NOTES AND QUERIES. 



.[2od S. X. July 7. '60. 



Henry I. of the latter in Gloucester cathedral is a 

 well-ascertained circumstance ; but of Edgar's 

 subsequent history all Eapin discloses is under 

 the above year, in which he states that Edgar 

 lived to an extreme old age, and died [in Eng- 

 land?] _ 



Permit me therefore to inquire, through the me- 

 dium of your very valuable columns, whether any 

 of your numerous historical readers have ever met 

 with any mention of the place of abode, time of 

 death, or where rest the remains of this truly 

 noble and illustrious warrior, the lineal represen- 

 tative of the last but one (Ethelred II.) of our 

 Anglo-Saxon monarchs ; and also whether the same 

 respect was paid to his ashes as to those of one of 

 his beloved and saintly sisters, Queen Margaret of 

 Scotland ; or yet bestowed upon those of his com- 

 panion in arms, Duke Robert of Normandy — 

 whose dust (if undisturbed) still reposes in the 

 aisle of Gloucester cathedral beneath what the 

 last civil war has permitted to remain of his 

 monumental tomb and effigies. 



The paternal estates of Edgar's father appear, 

 from the Domesday Survey (pp. 69. 69 a.), to 

 have been in the county of Wiltes ; and it is not 

 improbable that Edgar's remains were interred 

 either in the cathedral of Old Sarum, and after- 

 wards removed to the present Salisbury cathedral 

 in the twelfth or thirteenth century, or else in 

 the neighbouring Abbey of Wilton : as it appears 

 from the proceedings of two councils (vide Wil- 

 kins' Concilia) — the one a.d. 107o, at Winton, 

 and the other a.d, 1100, at Lambeth — that his 

 niece Maud, daughter of Malcom, king of Scot- 

 land, had taken refuge in the latter abbey for the 

 sake of protection only ; as it was necessary that 

 she should do this in order to her espousals with 

 Henry I. (whose queen she afterwards became, 

 and mother of the Empress Maud) ; in which 

 year she was released from her monastic seclusion, 

 not having taken the veil. Those of his father, 

 the exile, were according to Rapin interred in St. 

 Paul's, London. 



Should any farther trace of this truly noble and 

 most distinguished and chivalrous Saxon Prince 

 be known to any of your readers, beyond what is 

 thus disclosed by De Thoryas, or the circum- 

 stance of his magnanimous refusal of the crown 

 and kingdom of Jerusalem when offered to l^im by 

 the Emperor of Constantinople after his victories 

 over the Arabians and recoiiquest of the Holy 

 Land from the grasp of the Saracenic invader, 

 and who thus carried for the first time the pres- 

 tige of our national Anglo-Saxon valour into the 

 far East, be yet upon record, the renewal and re- 

 membrance of it in your pages may probably 

 prove not altogether uninteresting at the present 

 time to more than one of your readers. 



As the military reputation acquired for his 

 countrymen by this distinguished and memorable 



Anglo-Saxon champion, has never since been sur- 

 passed by either of the Anglo-Norman monarchs, 

 Rich. I. and Edw. I., who afterwards sought for 

 glory upon the same illustrious fields ; nor yet 

 the lustre which his arms then reflected ever since 

 eclipsed by any succeeding crusader in the Holy 

 Land; although by subsequently joining in his 

 companion's rash enterprise against the Conqueror, 

 his prestige was afterwards unhappily destroyed ; 

 your insertion of this notice and inquiry after 

 the relictce of him, who thus laid the foundation of 

 our future renown for deeds of arms in the far 

 East, will greatly oblige "¥. 



CHRISTOPHER LORD HATTON, 



THE AUTHOR OF A BOOK OF PSALMODY. 



This truly illustrious nobleman, created Baron 

 Hatton of Kirby, co. Northampton, in 1643, was 

 the son of Sir Christopher Hatton (knighted at 

 the coronation of King James I.), who succeeded, 

 as nearest kinsman, to the estates of the cele- 

 brated chancellor of that name. He has been 

 styled "the Maecenas of learning," and acquired 

 considerable note as an industrious collector of 

 antiquities in the form of public records and 

 charters, with other MSS. of historical interest. 

 Among his collections was one highly valued and 

 sedulously preserved, an original grant of William 

 the Conqueror bestowing lands upon one of his 

 ancestors at Hatton, co. Chester. This in the 

 civil wars was preserved wiEh great difficulty by 

 his wife ; and it is stated that " her lord patiently 

 digested the plundering of his library and other 

 rarities," when he received intelligence from Lady 

 Hatton that this relic was in safety. Himself a 

 zealous antiquary, he employed his wealth iu 

 patronising the " working bees " of literature, and 

 preserving in troublous times for future gene- 

 rations the records of the past. 



The following unpublished" letter, written by 

 him to Sir William Le Neve, will be read with 

 interest : — 



" Worthy S"". — These lines are to present j'ou with my 

 hearty thanks for your weekcly good intelligence. I am 

 not a little gladd to heare an)' good newes from Arundell 

 house, therefore your newes of the Barony of Stafford was 

 Wellcome. I wish wee might have good newes out of the 

 North, that wee might with quiett apply our selves to our 

 studdies. I pray, S'', if Cooper need worke, be pleased to 

 supply him with some of your cho.yce deedes. I have 

 receaved a bemoaning letter from M"" Freeman for want 

 of worke ; at this distance I know not, but if )'0u please 

 to assign him somwhat that in your judgment is worth 

 my coppicing I will appoint him to attend you. I ear- 

 nestly long for your good company, aseuring you no man 

 is mpre your atiectionate friend 



" to serve you, 



" Che. Hatton. 



« Kirby, 20 Sept. 1G40. 

 " Sr. — M' Dugdale gives you many thanks 



