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4. Cock your Firelocks - - 1. 



5. Present - - - 1. 



6. Fire - - - - 1. 



7. Recover your Amies - - 1. 



1. Handle your slings - - 1. 



2. Sling your Firelocks - - 1. 



3. Handle your Matches - - 1. 



4. Handle your Granades - 1. 



5. Open your Fuse - - 1. 



6. Guard your Fuse - - 1. 



7. Blow your Matches - - 1. 



8. Fire & throw yo r Granades - I. 



9. Returne your Matches'- - 1. 



10. Handle your Slings - - 1, 



11. Poise your Firelocks - - 1. 



8. Rest upon your Annes - 1. 



9. Draw your Bayonetts - 1. 



10. Screw your Bayonetts on y e 

 Muskett - - - 1. 



11. Rest your Bayonetts - - 1. 



12. Charge your Bavonetts breast 

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13. Push yo r Bayonetts - - 1. 



14. Recover your Amies - - 1. 



15. Rest upon your Annes - 1. 



16. Unscrew your Bayonetts - 1. 



17. Returne your Bayonetts - 1. 



18. Half cock your Firelocks - 1. 



19. Blow your Pans - - 1. 



20. Handle your Primers - - 1. 



21. Prime - - - 1. 



22. Shut vour Pans - - 1. 



23. Cart about to Charge - 1. 



24. Handle your Cartridges - 1. 



25. Open your Cartridges - 1. 



26. Charge w th Cartridge - - 1. 



27. Draw forth your Ramers - 1. 



28. Hold them up - - - 1. 



29. Shorten them against your brest 1. 



30. Put them in y« Barrills - 1. 



31. Ram downe your charge - 1. 



32. Recover your Ramers - - 1. 



33. Hold them up - - - 1. 



37. Poise your Firelocks - - 1. 



38. Shoulder your Firelocks - 1. 



39. Rest your Firelocks - - 1. 



40. Order your Armes - - 1. 



41. Ground your Armes - - 1. 



42. Take up your Armes - - 1. 



43. Rest your Firelocks - ' - 1. 



44. Club your Firelocks - - 1. 



45. Rest your Firelocks - - 1. 



46. Shoulder - - - 1. 

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ST. THOMAS CANTILUPE, BISHOP OF 

 HEREFORD. 



The learned Alban Butler asserts that St. 

 Thomas of Hereford was born in Lancashire. 

 He gives no authority for the assertion. Can 

 any of your readers tell me if it rests on any 

 foundation ? The point is apparently trivial ; but 

 it is, nevertheless, interesting to thousands of 

 Roman Catholics, at least the Catholics of Lan- 

 cashire, reverencing him as they do as a canonised 

 saint ; and, indeed, is not devoid of interest to 



any Englishman, who must regard this holy bishop 

 as one of the bright stars of the English eccle- 

 siastical firmament. 



In my opinion, there is not the slightest founda- 

 tion for this assertion. In consulting Dugdale's 

 Baronage, I find that the principal residence of 

 the noble family of Cantilupe was at Kenilworth. 

 William, the first Lord Cantilupe, grandfather of 

 St. Thomas, was appointed Governor of the 

 Castle of Kenilworth, in Warwickshire, which, 

 says Dugdale, was " his chief residence." He also 

 received from King Henry III. the confirmation 

 of the manor of Aston, in the same county, and 

 called from the name of the family Aston Canti- 

 lupe, now Aston Cantlow. His son William, the 

 father of the saint, succeeded to his sire's posses- 

 sions, embracing property in various counties ; 

 but there is not the least trace of any connexion 

 with Lancashire, either by landed property, or by 

 personal residence of St. Thomas's parents. On 

 the contrary, as to the father, his movements 

 were in a contrary direction. Having executed 

 the office of sheriff for the counties of Nottingham 

 and Derby, he had summons (26 Hen. III.) "to 

 fit himself with horse and arms, and to attend the 

 king in his purposed expedition " against France. 

 {Baronage, p. 732.) In 28 Hen. III. " he was 

 one of the Peers sent by the King to the Prelates 

 to solicit their aid for money in support of his 

 wars in Gascoigne and Wales." In the next 

 year he was sent as the representative of England 

 to the first General Council of Lyons, 1245. In 

 fine I cannot discover anything whatever that 

 connects him with Lancashire. As to his mother, 

 also, there could be nothing which would require 

 her presence in that county. She was a French 

 lady, previously a widow — Milisent, Countess of 

 Evreux. St. Thomas, then, was most probably 

 born at Kenilworth, or Aston Cantilupe, and was 

 consequently a Warwickshire man. 



At the same time, I think I can detect the origin 

 of the error. Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, was on 

 the 22nd of March, 1322, beheaded at Pontefract 

 for high treason and rebellion. After his death, 

 an extraordinary idea of his sanctity prevailed in 

 the northern counties : so much so that a guild 

 was dedicated in his name, called " Gilda Beati 

 Thomae Lancastriensis ; " a stone cross was erected 

 on the hill where he was executed, which was so 

 frequented by pilgrims from the neighbouring 

 parts that Edward II. commanded Hugh Spencer 

 and a band of Gascoignes to station themselves 

 on its summit, " to the end that no people should 

 come and make their praiirs there in worship of 

 the said Earle, whom they took verilie for a 

 martyr." However, as this " St. Thomas of Lan- 

 caster " was an unrecognised saint, the fame of 

 his sanctity gradually died away ; but as there 

 was another St. Thomas, a real canonised saint, 

 the date of whose canonisation, 1319, morooyer, 



