Nor. 23. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



427 



and the two Universities. This Act was to con- 

 tinue for two years, from lOth June, 1662. It was 

 renewed by the 16 Car. II. c. 8.; 16 & 17 Car. 11. 

 c. 7.; and 17 Car. II. c. 4., and expired on the 

 26th May, 1679, — a day rendered ever memorable 

 by tlie passing of the Hnbeas Corpus Act : but in 

 less than a year afterwards the judi^es unanhnously 

 advised the king that he might by law prohibit the 

 printing and publishing of all news-books and 

 pamphlets of news not licensed by His Majesty's 

 authority; an<l accordingly on the 17th May, 

 1680, appeared in the Gazette a proclamation re- 

 straining the printing of such books and pamphlets 

 without license. The Act of 1662 was revived for 

 seven years, from 24tli June, 1685, by 1 Jac. II. 

 c. 17. s. 15., and, even atter the lievolution, was 

 continued for a year longer by 4 & 5 Wm. and 

 Marv, c. 24. s. 14. When that year expired, the 

 press of England became free ; but on the Ist April, 

 1697, the House of Commons, after passing a vote 

 against John Salusbury, printer of the Flying 

 Post, for a paragraph inserted in that journal 

 tending to destroy the credit and currency of 

 Excherpier Bills, ordered that leave shouhl be 

 given to bring in a bill to prevent the writing, 

 printing, and publishing any news without licence. 

 Mr. Poultney accordingly presented such a bill on 

 the 3rd of April. It was read a first time ; but a 

 motion to read it a second time was negatived. 

 (^Commons' Journals, xi. 765. 767.) This attempt 

 again to shackle the press seems to have occasioned 



" A Letter to a Member of Parliament showing 

 that a restraint on the Press is inconsistent with the 

 Protestant Religion and dangerous to the Liberties of 

 the Nation." Printed 1697, and reprinted in Cobbett's 

 Parliajnenturi/ History, v. App. p. cxxx. 



C. H. Cooper. 



Cambridge, October 29. 1850. 



REMAINS or JAMES II. 



(Vol. ii., pp. 243. 281.) 



To the information which has recently been 

 furnished in your pages respecting the remains of 

 Jame.s II., it may be not uninteresting to aild the 

 inscription which is on his monument in the church 

 of St. Germain-en-Laye, and which I copied, on 

 occasion of my last visit to Finance. 



Tlie body of the king, or a considerable portion 

 of it, which had remained uiiburied, was, I believe, 

 interred at St. (xermain soon after the termination 

 of the war in 1H14; but it being necessary to re- 

 build the church, the remains were exhumed and 

 re-interred in 1824. Vi(;issitudes as strange in 

 death as in lite seem to have attended this unhappy 

 king. 



The following is tlic inscription now on his 

 monument in the parish cliurch of St. Germain : 



" K£GIO CINERl PIETAB BEGIA. 



" Ferale quisquis hoc monumentum suspicis 



Rerun! humanarum vices meditare 



Magnus in prosperis in adversis major 



Jacobus 2. Anglorum Rex. 



Insigncs a>rumnas dolendaque nimium fata 



Pio placidoque obitu essolvit 



in hac urbe 

 Die 16. Septemb. , anni 1701. 

 Et noblliorcs qua^dam corporis ejus partes 

 Hie reconditce asservantur." 



Qui prius augusta'gestabat fronte coronam 



Exigna nunc piilvereus requiescit in urna 



Quid solium — quid et alta juvant I terit omnia lethum. 



Verum laus fidei ac mornm baud pcritura manebit 



Til quoque sumnie Deus regem (juem regius hospes 



Infaustum excepit tecum regnare jubebis." 



But a diflferent inscription formerly was placed 

 over the king's I'emains in this church, which luxs 

 now disappeared ; at all events, I could not dis- 

 cover it; and I suppose that the foregoing was 

 preferred and substituted for that, a copy of 

 which I subjoin : 



" D. O. M. Jussu Georgii IV. IMagnie Britannia 

 &c., Regis, et curante Equite exc. Carolo Stuart Re- 

 gis Britanniae Legato, ca-teris antea rite peractis et 

 quo decet bonore in stirpem Regiam hie nuper efFossas 

 reconditce sunt Reliquia; Jacobi II., qui in secundo 

 civitatis gradu clarus triuniphis in primo infelicior, 

 post varios fortuna; casus in spem melioris vit^ et 

 bcatEe resurrectionis hie quievit in Domino, anno 

 MDCCi, V. idus Septemb., mdcccxxiv." 



At the foot of the monument were the words — 

 " Depouilles mortelles de Jacques 2. Roi d'Angle- 

 terre." 



A third monumental inscription to the memory 

 of James II., in Latin, is to be seen in the chapel 

 of the Scotch College in Paris. This memorial 

 was erected in 1703, by James, Duko of Perth. 

 An urn, containing the brains of the king, formerly 

 stood on the top of it. A copy of this inscription 

 is preserved in the Collectanea Topogi-apliica et 

 Genealogica, vol. vii. 



J. Reynell Weefobd, D.D. 



Bristol, November K. 1850. 



JUDGE CRADOCK. 



My transplantation from Gloucester to Devon- 

 shire, ami the conseipient UMa]iproa('liable state of 

 my books, prevents my referring to authorities at 

 the moment in suppoi-t of what I have said about 

 the arms of Judge Cradock alias Nowton : still I 

 wish to notice the subject at once that I may not 

 appear to shrink from the Query of S. A. Y. 

 (Vol. ii.,p.37)(^) 



I haiipen to' have at hand a copy of the Grant 



