MR. HERBERT (Buckinghamshire, Wycombe)To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he can now say whether he will approach the French Government with a view to obtaining their assent to the removal to this country from the Abbey of Fontevrault of the bones and effigies of the Plantagenet Sovereigns, viz., Henry II. and his consort, Eleanor of Guienne, Isabel of Angoulème, consort of King John, and Richard Cœur de Lion.
§ (Answered by Secretary Sir Edward Grey.) His Majesty's Government do not think that it would be desirable to make this request, as the French Government could hardly be expected to entertain it.