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Notes and Queries, Number 48, September 28, 1850 by Various
page 33 of 66 (50%)
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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