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gerent of University Coll., Oxford, 1640 ; Nar- cissus Marsh, D.D., educated at Oxford, and Principal of St. Alban Hall, 1678-9 ; and Robert Huntingdon, D.D., Fellow of Merton Coll., Ox- ford, 1683. With these exceptions, and that of Provost Hutchinson, vacancies in the provostship have always been supplied from the body of Fellows ; and there is no reason to lead us to wish for a change in the present arrangement. The University of Dublin, as I could prove with ease, is not a " silent sister." ABHBA.

Tobacco. Humbpldt is my authority for stating that tobacco is the ancient Indian word for the pipe, through which the weed was smoked ?

W. W.

Malta.

" Spare the rod, spoil the child" In Dr. Dib- din's Bibliomania, 1811, I find the following, to which I call your attention as being a curious result of the diligence of a calculator, and the cruelty of a schoolmaster :

" A German Magazine recently announced the death of a schoolmaster ia Suabia, who, for fifty- one .years, had superintended a large institution with old fashioned severity. From an average, inferred by means of re- corded observations, one of the ushers had calculated that, in the course of his exertions, he had given 911,500 canings, 121,000 floggings, 209,000 custodes, 136,000 tips with the ruler, 10,200 boxes on the ear, and 22,700 tasks by heart. It was farther calculated, that he had made 700 boys stand on peas, 6000 kneel on a sharp edge of wood, 5000 wear the fool's cap, and 1700 hold the rod. How vast (exclaims the journalist) the quantity of human misery inflicted by a single perverse educator ! ! "

HENRY KENSINGTON.

Execution of Patrick Redmond. In Edwards' s Cork Remembrancer, p. 214., I find the following statement, which is curious, and one likely to in- terest at least some of your readers :

" 1766. Patrick Redmond, tailor, was executed at Gallows Green, the 10th of September, for robbing the dwelling-house of John Griffin. Glover, the player (who was then in Cork), took an active part in this man's re- storation ; after he hung nine minutes, and was cut down, he was perfectly restored to life by constant friction and fumigation. He afterwards made his escape, got drunk, went to the playhouse door (the night of his execution) to return Mr. Glover thanks, and put the whole audience in terror and consternation. He was the third tailor that made his escape from the gallows [in Cork] since the year 1755."

The names of the other two tailors were Dennis Sheehan and John Lott. ABHBA.

Rochefoncaulf s Maxim. Being curious to see the original of the celebrated maxim of Rpchefoucault, that "In the adversity of our best friends we often find something which does not displease us," I referred to the edition edited by M. L. Aime-Martin ;. but, to my astonishment, without success. I have since seen it stated in a

note to an English translation, that, after the first edition, Rochefoucault omitted this maxim in deference to the opinion of his friends. B.

IIILIJER FAMILY.

Can any of your genealogical correspondents favour me with "information as to the history of the family of this name, and that of their armorial bearings: Three fleur-de-lis (2 and 1), with a cross-crosslet fitchy, in the middle chief? The tinctures are, unfortunately, not clearly distin- guishable ; and though the documents in my pos- session extend through nearly 150 years, the seals on which the above charges appear are generally in an imperfect state. The most recent of the earlier seals, with .these arms, is on a letter from William Hillier, dated May 2, 1762 ; but they have been borne, since that period, on an escut- cheon of pretence, by the husband of an heiress of the family, and are still quartered by her grandchildren.

From the name and arms, it has generally been considered that this family is of French extrac- tion ; but, if so, their emigration to England must have preceded the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, which added so many valuable Subjects to the British population. An old Court Roll, now existing, shows that " Johan Hillier," a mem- ber of this branch of the family, was steward of the manor of Cirencester, in 1685, the very year of that revocation.

The name St. Hillier and Hillier, so common in the French annals, seems to authorise the suppo- sition of a French descent. We learn, from the very interesting and instructive volumes of Pere Anselme (Histoire Genealogique et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, SfC., vol. ix. fol. 3., edit. 1726), that St. Hillier was a " Seigncm-ic," held by, and giving titles to, many distinguished French families, from an early date. About 1250, Jean de Rethel was Seigneur de St. Hillier, and afterwards became " Seigneur de Beaufort" (vol. ii. p. 151.).

Gaudier de Chatillon was Seigneur de St. Hil- lier. He died in 1380 (vol. iii. p. 122.).

Jean de Chatillon, who died in 1397, was Seigneur of the same (vol. ii. p. 344.). Charles de Chatillon took his title from the same (vol. ii. p. 123,).

The Barony of St. Hillier, with others, was granted to the Duchesse de Montmorency, on her marriage, by Francis I. She died in 1586 (vol. iii. p. 604.).

The title occurs also in vol. vii. p. 740 c., and vol. ix. p. 175.

Leon Bout Hillier was Comte de Chauvigny in 1669 (vol. vi.).