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means " natural," and the ' E.D.D.' glosses it as " frank, sincere, unaffected, homely," the illustration given of its use in Worces- tershire being :

" Lady Mary is such a plain lady ; she borne into my 'ouse an' sits down, an' tak's the children in 'er lap as comfortable as cpn be. She 's as plain as you be, miss, every bit."

Lincolnshire, Dorset, Hertford, and Wiltshire use the word with like intent.

ST. SWITHIN.

This word, with a good illustration of its uge j n the sense of unassuming is included in ' A Glossary of West Worcestershire Words,' by Mrs. Chamberlain, issued by the English Dialect Society in 1882. In Mid- Warwickshire I have often heard a villager describe a lady or gentleman of superior social position as being " plain and homely." Rightly understood, the expression conveys a great compliment. A. C. C.

NAPOLEON'S BEQUEST TO CANTILLON (US. xii. 139).

" This 24th of April, 1821. Long-wood. " This is a fourth codicil to my Testament.



" 5. Item. Ten thousand francs to the subaltern officer, Cantillon, who has undergone a trial upon the charge of having endeavoured to assassinate Lord Wellington, of which he was pronounced innocent. Cantillon had as much right to assassi- nate that oligarchist, as the latter had to send me to perish upon the rock of St. Helena."

I quote from Hazlitt's ' Life of Napoleon,' second edition, 1852, vol. iv. Appendix II., p. 420. The will and codicils are given in full, but in English only. Hazlitt's note to this item is as follows : " There is no act of Buonaparte's life which shows more courage and spirit than this clause in his will."

WM. H. PEET.

On 25 June, 1816, an attempt was made to set fire to Wellington's house in the Rue Champs ^llysees, Where he was giving a ball; and on 10 Feb., 1818, a shot was fired at him as he drove into the court- yard at night. Cantillon, a sous-officier of the Empire, was brought to trial for this attempt, but was acquitted. A legacy of 10,000 francs was left to Cantillon by Napo- leon I., and paid to his heirs by Napoleon III. (Suppl. Desp. 12 Feb. and 19 March ; Croker, i. 339; Gleig, iii. 40, 61). In the fourth codicil of his will (15 April, 1821) Napoleon I. gives the above sum to the subaltern officer Cantillon, adding ut supra.

A. R. BAYLEY.

INSCRIPTION TO BE DECIPHERED (11 S~ xii. 10, 58). In view of the latter reference- I may perhaps be allowed to state :

(1) That the devotion of the Way of the- Cross is very ancient in the Holy Land.

(2) That the devotion outside the Holy Land was at first exclusively Franciscan.

(3) That the devotion does not necessarily imply any vocal prayer whatsoever, only meditation.

(4) That the antiphon or ejaculation, "Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi ; quia per sanctam Crucem tuam rede- misti mundum," is probably very old. In the form " Laudamus te, Christe, et hymnum dicimus tibi ; quia," &c., it is part of the present Ambrosian ' Adoration of the Cross * on Good Friday ; and in the form " Adoramus te, sanctissime Domine Jesu Christe, bene- dicimus te ; quia," &c., it was indulgenced by Leo XIII. in 1882.

Which is the earliest of these three forms must be left to liturgiologists to decide; but as the second is part of the Ambrosial* Missal it -would seem prima facie to be older than the other two, and the first, as the less profuse of the two others, is probably the- older.

In these realms and in the U.S.A., when the Way of the Cross is performed publicly ,- the first form is usually recited ; but, so far as I know, no Papal indulgence is attached to the recital of this particular form, any more than to that in the Ambrosian Missal.

Does MR. CUTHBERT REID mean to assert that St. Alphonsus is responsible for the first form ?' If he means to say that San Alfonso Liguori originated the devotion,, he is mistaken. JOHN B. WAINWRIGHT.

SIR RICHARD BTJLKELEY, BART., OF IRELAND AND EWELL, SURREY (11 S. xi. 494; xii. 52, 129). Your correspondent at the last-mentioned reference, the REV. T. LLECHID JONES appears sceptical concern- ing the statement I made (ante, p. 52) that Archbishop Bulkeley had a son Richard,, and quotes Miss Angharad Llwyd (a ' History of the Island of Mona,' 1833 edition, p. 357 > and Mr. J. E. Griffiths (' Pedigrees of Angle- sey and Carnarvonshire Families,' 1914 edition, p. 42) in support of his belief that the Archbishop, by Alice his wife, had an only son, William, the Archdeacon of Dublin.

By the courtesy of Mr. J. N. Dowling, of Edgbaston, Birmingham, who is a direct descendant of the Archbishop through this particular son Richard, I have before me a copy of a manuscript pedigree (which he- compiled many years ago from original