Queen of Tears. The sobriquet of Mary of Modena, wife of James II of England. Queen Sarah. Sarah Duchess of Marlborough (1660-1744) was so called on account of the ascendency she exercised over Queen Anne. Queen’s Gold. The right of the Queen Consort of England to every tenth mark paid to the King on the granting or renewal of leases or charters. Charles I bought the right from his wife for £10,000, and it has never since been enforced. It was also called the _aurum reginæ_, and is probably the _Gersamma Reginæ_ of Domesday Book. Queensberry Plot. A plot on the part of Lord Lovat, in 1703, to ruin Lord Athole, the Keeper of the Privy Seal in Scotland, with whom he had a feud. The plan was to implicate him in a pretended Jacobite rising in the Highlands. Lord Queensberry, the Commissioner, who also had a grudge against Athole, was drawn into the plot by the production of a letter from the ex-Queen, purporting to be addressed to Athole, as a proof that he was in correspondence with the exiled Stuarts. Athole had no great difficulty in clearing himself of suspicion, and Queensberry was forced to resign. This is known also as the Scots Plot. Queensland, Separation of. The erection of the northern portion of New South Wales into a separate colony under the title of Queensland was effected by an Act passed in 1859. Quia Emptores, Statute of. A Statute passed in 1290, with the object of preventing the formation of new manors. By this Statute land granted by a feudal lord ceased to belong to him, and owed feudal dues to the superior lord of the estate. Its result was to increase largely the number of gentlemen holding direct from the Crown. Quietists. A sect which arose in France about 1780, under the leadership of Mme. Guyon, who advocated a contemplative rather than an active religious life. Fénélon was to a considerable extent influenced by these tenets. Quixote of the North. A nickname of Charles XII of Sweden (1697-1718). Quo Warranto. Commissions of Quo Warranto were issued by Edward I to enquire as to how estates and judicial rights had passed from the Crown into the hands of individuals and corporations, and to settle definitely which were the Royal Manors. R Rabbling the Curates. The expulsion of Episcopalian clergymen in the west of Scotland by the Covenanters in 1689 is so called. These proceedings were subsequently legalized by the Scottish Parliament. Radicals. A name given to the advanced wing of the Liberal Party about 1816. Its leaders were Hunt, Cobbett, and Sir Francis Burdett. Ragman Rolls. A series of documents recording the progress of Edward I through Scotland in 1296, with the names of the nobles and others who did homage to him. Raid of the Redswear. A border fight between the English and Scotch in 1575, arising out of a dispute at a meeting between the two Wardens of the Marches for the surrender of criminals who had crossed the border. It is the last border fight recorded.