Now, on turning to the year and page designated, I find that the whole of the class in which the Duchess's name appears amounts for that year only to about 22,000l., of which the Duchess of Portsmouth appears to have received about 12,000 in several quarterly payments on account of an annual pension or pensions of that amount: so in other years. This is a very different sum from 136,000l. I would beg leave to inquire of the editor, or of any of your Camdenite correspondents, whether there is an error in Mr. Akerman's statement, or only in my way of reading it?
C.
16. Hampton Court.
—Miss Strickland, in the Queens of England, after saying that the Queen (Elizabeth of York, Henry VII.'s wife) had stayed at Hampton Court eight days, continues:
"It is worth noticing that Hampton Court was a favourite residence of Elizabeth of York long before Cardinal Wolsey had it."
Now, in the Gentleman's Magazine for January, 1834, is a copy of the lease from the prior of St. John of Jerusalem to Cardinal Wolsey of their manor of Hampton Court, it having been in the possession of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John since 1211, when Joan Lady Grey left it by will to that order. Where, then, was Elizabeth of York's residence? Did she hold a lease of the manor and manor-house of Hampton of the Knights Hospitallers? Or was there another royal residence in that locality?
Minor Queries Answered.
De Rebus Hibernicis.—
1. Silvester Giraldus Cambrensis, born in Wales, A.D. 1145, was the author of numerous works. Can any one furnish a list of them?