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sounded the II as in mile. He added, " There can be no doubt about the matter, for the name is so well known to all Frenchmen I have never heard it pronounced otherwise." The reason of this pronunciation of the II would seem to lie in the fact that the word Villon, which was only a sort of nickname in the case of Francois Villon, comes from the word vilain. See ' Diet*. Historique de 1'Ancien Langage Franyais,' by La Curne de Sainte Palaye, vol. x. p. 169 ; also ' Diet, de 1'Ancienne Langue Franchise,' vol. viii. p. 244.

M. HAULTMONT.

HERIOT (9 th S. x. 228, 333). Your corre- spondent OGIER RYSDEN is mistaken in sup- posing that heriots attach to copyholds only. In this town a great deal of the property is leasehold, and is held for three lives. In every case in which a life drops off and another is substituted, the lord of the manor claims, in addition to the renewal fine, a sum of money (which appears to vary in propor- tion to the value of the property) as a heriot^ It is the universal custom in both the Tor* moham and Tor Abbey manors. I have never met with any copyhold property in Torquay, although in the adjoining town and manor of Paignton the land is chiefly copyhold.

A. J. DAVY.

Torquay.

When I catalogued the deeds at Purley Hall, Berks, I found one lease reciting a heriot of the best beast. A particular field there is now called " Harry George " ; this I identified as " Heriot's Edge " of the eighteenth century. E. E. COPE.

13c, Hyde Park Mansions, W.

I cannot think your correspondent MR. OGIER RYSDEN is correct when he say 8, " Of course heriots only attach to copyholds," because of a heriot I paid as recently as October, 1901, to the Earl of Devon. This was on leasehold property (for the lessee of which I am agent) held on lives, and the death of one of the lives was the reason why the heriot became payable. It will be ob- served that this heriot was on life leasehold, which is not the same as copyhold property. FRED. C. FROST, F.S.I.

Teignmouth.

DESCENDANTS OF ELIZABETHAN WORTHIES (9 th S. x. 208, 310). Some information regarding the descendants of^ Sir John Hawkyns may be obtained by inferring to ' Plymouth Armada Heroes ' by Miss Hawkins. The Oxford Poetry Professor, William Hawkins (1722-1801), who was also of founder's kin at Pembroke College, was a

descendant ; and Sir John Hawkins (1719-89), author of the ' History of Music,' claimed to be one. A portrait of the great sea-captain is in the possession of Mr. C. Stuart Hawkins, of Hayford Hall, Buckfastleigh, Plymouth, who claims descent from both of Sir Richard's sons ; and an ivory bust of Sir John was lent by the Rev. B. D. Hawkins to the Armada Exhibition at Drury Lane Theatre in October, 1888. A. R. BAYLEY.

MR. COLEMAN brings to light an error of Burke. William. Hawkins died when on a visit to his younger brother, Sir John of Armada fame, and was buried at Deptford. Sir Warwick Heale married his widow (Introd. Drake's 'Black heath'). Princegives noaccount of him. A Miss Hawkins, of Plymouth, claim- ing descent from Sir John Hawkins, pub- lished in 1888 a history of the family, price 25s. and 12s. Qd. t and obtained about 300 subscribers. She made out her descent clearly from one Nicholas Hawkins, of Kings- bridge, and on discovering that Sir- Richard, only son and heir of Sir John, had a son named Nicholas, born at Slapton, she appro- priated him and removed him to Kingsbridge, to make out her- descent from the renowned Sir John ; but a lease preserved in the Chapter House of Dodbrook, adjoining Kingsbridge, proves that her ancestor Nicholas was the son of one John Hawkins, of Kingsbridge (Trans. Devon Assoc., second series, vol. i. p. 131, 1899). The authoress and her co- adjutor, in the background, fell out over the spoil (Western Daily Mercury, 16 April, 1890).

DEVONIENSIS.

GERMAN ARMOUR (9 th S. x. 328). Accord- ing to a communication at 2 nd S. v. 32 Plattner was the name of a certain class of artists who sculptured statuettes, swords, and dagger handles out of iron. Beautiful specimens are preserved in the museums of Berlin and Dresden. This branch of art was principally cultivated at Augsburg.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

NAPOLEON'S LAST YEARS (9 th S. viii. 422, 509; ix. 274, 373; x. 15, 255). Referring to MR. McGovERN's firm belief that "both Wellington and Blucher would have been swept from the field at Waterloo had it not been for Napoleon's bodily and mental deterioration, owing to the disease that held him in its grip," I beg permission to direct your correspondent's attention to the brief review of Napoleon's health in the Waterloo campaign at pp. 484-6, vol. ii. of that masterly and standard work 'The Life of Napoleon I.,' by John Holland Rose (Bell &