elsewhere Defoe's ' Tour of England ' is cited. A reference to the edition and page would be greatly welcomed. WALTER JOHNSON.

5, Berber Road, Wandsworth Common, S.W.

EGG GOOD IN PARTS. About once a week

one reads in the newspapers that something

or other is " like the curate's egg, good in

parts." Is the origin of this phrase known ?

RICHARD WELFORD.

[The story is old, but we do not know its earliest source.]

MALCOLM FLEMING AND THE KING. " In figure not unlike a stunted oak of the kinc depicted in the arms of Glasgow, or such as those which grow in Cadzow Forest, and under which the white wild cattle feed, as they have done since Malcolm Fleeming slew one with his spear anc saved the king." 'The Ipane",' by Cunninghame Graham, p. 176.

Who was the king thus saved ?

ALEX. RUSSELL. Strom ness.

WADDINGTON AS A PLACE-NAME. Could any reader kindly inform me of the origin of Waddington as a place- or family name ' There is a village of this name in Lincoln shire, and another in Yorkshire.

HERBERT WADDINGTON.

13, Prince's Road, Middlesbrough.

NICHOLAS BREAKSPEAR, POPE ADRIAN IV.

(10 S. x. 449.)

MR. A. H. TARLETON, who lives at a louse known as Breakspears (near Ux- sridge), a place associated with the life of Nicholas Breakspear, published a few years ago (1896) a full life of Adrian IV. After stating that Pope Adrian IV. died at Anagni rom quinsy, he adds :

" Many legends have been circulated about his death. The usual accusation of poisoning was made, jut it has never had a shadow of evidence to sup- rtort it. The followers of Barbarossa invented a story that he [Adrian] was choked while drinking at a fountain by a fly. but this probably was a dis- torted account arising from the nature or his illness, about which there is no doubt. It was also added by his enemies that his death was the judgment of Kod for his excommunication of Frederic" (Bar- barossa).

Mr. Tarleton adds to his volume (pp. 266-8) a useful Bibliography of Nicholas Break- spear. The full description of his book is ' Nicholas Breakspear, Englishman and Pope,' by Alfred H. Tarleton, London, 1896, 8vo. A. L. HUMPHREYS.

187, Piccadilly, W.

The following is the account in lib. v. of Bale's ' Acta Romanorum Pontificum ' (p. 263 in the Leyden ed. of 1615) :

" Sed non multo post, cum exspaciaretur cum suis apud Anagniam, tantse impietatis anno Domini 1159, quinto Pontificatus anno, pcenas dedit. Musca enim involavit in os : quae, quia medicorum arte eximi non poterat, prseclusit illi spiritum, atque ita suffocatus obiit."

The Bishop of Ossory's book was first pub- lished in 1558. His marginal references for the Pope's death are " Joannes de Cremona, Nauclerus. Vrsp." The last-named abbre- viation is for the ' Chronicon Abbat. Ursper- gensis,' from the time of Ninus to 1229, attributed to Konrad v. Lichtenau, Abbot (1225-40) of the Premonstratensian Monas- tery at Ursperg. Joannes Nauclerus' s per- formance was a chronicle from the Creation to 1500. EDWARD BENSLY.

Aberystwyth.

This story is not given by the Chevalier Artaud de Montor in his ' Lives of the Roman Pontiffs.' HARRY HEMS.

Folkstone Williams, in his ' Lives of the English Cardinals,' 1861, vol. i. p. 138, says : " Historical writers generally are silent respect- ing the manner of Pope Adrian IV. 's death, includ-