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at part of vol. vii. of H. H. Bancroft's America' (San Francisco, 1885) showed the .following : 1810, the parish priest Hidalgo was proclaimed " Captain - General of America " (p. 127). 1811, when he and his immediate followers had been captured in the field,
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" in the case of the friars and clergy, more formality had to be observed out of respect to ecclesiastical jurisdiction. Six of them were condemned to death, but their clerical degradation was necessary before they could be executed according to estab- lished form." P. 280.

1812, at a siege, " in one of the assaults,, Dominican friar perished on the royalist side, and in another an Augustinian fighting for the independents" (p. 437). 1813, another clergyman, Morales, made gene- ralissimo (p. 564), was the revolution's " most brilliant soldier " (p. 623).

A good, but unauthenticated story as to "the French in Mexico is in Martyn's ' Life in the Foreign Legion' (London, 1911), pp. 267-8. A general, in despair at having no officiant for Parade High Mass, was saluted by the sentry at the church door with : "I was a bishop, and, never having 'been unfrocked, I am a priest still " ; he thereupon performed the service with dignity, resulting in the desired political good effect on the inhabitants. This bishop was said to be a good fighter, as was another priest mentioned in this interesting book.

ROCKINGHAM

Boston, Mass.

MAWMAN (US. xii. 321). Charles Billy's successor in business was Joseph Mawman, " at that time high in the same profession at York." He died 13 Sept., 1827, aged 68.

" He was a very intelligent man, and spirited publisher ; also an author, having published in .1805 an 8vo volume entitled, ' An Excursion to -the Highlands of Scotland, and the English Lakes,' &c." Timperley, 'Dictionary of Printers,' 1839.

WM. H. PEET.

CELTIC AND COPTIC MONASTICISM (11 S. ^cii. 319). The Litany of Oengus the Ouldee, in its invocation of foreign saints buried in Ireland, includes " Seven monks of Egypt " (see ' Lebar Brecc,' p. 23).

WILLIAM MACARTHUR. 79, Talbot Street, Dublin.

NAPOLEON AND THE BELLEROPHON (11 S. xi. 339, 438 ; xii. 35, 105). Can any reader give the names of the English officers stand- ing on the deck with Napoleon in this engraving ? F. VINE^RAINSFORD.

66, Oseney Crescent, N.W.

KNIGHTS MADE AT THE CORONATION OF QUEEN ANNE BOLEYN, 1533 (US. xii. 301).

"Also on fryday the xxx day of Maye ye Kynge treated and made in the towre of London, xix noble men Knyghtes of the bathe vrhose names folowe :

The lorde Marques Dorset.

The erle of Derby.

The lorde Clyfforde sone and heyre to therle of Cumberlande.

The lorde Fitzwater sone and heyre to therle of Sussex.

The lorde Hastynges sone and heyre to therle of Huntyngton.

The Lorde Barkelay.

The lorde Mountagle.

The lorde Vaux.

Syr Henry Parker sone and heyre to ye lorde Mo r ley.

Syr Wyllyam Wyndsour sone and heyre to the lorde Wyndesour.

Syr John Mordant sone and heyre to ye lorde Mordant.

Syr Fraunces Weston.

Syr Thomas Aroundell.

Syr Johan Hudelston.

Syr Thomas Ponynges.

Syr- Henry Sauell.

Syr George Fitz Wyllyam of Lyncolne shire.

Syr Johan Tyndall.

Syr Thomas Jermey."

The above list is taken from ' The Noble Tryumphaunt Coronacyon of Quene Anne, Wyfe unto the Moost Noble Kynge Henry the VIII.,' printed by Wynkyn de Worde, 1532-3, edited by Edmund Goldsmid, F.R.H.S., F.S.A.(Scot.), privately printed, Edinburgh, 1884. JOHN T. PAGE.

CAT QUERIES (11[S. xii. 183,244,286, 330). Can any cat-expert give the cause of a cat devouring her young kittens ? This has happened twice recently fin the case of a cat about two years old) under my notice. It is not known to be in any way hereditary in this particular family of cats a line which has been serious of demeanour and exemplary in conduct.

W. H. QUARRELL.

A bit of Chaucerian folk-lore may be acceptable : the Wife of Bath asserts in her Prologue (lines 348-54) :

Thou seydest this, that I was lyk a cat ; For whoso wolde senge a cattes skin, Than wolde the cat wel dwellen in his in ; And if the cattes skin be sylk and gay, She wol nat dwelle in house half a day But forth she wole, er any day be dawed, To shewe hir skin.

I suspect that the latter statement about the cat is as true to feline nature as to human, and is fact, not folk-lore. I think, however, that it is well to give the passage as it stands. ST. SWTIHIN.