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amid, sed Stuckius rectius amicis." Th author of the epigram appears to be unknown In addition to information already printed I note that "De male qusesitis non gaude tertius hseres " may be found in the * Adagia of Erasmus and others, s.v. "Ultio malefacti (p. 729 of the edition of 1670). It also appear: on p. 776. Compare "Male partum disperit : (Plautus, * Pcen.,' IV. ii. 22) ; also " Male parta male dilabuntur" (quoted by Cicero, Thilipp. ii. 27, S 65, from a poet " nescio quern," attri buted byFestus, 'DeVerborumSignificatione, lib. xiv., s.v. 'Partus,' to Nsevius).

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

Charles V. saying of Luther : " I war no with the dead." You will find the requirec references in 'Der Treppenwitz der Welt geschichte,' von W. L. Hertslet, 3 Auflage Berlin, 1886. DR. G. KRUEGER,

Berlin.

[The sentiment is Virgil's : Nullum cum victis certamen et aethere cassis.

id,' xi. 104.]

THE DRESDEN AMEN (9 th S. vii. 87). Before considering the history of an expression, one must ascertain that the expression exists. What is the Dresden Amen ? Is it religious, and used in the primary sense of the main word, or in a secondary sense, as associated with the tenets of the Gnostics ? Is it figura- tive and bearing upon Napoleon's military experiences at Dresden, which nearly proved final for him ? Is it artistic, as applied to some Dresden gallery presentment of the Egyptian god Amen, Amun, or Ammon ? Or is it a mistake for "Annen-," which occurs five times in combinations of street or place names in Dresden ? Upwards of two hours' unsatis- factory research prompts one to ask for a direct reference. ARTHUR MAYALL.

ACHILL ISLAND (9 th S. vi. 489 ; vii. 36, 133). The present written form of this place- name is undoubtedly a result of the angli- cizing process of writing Gaelic names as pronounced. With due deference to CANON TAYLOR'S guess (ante, p. 36), I would suggest that acuil ( = eagle) is a more probable derivation. ALBERT GOUGH.

RHODODENDRONS AND OLEANDERS (9 th S. vii. 88, 117). Modern travellers have shown that in Keble's note "rhododendrons" is a mistake for "oleanders." See, for example, Stanley's * Sinai and Palestine,' 1860, p. 371 n.; Tristram's 'Natural History of the Bible' 1868, p. 417. J. T. F.

Durham.

INDEPENDENT COMPANY OF INVALIDS (9 th S. vi. 429, 493). During a food riot in Man-

chester in November of 1757 a company of invalids was imported into the town, and as they received (and returned) some rough usage, they were not so decrepit as their name might imply. RICHARD LAWSON. Urmston.

FUNERAL CARDS (9 th S. vii. 88). Printed tickets were issued to those invited to attend the funeral of Oliver, the Lord Protector. Copies are very rare. I have seen one in private hands, and I think there is another in the British Museum Library, but of this I am not quite certain. In the interesting collection of printed broadsides in the library of the Society of Antiquaries there is a funeral ticket dated 30 September, 1702. It is thus described in the catalogue :

"610. Funeral ticket, sealed and addressed to Mr. John Hodgetts, desiring him to accompany the Corps of Robert Foley, Esq., to the Church of Old Swinford."

I have before me one of these tickets inviting my collateral ancestor Samuel Wood ruffe to the funeral of Mr. N. Deal try, of Gainsborough, which took place in the parish church of that town on Thursday, 16 March, 1758. It is grimly pictorial ; black hangings,, banners, a skeleton with hourglass and dart, and Time with his scythe and symbolic serpent, surround the inscription. At the base is a funeral procession. This ticket was issued " by W. Stephenson, Undertaker, opposite Exeter Exchange in the Strand." EDWARD PEACOCK.

Dunstan House, Kirton-in-Lindsey.

THE AREA OF CHURCHYARDS (9 th S. vii. 9, 112). The church at Norton, near Evesham, stands in a grass field which forms part of the glebe. Until about 1844 there was no fence or mark, except at the east end, to separate the churchyard, which could only be known, and that but in part, by the grave-mounds. At the date mentioned a sunk fence was nade on the south, but to this day the only Doundary on the north and west is an iron lurdle-fence, fixed and maintained by the vicar of his own accord, at his own expense, and existing only at his will. One is re- minded of Wordsworth's description :

Where holy ground begins, unhallowed ends,

Is marked by no distinguishable line.

W. C. B.

"CLUBBING THE BATTALION " (9 th S. vii. 110).

This was the technical phrase for inverting

>r altering the order of companies in field

volutions, in days when the consecutive

.umbers of companies were fixed. In the

resent field exercise clubbing is impossible.

When the relative position of companies in a