Sept. 28. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



281 



He is thus mentioned in Cavendish's Life of 

 Wohey (ed. 1825, vol. i. p. 73.) : — 



"The French king lying in his camp, sent secretly 

 into England a privy person, a very witty man, to en- 

 treat of a pence between him and the king our sovereign 

 lord, whose name was John Joachin ; he was kept as 

 secret as might be, that no man had intelligence of his 

 repair; for he was no Frenchman, but an Italian born, 

 a man before of no estimation in France, or known to 

 be in favour with his master, but to be a merchant ; 

 and for his subtle wit, elected to entreat of such affairs 

 as the king had commanded him by embassy. This 

 Joachin, after his arrival here in England, was secretly 

 conveyed unto the king's manor of Richmond, and 

 there remained until Whitsuntide ; at which time the 

 cardinid resorted thither, and kept there the said feast 

 very solemnly. In which season my lord caused this 

 Joachin divers times to dine with him, whose talk and 

 behaviour seemed to be witty, sober, and wondrous 

 discreet." 



My note on this passage says ; 



" The name of this person was Giovanni Joacchino 

 Passano, a Genoese ; he was afterwards called Seigneur 

 de Vaux. The emperor, it appears, was informed of 

 his being in England, and for what purpose. The 

 cardinal stated tliat Joacchino came over as a merchant ; 

 and that as soon as he discovered himself to be sent by 

 the lady regent of France, he made De Praet (the 

 emperor's ambassador) privy thereto, and likewise of 

 the answer given to her proposals. The air of mystery 

 which attached to this mission naturally created sus- 

 picion ; and, after a few months, De Praet, in his 

 letters to the emperor, and to Margaret, governess of 

 the Netherlands, expressed his surmise that all was not 

 right, alleging his reasons. His letters were inter- 

 cejited by the cardinal, and read before the council. 

 Charles and Margaret complained of the insult, and 

 the cardinal explained as well as he could : at tlie same 

 ti;tie protesting against the misinterpretation of De 

 Praet, and assuring them that nothing could be further 

 from his wish than that any disunion should arise be- 

 tween the king his master and the emperor ; and not- 

 withstanding the suspicious aspect of this transaction, 

 his dispatches, both before and after this fracas, strongly 

 corroborate his assertions. Wolsey suspected that the 

 Pope was inclined toward the cause of Francis, and 

 reminded him of his obligations to Henry and Charles. 

 The Pope had already taken the alarm, and had m.ide 

 terms with the F'rench king. I)ut had industriously con- 

 cealed it froin Wolsey ; and at length urged m his 

 excuse that he had no alternative. Joacchino was 

 again in England upon a different mission, and was an 

 eye-witness of the melancholy condition of the cardinal 

 when his fortunes were reversed. He sympathised 

 with him, and interested himself for him with Francis 

 and the <jueen dowager, as appears by his letters pub- 

 lished in I.eyraml, llistoirc du Divorce de Ilciinj V III," 



I think it is from tiiis iiiteresl,in;f book, which 

 throws much li^;iit upon many of the intricate 

 piwsaffes of the history of tlie times, that I derived 

 my inl'oninitioii. It is in all respects a work 

 wortii (•onuullin;'. S. W. Singkr. 



REMAINS OF JAMES H. 



(Vol. ii., p. 243.). 



The following passage is transcribed from a 

 communication relative to the the Scotch College 

 at Paris, made by the Rev. H. Longueville Jones 

 to the Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, 

 1841, vol. vii.p. 33. : — 



" The king left his brains to this college ; and, it 

 used to be said, other parts, but this is more doubtful, 

 to the Irish and English colleges [at Paris]. His heart 

 was bequeathed to the Dames de St. Marie at Chaillot, 

 and his entrails were buried at St. Germain-en-Laye, 

 where a handsome monument has been erected to his 

 memory by order of George IV. ; but the body itself 

 was interred in the monastery of English Benedictine 

 Monks that once existed in the Rue du Faubourg St. 

 Jacques, close to the Val de Grace. In this latter 

 house, previous to the Revolution, the following simple 

 inscription marked where the monarch's body lay : 



"'CI GIST JACQUES II. ROI DE LA GRANDE BRETAGNK.'" 



A monument to the king still exists in the 

 chapel of the Scotch College (which is now leased 

 to a private school); and the inscription, in Latin, 

 written by James, Duke of Perth, is printed in tlie 

 same volume of Collectanea, p. 35., followed by all 

 the other inscriptions to James's adherents now 

 remaining in that chapel. 



In a subsequent communication respecting the 

 Irish College at Paris, made by the same gentle- 

 man, and printed in the same volume, at p. 113. 

 are these remarks : — 



" It is not uninteresting to add, that the body of 

 James II. was brought to this college after the destruc- 

 tion of the English Benedictine Monastery adjoining 

 the Val de Grace ; and remained for some years in a 

 temporary tomb in one of the lecture halls, then used 

 as the chapel. It was afterwards removed ; by whose 

 authority, and to what place, is not exactly known : 

 but it is considered not improbable that it was trans- 

 ported to the church of St. Germain-en-Laye, and there 

 buried under the monument erected by George IV. 

 Some additional light will probably be thrown on th s 

 subject, in a work on the Stuarts nosv in course of 

 compilation." 



Has this work since appeared? J. G. N. 



Interment of James II. — I remember reading in 

 the French papers, in tlie year 1823 or 1824, a 

 long account of the then recent e.xhumation and 

 re-interment in another spot of the remains of 

 James II. I was but a boy at the time, and ne- 

 glected to make a " Note," which might now be 

 valuable to you. I have not the least dcnibt, how- 

 ever, that the fact will be discovered on reference 

 to a file of the Eloile, or any otlier of the Paris 

 papers of one or olh(!r of the years above named. 



'I'here is a marble monument erected in memory 

 of James, in the diapel of the old Scotch College, 

 in tlie Hue des Fosses Saint Victor. An urn of 

 bronze, gilt, contiiiiiiiig the king's brains, formerly 



