2»>J S. V. 123., May 8. '58.] 



NOTES AND QUElilES. 



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1728. The Craftsman describes the hunting of 

 the Court on August 3, 1728, in the New Park, 

 and says Wednesdays and Saturdays are fixed for 

 the diversion for some time. 



Read's Journal of Saturday, August 24, 1728, 

 speaks at much length of the hunting in the New 

 Park on the previous Saturday, and adds, his 

 Majesty, the Duke, and the Princess Royal* 

 hunted on horseback. Her Majesty and the 

 Princess Amelia hunted in a four-wheel chaise, 

 and the Princess Caroline in a two-wheel chaise ; 

 and the Princesses Mary and Louisa were in a 

 coach. Sir Robert AValpole attended as ranger, 

 clothed in green, &c. 



The London Journal of September 7, 1728, says, 

 on the previous Saturday the Princess Royal had 

 the misfortune to fall from her horse while hunt- 

 ing, but received no hurt. 



2'he Craftsman, relating the chase of August 21, 

 1731, mentions that the horse of Viscount Malpas, 

 son-in-law of Sir Robert Walpole, fell, and the 

 Prince of Wales f, being in full speed, with great 

 difficulty prevented his horse running over him, 

 as he lay on the ground. 



The Country Journal, alluding to the hunting 

 on September 14, 1731, says, Sir Robert Wal- 

 pole's horse fell with and threw him, but he re- 

 ceived no hurt, yet her Majesty ordered him to 

 bleed by way of precaution. 



The following appears in the Gentleman s Ma- 

 gazine, vol. i., for September, 1731 : — Tuesday, 

 Se[)tember 14, being Holy-rood Day, the King's 

 huntsmen hunted their free buck in Richmond 

 New Park with bloodhounds, according to cus- 

 tom. *. 



CAKDINAL YOKK : THE STUAET PAPERS. 



By way of supplement to a recent communica- 

 tion of mine, I beg to place at your disposal a 

 translated copy of the will of Cardinal York, to 

 whom, as the last of the Stuarts, an interest at- 

 taches. I am not aware that it exists in any ac- 

 cessible form ; and you will probably be glad to 

 preserve it in " N, & Q." 



It is satisfactory to learn frt)m the editorial 

 remarks which succeeded my communication, that 

 those interesting documents, known as " the Stu- 

 art Papers," were purchased by George IV., and 

 partially published ; but from a paragraph which 

 appeared in 1844 in the Dublin Evening Post, I 

 am inclined to imagine that a valuable portion of 

 the family papers of the Stuarts is still preserved 

 at Rome. The Evening Post is a Catholic jour- 

 nal usually well informed on Roman gossip. As- 

 suming that such papers do exist, I repeat the 

 opinion already expressed, that the liberality and 



* Who afterwards married the Stadtholder. 

 t Frcd.-rick Lewis, father of George HI. 



literary taste of the present Pope would probably 

 sanction access to them for historical pur{)oses : — 



" We, Henry Benedict Mary, son of James III., King of 

 England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Cardinal of the 

 Holy Roman Church, Bishop of Frascati, considering that 

 we are mortal, and not knowing the time and the hour 

 when Almighty God will be pleased to call us to him, 

 have resolved, now that we are in good health, and in the 

 full enjoyment of all our faculties, to make our last dispo- 

 sition, and to provide, as well as to that which relates to 

 our funeral, as for the salvation of our soul and our tem- 

 poral affairs. In consequence we dispose, by our last will, 

 in the manner following : — 



" We repose such full confidence in our dearly-beloved 

 friend Monsignor Angelo Cesarini, Bishop of Milesi, and 

 Rector of our Seminary ; he has ever given us such great 

 proofs of his integrity, fidelity, discretion, high respect, 

 and love for ourselves, that we are satisfied it is our duty 

 to confide to no one but him the important deed with 

 which we are now occupied. 



"Of all our real estate, household goods, money, dia- 

 monds, rings, jewels, credits, and rights of our ro3-al house, 

 which belong to us, of whatsoever kind and nature they 

 may be, and wherever placed, situated, or established, of 

 every right of our house and family, belonging to and 

 devolved on us, accepted, or acknowledged, transmitted 

 or transmissible, we appoint, declare, and institute for 

 our universal fiduciary heir the above-named Monsignor 

 Cesarini, Bishop of Milesi, and Rector of our Seminary, 

 with whom we have daily passed the greatest part of our 

 life, and to whom we have especially confided our precise 

 will and dispositions: consequently, we will and ordain 

 that what shall be declared, commanded, desired, and ex- 

 plained by him, shall be considered as if we had really 

 declared, commanded, and willed it ourselves, such being 

 our will, communicated and entrusted to him, concerning 

 whomsoever shall succeed to our inheritance and to all 

 our rights, credits, and possessions, as well as our legacies 

 of whatever kind, quality, and quantity they may be, 

 bequests, the execution of which we have equally con- 

 fided to him, and also concerning the disposal of our 

 chapel and sacred ornaments, jewels, or plate belonging to 

 the same chapel. 



" For the disposal of these objects, we declare that we 

 have in our possession a special apostolic. Indulto from the 

 Sovereign Pontiff Benedict XIV. We likewise recognise 

 in the above-named prelate the right of disposing of any- 

 thing belonging to us, for which purpose we have already 

 declared to the said fiduciary heir our sentiment and 

 will. 



" We also expressly declare that all the objects which 

 shall be found in our inheritance, real estate, household 

 goods, plate, trinkets, diamonds, jewels, and orders, as 

 well as the insignia of our crown, decorations, valuable 

 effects, credits of our roj'al house, our proper actions, 

 rights and claims of what kind soever they are, belong 

 specially and fully to us, are of our free property and pos- 

 session, inasmuch as they are derived partly from the 

 inheritance of the ancestors of our royal house and family 

 devolved on us, and partly as bought and accumulated 

 by us. 



" W^e further declare and direct that our above-named 

 fiduciary heir shall not be compelled by any one to mani- 

 fest, declare, and explain the trusts we have committed to 

 him, so long as he shall not think it proper and convenient 

 to do so, being our pleasure that he may have all the con- 

 venience necessary to make anj' such communication or 

 declaration, either entirely or partially, according to the 

 circumstances and seasons which he sliall judge most 

 proper, such being our determination and our precise or 

 very will. And should it ever happen that any person, 



