before two of the windows, to the commencement of the third casement. Weesop visited England from Holland in 1641, and quitted England in 1649, saying "he would never reside in a country where they cut off their King's head, and were not ashamed of the action."

The immediate act of the execution has thus been forcibly described:-" Men could discover in the King no indecent haste or flurry of spirits—no trembling of limbs no disorder of speech-no start of horror. The blow was struck. An universal groan, as it were—a supernatural voice, the like never before heard, broke forth from the dense and countless multitude. All near the scaffold pressed forward to gratify their opposite feelings by some memorial of his blood-the blood of a tyrant or a martyr! The troops immediately dispersed on all sides the mournful or the agitated people."

After the execution, the body was embalmed under the orders of Sir Thomas Herbert and Bishop Juxon, and removed to St. James's. Thence the remains were conveyed to Windsor, where they were silently interred, without the burial service, on the 7th of February, in a vault about the middle of the choir of St. George's Chapel. One hundred and sixty-five years after the interment,-in 1813,-the remains of King Charles were found accidentally, in breaking away part of the vault of Henry VIII. On the leaden coffin being opened, the body appeared covered with cerecloth; the countenance of the King was apparently perfect as when he lived; the severed head had been carefully adjusted to the shoulders; the resemblance of the features to the Vandyke portraits was perfect, as well as the oval shape of the head, pointed beard, &c.;

the fissure made by the axe was clearly discovered, and the flesh, though darkened, was tolerably perfect ; the back of the head and the place where it rested in the coffin was stained with what, on being tested, was supposed to be blood. The coffin is merely inscribed King Charles, 1648;" the whole funeral charges were but 2291. 5s.

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Sir Robert Halford was one of the most staunch Royalists in Leicestershire, and frequently assisted the King with money in his difficulties; and it is a remarkable circumstance that a descendant of his family, the late Sir Henry Halford, should be the only person, besides the Prince Regent, who viewed the body of the decapitated King, upon its discovery at Windsor. Sir Henry cut off a lock of the King's hair, and made Sir Walter Scott a present of a part, which he had set in virgin gold; with the word "Remember" surrounding it in highly-relieved black letters.

On the morning of the execution, Charles gave to his faithful attendants these interesting memorials: to Sir Thomas Herbert the silver alarm watch, usually placed at the royal bedside; to Bishop Juxon, a Gold Medal mint-mark, a rose, probably for a 5l. or 67. piece, which had been submitted to the King by Rawlins, the engraver, for approval-the likeness of the sovereign is very good; also the George (the jewel of the Order of the Garter) worn by Charles but a few moments previous to his decapitation.

These relics have been preserved, together with the Pocket-handkerchief used by Charles at the time of his execution: it is of fine white cambric, and marked with the crown, and initials "C. R.;" also, the Shirt and Drawers worn by the King; and the Holland sheet which was thrown over his remains.

THE STORY OF DON PANTALEON SA.

ON the south side of the Strand, there was built under the auspices of King James I., out of the rubbish of the old stables of Durham House, a "New Exchange," planned somewhat on the model of the Royal Exchange in the City, with cellars beneath, a walk above; and over that rows of shops, which were principally occupied by sempstresses and milliners, who dealt in small articles of dress, fans, gloves, cosmetics and perfumery. Here, at the sign of the Three Spanish Gipsies, sat Ann Clarges, who sold wash-balls, powder, gloves, &c., and taught girls plain work; she became sempstress to Colonel Monk, contrived to captivate him, was married to him, it is believed while her first husband was living; she died Duchess of Albemarle. At the Revolution, in 1688, there sat in the New Exchange another sempstress, whose fortunes were the reverse of the rise of Ann Clarges. This less favoured lady was Frances Jennings, the reduced Duchess of Tyrconnel, wife to Richard Talbot, lord-deputy of Ireland under James II.: she supported herself for a few days (till she was known, and otherwise provided for) by the little trade of this place. To avoid detection she invariably wore a white mask, and a white dress, and was, therefore, known as the White Widow. This anecdote (of questionable veracity) was ingeniously dramatised by Mr. Douglas Jerrold, for Covent Garden Theatre, in 1840, as "The White Milliner."

Gay has not forgotten to tell us

The sempstress speeds to 'Change with red-tipt nose.

Thither flocked the gay gallants to gossip with the fair stallkeepers, and ogle the company. Pepys was a fre

quent visitor here. In the winter of 1653, there came to England an ambassador from the King of Portugal, with a very splendid equipage; and in his retinue his brother, Don Pantaleon Sa, a Knight of Malta, and "a gentleman of a haughty and imperious nature." One day in November, Don Pantaleon was walking with two friends, in the Exchange, when a quarrel arose between them and a young English gentleman, named Gerard, who accused the Portuguese of speaking in French disparagingly of England; one of the Portuguese gave Mr. Gerard the lie; they then began to jostle, swords were drawn, and all three fell upon Gerard, and one of them stabbed him with his dagger in the shoulder. A few unarmed Englishmen interfered, separated the combatants, and got the Portuguese out of the Exchange, one of them with a cut upon his cheek.

Next evening Don Pantaleon, to take his revenge, with 50 followers; two Knights of Malta, led on by a Portuguese Captain in buff; all having generally double arms, swords and pistols, and coats of mail; two or three coaches brought ammunition, hand-grenades, and bottles, and little barrels of powder and bullets; and boats were provided ready at the water-side. They had resolved to fall upon every Englishman they should find in or about the Exchange. They entered all with drawn swords; the people fled for shelter into the shops; there were few Englishmen present, but of these four were severely wounded by the Portuguese. A Mr. Greenaway, of Lincoln's Inn, was walking with his sister and a lady whom he was to have married: these he placed for safety in a shop; he then went to see what was the matter, when the Portuguese, mistaking Greenaway for Gerard, gave the word,

and he was killed by a pistol shot through the head. The crowd now grew enraged, and Don Pantaleon and the Portuguese retreated to the house of embassy, caused the gates to be shut, and put all the servants in arms to defend it. Meanwhile, the Horse Guard on duty had apprehended some of the Portuguese; and Cromwell sent Colonel Whaley in command, who pursued others to the Ambassador's house with his horse, and there demanded that the rest should be given up. The Ambassador insisted upon his privilege, and that by the law of nations his house was a sanctuary for all his countrymen; but finding the officer resolute, and that he was not strong enough for the encounter, desired time to send to the Lord General Cromwell, which was granted, and he complained of the injury, and desired an audience. Cromwell sent a messenger in reply, to state that a gentleman had been murdered, and several other persons wounded, and that if the criminals were not given up, the soldiers would be withdrawn, and "the people would pull down the house, and execute justice themselves." Under this threat, Don Pantaleon, three Portuguese, and an English boy, the Don's servant, were given up; they were confined in the guard-house for the night, and next day sent prisoners to Newgate, whence in about three weeks the Don made his escape, but was retaken.

By the intercession of the Portuguese merchants, the trial was delayed till the 6th of July in the following year, when the prisoners were arraigned for the crime of murder. Don Pantaleon, at first, refused to plead, as he held a commission to act as Ambassador, in the event of his brother's death, or absence from England. He was then threatened with the press, when he