2nd s, N" 68., Apkil 18. '67.] 



NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



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LOB, there are yet difficulties to be reconciled : he 

 is called Rex " Anglorum : " this he never was, but 

 an Englishman Kihg of the Romans. He is said 

 to have abdicated the kingdom, and seemingly em- 

 braced a religious life, at Lucca : so I interpret the 

 line "Richardum nolis dedit Anglia Sanctum." 

 This seems to differ from a very definite notice of 

 him which 1 shall give presently. 



He is said to have been parent of a holy virgin^ 

 Saint Walberga^ and of two holy men, called 

 Saints Willehald and Venehald ; but Betham's 

 elaborate Tables of Royal Descents are silent re- 

 specting these offspring, as is also the following 

 from the Peerage Lists of Ralph Brooke (York 

 Herald), published 1619, under the title "Corn- 

 wall : " 



"Richard, second son of King John> in the 11th yeare 

 of Henry III. his brother, was created Earl of Poictou and 

 Cornwall ; and in the 12th yeare of said Kinge's Relgne 

 the King gave him all the lands in England, which were 

 Reginald Dampmnrtins, Earle of Boloignes ; and in the year 

 1257, he was by the Princes of Germanic chosen King 

 of the Romans, and crowned at Aquisgraue. He did 

 write himself Richard King of the Romaines, and always 

 Augustus, and married to his first wife, Isabel, sister and 

 one of the Heires of William Marshall the yonger, Earle 

 of Pembroke, and had issue John, that di€d yorige ; Henrie, 

 slaine by Guy and Simon, sonnes of Simon Montfort, 

 Earll of Leicester, in the church of St. Sylvester, in Vi- 



terbium (Viterbo)j in Italy, 1272, in revenge of their 

 father's death, that was slaine in the Barons' warres in 

 England) and Richard, that died without issue. 



" His seconde wife was Sincia or Sanchia, daughter, 

 and one of the Heires of Reymond Berengar, Earl of Pro- 

 vence, and sister to Queen Eleanor, by whom he had issue 

 Edmond, Earle of Cornwall, and Richard that died at the 

 siege of Barwick, with an iron shot in his head, 1290. 

 He had also Richard, a base sonne, who was the father 

 of Sir Geoffry Cornwall, Knight, of whom is descended 

 the family of Cornwalls of Burford. This Richard died in 

 his Castle of Barkhamstede, near London, 1272, and was 

 buried in the Abbey of Hales in Gloucestershire, which 

 was of his foundation. 



" llportoit, d'argent a un Lion rampant gueuUes, corone . 

 d'or, un bordm-e sable, besant^e. " 



There is some ambiguity in the above. " Tliid 

 Richard," buried at Hales, in Gloucestershire, may 

 mean the " base sOnne " spoken of just before, and 

 if so, would retnove the difficulty about the Ri- 

 chard King of the Romans whose epitaph is at 

 Lucca ; but the other difficulty about the uti- 

 named children remains untaken away. I subjoin 

 an extract from Betham's table : perhaps somd 

 one else with fuller informatioh may give a fuller 

 solution of the problem, or perhaps correct any 

 mistake in confounding two persons altogether 

 different. A. B. R. 



Belmont. 

 King John of England=l3abel, daughter of Aymer, C. of Angoulesrae. 



Sancha. daughter of Raymund,=Richard. Duke of Cornwall, King of=l8abel, daughter of Wm. Marshal, 

 C. ofProTenCe. I the Romans, &c., 1270.= I E.Pembroke. 



Edmund of Altnaln,=Margret, daughter of Rich. De 

 E. of Cornwall. Clare, E. of Gloucester. 



Richard, 



1206. 



John, 

 d. 1282. 



Henry, 

 d. 1271. 



Richardi 

 d.y. 



=by Beatrix, niece of Conrad of Cologne, i, concubine. 



Bichard. W^teiri 



Of whom the CoihValld, Bdrons of Buiford and Beriu^oiii 



Isabel. 



Maurice, 

 Ld. Berkley. 



PHOTOGEAPHIC COBBESPONDENCB. 



Poisoning by Photography. — [Having, we believe, con- 

 tributed more than any other journal to popularise Pho- 

 tography, and knowing how tnuch that dangerous poison 

 Cyanide of Potassium is now sold and used, we think it 

 only right to reprint in our Columns the following caution 

 against its use which appeared in The Times of Thursday 

 the 9th instant.] 



" Sir, — . I trust you will not consider it an intrusion if, 

 through your means, I seek to warn photographers in 

 general of the great risk they run in the use of a certain 

 salt, the cyanide of potassium, in their operations. 



"My attention was called to the subject by observing 

 in some of the papers an account, taken from a Cape 

 journal, of a Dr. Atherstone, who was dreadfully injured 

 ■ — in fact, all but killed — by the effects of this deadly 

 poison, which came in contact with the blood through 

 some slight scratches on his fingers. I'he effect was in- 

 stantaneous, and, as every one who has read the account 

 knows, the most alarming symptoms followed; No#, this 

 might easily happen to any one else. A man using this 

 solution forgets some little scratch on his finger, and by 

 accident a drop falls On the place ; in a moment the poison 



flies through his veins, and the Work of destructioh is ac- 

 complished before the unfortunate sufferer has time to 

 think of, or obtain, an antidote. 



" There are two things I would especially draw atten- 

 tion to: — 1. That the use of this salt is, in my opinion, 

 unpardonable, because there is a perfect substitute for 

 it — viz. the hyposulphite of soda, which has besides a& 

 advantage. The cyanide, in fixing the photograph, wilV 

 if not poured off at the right moment, dissolve away the 

 picture itself; this can never happen with the hj'posul- 

 phite. There is but one idle excuse that can be pleaded 

 for the cyanide, viz. that it requires rather less care and 

 trouble in washing it off after fixing thah the soda so- 

 lution. And as to takihg off stains of nitrate of silver, 

 this can be done without incurring the terrible risk of such 

 an accident as happened to t)r. Atherstone, by moistening 

 the spot first with & strohg solution of iodide of potassiuHl, 

 then With dilute nitric acid, and washing afterwards with 

 hj'posulphite of soda; 



" L&st, but not lea^t, I would call attention to the great 

 want of caution in placing this salt in the hands of per- 

 sons uniicquainted with its dangerous properties. Sets of 

 photographic apparatus, with ehymicals, book of instruc- 

 tions, &c., complete, ate now very generally sold at prices 



