NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[July 7. 1855. 



universities, and countries, as tliey were addressed 

 and ordered." 



It seems therefore certain, that the copy on 

 paper belonging formerly to Mr. Woodburii, and 

 now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, was not the one 

 richly bound in cloth of gold presented to the 

 Pope, and laid up in the Vatican (where Lord 

 Herbert of Cherbury afterwards saw it), but one 

 of those which were given to the cardinals ; and 

 Tve may consequently conclude that the pen which 

 struck out in it the title of Defender of the Faith 

 was guided by a less infallible hand than that of 

 the Pope. In fact, Leo X. died at the.end of No- 

 vember, 1521, before the bull issued for the royal 

 title had reached England ; and consequently it is 

 quite impossible he could have struck out the 

 words Defensor Fidei in the copy presented to 

 him. 



It may be added, that at Bologna is still pre- 

 served one of the copies sent to foreign universi- 

 ties, stamped with the royal arms, and signed with 

 the King's hand ; also that two other copies 

 printed on vellum are mentioned by Van Praet, 

 one of -which is in the Spenser library. 



F. Madden. 



British Museum. 



LADY ANNE CLIFFORD. 



The acceptable re-publication of a portion of 

 Daniel's Worhs, by Mr. Morris of Bath, has 

 brought afresh to our minds the poet's distinguished 

 pupil, the Lady Anne Clifford. It is well known 

 that this lady, having passed her sixty-third year, 

 compiled a Diary or Memoir of her life, or what 

 she calls " Memorables of Myself." 



Nine years ago, and at a later period, we find 

 the following amongst the list of suggested pub- 

 lications of the Camden Society : " The Auto- 

 biography of Anne Clifford, Countess of Pem- 

 broke, Dorset, and Montgomery, and other Re- 

 cords preserved in Skipton Castle. To be edited 

 by Edward Hailstone, Esq." It will be a subject 

 of much regret if Mr. Hailstone has abandoned 

 this work. More than twenty years since I 

 strongly urged that, if permission could be ob- 

 tained, the Diary of the Countess, and also that 

 of her mother Margaret, Countess of Cumberland, 

 if existing, should engage the attention of an 

 editor, who would not only bring to his labours a 

 knowledge of the eventful story of their lives, but 

 who would treat the narrative of their joys and 

 sorrows with genuine feeling. 



In the very last month a valued friend of mine, 

 who adorns the judicial bench (when speaking of 

 Daniel's Works, and of the " great Countess "), 

 observes, " Good service would be done if some 

 competent person were permitted to examine and 

 print the interesting parts of her autobiography. 



Ifo. 297.] 



This and two or three more volumes seem to 

 have been regularly continued, and all the earlier 

 legal transactions of the family, marriages, settle- 

 ments, &c., to have been collected and enrolled." 



In the York volume of the Transactions of the 

 Archceological Institute (1848), Mr. Hailstone has 

 printed " A true Memoriall of the Life of Lady 

 Ann Clifford." This account he states to be taken 

 from " a small 4to. volume containing an abstract 

 or summary of the three great books of records 

 kept at Skipton Castle," and was probably made 

 by the Countess's secretary from " A Sumarie and 

 Memoriall at the conclusion of the records in the 

 third volume." He adds that " the MS. is in 

 several persons' handwriting, but has not only 

 been dictated, but corrected by the Countess, as 

 many interlineations, and references to texts of 

 Scripture, are made in her handwriting." Valu- 

 able as is this paper, from the facts and dates it 

 contains, it is rendered less interesting from being 

 abbreviated, and written In the third person. 



Mr. Craik, in his Romance of the Peerage, says 

 that " various diaries of portions of Lady Anne's 

 own life, as well as historical memoirs of her an- 

 cestry, drawn up by her, or under her direction, 

 are spoken of as still existing at Skipton or Ap- 

 pleby : " and he adds, very truly, that " It Is re- 

 markable in how indistinct a way these manu- 

 scripts have been spoken of by almost every 

 writer who has referred to them." * It is to this 

 point that I would chiefly direct the attention of 

 your readers. The very title of the Diary, as 

 given by different persons, varies. According to 

 Mr. Baynes {_Biog. Brit., vol. Hi. p. 640.) it stands 

 thus : 



" A Summary of the Records, and a true Memorial of 

 the Life of the Lady Anne Clifford, who by birth being 

 sole daughter and heir to my illustrious father, George 

 Clifford, the third Earl of Cumberland, by his virtuous 

 wife, Margaret Russell, my mother," &c. &c. &c., referring 

 to her ancestry, titles, and marriages. 



There Is a MS. in the British Museum (Harl. 

 MS. 6177.), a folio of about 240 pages, a transcript 

 only ; it is entitled, — 



" A Summary of the Lives of the Veteriponts, Cliffords, 

 and Earls of Cumberland, and of the Lady Anne, Countess 

 Dowager of Pembroke, &c., daughter and heir to George, 

 Earl of Cumberland, in whom the name of the said 

 Cliffords determined. Copied from the original MS. the 

 29th of December, 1737, by Henry Fisher." 

 Mr. Hawkins informs me that It appears entire, 

 without breaks, any marks of omissions or in- 

 sertions ; but where the original is lodged, or 

 from whence this copy was taken, we are no- 

 where told. 



" Many things that have been quoted from the 



* Romance of the Peerage, vol. iv. p. 135. In referring 

 to Mr. Craik's interesting work, it is due to the author to 

 state that no writer has taken so much pains to ascertain 

 the authenticity of the transcripts and extracts given 

 from the Countess's Diary as he has done. , 



