licted life."

The other Mss. alluded to are preserved in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford.
The most important is No. 1141., which is minutely described in the
admirable catalogue compiled by Mr. Black. A transcript of the _Threnodia
Carolina_ by Ant. a Wood, also in the Ashmolean Museum, is recorded by
Huddesford.

As there were two _recensions_ of the narrative, I have added a specimen of
each of the Harleian Mss., which may serve as a clue to the nature of other
copies, whether in public libraries, or in private hands.

"The Lords ordered a girdle or circumscription of Capitall Letters to
be cutt in Lead and putt about the Coffin. being onely these wordes

KING CHARLES
1648.

The kings body was then brought from the chamber to Saint Georges hall.
whence after a Little pause, it was w^{th} a slow pase & much sorrow
carrye'd by those gentlemen that were in mourninge: the Lords in blacks
following the royall Corpes & many gentlemen after them, and their
attendants."--THRENODIA CAROLINA, p. 36. Harleian MS. 7396.

"The girdle or circumscription of Capitall Letters in Lead putt about
the Coffin had onely these words.

KING-CHARLES.
1648.

The Kings body was then brought from his Bed-chamber, downe into S^t
Georges-hall; whence after a little stay, itt was with a slow and
solemn pace (much sorrow in most faces discernable) carryed by
gentlemen that were of some quallity and in mourning. the Lords in like
habitts followed the Royall Corps. the Governor, and severall
gentlemen, and officers, and attendants came after."--CAROLINA
THRENODIA, p. 80. Harleian MS. 4705.

BOLTON CORNEY.

_Sir Thomas Herbert's Memoirs of Charles I._--The question suggested by MR.
GATTY'S first note upon this subject was one of some importance, viz.,
whether the original MS. in the possession of his friend contained anything
of Sir Thomas Herbert's not hitherto published? There is no doubt that the
"Memoir of the two last years of King Charles I." was written by Sir Thomas
Herbert, after his retirement to his native city of York, at the request of
the author of the _Athenae Oxonienses_, who made use of nearly the whole of
it in compiling that great work, adapting different portions to his
biographical notices of the persons to whom they principally related. The
notices of Colonel Joyce and Colonel Cobbet are chiefly composed of
extracts from Herbert's Memoir;