tion, a popular heroine; her
third husband, who appears to have been a young Squire de Boyaval and a
dashing grey mousquetaire of King Louis, was metamorphosed into a
brewer's apprentice (Jacqueline among her other possessions owned a
brewery); and now, in the year 1889 we have the thrifty dame who helped
the king's officers carry out the king's orders for the supplying of
St.-Omer, immortalised in bronze as an Audomaraise Jeanne Hachette or
Maid of Saragossa!

[2] This is a curious sidelight on English political history. 'Lord
Bromley' was obviously Sir William Bromley, M.P., the bitter enemy
of Marlborough, who earned the undying hatred of the Duchess by
comparing her to Alice Perrers, the mistress of Edward III. In 1705
Harley prevented the election of Bromley as Speaker by re-publishing
an account of the 'Grand Toure' written by him, and foisting into it
notes intended to show that Bromley was a 'Papist.' Bromley was
again a candidate for the same office in 1710, and Marlborough
evidently hoped to get from St.-Omer documentary proof of the
'papistry' of his foe. The second Duchess of Hamilton came, I think,
of a Catholic family, and may have thought she had a clue to these
documents. The intrigue, however, failed, and Bromley was elected
Speaker without opposition in November, 1710.

Is not this worthy to stand on record with Sir Roger de Coverley's tale
of the old coachman who had a monument in Westminster Abbey because he
figured on the box of the coach in which Thomas Thynne of Longleat was
barbarously murdered by Count Konigsmark?

The Republican Mayor of St.-Omer took sides on the question of
Jacqueline Robins in 1885 with the Republican 'Professor of History in
the Lyceum,' both of them being 'officers of the Academy,' against the
Society of Antiquaries; and I dare say the matter may affect the
Parliamentary elections in September, 1889!

CHAPTER III

IN THE PAS-DE-CALAIS--_continued_

AIRE-SUR-LA-LYS

It is a local tradition at Aire-sur-la-Lys that, about half a century
ago, the good people of this ancient and picturesque town (which, like
St.-Omer, remained a part of the Spanish dominions when all the rest of
the Artois became French by the treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659) turned
out with flags and music to welcome their mayor back from Paris,
bringing the good news that the projected Northern railway should not
pass through their territor