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NOTES AND QUERIES. [n s. XIL OCT. 23, 1915.

" Notheless (c. 888 to 1400, then 1606)." Douglas's form nocht the les belongs to NOT THE LESS, where earlier and later Scottish examples are given.

" Or than, or else." The phrase is fully illus- trated, and a quotation from Douglas given, under THEN, adv. 4 c.

" Orlop (1467, &c.)." The first of the two quotations is given in the Diet.

Peevish. The quotation is given under PEEVISH, a. 2.

" Perch, sb. (1290, 1440, then 1578, &c.)." Douglas's form is perkis (pi.), and the quotation is duly entered under PERK, sb. 1 1.

"Pig. (What is this?)" The word in the quotation is piggeis, which is entered in the Diet, with a reference to PEGGY-MAST ; under that heading this passage is quoted.

" Pretty, used sarcastically (1538)." The pas- sage has not been omitted in the Diet., but a different sense has been assigned to it : see PRETTY, a. 6.

" Proplexity for perplexity." Given in the Diet, with four quotations dating from 1487 to a. 1568.

" Quoin, adj., few." Douglas's quhoyn will naturally appear in the Diet, under WHONE, a.

" Quook, quaked." The passage is quoted in the Diet, under QUAKE, v. 1 1.

" Rang for reigned." " Ring, to reign." These usual Scottish forms are fully illustrated under REIGN, v.

" Rigging = rig, the back." The passage is quoted under RIGGING, sb.i 3.

" Rights, at (at all rights, 14 and 15 c.)." The phrase is dealt with, and the quotation given, under RIGHT, s&.i 12 b.

" Rip (1530)." Douglas's rype belongs to RIPE, v. a, under which two quotations from- the ' -33neid ' are given.

" Ruse, a boast (so the editor)." This common Scottish word naturally appears in the Diet, as ROOSE, sb., and the quotation is given there.

" Scale, v., to scatter, to divulge." The quota- tion is given under the usual form of the word, .viz., SKAIL, v. 2 b.

"Secluding (c. 1851)." This date is entirely misleading, being that of SECLUDING, ppl. a., whereas secludand in the quotation is merely the pres. pple. of SECLUDE, v.

" Sen. (What is this ? The sense is ' O that.' )" The explanation may be found under SEND, v. 1 b.

" Thud, sb. 3 (1825)." As the Latin has turbine, this instance of thud must be associated with sense 1 in the Diet., which begins with another quotation from. Douglas..

" Top over tail, topsy-turvy." Illustrated in the Diet., from c. 1330 onwards, under TOP, s6.i24d.

" Trot, sb., an old woman." The first quotation is given under TROT, s&.2 a.

" Tyryit, torn to pieces." This word is fully dealt with, and a quotation from Douglas given, under TIRVE, v. 1.

The remaining words belong to sections of the Dictionary which have not yet been published. W. A. CBAIGIE.

Oxford.

NAPOLEON'S BEQUEST TO CANTILLON (US. xii. 139, 188). The following extract may be something of an answer to MB. WAINE- WBIQHT'S question, " Who was Cantillon ? "

"Cantillon was of Irish descent; his great- grandfather, James Cantillon, of Bally higue, Captain in the Guards of James II., accompanied that monarch to France, and, joining the Irish Brigade, received eleven wounds at the battle of Malplaquet. Mary Cantillon, daughter of Robert Cantillon, Esq., of Limerick, first cousin of this Captain James Cantillon, married Maurice O'Con- nefi, Esq., Derrynane, uncle of the late Daniel CTConnell, M.P." Foot-note: "Obligingly com- municated by Mr. J. Bernard Burke."' Wellmg- toniana,' selected by John Timbs, 1852, p. 113.

The arms of Cantilon (one I), Ireland, are given in the ' Encyclopaedia of Heraldry,' by John and John Bernard Burke, third edition, 1844. There are also the arms of Cantilion and of Cantilion (Ireland). The three coats of arms are very much alike.

"Cantillon and his accomplice, named Marinot were tried in the next year [1819], but were ac- quitted."' Wellingtoniana,' p. 112.

In W. Toone's ' Chronological Historian,* 1826, are the following paragraphs :

" 1818. Feb. 12. As the duke of Wellington was returning in his carriage from an assembly at the house of Lady Crawford, in Paris, a pistol was fired at him as he entered the gate of his hotel, in the, Rue.des Champs Elysees, which luckily missed him; the assassin escaped by the darkness of the night."

" 1819. May 4. Marie Andre" Chatillon [sic'] and Joseph Stanislaus Marmot, were tried before the court of assize at Paris, charged with an attempt to assassinate the duke of Wellington, on the llth of February, 1818; they were acquitted."

Timbs gives 11 February as the date of the crime. ROBEBT PIEBPOINT.

A TALE OF THE BATTLE OF WOBCESTEB : CBOMWELL'S ALLEGED LEAGUE WITH THE DEVIL (11 S. xii. 281). The legend of Cromwell's league with the devil is given in Laurence Echard's 'History of England,' vol. ii., 1718, pp. 712, 713.

After an account of the battle of Worcester, which Cromwell called a "crowning mercy ,'* Echard writes :

" But others accounted it an infernal Judg- ment ; concerning which we have a strange Story in the last part of the ' History of Independency,' which the Author says he received from a Person of Quality, viz. ' It was believ'd, and that not without some good Cause, that Cromwell, the same Morning that he defeated the King's Army at Worcester, had a conference personally with the Devil, with whom he made a Contract, that to have his Will then, and in all Things else for seven Years from that Day, he should, at the Expiration of the said Years, have him at his Command, to do at his Pleasure, both with his Soul and Body.' This also is related in other