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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. xn. DEC. 26,

Nuestra Seiiorade Guadaloupe, rising on that great mountain of Jazguihel, so conspicuous from Biarritz, which dominates the mouth of the Adour, into which the Gave de Pau flows. Such a series of sanctuaries is somewhat curious.

Has GENERAL MAXWELL ever seen the chapel at San Roque, near Gibraltar, dedicated to the saint "y su santo perro," otherwise the dog so often seen in the pictures of the saint 1 St. Amphibalus, too, in the story of St. Alban, may or may not be a misunder- standing of the word used by some annalist to express the cloak in which the saint's body was wrapped, an instance which some say is paralleled by the legend of St, Veronica, "the True Likeness" of our Blessed Lord.

H.

In 'The Portuguese in India,' vol. ii. p. 314, are enumerated the various bastions of the fort of Columbo in 1655, most of them bearing the names of saints, the last being " S. Gal- voca.'' This saint is the creation of the com- piler of the work, Mr. F. C. Danvers, who, copying the list from the English translation of Baldseus's l Ceylon ' in vol. iii. of Churchill's ' Collection of Voyages,' thought to correct an omission by prefixing the >V. to "Galvoca." This word is a Portuguese corruption of the Sinhalese galbokka, which means a rocky inlet or bay ; and the rocky bay which gave its name to the bastion of the Portuguese fort of Columbo is still known to the residents of British Colombo by the euphonious name of Galle Buck a good example of ' Hobson- Jobson/' DONALD FERGUSON.

May I refer GENERAL MAXWELL to an article on St. Ursula and her companions by Mrs. T. F. Tout, forming pp. 17-56 of 'His- torical Essays by Members of the Owens College, Manchester ' (Longmans, 1902) ? No treatment of the subject is complete unless the facts there stated are taken into account.

Q. V.

On p. 1232 of Prebendary Hingeston- liandolplvs edition of Bishop Grandisson's Register' is an interesting instance of episcopal interference to prevent the venera- tion as .saint of Richard Buvyle, late rector of the church of Whitatone in Cornwall. The bishops letter to his commissary is dated ) August, 1361. From it we learn that the rector had either been murdered or murdered himself (opinions differ on the point), and that, it having been noised abroad that miracles were being wrought at his tomb, people were crowding to the spot and holding a regular and very disreputable wake The bishop required all this to be

stopped, because, even if the dead man deserved canonization, the forms of the Church must be observed, and at the same time requested a report as to the alleged miracles. A jury was summoned, and their finding is interesting. They believed in the miracles, but it is noteworthy that most of the instances are related on mere hearsay, as they were unable to learn the name of the person cured. YGREC.

A delightful instance of an invented saint came to my notice the other day in an old charter. It was dated "post festum ramor. palmar." ; and some anonymous genius had endorsed it as "after the feast of St. Ralph the Palmer." H. J. B.

Highgate.

JOHNSON'S PRAYER (9 th S. xii. 389). This prayer will be found in "Anderson's British Poets," vol. xi. p. 877 :

Node, inter 1G et, 17 Junii, 1783.* Summe Pater, quodcunque tuum de corpore Numen

Hoc statuat, precibus Christus adesse velit : Ingeriio parcas, nee sit mihi culpa rogasse,

Qua solum potero parte placere tibi.

This is the original version.

R. A. POTTS.

In his letter to Mrs. Thrale of 19 June, 1783, Johnson mentions this prayer, but adds : " The lines were not very good."

PATRICK MAXWELL.

Bath.

WATERLOO WON ON THE PLAYING FIELDS OF ETON (9 th S. xii. 387). With reference to the saying that Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, I copy the following remark from Sir William Fraser's book ' Words on Wellington/ p. 139 : -

" Most of us have heard the well-known passage in Montalernbert, where he describes the Duke as saying, ' The battle of Waterloo was won in the playing fields of Eton.' The manliness of that school told upon his officers."

So far as I am aware, Wellington cared little for sports and athletics. As a schoolboy he was but a short time at Eton, leaving it in 1784, when football was almost unknown, and cricket had neither secured the popu- larity nor developed tbe efficiency of a far

that in which a paralytic stroke had deprived him of his voice, and, in the anxiety he felt lest it should likewise have impaired his understanding, he com- posed the above lines, and said concerning them, that he knew at the time that they were not good,, but then he deemed his discerning this to be suf- ficient for the quieting the anxiety before men- tioned', as it showed him that his power of judging was not diminished."
 * The night above referred to by Johnson was