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that Xapoleon would be capable of so unjust and illegal an action. At Braunau he was tried by court-martial and shot in three hours. This act caused the deepest resent- ment among the Bavarians, and, through them, among the Prussian and other Ger- man States. The bleeding figure of Palm was carried on regimental banners, and 0,000 copies of his letter written just before his execution were circulated. It was probably, more than anything else, the cause of that intense national hatred which could never be wiped out but in blood, and of which the victory of Sedan and the reprisals which followed were the direct, if somewhat long-delayed result.

J. FOSTER PALMER. 8, Royal Avenue, S.W.

"CONDAMINE" (11 S. ix. 511; x. 32). Condamina is a ProvenQal word, which Emil Levy, in his ' Dictionnaire Proven9al-Fran- 9-iis' (1909), explains to mean "champ franc do toute redevance ; domaine seigneurial." The word has been \ised in the same sense in charters and other legal documents in the mediaeval Latin of the South of France since the beginnning of the tenth century. Ducange gives many instances of its use between the tenth and the fourteenth c ^ntury (s.v. Condamina vel Condomina). ''Ih word is generally explained as a variant of condominium : " condamina, quasi, a jure unius Domini dicta " (Ducange). Some ex- plain the prefix con to be the equivalent of tamp (" champ "). the Proven9al form of Lat. campus : since " in Occitania, maxime versus Sevennas Camp aut Con, Campum sonat " (Ducange). In later times the word condamina was commonly applied to land orchards or nursery gardens adjacent to a town. A. L. MAYHEW.

Oxford.

In some parts of the South of France gardeners and others speak of mould as " la condamine." This fact may elucidate the derivation of the place-names in question. G. ARCHAMBAULT.

BOOKS ON CHELSEA (US. ix. 479 ; x. 15). It is rather bold to assert that " there is no question of the More family group being lost." There certainly is a question, although, of course, it may be answered in the negative. The authenticity of the various pictures claiming to be the More family group is fully discussed in A. B. Chamberlain's ' Hins Holbein the Younger,' vol. i. pp. 293-302 ; vol. ii. pp. 334-40. The picture at Xostell Priory is thought to

show some traces of Holbein's workmanship ; but even in this case the point is doubtful, as the picture is dated 1530, a year when Holbein was not in England ; also the group- ing of the figures does not correspond with that in the undoubtedly authentic Basle study, and the painting is inferior to Hol- bein's best work. M. H. DODDS.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (11 S. ix. 429). The lines

And I still onward haste to my last night ; Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly ; So every day we live, a day we die,

are Thomas Campion's. The poem from which they are taken occurs in his ' Divine and Moral Songs,' and begins:

Come, cheerful day, part of my life to me.

0. C. B.

OLD ETONIANS (11 S. ix. 449). (2) BONNIN (or BONEEN), GOOSEY. Gousse Bonnin of the Island of Antigua, surgeon, probably a Huguenot, was in London in 1712 to give evidence relating to the killing of Governor Parke, and his will was proved 18 Aug., 1713, at Antigua. He left an only son Henry, or Henry Gousse Bonnin, who died in 1778, and who may have been father of Henry Bonnin, jun., who was married in 1759, and died the following year, and of Goosey Bonnin the Etonian. In Howard's Misc. Gen, et Her., Third Series, ii. 116, is a M.I. from Leghorn to a child of Henry Gousse Bonnin and Charlotte his wife, b. 1819, d. 1821.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED (11 S. ix. 449). (4) GEORGE BYAM, admitted 1715, aged 10. He was elder son of Edward Byam, Lieutenant-Governor of the Island of Antigua, by his second wife, Mrs. Lydia Martin, widow, having been born 24 April, 1704, and baptized on the 29th in St. John's parish. He became a merchant, married Henrietta Maria, daughter of Col. John Frye, and was buried in St. George's parish, 13 Nov., 1734. His younger brother, Francis, born 8 Aug., 1709, was also at West- minster. See ' Biographical Register of Christ's Coll., Camb.' V. L. OLIVER.

Sunninghill.

EDWARD RICHARD BURROUGH (11 S. ix. 469). Son of Richard Burrou^h of Dublin, admitted 1812. It is possible he may have been Sir Edward R. Boron ph. Bart., banker and army agent of Dublin, who clir-d about 1880 at a very advanced ago.

ALFRED MOJ.ONY.