(The original is to be found also in Plutarchi Varia Scripta, ed. Tauchnitz, vol. vi. p. 393.)
C. P. PH***.
The Day of the Accession of Richard III. (Vol. iii., p. 351.).
—I have examined the original inrolment of the entry upon the Remembrance Roll ex parte Capitalis Rememoratoris Hiberniæ, of the second year of Richard III., with the fac-simile of that entry which appears in the Irish Record Reports (1810-1815, plate 9.), and I find that the fac-simile is correct. The accession of Richard III. is shown by the entry upon the original record to have taken place on the twenty-sixth day of June. This entry is, as I have stated, upon the roll of the second year of Richard III., and not of the first year, as stated by the said Record Reports, there being no Remembrance or Memoranda Roll of the first year of that monarch to be found amongst the Exchequer Records of Ireland. Upon this subject of Richard III.'s accession, I beg to transmit to you the copy of a regal table which is entered in the Red Book of the Exchequer, probably the most ancient, as well as the most curious, record in Ireland. Judging by the character of the handwriting of this Tabula Regum, I would come to the conclusion, that the entries prior in date to that of Henry VIII.'s reign have been made during the time of that monarch; or, in other words, that this table has probably not been compiled at any time previous to the reign of Henry VIII.
J. F. F.
Nomina Regum [Angliae] post [conquestum] [Willielmi] [Bastardi].
| [Willielmus] conquestor regnavit [per] | XXI [annos]. Beried at Cane. | |
| [Willielmus] Rufus regnavit [per] | XIII [annos]. | |
| Henricus primus regnavit [per] | XXXVI [annos]. | |
| [Stephanus] regnavit [per] | XX [annos]. | |
| Henricus [secundus] regnavit [per] | XXXVI [annos]. | |
| Henricus [tercius] regnavit [per] | unum [annum] [imperfectum] & ideo non [debet] scribi. | |
| [Ricardus] regnavit [per] | IX [annos]. | |
| [Johannes] regnavit [per] | XVIII [annos]. | |
| Henricus [tercius] regnavit [per] | LVI [annos]. | |
| Edwardus [primus] regnavit [per] | XXXV [annos]. | |
| Edwardus [secundus] regnavit [per] | XIX [annos]. | |
| Edwardus [tercius] regnavit [per] | L [annos] & CXLVIII dies. | |
| [Ricardus] [secundus] regnavit [per] | XXII [annos] & C dies. | |
| Henricus quartus regnavit [per] | XIII [annos] [quarterium] [anni] XXIIIJ., II dies. | |
| Henricus [quintus] regnavit [per] | IX [annos] & [quarterium] anni LXIII dies. | |
| Henricus sextus regnavit [per] | XXXVIII [annos] [quinquaginta] & III dies. | |
| Edwardus quartus regnavit [per] | XXII [annos] XXXVII dies. | |
| [Ricardus] [tercius] regnavit [per] | II [annos] [dimidium]. | |
| Henricus septimus regnavit | XXIII [annos] & [dimidium] sex [septimanas]. | |
| Henricus [octavus] regnavit | XXXVIII [annos]. | |
| Edwardus sextus | VII [annos]. | |
| Philipus et Maria | V. | |
| Elizabeth regina nunc | XLIII. | |
| Jacobus qui hodie regnat | XXII plane. | |
| Carolus Rex. |
Tennyson's "In Memoriam" (Vol. iii., pp. 142. 227.).
—I beg to withdraw my former suggestion as to "the crimson-circled star," which, on reconsideration, appears to me manifestly erroneous.