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for all the transcribed, illustrated, and printed matter to be submitted for revision or correction to the Father Superior of the institution. A tetter from Mr. A. B. Mait- land, Father of The Times Chapel in that paper's issue of Dec. 1 last draws attention to the signification of the title in connection with a suit recently tried before Mr. Justice Darling, who remarked tha 1 ; the phrase was entirely new to him. See also ' Ency. Brit.' vol. v. p. 850, note to chapel.

N. W. HILL.

D.D. CANTAB. The late Bishop Jones, Suffragan of Lewes, was the first Divine to be created a Doctor of Divinity at Cam- bridge, without making the old statutory declaration that he held and rejected what .the Church of England holds and rejects.

M.A.

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We must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

Louis NAPOLEON IN LANCASHIRE. It was stated in The Times, May 6, 1919, that -certain relics of the exile of Napoleon III. had been sold by auction.

" The Emperor, after the Franco-Prussian War, found sanctuary for a considerable period in Lan- -cnshire, as the guest of Lord Gerard. Some old .French furniture of the Louis XIV. and XV. periods has ever since been preserved by the Gerard family in the suite of rooms the Emperor occupied. Garswood Hall, the Lancashire seat of Lord and Lady Gerard, where this furniture of Napoleon III was stored, has been used as a military hospital during the war, and for the purposes of re-arrange- ment, after military occupation, Lord Gerard decided to sell the surplus appointments at the Hall. Most of the furniture used by the Emperor had by the lapse of time and storage, become dilapidated."

It is surprising to read that Napoleon III. " found sanctuary for a considerable period in Lancashire " after the Franco -Prussian war. I have lived all my life in South Lancashire and never knew of this before ! Did the Emperor ever set foot in Lancashire fter 1870 ? I should like to know.

As to the date of Louis Napoleon's visit to Garswood Hall, it was before the period of the Second Empire, not after. In a pamphlet on the Gerard Family, published at St. Helens in 1898, the author (Mr. J. Brockbank) says :

It was in 1847 that the memorable visit of Napoleon to Garswood took place. A relic of this visit is still preserved at Garswood Hall with

almost religous cara in the Napoleon room, i.e. the chamber in which he who a short time afterwards became Emperor of the French slept ; with all the costly hangings, carpets, pictures, decorations, etc. still remaining intact exactly as he left them. This argues that the high hopes of the then refugee were not the less shared by Sir John than by the man of destiny himself. Many are the anecdotes told of Sir John and his distinguished visitor, many of them apocryphal, others perhaps containing a modicum of truth."

Sir John Gerard, Bt., Louis Napoleon's host, was born in 1804 and died in 1854. He was succeeded by his brother Sir Robert Gerard, who was created Baron Gerard of Bryn in 1876. There was thus no " Lord Gerard " till three years after the death of Napoleon III. Although Mr. Brockbank, in the passage just cited, gives the year of the visit, he mentions no month, or even season. I have recently looked through the file of The Liverpool Mercury for 1847, but failed to find any reference to the Prince's visit to Garswood Hall. News from St. Helens is frequently given and a dispute between Sir John Gerard and his servants is recorded. Can any of your readers supply the correct date ?

F. H. CHEETHAM.

ST. STEPHEN AND HEROD. (See 12 S. v. 315). It is commonly said of Ireland that there are " no snakes there " ! Is it a fact that there is "no furze " either ? I ask because, in the English boy's version of the lines sung on St. Stephen's day, the second line runs "On St. Stephen's day he was caught in the furze," and the following word in a bracket (lurch) seems here a very far-fetched explanation of the word " furs " in the version given by MB. MACSWEENEY.

W. S. B. H.

ST. MALO. Up to the end of the eighteenth century the Etats de Bretagne claimed the right of giving to a child of any seigneur whom they presented for baptism the name of Malo without prefix. The second son of the Marquis de Lameth was one of the last so presented. It does not appear at what date the custom originated, but probably as far back as the eleventh century. It would in any case appear that for many generations such was the name of the town which had eclipsed Aleth (now known as St. Servan) and Dinard, which was little more than a fishing village.

When Malo was changed to St. Malo is a matter of conjecture. Hagiographs' and legend-writers have made assumptions, but produced no evidence from contemporary chroniclers. They seem to regard St. Malo,