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NOTES:-The True Story of the Cenci Family, 141-St. Mary's QUERIES:-" Heads of the People "-" Grouse "-The_Mar- " " REPLIES:-The Published Writings of Gilbert White- Notes on Books, &c. Notes. THE TRUE STORY OF THE CENCI FAMILY. (Concluded from p. 64.) THE SURVIVORS. Bernardo Cenci, though spared from death, was destined to drag out long years of suffering and The most contradictory accounts have poverty. been given of his fate. According to some he was released within a few days on payment of a fine; according to the MSS. cited by Hillard, Tour in Italy, Oriental precautions were taken lest any heirs of his should disturb those who had taken possession of the family property. For the true story we are indebted again to Cav. Bertolotti, though Venosta, in his notes to Beatrice Cenci (Milano, Barbini, 1873), which are often correct, has a glimmering of the truth. He has found entries in the archives of the Company of the Stigmata which show that in the following March some of the members visited Bernardo at Tordinona, and presented him with a candle weighing one pound as a token of sympathy and gratitude for the interest he had shown in their society. He was sent later to the galleys at Civita Vecchia. In a petition to the Pope that he may be transferred to the fortress (St. Angelo?) he says he has been dangerously ill, as the air and water are so unhealthy that even the fish die. Another memorial was favoured by the French ambassador, praying that the galleys might be com muted for banishment. The prayer was granted; "Most holy Father,-Lodovica Velli......humbly sets before your Holiness the fact, that as long as there was an idea of releasing Bernardo from the galleys......she was silent, not wishing to appear to thirst for the blood of her relations. But now that great interest is being used, not only to bring him back to the very house where your petitioner lives with her children, but also to put him in possession of the property of which he was justly deprived,......she prays that orders may be given to the Governor of Rome that Bernardo shall not be allowed to live in the house with your petitioner and her children, else with the continual sight of him the remembrance of the old wounds of this unhappy family would be brought up again. Who can be secure of a youth who did not even spare his own father?" In fact, though suffering at first from great poverty, |