readers of ecclesiastical history.

INQUISITORIUS.

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NEW FACTS ABOUT LADY ARABELLA STUART.

The following extracts, from "The Declaration of the Accompte of
Nicholas Pay, gentleman, appoynted by warraunte of the righte honorable
the lordes of the kinges ma'ts Privie Councell, to receave and yssue
sondrye somes of money for the provycon of dyett and other chardges of
the ladye Arbella Seymour, whoe by his hignes comaundemente and pleasure
shoulde haue bene remoued into the countye Palatyne of Duresme, under
the chardge of the Reverende Father in God Will'm lorde Bishpp of
Duresme; but after was stayed and appointed to remayne at Eastbarnett
duringe his hignes good pleasure," are new to the history of this
unfortunate lady. The account includes all sums of money "receaved and
yssued ffrom the xiiij'th daye of Marche 1610, untill the vij'th daye of
June 1611," and the account itself (as preserved in the Audit Office)
"was taken and declared before the right honorable Roberte Earle of
Salisbury, Lord Highe Threas of Englande and S'r Julius Caesar, Knighte,
Chancellor and Under-Threas of Th'exchequer the xij'th of Ffebruary
1611" [1611/12]. The extracts throw some fresh light on her movements on
her road from London to Durham. At East Barnet, it is well known, she
eluded the vigilance of her keepers, and threw the king and council into
the utmost consternation.

PETER CUNNINGHAM.