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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°'! S. VIII. Nov. 6. '69. 



in the Revolution ? Is it supposed now to exist ? 

 Was it used at the coronation of Charles X. ? 



R. Z. 



[The Ste Ampoule, saj'S the Eneycio. Catholique, was 

 impiously broken to pieces by Ruhl, a member of the 

 National Convention, in 1794. Certain inhabitants of 

 Rheims, however, collected the fragments, and ulti- 

 mately restored them to their place in the cathedral. 

 There is a tradition that the holy vessel, shattered in 

 1794, was, in 1825, found miraculously whole. However 

 that may be, as the holy chrism had become congealed 

 by age previous to the fracture of the vessel containing 

 it, there can be little doubt that with the fragments a 

 portion of it, at least, was preserved ; and on that sup- 

 position one can hardly hesitate to believe (though of 

 this fact we find no distinct record) that it would be used 

 at the coronation of so staunch an adherent of the Church 

 of Rome as Charles X. After the congelation of the 

 chrism, it was customary for the consecrating prelate to 

 introduce into the ampoule a golden needle, with which 

 he extracted a particle of the congealed oil, of about the 

 size of a grain of millet, to be used when required for a 

 royal coronation.] 



Martyrs of Oorcum. — Can you inform me where 

 I can obtain any information relating to the so- 

 called Martyrs of Gorcum ? E. H. K. 



[Wm. Estius, Chancellor of the University of Douay, 

 published the following work: "Histoire veritable des 

 bien-heureux Martyrs de Gorcum en Hollande, la plus 

 part Frferes Mineurs, qui pour la Foy Catholique on ^st^ 

 mis k mort h, Brile I'an 1572." Douay, 8vo. 1603, 1618 ; 

 Namurci, 8vo, 1655.] 



26th February, Napoleon, with some hundred men 

 of his guard, had embarked on board a brig and 

 several small vessels, and had quitted the Island of 

 Elba, and that Europe was menaced. Some of 

 the official personages attempted to treat the mat- 

 ter lightly, but anxiety exhibited itself in the 

 language of those who were the most collected. 

 The uncertainty as to the port destined for land- 

 ing continued for tivo days farther. It was only 

 on the eighth of March that a later courier from 

 Sardinia brought the news that Napoleon with 

 his little army had landed near the city of Cannes, 

 and that he was then marching for the conquest 

 of his throne. On that very day, the principal 

 members of the Congress, Metternich, Wellington, 

 and Talleyrand were to set out for Presburg in 

 order to submit to the King of Saxony the final 

 resolutions of the Congress which should termi- 

 nate his long anxiety, and reestablish his crown. 

 Their departure, however, was not postponed, what- 

 ever might then be the preoccupation of the minds 

 of the three statesmen on the new subject which 

 had arisen for their discussion since the 5th of 

 March .... Upon the return of the plenipoten- 

 tiaries from this short mission, Metternich, on the 

 12th March, reassembled the Congress, &c. 



It will also be observed that Villemain's ac- 

 count diflers very widely from the statement in 

 Rogers' Itecollections referred to by your corre- 

 spondent. H. N. 



NAPOI-EON's escape prom ELBA. 



(2"* S. viii. 86.) 



The version given by your correspondent Mk. 

 D'AvENEY of the manner in which the tidings of 

 this great event first became known to the leading 

 members of the Congress at Vienna, is quite dra- 

 matic in its incidents, and circumstantial in its 

 details ; it wants, however, authentication. As a 

 mere tradition of an event comparatively recent, 

 and quite susceptible, as one would think, of direct 



Eroof, this version is of little value. To show 

 ow essentially it differs from the received ac- 

 counts I refer to Villemain. This distinguished 

 author, in Les Cent Jours (^Souverains Contempo- 

 rains), p. 79. et seq., states that the news arrived 

 at the Austrian court during the evening of the 

 Jifth of March by a courier from Sardinia, at the 

 time a brilliant assemblage was gathered in the 

 salons of the Empress to witness a series of ta- 

 bleaux vivans. The illustrious party was suddenly 

 disturbed by a murmur of dissatisfaction, and by 

 suppressed conversations. The exhibition was 

 soon interrupted : the Emperor of Austria and 

 the monarchs who were his guests withdrew toge- 

 ther; the Ministers Plenipotentiary were gathered 

 in an excited group. Every one in the palace 

 was soon repeating that on the evening of the 



TITLES CONPEEBED BY OLIVEE CEOMWELL. 



(2"'* S. vii, 476. 518. ; \nl passim.) /> ^^^V 



I beg to apologise to your correspondent W. J. 

 Pinks for not having sooner complied with his re- 

 quest respecting Sir Richard Chiverton (viii. 158.) 

 1 cannot give the date of his creation ; but as he 

 was Lord Mayor of London in 1657-8, I presume 

 he was knighted at that time. My authority for 

 including him among Cromwell's kniglits is a 

 Note which I took upwards of thirty years ago, 

 of an entry in a volume of the Harleian MSS., 

 British Museum (numbered 1105— 5881), con- 

 taining the arms of the fifteen individuals at the 

 head of the list given at viii. 114.* He officiated 



* I may here correct several errors in that list. 1. 

 The date of Sir John Claypole's Baronetcy should be 

 1657, instead of 1656. 2. Sir Jiohert Tichborne is erro- 

 neously called Richard. 3. Sir Peter Coyett is termed 

 Resident in France, instead of Resident in England for 

 the king of Sweden. 4. Sir Thomas Widdington was 

 knighted by Charles I., 1 April, 1639, at York, of which 

 he was Recorder, and should not have appeared in the 

 list. 6. After the name of Sir Andrew Ramsay of 

 Wauchton, in a note, a parenthesis (Abbotshall ?) has 

 been appended to my communication, which makes it 

 requisite for me to mention that, having predeceased his 

 father, who possessed the estate of Abbotshall, he never 

 inherited it, but was designed of Wauchton from his 

 marriage with the daughter and heiress of John Hepburn 



