Sept. 22. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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The following also I must leave to the inter- 

 pretation of your better informed readers. I do 

 not find any such work mentioned either by 

 Chalmers or Watt. 



" Rev. Mr. Carte. 

 1743-4, Mar. 6. To printing an account of £''s. "d. 

 the Forces, &c., in France*, 

 7 half sheets of pica, 8vo., 

 No. 500 - - - - 2 19 6 

 Three reams, ten quires of 

 paper - - - - 2 2 



5 1 G" 

 On the opposite page is an acknowledgment : 



" Rev. Mr. Carte, Cr. 

 Received of Mrs. Cooper, 5Z. Is. Gd" 



The following speaks for itself: 



" Mrs. Cooper. 



1744, June 16. To printing Pope's Will, £ s. d. 

 No. 500, English 8vo., sheet 

 and half - - - - 1 10 " 



I mentioned incidentally that H. Woodfall, 

 Jun., printed occasionally hills and tickets for the 

 benefit performances at the theatres. The Gibbers 

 of course patronised him : and we find " bills and 

 tickets " for Theophilus, for Mrs. Gibber, and for 

 " Miss Betty and Miss Jenny Gibber." The 

 credit accounts are characteristic. The first is 

 acknowledged as " received by note of hand ; " 

 the next, " received in part 3s. in the pound ; " 

 the remainder with an " &c." are in the abstract 

 of " debts due," and " bad " written against all. 



P. T. P. 



INEDITED LETTERS OF CHAKLES I. 



I have recently acquired a MS. quarto volume, 

 consisting of copies of letters from King Gharles I. 

 to his queen iu the year 1646. They are sixty- 

 four in number, and form a regular series fiom 

 January 4 to December 26. They are written 

 in a neat close hand (I believe) of the seventeenth 

 century. I am not aware whether the originals 

 are in existence, or have been published. I send 

 you an exact transcript of the first letter as a 

 specimen ; and if you think it will be suitable for 

 " N. & Q.," I shall have pleasure in sending you 

 others at Intervals. Twenty-four of them are 

 dated at Oxford, and forty at New Gastle. I shall 

 be glad to see your opinion, or those of your cor- 

 respondents, as to the rarity and value of this MS. 



[* This pamphlet, which maizes just seven half-sheets, 

 is entitled " An Account of the Numbers of Men able to 

 bear arms in the Provinces and Towns of France, taken 

 by the King's Orders in 1743, &c. To which is added. 

 An Account of the Military Forces of France for both 

 Land and Sea Service, as settled by the Council of State 

 on May 1, 1743 ; London, printed for M. Cooper, at the 

 Globe in Paternoster Row, 1744."] 



No. 308.] 



(No. 1.) 



« Oxford, Jan. 4th, 1C45-6. 

 " Dear Heart, 



" I desired thee to take notice that v/'iih the 

 year I begin to new number my letters, hoping 

 to begin a year's course of good luck. I have 

 heard of, but seen no letters from thee since 

 Christmas Day : the reason is evident, for our in- 

 telligence with the Portugal's agent is obstructed, 

 so that I am not so confident as I was that any of 

 my letters will come safe to thee. But methinks, 

 if Card. Mazarin were but half so kind to us as 

 he professes to be, it would be no great difficulty 

 for hirn to secure our weekly intelligence. And 

 in earnest I desire thee to put him to it ; for, be- 

 sides that if the effects of it succeed it will be of 

 great consequence to me, I shall very much judge 

 of the reality of his intentions according to his 

 answer in this. If Ashburnham complain to thee 

 of my wilfulness, I am sure it is that way, which 

 at least thou wilt excuse, if not justify me in ; but 

 if thou hadst seen a former paper (to which being 

 but accessary, I must not blame his judgment) 

 thou wouldest have commended my cholerick re- 

 jection of it, the aversion to which it is possible 

 (though I will not confess it until thou sayest so) 

 might have made me too nice in this, of which I 

 will say no more, but consider well that which I 

 sent in the place of it, and then judge. 



" My great affairs are so much in expectation, 

 that for the present I can give thee but little 

 account of them, albeit yet in conjecture (as I 

 believe) that the rebels will not admit of my 

 personal treaty at London ; and I hope well of 

 having 2000 foot and horse, out of my smaller 

 garrisons. As for the Scots, we yet hear no news 

 of them, neither concerning this treaty, nor of 

 that which I have begun with David Lesley. And 

 lastly, that the Duke of York's journey is abso- 

 lutely broken both in respect of the loss of Here- 

 ford, as that the relief of Chester is yet but very 

 doubtful. But upon this design, having com- 

 manded Sir George llatcliff to wait upon him, I 

 desire thy approbation that he may be sworn 

 Gentleman of his Bedchamber ; for which, though 

 he be very fit, and I assure thee that he is far 

 from being a Puritan, and that it will be much for 

 my son's good to have him settled about him, yet 

 I would not have him sworn without thy consent. 

 So God bless thee, sweet heart. 



" Chakles R. 



" Even now, Montrevll is come hither concern- 

 ing the ti-eaty ; the Queen cannot have a par- 

 ticular account of it till my next." 



J. C. WiTTOX. 

 Bath? 



