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 10-S.IV.DEC.16.1906.J NOTES AND QUERIES. 493 which is very fully related in ' Eulogium Historiarum' (vol. lii. pp. 109-11, ed. F. S. Haydon). This story either originates from the French ' Brut,' or is taken from the same source as the account in that chronicle. It contains, however, many additions rendering the tale more dramatic. The whole account is well worth reading, but too long to transcribe. John is at Swineshead. The story of the loaf recurs, which induces the monk to determine on the king's death. Then follow these words :— " Monachus gardinum adiena unum invenit bufonem teterrinmni, qui euro capiens et in pelvini ponena atque cum cultello suo stimulans donee auum venenum evomebat, qui illud diligenter colligens et in ciphum regis appoauit." The monk then confides his plan to the abbot, quoting the words of Caiaphas, "It were better that one should die than that the whole people should perish." Then " monachus ab abbate auo abaolutua in- trepidua calicem cum veneno regi prseseotavit, ipaumque more Saxonico salutavit, et ait: Wassayl, et aubjunxit, quod tota Anglia gauderet de illo Wasaayl. Rex dedit reaponsum : Drinkhayl, et monachua Iteto vultu ciphum hauait; quo hauato regi obtulit, qui libenter potayit et atatim toxi- catna eat. Monachua infirmariie adiena continuo crepuit [of. Shale.. 'K. John,' V. vi.] medio, et dilhiKii aunt omnia viacera ejua; qui tempore perpetuo trea habet monachoa pro eo celebrantea ex conaensu capituli generalia." Soon the king feels the effects. He is told the monk is dead, and. feeling death ap- proaching, admits that the monk's prophecy was true. " Jussit ergo rex movere (mensam) et hernesia sua trussare, et venit ad Cas- tellum de Newerk," <fec. The version given by ST. SWITHIN (p. 256) appears in parts to be a translation of this; cf. infirmarice, trussare, rendered " farmerye" and " to trusse." CHR. WATSON. "BESIDE" (10th S. iv. 306, 375, 434).—Prof Skeat's teaching as communicated in 'An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language ' is that " the more correct form ia beside ; betides ia a later development due to the habit of using the auffix -et to form adverbs ; the uae of beside* as a preposi- tion is, strictly, incorrect, but ia as old as the twelfth century." ST. SWITHIN. " PAULES FETE " (10th S. ii. 87, 138 : iv. 435).—The term is explained in the 'N.E.LV J. T. F. Durham. WATERLOO VETERAN (10th S. iv. 347, 391). —In an account of the battle of Waterloo which appeared about ten years ago in ' Battles of the Nineteenth Century,' it was stated that in 1894 John Stacey, then aged ninety-six, petitioned the War Office for an increased pension. He had served as a bugler or a drummer in the King's German Legion at Waterloo. R. L. MORETON. AMATEUR DRAMATIC CLUBS (10th S. iv. 388, 431).—'Behind the Footlights; or, the Stage as I Knew It,' by W. C. Day, published by Frederick Warne & Co., 1885, provides som& information about " The Scenic Club " that had a brief existence at the Western Literary Institute. There are references to other amateur dramatic clubs, but the work is not of importance. ALECK ABRAHAMS. 39, Hillmarton Road, X. Since my reply to J. H. B. I have come across a brief article in The Era for 19 August (p. 15) entitled 'Amateurs and Professionals,' which gives a long quotation from a copy of The Theatrical Times of 1846, without giving the precise date of the month. Unfortu- nately I do not seem to possess the particular number from which The Era gathers it* information. S. J. A. F. GEORGE Ill.'s DAUGHTERS (10th S. iv. 167, 236, 291, 336).—Of Princess Sophia it is said that she married Col. Garth, had two sons, who made her very unhappy, and died miserably. A letter from Princess de Lieven, March, 1829, runs as follows :— " I'M certain capitaine Garth paaae ou ae fait passer pour le tils de la princesse Sophie, aceur du roi George IV. Des aommea promiaes par un- cavalier de la cour pour payer sea dettea, et surtout pour avoir possession de certainea lettrea, montrent clairenient que la famille royale eat interessee dana cette queation. Le premier fait eat conjectural j maia voici le comble: le capitaine Garth pretend que cea lettrea prouvent que le Due de Cumberland est aon pere, en meme temps que la princease Sophie eat aa mere, et, qnelle que soil 1'opinion que Ton porte & cette infame calomnie, lea journaux n'entretiennent le public que de ce fait, aoit pour 1'affinner, aoit pour le dementir."—Revue de-i Veux Mrmdes, 1 Mara, 1903. Can any reader make me acquainted with all the circumstances of the Garth romance? Repeating Princess Amelia and a secret marriage with General FitzRoy, I note the following :— 1. " The intereating subjects upon which he (George III.] had to open his mind had, doubt- leaa, more relation to domestic affaira than to public eventa. Hia favourite daughter was dying, and, upon her death-bed, she is said to nave revealed to her father the circumstances of an attachment which, aa was believed, had involved a violation of the Royal Marriage Act."—Lord Col- cbeater'a ' Diary,' vol. ii. p. 287. 2. Wellington wrote to the Marquis of Buckingham:—