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daughter, Marjory, and his sister Mary, were 
likewise to be encaged, the former in the Tower 
of London, the latter in Roxburghe Castle. The 
young Earl of Mar, “ L’enfant qi est heir de Mar,” 
1 ne nephew, was to be sent to Bristol Castle, 
to be carefully guarded, “ qil ne puisse eschaper 
en nule manere,” but not to be fettered = “ mais 
-qil soit hors de fers, tant come il est de si tendre 
age. 
men 1308 (1 Edw. 2.), the Bailiff of Brustwick is 
commanded to deliver up his prisoner, to be re- 
moved elsewhere, but to what place it does not 
appear. A writ of the 6th Feb. 1312, directs her 
to be conveyed to Windsor Castle, “ cum familia 
sua.” In October of the same year, she was re- 
“moved to “Shaston” (Shaftesbury), and subse- 
quently to the Abbey of Barking, where she 
remained till March, 1314, when she was sent to 
Rochester Castle, as appears by the following writ 
(Rymer, vol. ii. part i. p. 244.) : — 
«(7 Edw. 2.) De ducendo Elizabetham uxorem Roberti 
de Brus, usque ad Castrum Roffense. 
« Mandatum est Vicecomitibus London’ quod Eliza- 
betham, Uxorem Roberti de Brus, qua cum Abbatissa 
de Berkyngg’ stetit per aliquot tempus, de mandato 
Regis, ab eddem Abbatissa sine dilatione recipiant, 
eam usque Rolf’ duci sub salva eustodia faciant, Hen- 
rico de Cobeham, Constabulario Castri Regis ibidem 
per Indenturam, indé faciendam inter ipsos, liberandam ; 
et hoe nullatenus omittant. 
“ Teste Rege, apud Westm. xii. die Marti, 
“ Per ipsum Regem. 
“Et mandatum est przfate Abbatissee, quod pra:- 
fatam Elizabetham, quam nuper, de mandato Regis. 
admisit in domo sua de Berkyng’ quousque Rex aliud 
inde ordinasset, moraturam, sine dilatione deliberet 
prefatis Vicecomitibus, ducendam prout eis per Regem 
plenius est injunctum, et hoc nullatenus omittat. 
“Teste Rege ut supra, 
* Per ipsum Regem. 
| “Et mandatum est dicto Henrico, Constabulario 
ri Regis predicti, quod ipsam Elizabetham de 
ictis Vicecomitibus, per Indenturam hujusmodi, 
ipiat, et ei cameram, infra dictum Castrum compe- 
entem pro mora sua assignari : 
_ “ Et viginti solidos, de exitibus Ballive sue, ei per 
las septimanas, quamdiu ibidem moram fecerit, 
expensis suis, liberari faciat : 
Eamque, infra Castrum pradictum, et infra Prio- 
tum Sancti Andrex ibidem, opportunis temporibus 
atiari sub salva custodia (ita quod securus sit de eor- 
suo), permittat : 
“Et Rex ei de predictis viginti solidis, prafate 
wabethz singulis septimanis liberandis, debitam 
eationem, in compoto suo ad Scaccarium Regis, 
i faciet. 
“ Teste ut supra, 
“ Per ipsum Regem.’ 
But the day of deliverance was close at hand: 
e battle of Bannockburn, so fatal to the English, 
was fought on the 24th June; and on the 2nd of 
October the Constable of Rochester Castle is 
commanded to conduct the wife, sister, and daugh- 
ter of Robert Bruce to Carlisle (usque Karliolum), 
where an exchange of prisoners was made. _ Old 
Hector Boece, who, if Erasmus can be trusted, 
“knew not to he,” informs us, that “ King Ro- 
bertis wife, quhilk was hald in viii. yeris afore in 
Ingland, wes interchangeit with ane duk of Ing- 
land” * [Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford]. 
And the aforesaid Barbour celebrates their resto- 
ration in the following lines ;: — 
“ Quhill at the last they tretyt sua, 
That hef till Inglond hame suld ga, 
For owtyn paying of ransoune, fre ; 
And that for him suld changyt be 
Byschap Robert} that blynd was mad ; 
And the Queyne, that thai takyn had 
In presoune, as befor said I ; 
And hyr douchtre dame Marjory. 
The Erle was changyt for thir thre.” 
W.B. Rye. 
A NOTE ON ROBERT HRRRICK, AUTHOR OF 
“ HESPERIDES.” 
Tn the summer of 1844, I visited Dean Prior in 
company with my brother, in order to ascertain if 
we could add any new fact to the scanty accounts 
of the Life of Herrick recorded by his biographers. 
The events of his life have been related by Dr. 
Drake, (Literary Hours, vol. iii., Ist edit. 1798:— 
3rd edit. 1804), by Mr. Campbell, by Dr. Nott 
(Select Poems from the Hesperides, &c. Bristol,1810), 
by a writer in the Quarterly Review, vol. iv. 1810, 
by Mr. Wilmott in his elegantly written Lives of 
Sacred Poets, vol. i., 1834, and in the memoirs 
prefixed to the recent editions of Herrich’s Poems 
published by Clarke (1844), and Pickering (1846). 
On examining any of these biographies, it will be 
found that the year and place of Herrick’s death 
have not been ascertained. This was the point 
which I therefore particularly wished to inquire 
into. 
Dean Prior is a village about six or seven miles 
from Totnes: the church, with the exception of the 
tower, had been recently rebuilt. The monuments 
and inscribed stones were carefully removed when 
the old fabric was taken down, and restored as nearly 
as could be to corresponding situations in the new 
building. I sought in vain, amongst these, for the 
name of Herrick. On making inquiry of the old 
sexton who accompanied us, he said at first in a 
very decided tone, “‘ Oh, he died in Lunnun,” but 
afterwards corrected himself, and said that Herrick 
died at Dean Prior, and that an old tombstone in 
* Bellenden’s translation. 
+ The Earl of Hereford. 
¢ Wisheart, Bishop of Gloucester, before alluded to, 
