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NOTES AND QUEmES. 



[No. 143. 



tlie latter cried out for quarter and received it. This 

 fact does not well agree witli the words popularly as- 

 cribed to Cambroiine, ' La fjardc meurt, et ne se rend 

 pas.' After having surrendered, Cambronne tried to 

 escape from Halkett, whose horse fell wounded to the 

 ground. But, in a few seconds, Halkett overtook his 

 prisoner, and seizing liim by the aiguillette, hurried 

 him to the Osnabruckers. and sent him in charge of a 

 sergeant to the Duke of Wellington. Cambronne was 

 subsequenily sent to Ostend with Count Lobau and 

 other prisoners. It was only the old guard that wore 

 the aiguillette, 



•' The words ascribed to Cambronne, < the guard 

 dies, it never surrenders,' of which we see such num- 

 bers of engravings, and which illustrates so many 

 pocket handkerchiefs and ornaments so much of their 

 crockery, &C., have, notwithstanding they were never 

 uttered, made a fortune ; all French historians repeat 

 them. I am in possession of a letter, written to me liy 

 a friend of Cambronne's, and who asked the general 

 whetlier it was true tliat he had uttered the words in 

 question ; the reply was ( I quote Mr. E. G. Dickson's 

 own words), ' Monsieur, on m'a debite cette reponse.' " 



The gallant Sir Colin Halkett, I believe, still 

 survives, and, if he be a reader of " N. & Q.," 

 may perhaps condescend to correct any misstate- 

 ments that there may be in the above tale. L. 



I am surprised that two Numbers have appeared 

 without R. C. B.'s having been apprised of his 

 strange mistake of attributing to Murat the noto- 

 rious myth which was invented for General Cam- 

 bronne at Waterloo, and which have been, with 

 true French modesty and veracity, inscribed on a 

 monument erected to him (Cambronne) at Nantes, 

 the fact being that he surrendered without resist- 

 ance, and was taken to the village of Waterloo. 

 The French, imagining that he was killed, invented 

 this fine saying for him, while he himself was at 

 the Duke of Wellington's quarters, making him- 

 self meanly remarkable by endeavouring to intrude 

 himself at the duke's dinner table. C. 



Baxters "Saints' Rest" (Vol. vi., p. 18.).— Mr. 

 Beai.by having spoken of the first impression of 

 this work, may perhaps be able to verify the fol- 

 lowing severe criticism : — 



" Mr. Baxter, in the two editions of his Saints' Ever- 

 lasting Rest, printed before the year 1660, instead of the 

 * kingdom of heaven,' as it is in the Scripture, calls it 

 'parliament of heaven' (^and, if like their own, it must 

 have been a parliament without a king); and into this 

 parliament he puts some of the regicides, and other 

 like saints, who were then dead. But in the editions 

 after the Restoration, he drops them all out of heaven 

 again, and restores the kingdom of God to its place." — 

 The Scholar armed against the Errors of the Time, vol. ii. 

 pp. 51-2., Lond. 1795. 



E. G. 



The Bright Lamp that shone in Kildares holy 

 Fane (Vol. v., pp. 87. 211.). — This suggests the 

 Query, Who was St. Bridget, or St. Bride ? and 



was there not an Irish goddess, with the attributes 

 of Vesta, named Bridget, whose pyreum was trans- 

 formed by Christianity into the fire of St. Bridget? 

 The following account is given by Giraldus {Topog, 

 Hibern. i>. 729.): — 



" In Kildare of Leinster, which the glorious Bridget 

 made illustrious, there are many wonders worthy of 

 mention. Foremost among which is the Fire of 

 Bridget, which they call unextingulshable ; not that 

 it cannot be extinguished, but because the nuns and 

 holy women so anxiously and accurately cherish and 

 nurse the fire with a supply of fuel, tliat during so 

 many centuries from the time of the Virgin it has ever 

 remained unextinguished, and the ashes have never 

 accumulated, although in so long a time so vast a pile 

 of wood hath here been consumed. Whereas, in the 

 time of Bridget, twenty nuns here served the Lord, 

 she herself being the twentieth, there have been only 

 nineteen from the time of her glorious departure, and 

 they have not added to their number. But as each 

 nun in her turn tends the fire for one night, when the 

 twentieth night comes, the last virgin having placed 

 the wood ready, s;iith, ' Bridget, tend that fire of thine, 

 for this is thy night.' And the fire being so left, in the 

 morning they find it unextinguished, and the fuel con- 

 sumed in the usual way. That fire is surrounded by a 

 circular hedge of bushes, within which a male does not 

 enter ; and if he should presume to enter, as some rash 

 men have attempted, he does not escape divine ven- 

 geance." 



"W. Fbaseb. 



Exterior Stonp (Vol. v., p. 560.). — There is an 

 exterior holy water stoup at the north side of the 

 great western entrance of Walsingham Abbey. 



Edw. Hawkins. 



Henry, Lord Viscount Dover (Vol, vi., p 10.). — 

 The following Notes may clear up Mr, D'Alton's 

 doubts as to this peer. The obscurity seems to 

 have arisen from a confusion of titles. 



Henry Jermyn, younger brother of Thomas, 

 Lord Jermyn of Bury, was created in 1683 (or 

 1685) Lord Jermyn of Dover; and, out of defer- 

 ence to his elder brother's title of Jermyn, he 

 seems to have been called Lord Dover, by which 

 name he was sworn of the English Privy Council 

 in 1686, and next year appointed a Lord of the 

 English Treasury, He seems to have left England 

 with James H., and accompanied him in 1689 to 

 Ireland, where we find him under the title of Lord 

 Dover, a Privy Councillor and Commissioner of 

 the Treasury in Ireland ; and some time after he 

 appears as LJarl of Dover. (King's S ate of the 

 Protestants.) I presume that he was also created 

 Viscount Dover ; but the viscounty and earldom, 

 Irish creations, after the Abdication, are nowhere 

 recognised. This explanation, I think, clears up 

 all Mr. D'Alton's difficulties, except that I do 

 not find his name in the list of officers in King 

 James's Guards, or even army. He seems to have 

 been employed as a civilian. C. 



