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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. m. MARCH n, 1905.

si je trouvais quelqu'autre chose a lui corn- muniquer, voici ce que j'ai trouve :

" Este Santo Cristo tiene un dedo menoa en el pio derecho, el cual le quite un Seiior Obispo f ranees, besandole sus plantas, sin que ninguno lo advir- tiese ; y habiendole llevado ;'i aquel Reino, se dice hizo tantos prodigies coino prodtijo cinifea el dedo de Dios en Egipto. Para ocultar esta falta, tiene los huevos de avestruz a sus plantas." 'Historia del Santo Cristo de Burgos,' por el Padre Pedro de Loriaao, aiio 1740.

Ceci m'a etc confirme par un carmulite dechausse residant a Burgos, lequel araplifie 8es renseignements en y ajoutant quelque chose sur la couronne qu'on voit sur les ceufs et dont ST. SWITUIN n'en dit rien, quoiqu'il possede une photographic du Christ.

Voici ce qu'ajoute le Pere Loriano dans 1'Histoire citee :

"El Seiior Don Pedro Giron, Maeatre de Cala- trava, y Fundador de la gran casa de Osuna, recibiu una gran herida en la toma de Archidona, de la cual enfermu de niuerte por habersela curado en falso. Llegaron a empodrecersele los cascos de suerte que ni sus doniesticos ni aim el a si mismo podia sufrir el fetor que despedia de la cabeza. Encomendose al SS. Cristo de Burgos, ofreciendo visitarle en su Santa Capilla si le daba salud y libraba del gran trabajo que padecia. Consiguiola en breve milagrosamente y viniendo a cumplir su promesa, agradecido al beneh'cio recibido, ofrecio doce marcos de plata y una corona de oro para el

Santo Crucifijo Pusierona.su Majestad la corona

de oro y guardaron la de espinas, como reliquia de especial estimacion en un cajon de la sacristia. A la maiianasiguiente, descubriendo el P. Sacristan la santa Imagen a unos peregrines, reparo que tenia en su cabeza la corona de espinas que el dia antes 61 habia guardado y que no parecia la de oro.

' Turbado con el suceso, subio al altar y reparando con atencion, hallo la corona de oro al pie de la cruz, como arrojada sobre una grada. Dio cuenta al Prior y demas religiosos del convento de lo que liabia visto, y sospechando que podia ser efecto de una disposicion huinana, volvieron otra vez a mudar a S. M. la corona, poniendole la de oro en la cabeza yguardando la de espinas con especial cautela y custodia, pero al dia siguiente admiraron repetido el prodigio de ver coronado a S. M. de espinas y holiando la corona cle oro. Parecioles que para perpetua memoria del milagro, se debia poner patente ;i las plantas del Santa Crucih'jo la corona de oro como lo hicieron.

" Esta corona de deshizo despues para la Fabrica de la Iglesia con facultad de la silla Apostolica y para la perpetuidad de la memoria, tiene una de plata sobredorada actualmente a sus plantas el Divino Crucifijo."

FLORENCIO DE UIIAGON.

DUELLING (10 th S. iii. 49, 94). Among ray collections for a second edition of the ' Hand- book of Fictitious Names' I find the ' British Code of Duelling.' In collecting for a second edition I took a far wider view of the subject. I always made a note of any book as to which there appeared to me a possible clue

to the author's name, or about which there was anything curious. The result is that I have accumulated some 10,000 slips ; if we reduce these to half there is still enough for a large book. As I have said elsewhere, I have made my last effort in bibliography, so that I shall never attempt anything more than desultory notes such as this.

Though I am unable to give C. W. S. the name of the author, I have something to say about the ' Code of Duelling.' The title goes on to say that it has "an appendix in which is strictly examined the case between the Tenth Hussars and Mr. Battier, Capt. Calla'n, Mr. Finch, &c." Accordingly I have it ander the name of Battier, though he was not the author, as appears from internal evidence.

The Literary Gazette, 1824, p. 585, says the printing of the ' British Code ' is "extremely careless, and we fancy [it] will not have a second edition " ; but according to Mr. Thimm there are three different prints, though if Mr. Thimm is right not one of these is called second edition.

The Alcline Magazine, 1839, has a paragraph telling us that after he was dismissed from his regiment, Cornet William Battier went to live on the Continent, devoting himself to literary pursuits, and that he died in Paris on 21 April, 1839, leaving a large family un- provided for.

Your contributor ante, p. 94, refers to ' Duelling,' by J. C. Bluett (second edition, 1836). He will oblige by giving exact refer- ence to where Bluett says the 'Code 'is by Hamilton. On p. ix Bluett refers to "a copy of a work upon duelling by Joseph Hamilton." but he gives no title, and clearly refers to Hamilton's own autonymous book.

Battier is a most uncommon name ; it occurred to me that it was French, and in Querard ('La France Litteraire,' 1827, vol. i. p. 216) I find one Battier only, for a book on fencing, published in Paris in 1772.

Then in Lorenz's ' Catalogue General ' I find another William Battier (notice the English form of the forename), who was born in Paris in 1828, and is a professor of the English language there, his last publication in the British Museum being dated 1892.

Gelli, in his ' Bibliografia,' suggests " Batier," but this is a form I have not found anywhere, except in Thimm's 'Bibliography of Fencing,' but probably he has only copied Gelli, without investigation.

I have spent several hours looking up the- subject again ; but I think contemporary periodical literature might be investigated with advantage. This may require a great