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NOTES AND QUEHIES. 



[No. 213. 



Mr. Cunningham, in his notice of the Tower, 

 mentions Walhice first among the eminent persons 

 who have been confined there. The popular ac- 

 counts of the Tower do the like. It was about 

 the Feast of the Assumption (Aug. 15) that 

 Wallace Avas taken and conducted to London ; 

 and it seems clear that he was forthwith im- 

 prisoned in the citizen's house : 



-^ He was lodged," says Stow, " in the house of 

 William. Delect, a citizen of London, in Fenchurcli 

 Street. On the morrow, being the eve of St. Bartlio- 

 lomew (2Srd Aug.), he was brought on horseback to 

 Westminster . . . the mayor, sheriffs, and aldermen of 

 London accompanying him ; and in the Great Hall at 

 Westminster . . . being impeached," &c. 



The authorities cited are, Adam Merlmuth and 

 Thomas de La More. His arraignment and con- 

 demnation on the Vigil of St. Bartholomew are 

 also mentioned by Matthew Westminster, p. 451. 

 Neither these historians, or Stow or Holinshetl, 

 afford any farther information. The latter chro- 

 picler says that Wallace was " condemned, and 

 thereupon hanged" {Chron., fol., 1586, vol. ii. 

 p. 313.). He was executed at Smithfield ; and it 

 is not improbable that, if, after his condemnation, 

 he was taken to any place of safe custody, he was 

 lodged in Newgate. The following entry of the 

 expenses of the sheriffs attending his execution is 

 on the Chancellor's Roll of 33 Edw. I. in the 

 British Museum : 



" Et in expens t misis tcis p eosd Vice*^' p Willo le 

 Walleys Scoto lafne prcdone pupHco utlagato inimico 

 et rebellione p> qui in contemptu IJ, p Scociam se 

 Regeni Scocie falso fecat noiare t t ministros ^ in 

 Btibus Scocie intf'ecit atq. dux* excercitu hostilit contr" 

 I^ege p judiciu Ciif p> apud Westih disfhendo sus- 

 pendendo decollando ej viscera concremando ac ej 

 corpus q"rtcrando cuj cor^tis quartia ad iiij majores 

 villas Scocie t*usmittebantur hoc anno .... £xj s. xd." 



The day of the trial, August 23, is generally 

 given as the date of his execution. It therefore 

 appears that the formidable Scot never was a 

 prisoner in the Tower. 



The unfortunate Queen Anne Boleyn occupied 

 the royal apartments while she was a prisoner in 

 the Tower. From Speed's narrative, it appears 

 that she continued to occupy them after she was 

 condemned to death. On May 15 (1536) she was 

 (says Stow) 



♦' Arraigned in the Tower on a scaffold made for the 

 purpose in the King's Hall ; and after her condemn- 

 ation, she was conveyed to ward again, > the Lady 

 Kingston, and tlie Lady Boloigne her aunt, attending 

 on her." 



On May 19, the unfortunate queen was led forth 

 to "the green by the White Tower" and be- 

 headed. 



In the record of her trial before the Duke of 

 Norfolk, Lord High Steward (see Report of De- 

 puty Keeper of Public Records), she is ordered to 

 be taken back to " the king's prison within the 

 Tower;" but these are words of form. The oral 

 tradition cannot in this case be relied upon, for it 

 pointed out the jMartin Tower as the place of her 

 imprisonment because, as I believe, her name was 

 found rudely inscribed upon the wall. The Beau- 

 champ Tower seems to have been named only 

 because it was the ordinary state prison at the 

 time. The narrative quoted by Speed shows, 

 however, tliat the place of her imprisonment was 

 the queen's lodging, where the fading honours of 

 royalty still surrounded Anne Boleyn. 



William Sidney Gibson. 



Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 



INEDITED LETTER FROM HENRY Vni. OF ENGLAND 

 TO JAMES V. OF SCOTLAND. 



I lately transcribed several vei-y interesting 

 original manuscripts, chiefly of the seventeenth 

 century, but some of an earlier date, and now 

 send you a literal specimen of one evidently be- 

 longing to the sixteenth century ; altiiough, not- 

 withstanding the day of the month is given, the 

 year is not. If you think it worthy of a place in 

 your very excellent publication, you are quite at 

 liberty to make use. of it, and I shall be happy to 

 send you some of the others, if you choose to 

 accept them. They chiefly relate to the period 

 when the Duke of Lauderdale was commissioner 

 for Scotch affairs at the English Court ; and one 

 appears to be a letter addressed by the members 

 of the Scottish College at Paris to James I. on the 

 death of his mother. Tiios. Nimmo. 



Right excellent right high and mighty prince, 

 our most dereste brother and nephew, we recora- 

 mende us unto you in our most herlee and affec- 

 tuous maner by tiiis bei*er, your familyar servitor, 

 David Wood. We have not only receyved your 

 most loving and kinde let' declaring how moch ye 

 tendre and regarde the conservation and mayn- 

 tennance of good amytie betwene us, roted and 

 grounded as well in proximitie of blood as in the 

 good offices, actes, and doyngs shewed in our 

 partie, whiche ye to our greate comforte afferme 

 and confesse to be daylly more and more in your 

 consideration and remembraunce (but also two 

 caste of fair haukes, whiche presented in your 

 name and sent by youe we take in most thankfull 

 parte), and give youe our most hertie thanks for 

 the same, taking greate comforte and consolacion 

 to perceyte and understande by j'our said letters, 

 and the credence comitted to your said familyar 

 servitor David Wood, which we have redd and 

 considered (and also send unto youe with these 

 our letters answer unto the same) that ye like a 



