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NOTES AND QUERIES, pi s. xn. NOV. 27, 1915.

Ovid, ' Fasti,' i. 691, speaks of darnel that injures the eyes (" loliis oculos vitiantibus " ). Conington in his note (see above) refers to " the pernicious properties of darnel, which affects the head when ground into flour," but it does not appear whether this is based on any modern experience.

EDWAKD BENSLY.

ROYAL ARTILLERY : SWEDISH MEDAL (11 S. xii. 378). " Gliickstadt. 5 January, 1814." A bar, thus, was given'with the Naval General Service Medal, 1793-1841, for this expedition. The following ships were en- gaged : Desiree, Capt. Arthur Farquhar, who was in command of the expedition ; Shamrock (schooner), Capt. J Marshall ; Hearty (sloop), Capt. James Rose ; Blazer (gun brig), Lieut.

F. Banks ; Redbreast (gun brig), Lieut. Sir

G. M. Keith, Bart. ; and the Piercer, also a gun brig ; together with several gunboats. Killed, three ; wounded, sixteen. On 5 January, after an investment of sixteen, and a bombardment of six days, Gliickstadt surrendered by capitulation.

Tancred (p. 162) says :

"Captains Farquhar, Green, Marshall, Rose, and Lieut s. Banks, Kueeshaw, R.M.,and SirGeo. Morat Keith, Bart, received from the Swedish Government a Gold Medal, bearing on one side the ' Order of the Sword of Sweden,' and on the other the words, ' For Tapperhet i Fait ' (for valour in the field), suspended by a blue and yellow riband."

This is evidently the same medal as the one given to the Rocket Troop, Royal Artillery, for services at Leipsic, excepting that the latter medal is in silver.

A specimen can be seen in the United Service Museum in the collection of Lord Cheylesmore. ROBERT RAYNER.

Herne Hill, S.E.

ANTHONY TWICHENER OR TUCHENOR (11 S. xii. 340, 388).-^-The excerpts which MR. COTTERELL kindly gives, as from the in the ' Third Douay Diary ' (Cath. Rec. Soc. vol. x. pp 8, 9), where 1 unfortunately overlooked them. They show quite clearly, I think, that the Winchester Scholar and the priest are the same person.
 * History of Lisbon College,' are to be found

There can be little doubt that the Richard Twitchener who married Elizabeth Cotterell was his father, and is very likely to be identified with the Richard Tychener who entered Winchester College in 1518 from Wokingham, aged 13.

This latter was Fellow of New College, 1524-30, and succeeded his brother John (Scholar of 1515) as Informator of Winchester College in 1531, resigning 1534.

Henry Twytchener entered Winchester College in 1551, aged 13, from Egham. He migrated from New College to Gloucester Hall, and was Archdeacon of Dorset from 1572 to 1590, 1 think.

JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

NAPOLEON'S BEQUEST TO CANTILLON (11 S. xii. 139, 188, 324, 383). There is a slight error at the last reference. ' The Encyclo- paedia of Heraldry ' does not apparently recognize two Irish families named Cantilion. I ought perhaps to have written in mv reply (ante, p. 324) that the first Cantilion is not assigned to Ireland or elsewhere. The name and arms only are given.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

CHURCHES USED FOR ELECTION OF MUNI- CIPAL OFFICERS (11 S. xii. 360, 404). The following extract is from the ' Journal of Nicholas Assheton,' Chetham Soc., vol. xiv.. p. 55 :

" M r Chauncellor of the Dutchie, Sir Jo. Dacombe,. and Sir Edw. Mosley the atty, M r W m Fanshaw, auditor : Sir Ric. Molyneaux, with divers other Countree gentlemen, came to Whalley : light [alighted] at the Abbey, and psently after went to- church, wher M r Chancellor wished the copyholders to elect, out of ev> manor, 2 or 3 Senceable menn, and they should tomorrow heare what manner of Composition the King would accept."

The date of the entry is 4 Sept., 1617, and the church referred to is Whalley Abbey in Lancashire. RICHARD LAWSON.

Urmston.

PRONUNCIATION : " REGULARITY IN MIS- CONDUCT " ril S. xii. 305, sub ' War and the Poets'). What PROF. W. STOCKLEY calfe " the regularity of misconduct " in a wrong pronunciation is a fact which I have often observed, but cannot account for.

A German speaking French says pain for bain, and bain for pain.

A Russian whom I know says meson for maison, and paisant for pesant.

I wish some specialist in phonetics could offer an explanation better than that connected with " nervousness."

S. REINACH

16, Avenue Victor-Hugo, Boulogne-sur-Seine.

INWOOD FAMILY (9 S. viii. 505 ; 11 S. xii, 386). Jethro Inwood, B.A., was Chaplain of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Freemasons of Kent, i 806. See p. 13, ' Byelaws and List of Officers,' pub. 1870.

The sermons referred to range from 1793 to^ 1800. The volume is dedicated to William Perfect, Esq., Provincial Grand Master for the County of Kent, and is dated April, 1799, from the Rectory House,