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THE KING OF ITALY AND CHARLES I. OF ENGLAND. Is the King of Italy descended from Charles I. of England 1 I have been told that he traces back to Henrietta, Duchess of Orleans, but have failed to find the necessary links. Charles's daughter married the brother of Louis XIV., and one of their daughters married Victor Amadeus II., Duke of Savoy. The King of Italy, however, represents the junior branch of Savoy Carignan, not the elder, which became extinct with the death of Charles Felix, in 1831. The following table will show the relationship :

Charles Emmanuel I. (1580-1630), Duke of Savoy.

Victor Amadeus I. (1630-37).

Charles Emmanuel II. (1637-75).

Victor Amadeus II. (1675-1730), married Anna Maria, d. of Philip, D. of Orleans, and Henrietta of England.

Charles Emmanuel III. {1730-73).

Victor Amadeus III. (1773-96).

I Charles Emmanuel IV.

(1796-1802). who was succeeded by his

brothers :

Victor Emmanuel I. (1802-21). Charles Felix (1821-31). Elder branch extinct.

Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignan.

iKmuel

Emmanuel Philibert, 06. 1709.

Victor Amadeus, ob. 1741.

I

Louis Victor, ob. 1778.

I

Victor Amadeus, 06. 1780.

Charles Emmanuel, 06. 1800.

I

Charles Albert,

succeeded as King of

Sardinia and Duke of

Savoy, 1831.

Charles Albert (1831 -49),

married Theresa, daughter of Ferdinand III.,

Duke of Tuscany.

Victor Emmanuel II.,

King of Sardinia, 1849, King of Italy, 1862-78,

married Adelaide, d. of the Archduke Rainer,

son of the Emperor Leopold II.

Humbert I., 1878-1900. Victor Emmanuel III. (1900-).

If the present King of Italy can trace back to Charles I. of England, he must do so either through (1) his grandmother or (2) his great-grandmother, or (3) one of his ancestors, the Carignan princes, must have married a distant cousin, descended from Victor Amadeus II. and Anna Maria, daughter of Henrietta, Duchess of Orleans.

Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' supply the link ?

I may mention that my information has been taken from ' The Cambridge Modern History,' vol. xiii. (Genealogical Tables), and ' Genealogical Tables, illustrative of Modern History-,' by Hereford B. George, 5th edition, revised and enlarged by J. R. H. Weaver. T. F. D.

WILLIAM MARSHALL, EARL OF STRIGUIL, 1197. In a charter of that date I see him described as Earl of Striguil. Could any of your friends give me the present name of that locality, and perhaps of the place where he was buried, years after ?

C. R. GRAVILLE.

APOTHECARY M.P.s. I can find only tno instances of apothecaries sitting in the unreformed Parliaments, and should like to have some further particulars of them.

1. James Chase, M.P. for Great Marlow 1690 till unseated in a double return, December, 1710, and defeated there 1715. He was described as of Great Marlow, " formerly Apothecary to the Crown," and died June 23, 1721 (' Hist. Reg.'). Would he be brother to the Samuel Chase who was admitted to Lincoln's Inn. Feb. 14, 1685, as son of Stephen Chase of Marlow, Bucks ('Line. Inn Reg.')? Guy Miege's ' Present State of Great Britain,' 1707 and 1715, gi^es in the list of Court Officials the Apothecaries to the Queen :

" To the Person, James Chase esq. ; Mr. Daniel Maltus. Their Salary, each 2151. 13s. 4d. To the Household, Mr. Wm. Jones. Salary 2001. " ;

and the same names in 1718 (with the exception of Mr. Grahme instead of Maltu- ) : but by 1727 Chase had ceased to hold the appointment. Was there some rivalry be- tween him and

2. George Bruere, also M.P. for Great Marlow 1710-22 ? For on Dec. 8, 1710, " the name of James Chase esq. who was also returned " (with Sir James Etheredge, Knt., and George Bruere, Esq.) "as having receix-ed an equal number of votes with George Bruere, esq., was erased by Order of the House " (' Parl. Returns '). The poll was : Etheredge, 107 ; Bruere, 74 ; Chase, 74 ; Thomas Coventry, 29; but Chase waived his claim, and the indenture by which he was returned was taken off the file. He had previously succeeded in a double return, Xov. 21, 1690. George Bruere, who was wrongly given as Brewer in the Return for 1713, was described as "an apothecary in Co vent Garden." Would he be the son of the George Bruere of the Middle Temple, London, gentleman, aged about 25, who was licensed, May 14, 1673, to marry Mary, daughter of Alexander Weld of Midberry Hill, Ware, Herts, spinst.T, about 22, at St. Leonard, Shoreditch, or St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, London (' London Marriage Licences, 1521-1869,' ed. Foster) ? Can either of these be traced further ? And what were the names of Sir JamesEtheredge's parents and wife ? W. R. WILLIAMS.