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n s.x. JULY -25,1914.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

77 In 1806 the publisher Palm issued a pamphlet entitled 'Germany in its Deepest Humiliation' ('Deutschland in seiner tiefsten Erniedrigimg'), in which the anonymous author, a German Count, complained of the outrages with which Napoleon was permitted to ill-treat the Fatherland with impunity. As soon as the Corsican despot heard of it, he ordered Palm to be placed before a jury at Braunau, in Upper Austria, and to be condemned to death. As the jurors dared not resist, Palm was doomed; the sentence was carried out on the same day on 26 Aug. He was led in front of a party of soldiers, who fired, but did not kill him, so that the victim howled and clutched the ground with his nails. The officer in charge lost his head, and stood helpless till the clergyman who had accompanied Palm implored him to have a second volley fired, which he did, and this time the bullets hit better. {{fine|{{left|Berlin.|offset=2em}}

{{sc|Heart-Burial}} (11 S. viii. 289, 336, 352, 391, 432, 493; ix. 38, 92, 234, 275, 375, 398, 473; x. 35). In the third volume of the late Mr. James Hilton's 'Collections of Chronograms' occur two instances of hearts interred with chronogrammatic inscriptions. On p. 163 is that of Dionysius L'Argentier, the forty-fourth abbot of Clairvaux. He died at Airvault, but his heart was brought to Clairvaux and entombed there with the inscription:—

aethera Mens sVperat L'argentler, aVrea") CoroVs sors tenet et CLara Cor slbl V = 1624 VaLLe laCet

On p. 482 is that of Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria, who died at Linz. His heart was preserved " ad B.V. Cellensem in Styria. . . .positum a Josepho comite de Rabatta episcopo Labcensi." The inscrip- tion commences : " Sub hoc saxo jacet magni principis parva protio cor," and con- tains the chronogram date : Cor loseph In ManV Delparae sponsaereLInq^ens -1684.

Chichester. C - DEEDES.

" THERE 's SOME WATER WHERE THE STAGS DROWN" (11 S. x. 29). In Scotland this proverb is widely prevalent in the form " There 's aye some water whaur the stirkie droons." That is, if the depths have been sufficient to overwhelm even a little stirk, one of lst year's calves, they may safely be credited with being positively dangerous. As the querist observes, this is another way of saying that " there is no smoke without fire " ; or, as Kelly puts it in his ' Scottish

Proverbs,' p. 309 : " There was certainly some occasion for so much talk, rumour, and suspicion." It may be added that Ruddi- man's definition of " stirk " (A.-S. styrc, juvencus) still holds good. In Northern Scotland, he explains, " they distinguish between stirk and steer, the first being younger, and either male or female, the other some older, and only male."

THOMAS BAYNE.

BALNES, LALEHAM, LITTLYNGTON, AND STANES (US. ix. 508; x. 37). Littlyngton is the modern Littleton, which is situated about midway between Sunbury, Shepperton, and Laleham, and is one of the smallest parishes in Middlesex. There are several references to the manor and advowson in Hardy and Page's ' Calendar of Feet of Fines for London and Middlesex,' in which the place figures under a variety of spellings Litlington, Lutlington, Litelton, Lytleton, &c. The earliest, under date 5 John (1203-4), is Lutleton, which is not far from the modern orthography. I cannot find among the Fines any reference to the transactions in which Robert Eglesfield was concerned. A note of the exchange of the Manor of the Hide at Laleham in 1328 for lands in Cumberland is given by Lysons in his 'Middlesex Parishes,' 1800, p. 198. According to this writer, the king's manor of " Kenyngton " is the present Kemp ton, in the manor of Sunbury.

As for " Balnes," unless it is a misreading of Barnes, I can find no mention of it. Balmes, in Hackney, is of much later date. There was an ancient manor, called Grove- barnys, in the parish of Staines, and I have no doubt Balnes belonged to that district.

W. F. PRIDEAtJX.

SEMAPHORE SIGNALLING STATIONS (11 S. x. 12). I have been told that " The Tele- graph Inn " on Putney Heath derives its name from the semaphore signalling station which once existed there. Would not the earliest edition of the one-inch Ordnance map help your correspondent ?

L. L. K.

I have a 'Navy List' of 1836 which gives the following list of stations between London and Portsmouth, with the name of the lieutenant in charge of each : Admiralty, Chelsea, Putney, Kingston, Esher, Cobham, Guildford, Godalming, Haslemere, Mid- hurst, Beacon Hill, Compton Down, Ports- down Hill, Portsmouth Dockyard. Ply- mouth is not mentioned.

L. E. MORIARTY.