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" There were many junior branches of this ancient family, 

 of which the representatives still exist. The Nangles matched 

 with the first and most noble families in Ireland. 



" It is to be regretted that the remainder of the stone has 

 been lost. It may hereafter turn up." 



Dr. Anster exhibited a small volume, said to have been 

 found on the person of the Duke of Monmouth at the time 

 of his arrest. It is a manuscript volume of 157 pages. It 

 was purchased at a book-stall in Paris, in 1827, by an Irish 

 divinity student ; was by him given to a priest in the county 

 of Kerry, and, on the priest's death, became the property of 

 the present possessor. There has been no opportunity of com- 

 paring the handwriting with that of the Duke of Monmouth, 

 but Dr. Anster thinks that there can be little doubt of its being 

 genuine, and a considerable part, if not the whole, in the 

 Duke's handwriting. Some parts, that are altogether unim- 

 portant, except as showing the kind of things that had interest 

 for the compiler, and which are but extracts from old receipt 

 books and abridgments of English history, are written in the 

 same character with memorandums of a private and personal 

 kind. He then referred to a paper in the last edition of the 

 Harleian Miscellany, giving an account of the Duke's cap- 

 ture, and to Sir John Reresby's Memoirs, as proving that 

 all the papers, &c., found on the Duke's person, were taken to 

 James the Second. 



" The papers and books that were found on him are since 

 delivered to His Majesty. One of the books was a MS. of 

 spells, charms, and conjurations, songs, receipts, and prayers, 

 all written with the said late Duke's own hand." — Harleian 

 Miscellany, vol. vi. p. 323. 



Sir John Reresby describes a book of the kind as taken 

 from the Duke's person. As he tells the circumstance, it would 

 seem to have been taken from the Duke's person at the time 



