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Replies to Minor Queries.
_Death of Edward II._ (Vol. viii., p. 387.).--P. C. S. S. has noticed with
considerable surprise the very strange assertion of MR. C. M. INGLEBY with
reference to the murder of Edward II. at Berkeley Castle, viz. that "Echard
and Rapin are silent, both as to the event and the locality." If MR.
INGLEBY will again refer to Echard (vol. i. p. 341., edit. 1718) and to
Rapin (vol. iii. p. 147., edit. 1749), he will perceive that the two
historians record "both the event and the locality."
MR. INGLEBY did not perhaps consider that the transaction in question took
place during the reign of Edward III.; and is, therefore, not to be sought
for at the close of that of Edward _II._ (where probably MR. C. M. INGLEBY
looked for it), but among the occurrences in the time of Edward _III._ MR.
C. M. INGLEBY will assuredly find it there, not only in Echard and Rapin,
but in every other History of England since the date of the "event."