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 514 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s.ix. DEC. 24,1921. 1774 till his death. In 1782 he was appointed to command the Fortitude, 74, but she was paid off early in 1783, peace being declared. In 1787 he was in command of the Carnatic, 74, and remained in her till the end of 1789. He married a Miss Hutchins, May 7, 1790, and died on Aug. 20 following. There was an earlier Captain Peregrine Bertie, R.N., born Feb. 2, 1677, and fifth son of James, first Earl of Abingdon. After passing through the subordinate ranks, he was appointed to the command of the Panther, 50, and was present in 1704 at the Battle of Malaga, and having formed part of the fleet escorting the Spanish Charles III. to Lisbon, was presented by him with his pic- ture and a purse of 100 guineas. His next command was the Ruby, 50, which in 1707 convoyed, with four others, the outward- bound fleet of 130 sail to Lisbon, and being attacked by 14 French men-of-war, only one of the convoy escaped capture or destruction ; Captain Bertie being carried prisoner into France, died in captivity near Rochefort in 1709. A. G. KEALY. Chaplain, R.N., retd. Maltby, Yorks. RICHARD CCEUR, DE LION (12 S. ix. 353, 398). The Penny Magazine, vol. vii. (1838), p. 412, says that the marble effigy of Richard, now in the Cathedral of Rouen, and the leaden box containing his heart, were buried under the pavement near the high altar in 1733, and dug up in 1838, thus, unlike most royal tombs, escaping the vandals of the French Revolution. The article also quotes the ' Chronicle of Normandy,' translating several lines from the Latin, as follows : Poictiers entombs the entrails of the Duke. The guilty land of Chaluz delivers up his body to Fontevrault, which encloses it in marble, and thou, Normandy, thou containest the in- domitable Heart of the King. It is thus that this great Ruin is divided among three different places. He was not one of those ordinary dead, whom a single spot would contain. If, according to the above, Richard had three tombs, the third (for the entrails) should not be at Chalus, but at Poictiers, and the reference in the query to the finding of a tomb of Richard at Chalus, in 1910, must be a mistake. On the other hand, Montfaucon, in his ' Antiquities of France ' {English edition, London, Innys, 1750, plate 70), shows the tombs not only of Richard, but of Henry and Eleanor at Fontevrault, but speaks of no tomb of Richard at Poictiers or Chalus. Can it be possible, notwithstanding this, that the grave for the entrails at Poictiers was never marked, and that the body was never removed from Chalus, so that the tomb at Fontevrault remained empty ? According to The Penny Magazine, when the antiquary who dug up the heart at Rouen questioned, in 1833, one of the Revolutionists who had mutilated the tomb at Fontevrault in 1793, the latter told him that he had found no human remains there. A leaden box in a museum at Rouen, seen by the writer in 1889, contained the ashes of the heart, and showed inside the lid the inscription, " Hie Jacet Cor Richardi Cor Lionis, Dicti, Obit MCXCIX." The white marble effigy had not been repaired or restored, but the other, seen by the writer at Fontevrault in the same year, was known to have been mutilated by the Revolutionists, and seemed to have been very much restored and freshly painted. The Castle of Durnstein (left bank of the Danube above Krems, Upper Austria) was, according to Beattie's ' Danube,' the first prison of Richard after his capture by Leopold. The writer spent the winter of 1886 at the town of that name, and fre- quently saw " Richard's Dungeon," a room cut in the solid rock under the castle, then belonging to Prince Stahremberg. There is another Durnstein, on the north boundary of Styria, near Friesach, in the valley of the Oleza, which Murray ( c South Germany,' Route 250) thinks may have been the King's prison. But Richard was captured, not near Friesach as Murray thinks, but at Erdberg in Moravia, about 40 miles north of Vienna, and delivered to Hardmar of Kuenring, who owned the Danube castle (see Beattie's ' Danube,' London, Virtue, n.d. about 1860 p. 121). After Leopold delivered Richard to the i Emperor Henry VI. he was imprisoned at the Castle Trifels, near Annweiler, in the Rhenish Palatinate (see Murray's ' Rhine ing to Murray, the romantic story of Blondel has been associated both with Trifels and Durnstein, on the Danube. H. C. MERCER. THE HOUSE OF HARCOURT (12 S. ix. 409, 453, 495). 1. The antecedents of Bernard the Dane are unknown. There is no reason to sup- j pose that the pirates who founded Normandy descent of the Harcourts from Bernard is
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