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'The original letter is in the volume 8765
of the Bethune manuscripts, fol. 94. It is
^evident that his mother would not note
that her son was generally unhealthy, and
not of his proper weight and fullness.
The historian Michelet evidently believed that Charles was poisoned. Cabanes gives the report of the result of the pjst-mortem, with the names of those who signed it, from which it appears that lung trouble must have been the cause of dea ;h. Cabanes says that the religion of Pare is a puzzle : he was no doubt a Catholic at one time, i ^1 HERBERT SOUTHAM.
The following is the account of the death of Francis II. given in ' Histoire de France,' par Theodose Burette, 2me edit., 1842, vol. ii. p. 188 ;
" Francis II. died of an abscess in the ear, at the age of seventeen years ten months and fifteen days, after reigning one year and a half The malady had suddenly increased in violence while he was being shaved, and some persons allege that his barber, secretly a Oalvinist, who was uneasy about a profession of faith which it was intended that all the servants in the chateau should take, had, while shaving him, dropped some poison into the abscess The saying of Picard would seem to show that the Prince de Conde" was not unconnected with the crime, if *uoh there was, and the Huguenots dii not conceal the joy which they felt at the death Their ministers were heard to proclaim in their sermons that it was * a punishment by the justice of God of the persecutors of the pure Gospel.'"
The Eaid Picard was one of the Prince -de Conde's valets de chambre who, very soon after the King's death, -approached hi master, who was in prison under sentence of death, to announce th ) event. Conde was playing cards. Picard knocked down a card, and in stooping to pick it up said in a low voice, " Our man is crunched (croque).' This evidence is f surely very weak Francis II. reigned^July 10, 1559-Dec. ,,5 1560, when he died. ROBERT PIERPOINT."
CHARTULARIES (12 S. vii. 330). Monastic
Cartularies, or similar records, of some of
he religious houses in question, have been
printed in whole, or in part, or are abstracted
r referred to, in the following works :
Beaulieu : ' History of Beaulieu Abbey,' by ir Jas K. Fowler, 8vo., London, 1911.
Montacute : Two Cartularies of the Augustinian 3 riory of Bruton, and the Cluiiiac Priory of Montacute, see ' Somerset Record Soc.,' vol. , 894.
Windsor : For details of a /c Bolls, charters, mils, &c. relating to the Canons of, see ' Hist. MSS. Comm. Beport on various Collections,' vii. pp. 10-43.
Merton : ' Becords of Merton Priory,' by A. C. Heales (with a copious Appendix of original barters, &c.), 4to, London, 1898.
Tewkesbury : ' Annales Monastic!,' ed. by H. B. Luard, vol. i., London, 1864 ; contains the contemporary annals of Tewkesbury Abbey, .&c.
Newenham : ' History of Newenham Abbey,' cr. 8vo, by Jas. Davidson, 1843.
Plympton : History of, by J. B. Bowe, 8vo., 1906.
Hayes ? Hayles or Hailes : ' A Cotteswold Shrine,' being a contribution to the history of Hailes Abbey, by W. St. Clair Baddeley, 4to., 1908.
See also Geo. Oliver's ' Monasticon Diocesis
SIR ROBERT BELL or BEAUPR (12 S
vi. 39 : vii. 178). The Robert Bell, son o
William, of Yorkshire, who received a gran
of arms on Nov. 13, 1560, was not Si
Robert Bell of Beaupre. The arms grantee
to the former were Sa. on a chev. betw
three church bells argent, as many lion
heads couped gu. Sir Robert Bell's arm
were different, but it is more than likel
that he too came from Yorkshire.
Robert Bell, "of the Temple," settled in Hertfordshire, and as far as is known, died -without issue. H. WILBERFORCE-BELL.
Exonieiisis ' : being a collection
Charters, &c., illustrating the
>f Becords,
conventual
foundations in Cornwall, and Devon, with two supplements, and an Index Nomimmi, Locorum et Berum, by J. S. Attwood, folio, 1846-89.
Mont St. Michel : ' Description de 1'abbaye du Mont-St-Michel et ses abords,' par Edouard Corroyer, 8vo., Paris, 1877.
The following are the most recent refer- ences I can give to the place of deposit of cartularies relating to the undermentioned Religious Houses. Reference is made here- after to certain printed sources from which it should be possible to locate the position of most of the cartularies referred to by your querist.
Newenham : Brit. Mus. Arundel MSS. 17. Plympton : Brit. Mus., Sloane MSS- 4937. Sion, or Syon : Brit. Mus., Add MSS. 22285 ; Sloane MSS. 4938 ; Arundel MSS. 146.
Windsor : Public Bee. Off. Exch. T.B. Misc. Bks. Ill, 113.
The following books may also be usefully consulted in order to trace the devolution, and whereabouts, of monastic cartularies : ' List of Monastic Chartularies at present existing, or known to have existed since the Dissolution of the Beligious Houses,' printed in ' Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica,' ed. by J. G. Nichols, in vol. i. 73-79, 197-208, 399- 404 ; vol. ii. 102-114, 400 ; 8vo., London, 1834-5.
Phillipps (SirThos.) 'Index to [British Monastic] Cartularies now or formerly existing,' folio, pp. 46. Privately printed, Middle Hill Press, 1839.
Sims (Bichd.) ' Manual for the Genealogist, &c.' 8vo, London, 1856. Contains at pages 14-28
