When pronounced past recovery of his wound, he bequeathed to his rebellious brother John his kingdom of England, and all his other territories, and made those who were present take the oath of allegiance to him. He directed that his brains, his blood, and his entrails, should be buried at Chaluz, his heart at Rouen, and his body at Font Evrand, at the feet of his father". He died at Gizors, April 6, 1199, at the age of 42; and his body and his heart were buried as directed. See his monument in Sandford, and in Montfaucon, where also is the monument of his second wife Elizabeth, which has been copied in Ducarel's Anglo-Norman Antiquities, with the effigies of his wife Berengera, taken from her tomb in the abbey of l'Espan near Mans 8.

This gallant monarch, says Ritson, himself a celebrated poet, as well in Norman as in Provençal, was the subject of several romances. Leland found the "Historia de Ricardo Rege, Carmine scripta," in the library of Croyland abbey; and in that of the abbey of Glastonbury, were the "Gesta Ricardi" registered. Both these, no doubt, were a romance, or two different romances, in the French language. A copy of the same poem, or some other on the same subject, is in the library of Turin 9. In sir John Paston's inventory of his English books, temp. Edv. IV. "Kyng Ri. Cur de Lyon"" is entered. This was printed by

7 Hoveden, Annal. p. 450.

"Nichols's Collection of royal and noble Wills, p. 12.

Ritson's Dissertation, ubi sup. p. lxxxv.

• Paston Letters, vol. ii. p. 300.

Wynken de Worde, in 1528, and is largely extracted from by our poetical historian in the first volume of his valuable work.

Richard, says Mr. Warton, is the last of our monarchs whose achievements were adorned with fiction and fable 3. Du Cange recites an old French manuscript prose romance, entitled " Histoire de la Mort de Richard Roy d'Angleterre." There was one, perhaps the same, among the manuscripts of the late Mr. T. Martin, of Palgrave, in Suffolk; and in the library of Caius college, Cambridge, is a manuscript romance in English rhyme, entitled "Richard Cuer du Lyon4," which accords with the copy printed by de Worde. Warton adds, that the victorious achievements of Richard I. were so famous in the reign of Henry III. as to be made the subject of a picture in the royal palace of Clarendon, near Salisbury; Duellum regis Ricardi. Richard performed great feats at the siege of Antioch, in the crusade; and lord Orford, in his Anecdotes of Painting, notices a certain great book, borrowed for queen Eleanor, written in French, containing "Gesta Antiochæ et Regum aliorum, &c." this, he concludes, comprised an account of the crusading exploits; the history of which was ordered by

* In the royal library at Paris, was "Histoire de Richard Roi d'Angleterre et de Maquemore d'Irlande, en rime." This Maquemore, according to Ritson, was Dermond Mac Morough, king of Leinster.

Hist. ubi sup. p. 119.

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Vol. i. p. 17.

Henry III. to be painted in the tower, and in a low chamber in the old palace of Westminster, which room was to be thenceforward called the Antioch chamber.

Among the Cotton manuscripts is preserved "Itinerarium, sive Gesta Ricardi I. Regis Angliæ in Judæa; per Ricardum Canonicum S. Trinitatis, London." To this Itinerary is prefixed,

"Scribitur hoc auro rex auree: laus tua tota:

Aurea materiem conveniente nota.

Laus tua prima fuit; Siculi Cypros altera dromo;
Tertia carvanna; quarta suprema Iope.

Retrusi Siculi Cypros pessundata dromo,
Mersus carvanna capta recenta Iope."

The capture of Jaffa, olim Joppa, was one of the feats achieved by this romantic monarch, whose exploits in Palestine are briefly enumerated by our historian of the Roman empire 8. Chatterton also made them the subject of Rowley's second eclogue, and depicted his hero

Kynge Rycharde, lyche a lyoncel of warre,

Inne sheenynge goulde, lyke feerie gronfers dyghte".]

EDWARD THE SECOND.

BISHOP Tanner says, that in the heralds office is extant, in manuscript, a Latin poem, written by this unhappy prince, while a prisoner, the title of which is,

"Lamentatio gloriosi Regis Edwardi de Carnarvon, quam edidit Tempore suæ Incarcera

tionis."

As this king never showed any symptoms of affection to literature, as one never heard of his having the least turn to poetry, I should believe that this melody of a dying monarch is about as authentic as that of the old poetic warbler, the swan, and no better founded than the title of Gloriosi. His majesty scarcely bestowed this epithet on himself in his affliction; and whoever conferred it, probably made him a present of the verses too. If they are genuine, it is extraordinary that so great a curiosity should never have been published. However, while there was this authority, he was not to be omitted.

[What lord Orford considered as very dubitable, Fabian seems to have ascertained, in the following extract from his Chronicle3:

• P. 253.

Edit. 1559, vol. ii. p. 185.