[Our correspondent will find his Query briefly and satisfactorily
answered by Hénault, in his _Abrégé de l'Histoire de France_, p.
476. His words are: "Henri IV. roi de Navarre, né à Pau, le 13
Décembre, 1553, et ayant droit à la couronne, comme descendant de
Robert, Comte de Clermont, qui étoit fils de St. Louis, et qui
avoit épousé l'héritière de Bourbon, y parvient en 1589." The
lineal descent of Henri from this Count Robert may be seen in
_L'Art de vérifier les Dates_, vol. vi. p. 209., in a table
entitled "Généalogie des Valois et des Bourbon; St. Louis IX.,
Roi de France."]
_"He that complies against his will," &c.; and "To kick the
bucket."_--Oblige T. C. by giving the correct reading of the familiar
couplet, which he apprehends is loosely quoted when expressed--
"Convince a man against his will," &c.
or,
"Persuade a man against his will," &c.
Also by stating the name of the author.
Likewise by giving the origin of the phrase "To kick the bucket," as
applied to the death of a person.
[The desired quotation is from Butler's _Hudibras_, part III.
canto iii. l. 547-8.:
"He that complies against his will,
Is of his own opinion still."
As to the origin of the phrase "To kick the bucket," the
tradition among the slang fraternity is, that "One Bolsover
having hung himself to a beam while standing on the bottom of a
pail, or bucket, kicked the vessel away in order to pry into
futurity, and it was all UP with him from that moment--_Finis_!"
Our Querist will find a very humorous illustration of its use
(too long to quote) in an article on "Anglo-German Dictionaries,"
contributed by De Quincy to the _London Magazine_ for April,
1823, p. 442.]
_St. Nicholas Cole Abbey._--There is a church in the city of London
called St. Nicholas Cole Abbey: what is the origin of the name or
derivation?