Notes and Queries, Number 75, April 5, 1851 | Page 4

whole time of his greatest afflictions, till his death and
buriall; w^{ch} was sent to me S^r Will^m Dugdale knight, garter
principall king of armes, in Michaellmasse Terme a^o. 1678, by the
said S^r Thomas Herbert, from Yorke, where he resideth."
"VERITAS ODIUM PARIT."
(3) "Court passages in the two last yeares of the raigne of king Charles
the first, during y^e time of his affliction."
2. The Harleian Ms. in the British Museum, No. 4705.

This Ms. is in small folio. It was formerly in the possession of Peter le
Neve, norroy. A preliminary leaf has the subjoined attestation by sir
William Dugdale. The narrative is much more ample and circumstantial
than in the former Ms., but it is not all in the handwriting of sir Thomas
Herbert. The letter dated 3 November 1681, and the relations of
Huntington, Cooke, and Firebrace, are added in the handwriting of
Dugdale; also, the names of persons who corresponded with Charles I.
while he was a prisoner in the Isle of Wight. The passages transcribed
by the REV. ALFRED GATTY appear in this Ms.--also in the edition
of 1702. The edition of 1813 is a verbatim reprint of the first and
second articles of that of 1702. It was edited by Mr. George Nicol.
"CAROLINA THRENODIA."
"This booke containeth a large answer to a short letter sent by S^r
Will^m Dugdale kn^t (garter; principall king of armes) unto S^r
Thomas Herbert baronet, {260} residing in the citty of Yorke. By
w^{ch} letter he did desire the sayd S^r Thomas Herbert to informe
him of such materiall passages, as he had observed touching the late
king Charles the first (of blessed memory) during the time that he the
sayd S^r Thomas did attend him in person; B^t for the two last yeares
of his afflicted 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. à 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
Athenæ 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; whilst under the name of Herbert
himself not more than about one-third of his own communication will
be found.
The first edition of the Athenæ was not published until 1691, several

years after Sir Thomas Herbert's death; and the memoir in a complete
form, with the title of Threnodia Carolina, did not appear until the year
1702, when it was published by Dr. Charles Goodall, physician to the
Charter House, together with other tracts relating to Charles I. This is
doubtless the volume described by MR. BOLTON CORNEY (vol. iii.,
p. 157.), who will, I hope, favour your readers with the information
requested by MR. GATTY (p. 222.).
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