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 178 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vm. FEB. 26, 1921 nails that fastened the wooden soles still plainly discernible. <Jn the bone of one ringer he wears a ring of iron ; his rnouih is open, and some teeth are wanting ; his nose and cheek-bones are boldly marked ; the eyes and hair have disappeared, but the mustache remains. There is a martial and resolute air in this line corpse." JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. CARDINAL DE ROHAN CHABOT (12 S. viii. 110). According to L. Lalanne's ' Dic- tionnaire historique de la France ' (Paris, 1872), p. 1574, he was born in 1788 (order of names L. F. A.), was chamberlain of the Princess Pauline, then of Madame Murat, and finally of Napcleon, succeeded 1816 his father as Due de R-.-C., and became a widower in 1815. Next a cavalry colonel, he took Hcly Orders (1822), and became successively Archbishop of Auch and soon after of Besanon (both in 1828) and Car- dinal, 1830, dying in 1833. W. A. B. C. Grindelwald. There is a portrait of "L. F. A. le Due de Rohan-Chabot, Prince de Leon, Arche- veque de Besancon et Cardinal " in the Cathedral House of the diocese. There is in existence a lithograph print of it (taken about the time of his death in 1833), and woodcuts appeared in some of the French illustrated periodicals of the period., The Cardinal-Duke, who was born at Paris, 1788, escaped as an infant with his parents to England at sthe beginning of the French Revolution. His ancestors in- cluded the famous Admiral de Chabot (feeigneur de Brion), who, according to Pere Mathieu de Goussencourt in his ' Histoire Celestine ' (unpublished Mb. in the Bibl. de 1' Arsenal, No. 42 H.I.) : " flit inhume le 5 juillet 1545 dans I'e'glise du convent des Celestins ou est sa representation de marbre blanc au natural." It was he who gave the idea of the Colony of Canada. ANDREW DE TERNANT. 36 Somerleyton Road, Brixton, S.W. Louis Francois Auguste, grandson of Lieut. -General Louis Antoine Auguste, Due de Rohan-Chabot (1753-1807), was bom in Paris in ,1788, and died at Chenecey, near Besancon in 1833. As Comte de Rohan- Chabot he was chamberlain to Napoleon's sister Pauline, the Priiicipessa Borghese whom Canova has handed down to posterity as long as his marble lasts as Venus Victrix. (As to this statue see A. J. C. Hare's ' Walks in. Rome' (15th edn, 1000), ii. 296.) Eventually he became chamberlain to Napoleon hi .n self, but, as a good Catholic, resisted the treatment meted out to- Pope Pius VII., whom he visited at Fon- bainebleau. This resulted in the Comte d& Rohan-Chabot being forced to leave France. He returned to Paris in 1814 as Prince de- Leon. In 1816 he succeeded his father as- Due de Rohan-Chabot, and Peer of France.. Very shortly afterwards his wife was burnt to death. In 1819 he entered the College of Saint Siilpiee, arid he was ordained priest In 1822. Almost at once he was given a- Janonry at Notre Dame, and became icar- General to the Archbishop of Paris. In 1828 he was consecrated to the Arch- bishopric of Auch. Be exchanged this see Eor that of Besar^on that same year ; and in 1830 he was created a Cardinal. His- statue (by Clesinger) is to be seen in hia Cathedral Church of St. John at Besancon. He declined to recognize Louis Philippe as King, and so ended his days in obscurity. Most of the above facts are taken from. 'Ncuveau Larousse Illustre,' vii. 355. JOHN B. AVAINEWRIGHT- ASKELL (12 S. vii. 409, 513; viii. 75). This name occurred in Lancashire at any early period. Baines in his ' History of Lancashire,' vol. ii. p. 581, referring to the history of Cockersand Abbey, says : " The earliest notice of this house appears to- be in the charter of William de Lancaster, who granted to Hugh, a hermit, the place Askelcros and Crok, vith his fishery upon Loyne, to main- tain a hospital." F. CROOKS. "FRANCKiNSENCE"(12S.viii.29,72, 115).- The cases of post-Reformation use of incense- in the English Church have been examined in detail by Mr. Dibden, Q.C., in his speech before the Archbishops of Canterbury and York at Lambeth during their inquiry into the legality of incense, in May, 1899. The speech together with that of Mr. Ewington. and Prof. Collins who also addressed the Court was published at the time by Messrs. Spottiswoode & Co. W. AVER. Primrose Club, Park Place, St. James's, S.W.I. The "interesting book" quoted in the newspaper extract on p. 72 must have been " A Faithful Account of the Processions and Ceremonies observed at the Coronations of the Kings and Queens of England ... edited by Richard Thomson. .. .London, Major, 1820," Svo ; at pp. 9 and 41 of which are the passages given ; and the folding frontispiece of which shows the groom of the vestry carrying a " perfuming