June 9. 1855.] 



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quently a bookseller at Birmingham, but I never saw any 

 one fact adduced tending to show that there was any per- 

 son of that name so employed." 



It will be observed that the printer of Scripscrapo- 

 logia (ante, p. 450.) is M. Swinney of Birmingham. 



CUTHBERT BeDE, B.A. 



Scotch Prisoners in 1651 sold as Slaves (Vol. ii., 

 pp. 297. 350. 379. 448.).— The battle of Worcester 

 •was fought Sept. 3, 1651. On the same day, in 

 the preceding year, the battle of Dunbar was 

 fought, in which Cromwell slew 3,000 and took 

 prisoners 9,000 Scots. The disposal of a part of 

 the latter (and from which we may infer the kind 

 of slavery to which the Worcester prisoners were 

 afterwards subjected) is thus described in a "letter 

 from Mr. John Cotton to Lord General Cromwell," 

 dated " Boston, in N. E., 28 of 5th, 1651 :" 



"The Scots, whom God delivered into your hands at 

 Dunbarre, and whereof sundry were sent hither, we have 

 been desirous (as we could) to make their yoke easy. 

 Such as were sick of the scurvy or other diseases have 

 not wanted phj^sick and chyrurgery. They have not 

 been sold for slaves to perpetuall servitude, but for six, or 

 seven, or eight years, as we do our owne ; and he that 

 bought the most of them (I heare) buildeth houses for 

 them, for every four a house, layeth some acres of ground 

 thereto, which he giveth them as their owne, requiring 

 three days in the weeke to worke for him (by turns), and 

 four dayes for themselves, and promiseth, as soone as they 

 can repay him the money he layed out for them, he will set 

 them at liberty." 



In Cromwell's answer to this letter, dated " Oct. 

 2nd, 1651," he thus alludes to the battle of "Wor- 

 cester, fought in the preceding month : 



" The Lord hath marvelously appeared even against 

 them ; and now again when all the power was devolved 

 into the Scottish Kinge and the malignant partie, they 

 invading England, the Lord has rayned upon them such 

 snares as the enclosed will show, only the narrative is 

 short in this, that of their whole armie, when the narrative 

 was framed, not five of their whole armie were returned." 



Both letters will be found in Governor Hutchinson's 

 Collection of Original Papers relative to the His- 

 tory of Massachusets Bay, Boston, 1769, pp. 

 235-6. It is singular that Hume (chap, ix.) does 

 not notice the sale into slavery of the prisoners 

 taken at either Dunbar or Worcester. Southey, 

 in his Book of the Church (chap, xvii., p. 475., 

 London, 1841), says: 



" After the battle of Worcester many of the prisoners 

 were actually shipt for Barbadoes and sold there." 



Eeic. 

 Ville-Marie, Canada, April, 1855. 



Weldons of Cornwall (Vol. x., p. 404.). — In 

 "K & Q." of November 18, 1854, particular in- 

 quiry is made of the above-named family, and 

 mention is made of their being Quakers, and resi- 

 dent somewhere in that county about fifty years 

 ago. In reply, I have never heard of the family ; 

 but if the information required be of any conse- 

 quence, I would suggest to H. E. W. to make 



application to some member of the Society of 

 Friends, commonly called Quakers, living at or 

 near where the Weldons were supposed to reside. 

 Such inquiry will, I am sure, be promptly answered. 

 The Society mentioned keep a correct record of 

 the births, marriages, and deaths of all their 

 members, and one of the body in each district or 

 province undertakes to perform this duty, and is 

 likewise expected to render all needful information 

 to those who apply. There was a family of this 

 name in the South of Ireland about half a century 

 ago, also Quakers. The last of this branch, 

 Thomas Weldon, resided in the town of Bardon, 

 in the county of Cork. He was a small trader, 

 died unmarried, and, I believe, unwilled, some- 

 where about the year 1810 or 1815, but left a con- 

 siderable amount of property, which went in divi- 

 sion among his next of kin ; but none of those 

 were of his name, as well as my memory serves. In 

 or near the town of Kilmallock, in the same county, 

 there were gentlemen of this name living within 

 the past twenty or thirty years, and most likely 

 some of the name are in that country still. These 

 latter, however, were not Quakers. H. H. H. 



Royal Family of Sardinia (Vol. xi., p. 244.). — 

 1. As to the relationship between Charles Albert, 

 King of Sardinia, and his immediate predecessor : 



Charles EmanuelI.,DtikeofSavoyj=Cathcrine, daughter of Philip II., 

 ob. 1630. I Kingof Spaia ; ob. 1597. 



Victor Amadeus I., Buke of= 

 Savoy ; ob. 1637. I 



Charles Emanuel H., Duke of= 

 Savoy ; ob. 1675. I 



Victor Amadeus II., King of= 

 Sardinia ; ob. 1732. | 



Charles Emanuel HI., King of= 

 Sardinia; ob. 1773. I 



Victor Amadeus m., King of= 

 Sardinia ; ob. 1796. I 



Victor Emanuel, King of Sar-= 

 dinia; ob. 1824,s.p. TO. A 



Thomas Francis, Prince of Ca-=: 

 rignan, youngest son ; ob. 1 

 :636. 



Emanuel Philibert Amadeus,= 

 Prince of Carignan; ob. 1709. I 



Victor Amadeus, Prince of= 

 Carignan ; ob. 1741. 



Louis Victor Joseph. Prince of= 

 Carignan ; ob. 1778. I 



Victor Amadeus Louis, Prince= 

 ofCarignan; ob. 1780. I 



Charles Emanuel Ferdinand,= 

 Prince ofCarignan; ob. 1800. 



Charles Albert, Prince of Ca- "T 

 rlgnan. King of Sardinia ;'"^ 

 ob. 1849. 



2. Charles Albert was not descended from Hen- 

 rietta, Duchess of Orleans ; he was descended 

 (maternally) from James I. of England, through 

 that king's grandson, the Palatine Edward. 



The present King of Sardinia is descended from 

 Henrietta, Duchess of Orleans, through his mother 

 (who was sister of the present Grand Duke of Tus- 

 cany) ; deriving his descent through the Houses of 

 Lorraine and Austria. ^' 



Barmecide's Feast (Vol. xi., p. 367.). —May 

 I be allowed to quote the Nursery against the 



