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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 57. 



The Keeper of the Wardrobe, moreover, re- 

 ceived 100 marks for the conveyance of the kinji's 

 body from Pontefract to Loudon. {I^sue Rolls, 

 1 Henry IV.) 



It was the belief of many contemporaries — and 

 arguments have been adduced by modern writers 

 in support of the supposition — (see a very inte- 

 resting treatise on the subject in the second vohime 

 of Ty tier's History of Scotland), that Richard II. 

 escaped from his prison, and lived for several years 

 in Stirling Castle. But be that as it may, Froissart, 

 I think, is clearly wrong in stating that he died iu 

 the Tower of London. O. P. Q. 



In answer to your Query relative to the death 

 of Kichard II., and his dying at Pontefract, I beg 

 to refer you to Devon's printed Pell Records, 

 Plen. III. to Hen. VI., p. 275 , for the following 

 entry: 



"17 Februarj'. To Thos. Tuttabury, clerk, keeper 

 of the king's wardrobe, In money paid to liini by the 

 hands of \Vm. Pampleon, Esq., for expenses incurred 

 for the carriage of the body of Richard, late king of 

 England, friim the town of Pomferait to London, by 

 Writ, &c., 667. 13s. 4d." 



Again, at page 276. : 



" To a certain other valet, sent from London, by 

 direction of the king's council, to Pontfreyt Castle for 

 the protection and safe custody of the body of 

 Richard II., late king of England, In money paid to 

 his own hands for his w.iges and expenses, 6s. Sd." 



This seems to be decisive of the question ; but 

 there are several other interesting entries bearing 

 on the same point. D. P. R. 



Scottish Priso)ie7-s sold to Plantations (Vol. ii., 

 pp.297. 350. 379.).— 



" The judgements of heaven were never so visible 

 upon any people as those which have fallen upon the 

 Scots since [the sale of Charles I.] ; for, besides the 

 sweeping furious plague that reigned in Edinburgh, 

 and the incredible number of witches which have in- 

 creased, and have been executed there since ; besides 

 the sundry shamefid defeats they have received by the 

 English, who carried away more of them prisoners 

 than thev were themselves in number ; besides that 

 many of tliem died of mere hunger ; besides that they icere 

 sold awn;/ slai-es, at h'df a crown a dozen, for foreign 

 plantutions among savages; I say besides all this chain 

 of judgements, with diverse others, they have quite lost 

 their reputation among all mankind ; some jeer them, 

 some hate them, and none pity them." — Howell's 

 German Diet., p. 65., 165.'3. 



Echard, in Hist. Eiig., vol. ii. p. 727-, speaking of 

 the prisoners taken at Worcester, says that Crom- 

 well 



" marchall up triumphantly to London, driving four 

 or five thousand prisoners like sheep before him ; 

 making presents of tliem, as occasion oflfered, as of so 

 many slaves, and selling the rest for that purpose into 

 the English plantations abroad." 



W. Dn. 



Lachrymatories. — There is absolutely no autho- 

 rity in any ancient author for this name, and the 

 best scholars speak of these vessels as the bottles 

 usually called laehrymutoj-ies, &c. It would be 

 curious to discover when the name was first used, 

 and by whom first this absurd use was imagined. 

 It seems generally agreed that their proper use was 

 to contain perfumes, scents, and unguents, as 

 sweet odours to rest with the departed. Becker 

 says : 



" Bottles, filled with perfumes, were placed inside the 

 tomb, which was besprinkled odoribus. These are the 

 tear-flasks, or lachrymatories, so often mentioned for- 

 merly." — Callus, \>.4\3. Eng. Tr. 



A wasteful use of perfumes at funerals (sumptuo.m 

 respeisio, Cicero de Legibus, ii. 23.) was forbidden 

 by the Twelve Tables. The eighth verse of the 

 filty-sixth Psalm, 



" l\Iy flight thou uumberest: put my tears in thy 

 bottle: stand they not in ihy bock?" — Hengstenberg, 

 Clarke's Tr. Edinb. 



is, I believe, tlie only evidence that can be 

 brought in fiivour of the old opinion ; but we 

 surely cannot take the highly figurative language 

 of Eastern poetry to establish a lloman custom of 

 which we have no hint elsewhere. This verse 

 admits of a much simpler interpretation ; see 

 Arndt, quoted by Hengstenberg ad locum. From a 

 review of Museum Disneianum, which appeared in 

 No. XXIII. of the Classical Museum, it seems that 

 Mr. Disney has devoted to this subject some pages 

 of the introduction to Part II. of the above work, 

 of which a summary is given by the reviewer. 



Ed. S. Jackson. 

 Tottcrldge, Herts, Oct. 23. 



Querela Caidahrigiensis (Vol. ii., pp. 168. 205.). 

 — Mr. Sansom is sustained by Anthony Wood in 

 assigning the Querela to Dean Byves; but it may 

 be doubted whether he were anything but the 

 editor, publishing it as an Appendix to the Mer- 

 cu7-ius Ru.iticus. The title of the work is Querela 

 Cantahrigiensis : or A Remon.strancc hy ivay of 

 Apologie for the banished Membeis of the late 

 flourishing University of Cambridge, by some of the 

 said Sufferers. Now Dean Ryves was a member 

 of the University of O.xford. In Wood's Fasti, 

 it is stated that he took the degree of B. A., 

 Oct. 26, 1616, being then of New College. On 

 June 9, 1619, he was admitted of Magdalen Col- 

 lege, as a member of which he took his B. D. in 

 1632, and proceeded to D. D. in 1639. He had 

 nothing therefore to do with the sufferings of the 

 members of the University of Cambridge. In the 

 Life of Dr. Barwick, the account given of the 

 Querela Cantabrigiensis is: — 



" But Mr. Barwiclis no inconsiderable part of this 

 tragedy, together with others of the university, groan- 

 ing under the same yoke of tyranny, and each taking a 

 particidar accou7it of the sufferings of his own college, 



