Minor Notes.
_A Note on Henry III._--In Vol. v., p. 28., is the Query, "Are our Lists
of English Sovereigns completed?" Some further illustration of the case
of the king usually styled Henry III., to which particular attention was
directed, may be derived from the subjoined extract taken from a MS.
(No. 146.) in the University Library at Cambridge. The MS. is a
parchment roll containing a "genealogical tree" of the kings of England,
with brief notices written in the fifteenth century. On one side of the
medallion on which is inscribed "Henricus tercius," is a brief eulogy of
the king; on the other side is the following:
"Iste Henricus dictus est tercius quia sic intitulatur in Cronicis
hystoriis scriptis et cartis non ratione numerali sed regie
denominationes (_sic_) vel dignitatis verbi gracia si numeretur.
Henricus filius conquestoris. Deinde Henricus secundus filius
Plantagenet postea filius eiusdem Henrici erit iste profecto
quartus. Prætermittitur autem in stipite regnantium Henricus
filius eius quia non regnavit, ratione igitur regnantium dicitur
iste Henricus tercius. Obiit die sancti Edmundi Regis anno regni
sui LVII'o et sepultus est apud Westmonasterium."