. Flora Americae Septentrionalis, or, A systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America [electronic resource] : containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country. Botany. 414 ELEANOR OF PROVENCE. Queen Eleanor was, in the following year, named as executor to Philip of Savoy's last will and testament, jointly with her son, king Edward. The testator, with many com- pliments to " the wisdom, prudence, affection, and more than that, the good faith and probity o
. Flora Americae Septentrionalis, or, A systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America [electronic resource] : containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country. Botany. 414 ELEANOR OF PROVENCE. Queen Eleanor was, in the following year, named as executor to Philip of Savoy's last will and testament, jointly with her son, king Edward. The testator, with many com- pliments to " the wisdom, prudence, affection, and more than that, the good faith and probity of the queen and her son commits the disposal of all liis personal property to be by them divided between aU his nephews and ;' It appears that Amadeus, the son of the deceased Thomas of Savoy, earl of Flanders, was the sovereign chosen by queen Eleanor and her son, king Edwaad, to succeed to the dominions of her dying uncle. When Eleanor's life was fast ebbing away, and she lay moaning with pain on her sick-bed, it is recorded that she gave excellent counsel to her son, regarding a very perplexing affair which had just happened at his court. Edward had given refuge to a state-prisoner, who had escaped from the ChAtelet ill Paris. This Frenchman was a literary character, and named Thomas de Turbeville. It turned out that Turbe- ville was in reality a spy, a clerk of the king's council having intercepted a letter, in which the ungrateful man described the best place for seizing king Edward, and taking him prisoner to France. Tiu'bcville, being fully convicted of trejison, was condemned to be executed; '^ but,'' says Piers, from whom we draw the story, *^ he had dread to die," and sent the krng word that he was willing to confess who had instigated the crime, as several great men at court were implicated in the attempt. Thomas was therefore respited, till the king's pleasure was known. The dutifid monarch was watching by the bedside of his aged mother when the mes
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