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pence ; but after some /iberal advances she was knocked off 
at eleven shillings. On the purchaser leading away his 
bargain in a halter, they were pelted by the populace 
with snow and mud, and retreated in more than wedding 
haste,” — Doncaster Gazette, February 3, 1815, 
K. P. D. E. 
This is an indictable offence. You will find on 
reference to 3 Burr. 1483, that Lord Hardwicke 
ordered a criminal information to issue against a 
gentleman (?) for making over his wife, by private 
contract, to another person. JURIDICUS. 
“ Fine words, I wonder where you stole them” 
(2™4 S. i. 353.) —In answer to Unepa’s inquiry, 
the lines — 
“Libertas et natale solum; 
Fine words! I wonder where you stole ’em”— 
are by Dean Swift, written in 1724, upon Chief 
Justice Whitshed’s motto for his coach, after the 
trial of the Drapier. We Cie) 
Spanish Enigma (2 §S. i. 193.) —Your cor- 
respondent Q. Q. apparently does not under- 
stand Spanish, or the title would have fur- 
nished him with a hint as to the meaning. ‘“ Al 
propio asunto” (on the same subject) refers di- 
rectly to preceding poems by the same author, Al 
Santisimo Sacramento. 
The enigma is in the fifth volume of the Par- 
naso Espanol, p.38. It is scarcely translatable. 
Tt means plainly the administration of the Sacra- 
_ ment to a sick person according to the doctrine 
and usage of the Roman Catholic Church. 
I must add, that your correspondent is in error 
when he states that Fray Luis Ponce de Leon 
favoured the opinions of Luther. Nor is it quite 
correct to make them contemporaries. Luther 
died 1546. Luis de Leon, born 1527, lived until 
1591. W. 
Dublin. 
Degrees of Medicine (2"4 §. i. 318.) — It does 
not appear that bishops of dioceses ever had the 
power of conferring degrees in medicine, and it 
seems that their authority with respect togphysi- 
cians and surgeons was derived from an act of 
parliament passed in 1511. 
The act is 3 Henry VIII. chap. 11., by which it 
is enacted, that in the city of London, and within 
seven miles of it, none shall practise as a physician 
or surgeon without having been examined, ap- 
proved, and admitted, by the Bishop of London, 
or Dean of Paul’s, calling to him, or them, four 
doctors of physick, and for surgery other expert 
persons in that faculty, under a penalty of five 
pounds, and out of those limits no one not thus 
approved is to practise, unless he be examined 
and approved by the bishop of the diocese, or he 
being out of the diocese, by his vicar-general, 
either of them calling to him such expert persons 
in the said faculties as their discretion shall think 
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convenient, “and giving them Letters Testimonial 
under their seal to him that they shall approve.” 
This statute contains a proviso in favour of the 
privileges of the Universities of Oxford and Cam- 
bridge, and a preamble which shows the very low 
state of the medical science in the practitioners 
(such as they were of that period). F. A.C. 
Note from a Fly-leaf (2°98, i. 148.276.) — The 
following cutting from the Doncaster Gazette 
of Friday, July 15, 1808, has just come into my 
hands; it serves as an additional illustration of 
the wide-spread belief that the first Napoleon was 
the Beast of the Apocalypse. Ko Ps Dr. 
“ Downfal of Buonaparte. — A divine of no less eccen- 
tricity than erudition, and a great admirer of Fleming’s 
commentaries on the Revelations says that the downfal 
of Buonaparte is nigh at hand, grounding his assertion 
on particular texts in the book of Revelation. The beast 
rising out of the sea (Corsica), with seven heads and ten 
horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, is evidently Buo- 
naparte, This beast was to have reigned forty and two 
months. As Emperor of France, Buonaparte has nearly 
reigned this exact number of months. The dragon (i. e. 
the devil) gave him this power and authority; and he 
caused all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and 
bond, to receive a mark in their right hand; ¢. e. Buona- 
parte has caused all persons to submit to his tyranny and 
slavery. The beast’s number was six hundred three score 
and six, which exactly corresponds with the numerical 
calculation of the letters in Buonaparte’s name, reckoning 
according to the number affixed to each letter, before the 
use of figures was known. Thus, N equals 40, A 1, P 60, 
O 50, L 20, E 5, A 1, and N 40 (the letters of his christian 
name). B 2, U 110, 050, N 40, Al, P 60, A 1, R 80, 
T 100, E 5, being the letters in his surname, amounting 
together to 666, the identical number of the beast, 7. e. 
Buonaparte. This prophetical divine adds, that un- 
questionably as the truth of Revelation can never be 
doubted, so the Spanish patriots are destined to put an 
end to the reign of this beast (Buonaparte).” 
“ Ca ira” (2° §. i. 353.) — A printed copy of 
this popular French song, with its music as sung 
at the Grand Federation at Paris, and its words 
(five verses) is in the possession of Mr. Carrington, 
the barrister, who has with it (bound in the same 
volume) “The Marseilles Hymn, as ordered by 
the National Convention, and sung at the different 
theatres in Paris,” with its words (six verses) ; 
“La Carmagnole,” with its words (four verses) ; 
and ‘‘La Reveil du Peuple,” with its words (six 
verses), all these being printed at the end of the 
last century. F.A. €. 
Jacobites of 1745 (24 S. i. 354.) — The list in- 
quired for of “ Jacobins outlawed in 1745,” is pro- 
bably the list of noblemen and gentlemen as named 
in the statute 19th George II. chap, 26, by which 
the persons there mentioned are attainted “of 
high treason if they shall not render themselves 
to one of his Majesty’s justices of the peace on or 
before the 12th of July, 1746, and subject them- 
selves to justice.” ‘The adherents of the House 
of Stuart were called Jacobites, as the “ Old Pre- 
