cious Queen, who is only lineally descended from James I.

I subjoin his pedigree:

Charles I.==
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Henrietta Maria==Philip Duc d'Orleans.
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Anna Maria==Victor Amadeus II., Duke of Savoy and King of
| Sardinia.
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Charles Emanuel III., King of Sardinia, 1730==
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Victor Amadeus III., King of Sardinia==
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Victor Emanuel, King of Sardinia, 1802==
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Maria Theresa==Charles II., Duke of Parma.
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Ferdinand Charles III., Duke of Parma, born January 14, 1823,
married, November 10, 1845, Louisa Maria Theresa of Bourbon,
daughter of the late Duc de Berry, and was assassinated
March 26, 1854.

It is rather a singular circumstance, that the Duchess of Parma should have
been the wife of the hereditary heir to the throne of England, and the
sister of the hereditary heir to the throne of France,--her husband, the
Duke of Parma, having been the representative of the House of Stuart,--and
her brother, the Count de Chambord, being the representative of the House
of Bourbon.

E. S. S. W.

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ORIGINAL ENGLISH ROYAL LETTERS TO THE GRAND MASTERS OF MALTA.

(_Continued from_ Vol. ix., p. 267.)

Through the great kindness of my old friend at this island, Frederick
Sedley, Esq., and the continued and constant assistance of Dr. Vella, I am
now enabled to forward correct translations of the seven remaining letters
bearing the autograph of Charles II. Mindful of the space which will be
required for their insertion in "N. & Q.," I shall confine myself to a few
preliminary remarks.

The first letter in the following list is the earliest in date, as it is of
the greatest interest. In it we have, for the first time, found a curious
statement recorded by an English monarch, making known that he not only
built his galleys for the protection of trade in this sea in different
ports of the Mediterranean, _and purchased the slaves to man them of the
Order of Malta_, but also complaining to the Grand Master for permitting
the collector of customs to charge an export toll of "five pieces of gold
per head," which he considered an