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orders during this campaign. Nor can I otherwise explain to myself h<w two armies situated as were those of Wellington and Bliicher on 14, 15, and 16 June were allowed to escape. dunn ^ wh ich

ought to have overwhelmed .them. His fatigued and lethargic condition on the early morning of the 17th accounts for the many hours of daylight that were

trifled away and were then uselessly squandered

I believe it was not so much the deep condition of the country after the heavy rain as a recurrence of this fatal malady on the morning of Waterloo which caused him to begin the action so late. We know that during the progress of the battle itself he re- mained seated for hours motionless at a table placed for him in the open, often asleep with his head rest- ing upon his arms ; that also when flying beaten from the field he suffered so much from drowsiness it was with difficulty his attendants prevented him from tumbling from his horse. During the progress of the battle he was little on horseback, for riding caused him pain," &c. Pp. 187-8.

I may add that ray view includes no dis- paragement either of Wellington's general- ship or of his troops' bravery. I simply face facts which compel me to maintain that had Napoleon at Waterloo been the Napoleon of Austerlitz and Marengo his scheme was such that no mere bravery or doggedness could have withstood it. But dis aliter visum est. Under Providence his disease frustrated that scheme and Europe was saved.

J. B. McGovERN. St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.

ARMS OF MARRIED WOMEN (9 th S. ix. 28, 113, 195 ; x. 194). In the absence of written authority to decide the point, I would submit

habitants. Adalia is also given in a note in the Roxburghe Club edition of Maundeville. The legend of the destruction of Sathaha is given thus in 'The Marvellous Adventures of Sir John Maundeville, Kt.':

" The City was clept Cathailye (Satalia), the which City and Land was lost through Folly of a young Man. For he had a fair Damosel that he loved well for his Paramour ; and she died suddenly, and was put m a Tomb of Marble. And for the great Lust that he had to her, he went in the Night unto her Tomb and opened it, and went in and lay by her, and went his Way. And when it came to the end ot 9 Months, there came a Voice to him and said, I to the Tomb of that Woman and open it and beho d what thou hast begotten on her ; and if thou tail to go, thou shalt have a great Harm.' And he went and opened the Tomb, and there fled out an Head

' 'ht hideous to see ; the which all swiftly flew Jout the City and the Country, and soon after the City sank down. And there be many perilous

A note as to the "perilous Passages says, "For ships, that is." I take the above from 'The Marvellous Adventures of Sir John Maundeville, Kt.,' edited by Arthur Layard (Archibald Constable & Co., 1895), chap. iv. p. 37. In this edition "the text generally followed is that of the Cotton MS." The Roxburghe Club edition of Maundeville (1889) gives in the English version "a heued " (in the note " an eddere "), and in the French " une teste," as the thing which flew out of the tomb. In 'The Travels of Sir John Mandeville,' 1900, edited by A. W. Pollard, it is said to have been an adder. As the French text is the original, " a head " appears to be better reading. In the Roxburghe Club

cannot bear any arms, for the simple reason that she has no arms to bear. Her husband, if he is nobilis, bears his arms ; but he cannot impale/ewwe, because his wife has no arms to be impaled. Still less, it would seem, can the wife or widow, being ignobilis, bear her husband's arms unimpaled. She is not armi- gerous i.e., she is not capable of bearing arms at all. How can there be any question as to the manner of bearing arms which she does not possess?

JOHN HOBSON MATTHEWS. Town Hall, Cardiff.

SATHALIA (9 th S. viii. 423 ; ix. 250). May I answer my own query ? The reply at the latter reference is corroborated in a letter which I have from Mr. Cobham, Com- missioner of Larnaca, Cyprus. He says that Sathalia is undoubtedly Attalia, in Pamphylia, now Adalia^-S'n the south-west coast of Asia Minor, a flourishing port with 25,000 in-

OLD SCHOOL RULES (9 th S. ix. 226 ; x. 15). May I submit a further contribution under this heading? A friend has just placed in my hands the following list of quaint school rules ; it appeared in a recent number of the Schoolmaster, but I am sorry to be unable to furnish the date.

Orders for the Charitie Schole for twelve poor Girls, founded by Thomas Lord ArchbP of Can- tubury [?], at Lambeth, in Surrey, in the year 1706, on March 28.

1st. This Schole is to consist at present of a schoolmistress, Mary Davies, and twelve poor Girls.

2nd. No Girl to be under eight years old when admitted, nor to stay till after full fourteen unless it be to even the Quarter.

3rd. Each girl to be sent in new cloathed.

4th. A Com' on Prayer-book and Bible to be pro- vided for each.

5th. They are to be taught to Read, Write, Spin, Knit and Sew & Mark.