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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. vii. MARCH 9, ioi.

arid I think that the cause of his anger, was different from that mentioned in the query. But the story of Huon of Bordeaux is both old and French, and strongly resembles in some respects the legend inquired for.

E. YARDLEY.

"J'AI VECU" (9 th S. vii. 105). The tempta- tion to improve the sayings of famous men is only natural, and no one has suffered more from such supposititious interpretation than the great Puritan abbe of the Revolution, and without reason. Of all the men of the time, he was the most clear-headed, simplest, and most unaffected. No one better than he knew his own mind and the significance of his words ; and to graft an inner meaning on his mots is entirely to misunderstand Sieyes. Scores and scores of deputies who voted for the king's death might have been credited, just as truly and just as falsely, with the "La mort sans phrase" tradition- ally ascribed to the abbe.

So with ''J'ai vocu y " of which literal translation is the best even " I existed " is too rhetorical. Mignet, in his ' Notices Historiques' (vol. i. p. 81), says, "Lorsqu'un de ses amis lui demanda plus tard ce qu'il avait fait pendant la Terreur, 'Ce que j'ai fait,' lui repondait M. Sieyes, 'j'ai vecu.'"

Happily, in this instance, we are not left in doubt, since Sieyes lived to repudiate the invidious meaning attached to the words (see Sainte-Beuve's art. in L). It is their entire directness and improvisation that, for one reason, gives value to his historical sayings. PHILIP NORTH.

SERJEANT BETTESWORTH (9 th S. vii. 127). His Christian name was Richard. He sat in the Irish Parliament from 1721 to 1727 as member for the borough of Thomastown in the county Kilkenny, and from 1727 until his death as member for the borough of Middleton in the county Cork. In 1732 he was appointed third serjeant-at-law in Ire- land, and in 1738 became second serjeant. He died on 31 March, 1741. The University of Dublin conferred on him in 1725 the degree of LL.D. honoris causa. Further information as to Bettesworth will be found in the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archreo logical Society for 1895, p. 117, and for 1897 P- 265. F. ELRINGTON BALL.

SIR JOHN BORLASE WARREN, BART (9 th S vi. 490; vii. 15, 92). - In 'The Georgia] Era,' vol. ii. p. 210 (1833), it is stated tha this distinguished admiral was educatec at Winchester. Mr. Mackenzie Walcott 'William of Wykeham and his Colleges

t. 443 (1852), states that he was a commoner, giving his date as 1772, and adding that "he emoved from Mr. Princep's school at Bicester o Winton." In confirmation of this I find he name of Warren upon the Winchester .jong Rolls for 1768-72 ; but these dates and tatements are in conflict with the statement f the writer in the 'D.N.B.' that Warren ntered at Emmanuel College, Cambridge,
 * 3 September, 1767. Which is correct 1 ?

C. W. H.

" ATTUR. Ac AD." (9 th S. vii. 68). I send this, is it may interest and be of use to readers of N. & Q.'

Attur. Acad., an authority given in Minsheu, 627, under ' Interlopers in trade,' refers to The Atturneyes Academic.' See under Ex- chequer No. 4687. ' The Attorney's Academy,' jond., 1547, 8vo, was by Thomas Powell or D owel, printer, who dwelt in Berthlet's house n Fleet Street. It is said he removed to Dublin. JOHN RADCLIFFE.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (9 th S. di. 90).

Cold water is the best of drinks. See 8 th S. xii. 332, where two versions of these lines re given, but no author's name. W. C. B.

(9 th S. vii. 110.)

And snatching, as they [the years] go, whole frag- ments of our being.

This seems to me an attempt at recalling Pope's

lines :

Years, following years, steal something every day :

At last they steal us from ourselves away.

Pope was imitating Horace :

Singula de nobis anni prssdantur euntes.

Book ii. Epistle ii. line 55. E. YARDLEY.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of Scot- land. By John Gregorson Campbell, Minister of Tiree. (Glasgow, Maclehose.) STUDENTS of the superstitions of the Scottish High- lands know how much information on the subject is clue to that indefatigable worker the late Rev. John Gregorson Campbell. The present collection was made during thirty years, from 1861 to 1891, and much of the matter was in hand when Mr. J. F. Campbell of Islay published his ' Popular Tales of the West Highlands.' It now sees the light for the first time, and is to be succeeded by a second volume on ' Witchcraft and Second Sight in the West Highlands,' if, which is scarcely to be doubted, the reception of the present volume is such as to encourage the publication. The contents are derived wholly from oral sources, no trust whatever having been reposed upon printed books