Notes and Queries, Number 48, September 28, 1850 by Various
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alarm, and had made terms with the French king, but had
industriously concealed it from Wolsey, and at length urged in his excuse that he had no alternative. Joacchino was again in England upon a different mission, and was an eye-witness of the melancholy condition of the cardinal when his fortunes were reversed. He sympathised with him, and interested himself for him with Francis and the queen dowager, as appears by his letters published in _Legrand, Histoire du Divorce de Henry VIII_." I think it is from this interesting book, which throws much light upon many of the intricate passages of the history of the times, that I derived my information. It is in all respects a work worth consulting. S.W. SINGER. REMAINS OF JAMES II. (Vol. ii., p. 243.). The following passage is transcribed from a communication relative to the Scotch College at Paris, made by the Rev. H. Longueville Jones to the _Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica_, 1841, vol. vii. p. 33.:-- "The king left his brains to this college; and, it used to be said, other parts, but this is more doubtful, to the Irish and English colleges at Paris. His heart was bequeathed to the Dames de St. Marie at Chaillot, and his entrails were buried at St. Germain-en-Laye, where a handsome monument has been erected to his memory by order of George IV.; but the body itself was |
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