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pence ; but after some liberal advances she was knocked off at eleven shillings. On the purchaser leading away his bargain in a halter, they were pelted by the populace with snow and mud, and retreated in more than wedding haste." Doncaster Gazette, Februarys, 1815.

K. P. D. E.

This is an indictable offence. You will find on reference to 3 Burr. 1483, that Lord Hardwicke ordered a criminal information to issue against a gentleman (?) for making over his wife, by private contract, to another person. JUBIDICUS.

" Fine words, I wonder where you stole them " (2 nd S. i. 353.) In answer to UNEDA'S inquiry, the lines

" Libertas et natale solum ; Fine words ! I wonder where you stole 'em "

are by Dean Swift, written in 1724, upon Chief Justice Whitshed's motto for his coach, after the trial of the Drapier. W. (1.)

Spanish Enigma (2 nd S. i. 193.) Your cor- respondent Q. Q. apparently does not under- stand Spanish, or the title would ^have fur- nished him with a hint as to the meaning. " Al propio asunto" (on the same subject) refers di- rectly to preceding poems by the same author, Al Santisimo Sacramento.

The enigma is in the fifth volume of the Pur- naso Espahol, p. 38. It is scarcely translatable. It means plainly the administration of the Sacra- ment to a sick person according to the doctrine and usage of the Roman Catholic Church.

I must add, that your correspondent is in error when he states that Fray Luis Ponce de Leon favoured the opinions of Luther. Nor is it quite correct to make them contemporaries. Luther died 1546. Luis de Leon, born 1527, lived until 1591. W.

Dublin.

Degrees of Medicine (2 nd S. i. 318.) It does not appear that bishops of dioceses ever had the power of conferring degrees in medicine, and it seems that their authority with respect to physi cians and surgeons was derived from an act of parliament passed in 1511.

The act is 3 Henry VIII. chap. 11., by which it is enacted, that in the city of London, and within seven miles of it, none shall practise as a physician or surgeon without having been examined, ap- proved, and admitted, by the Bishop of London, or Dean of Paul's, calling to him, or them, four doctors of physick, and for surgery other expert persons in that faculty, under a penalty of five pounds, and out of those limits no one not thus approved is to practise, unless he be examined and approved by the bishop of the diocese, or he being out of the diocese, by his vicar-general, either of them calling to him such expert persons in the said faculties as their discretion shall think

convenient, " and giving them Letters Testimonial under their seal to him that they shall approve."

This statute contains a proviso in favour of the privileges of the Universities of Oxford and Cam- bridge, and a preamble which shows the very low state of the medical science in the practitioners (such as they were of that period). F. A. C.

Note from a Fly-leaf (2 nd S. i. 148. 276.) The following cutting from the Doncaster Gazette of Friday, July 15, 1808, has just come into my hands ; it serves as an additional illustration of the wide-spread belief that the first Napoleon was the Beast of the Apocalypse. K. P. D. E.

" Downfal of Buonaparte. A divine of no less eccen- tricity than erudition, and a great admirer of Fleming's commentaries on the Revelations says that the downfal of Buonaparte is nigh at hand, grounding his assertion on particular texts in the book of Revelation. The beast rising out of the sea (Corsica), with seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, is evidently Buo- naparte. This beast was to have reigned forty and two months. As Emperor of France, Buonaparte has nearly reigned this exact number of months. The dragon (i. e. the devil) gave him this power and authority ; and he caused all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand ; i. e. Buona- parte has caused all persons to submit to his tyranny and slavery. The beast's number was six hundred three score and six, which exactly corresponds with the numerical calculation of the letters in Buonaparte's name, reckoning according to the number affixed to each letter, before the use of figures was known. Thus, N equals 40, A 1, P CO, 50, L 20, E 5, A 1, and N 40 (the letters of his Christian name). B 2, U 110, O 50, N 40, A 1, P CO, A 1, R 80, T 100, E 5, being the letters in his surname, amounting together to 666, the identical number of the beast, i. e. Buonaparte. This prophetical divine adds, that un- questionably as the truth of Revelation can never be doubted, so the Spanish patriots are destined to put an end to the reign of this beast (Buonaparte)."

" Ca ira " (2 nd S. i. 353.) A printed copy of this popular French song, with its music as sung at the Grand Federation at Paris, and its words (five verses) is in the possession of Mr. Carrington, the barrister, who has with it (bound in the same volume) " The Marseilles Hymn, as ordered by the National Convention, and sung at the different theatres in Paris," with its words (six verses) ; "La Carmagnole," with its words (four verses) ; and " La Reveil du Peuple," with its words (six verses), all these being printed at the end of the last century. F. A. C.

Jacobites of 1745 (2 nd S. i. 354.) The list in- quired for of " Jacobins outlawed in 1745," is pro- bably the list of noblemen and gentlemen as named in the statute 19th George II. chap, 26, by which the persons there mentioned are attainted " of high treason if they shall not render themselves to one of his Majesty's justices of the peace on or before the 12th of July, 1746, and subject them- selves to justice." The adherents of the House of Stuart were called Jacobites, as the " Old Pre-