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Effisies of English Sovereigns extant in France, by 

 W. S. Tiibson .-..-- 

 Arabic Inscriptions --Mocatteb Mountains, by T. J. 

 Biickton -..-.-- 

 Additions to Cunningham's Hand-book of London 

 Richard Rolle of Hampole, No. II. . - . 



A I'uncnd in Hambiir«li, by W. S. Hesled(>n 

 Folk Ixire : — The Baker's Daiigliter — "Pray remem- 

 ber tlie Grotto" on St. James's Day — The King's 

 Evil — Bees ....-- 



The Caxton CofTer, by Bolton Corney . - - 



Minor Notes : — Braham Woor — Portraits of Burke - 



Queries: — 



General James Wolfe, who fell at Quebec 



Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy ... 



Minor Queries: — Colonies in England — Buxtnrrs 

 Translation of the " Treatise on Hebrew Accents" by 

 Elias Levita — The Name "Robert" — Meaning of 

 •' Art'rizde" — Sir William Griffith of North Wales— 

 The Residence of William Penn — Martial's Distribu- 

 tion of Hours — Moonlight — Ash-sap given to new- 

 bom Children — Cockney — Full Orders — Earwig 

 — The Soul's Errand . . - . - 



Minor Queries Answered : — Call a Spade, a Spade — 

 Prince Rupert's Drops — "Worse than a Crime" — 

 Arbor Lowe, Stanton Moor, Ayre Family — Bishop 

 of Worcester " On the Sufferings of Christ " — Lord 

 Clifford — Latin Translation of Sarpi's Council of 

 Trent — Livery Stables - - . . - 



Replies : — 



Mabillon's Charge against the Spanish Clergy — Cam- 



panella and Adarai — Wilkes MSS., by Henry Hallam 



Printing ....... 



The Pendulum Demonstration, &c. ... 



Winifreda — " Childe Harold," by Samuel Hickson 

 The Three Estates of the Realm, by William Fraser - 

 Meaning of Whig and Tory, by David Stevens - 

 Recovery of Lost Authors of Antiquity, by Kenneth R. 

 ii. Mackenzie ...... 



MS. Note in a Copy of LiberSententiarum 

 Replies to Minor Queries: — Warnings to Scotland — 

 Fides C.irbonaria — Fire Unknown — Pope and Flat- 

 man — Pope's Translations or Imitations of Horace — 

 Lord Mayor not a Privy Councillor— Herschel anti. 

 cip.'ited — Sanford's Descensus — Pope's " honest Fac- ' 

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THE EPFIGIES OF ENGLISH SOVEREIGNS EXTANT IN 

 FRANCE. 



In the year 181G, Mr. Charles Stoth.ard dis- 

 covered in a cellar (its it is described) of one of 

 tiie buildings adjoining the ruined abbey at 

 Font(jvraud, wliicli was tlioti use<l as a prison, tlie 

 monumental elligies of JCiiij^ Henry II., Eleanor 



of Aquitaine his queen, King Richard I., and 

 Queen Isabella of Angouleme. It had been feared 

 that these monuments shared the destruction of 

 the royal tombs from which they were torn, in the 

 fearful outrages of the Revolution ; but they were 

 found to have escaped the general havoc, although 

 they had suffered some mutilation. They are de- 

 scribed to be sculptures almost coeval with the 

 decease of the sovereigns represented, and to pos- 

 sess such a chaste grandeur and simplicity of 

 character as to add great artistic value to their 

 historical importance. Mr. Stothard represented 

 to the English government of that day the pro- 

 priety of rescuing such venerable monuments from 

 further injury, and of bringing them to West- 

 minster Abbey ; and an application appears to 

 have been made, through some official channel, to 

 the French authorities ; but it was not successful, 

 though it had the effect, as it is said, of inducing 

 the latter to direct measures to be taken for the 

 better preservation of these effigies. About the 

 same time, Mr. Stothard discovered the monu- 

 mental effigy of Queen Berengaria in the ruins of 

 her once-stately abbey-church of L'Espan, near 

 Mans, which he found converted into a barn; but 

 it was then in contemplation to place this effigy in 

 the church of St. Julien there, when the restora- 

 tion of that edifice should be completed. A 

 memoir (which I cannot here obtain) on the 

 sepulchral statues of English sovereigns at Fonte- 

 vraud was read in 1841 in the congress of the 

 Society for Preserving the Historical JMonuments 

 of France ; and by the researches of M. Deville, 

 a distinguished antiquary of Normandy, another 

 effigy of King Richard "of the Lion Heart" was 

 brought to light in 1838, from beneath the modern 

 pavement of the choir of Rouen Cathedral, and 

 was shortly afterwards made known in England 

 by the very interesting communication made by 

 Mr. Albert Way to the Society of Antiquaries of 

 London, and published in vol. xxix. of the 

 ArchcEologia. 



I am not aware that attention has been other- 

 wise drawn to these effigies since tlie publication 

 of Mr. Stothard's great work, nr)r can I find that 

 his suggestion has at any time been revived, or 

 that the steps which may have been taken at 



