who were the members?

O.P.Q.

_Members for Durham_.--What was the reason that neither the county nor the
city of Durham returned members to parliament previous to 1673-4?

O.P.Q.

_Leicester, and the reputed Poisoners of his Time_.--At page 315. vol. ii.
of D'Israeli's _Amenities of Literature_, London, 1840, is as follows:--

"We find strange persons in the Earl's household (Leicester).
Salvador, the Italian chemist, a confidential counsellor,
supposed to have departed from this world with many secrets,
succeeded by Dr. Julio, who risked the promotion. We are told of
the lady who had lost her hair and her nails," ... "of the
Cardinal Chatillon, who, after being closeted with the Queen,
returning to France, never got beyond Canterbury; of the sending
a casuist with a case of conscience to Walsingham, to satisfy
that statesman of the moral expediency of ridding the state of
the Queen of Scots by an Italian philtre."

Where may I turn for the above, more particularly for an account of the
lady who had lost her hair and her nails?

H.C.

April 9. 1850.