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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°d S. VII. Apiul 30. 'oft 



from these notes, that he could have submitted to 

 Rome, had his interest led him in that direction. 

 His friendship for Jewel could not have been sin- 

 cere. He was one of the Ecclesiastical Commis- 

 sioners. His name is appended, with Parker's, in 

 1571 to the letter to the bishops enjoining strict 

 conformity to the Book of Common Prayer. 

 Such private notes as these have, in various in- 

 stances, reversed the favourable character which 

 had been long entertained of certain individuals, 

 ■who once acted a conspicuous part in the public 

 transactions of the country. They show, however, 

 the real character of the men. Jewel must have 

 been mistaken in his estimate of Bromley's cha- 

 racter. In various parts of this volume we meet 

 •with such marginal notes as these, " Clean against 

 yourselfe — a foule shift." Thomas Lathbuby. 



FATHER PAUL S PORTRAIT. 



I have by me a few rough notes relating to that 

 remarkable man, Paolo Sarpi, " the phoenix of the 

 age," which I am tempted to bring before the 

 readers of " N. & Q.," with the hope that some 

 one may be able to clear up the apparent discre- 

 pancies respecting the transmission of his portrait 

 to this country. 



In the Birch MS. 4164. p. 206. (Brit. Museum), 

 is the following letter from Sir Henry Wotton to 

 the Earl of Salisbury, dated Venice, Dec. 21, 

 1607 : — 



" Your Lordship's of the 12*i> November came yesterday 

 into my hands very opportunely, being then, ready to dis- 

 patch Capt. Pinner towards His Majesty upon weighty 

 and secret occasions ; whom I have no^^retained a day 

 or two that he may bring with hira tnrpicture of P. P. 

 [Padre Paulo], which His Majesty shall now, through 

 the miscarriage of the former, receive with the late addi- 

 tion of his scuro ; and have this very morning communi- 

 cated with him those papers as from His Majesty, whose 

 gracious remembrances he takes exceeding dearly and 

 tenderly." 



In the Rev. L. B. Larking's interesting article, 

 entitled " Notes of Sir Roger Twysden on the 

 History of the Council of Trent" ("N. & Q.," 2"i 

 S. iv. 121.), occurs a notice of a portrait of Father 

 Paul in a letter from Sir Henry Wotton to Dr. 

 Collins, extracted from Burnet's Life of Bedell, 

 p. 194. The same letter is printed in extenso in 

 ReliquicB Wottoniance, edit. 1685, at the end of the 

 prefatory matter. It was written whilst Sir Henry 

 Wotton was Provost of Eton, and dated Jan. 

 17, 1637-8. Some additional particulars respect- 

 ing this portrait are given by William Cole in his 

 Collections in the British Museum, Addit. MS. 

 5831, p. 59. Cole says : — 



" Sir Henry Wotton, whilst ambassador at Venice, be- 

 came intimately acquainted with Father Paul, the learned 

 author of the History of the Council of Trent, whose por- 

 trait he sent over from Venice [ ?] to Dr. Collins, Provost 

 of King's College, Cambridge, with a desire that it might 



be hung up in his lodge, where I remember to have seen 

 it, together with that of Father Fulgence [Fulgentio]*, a 

 brother Servite with the former in the same convent: 

 which pictures were removed while I was of that college: 

 into the private chambers of Mr. Mountague, one of the 

 fellows ; and from thence to those of Dr. Naylor, who, I 

 think, took them away with him to his living of Orton in 

 Huntingdonshire." 



In another volume (Addit. MS. 5832. p. 60.) 

 Cole again mentions this portrait in some ex- 

 tremely racy notes on Burnet's Life of Win. Be- 

 dell. He says, " At p. 2^5. Burnet gives a letter 

 from Sir Henry Wotton to Dr. Collins, whom he 

 calls Ceilings, to whom, as a New Year's gift, Sir 

 Henry had sent a picture of the famous Servite 

 Padre Paulo. This very picture, or, as is more 

 probable, a copy from it, is still in the college, 

 1744, viz. in King's College in Cambridge, where 

 Dr. CoUiilB was Provost." 



Dr. Donne, Dean of St. Paul's, also possessed 

 portraits of Father Paul and Fulgentio, which he 

 bequeathed to Dr. King, Bishop of Chichester, as 

 stated in the following extract from his will : — 



" To Dr. King my executor I give that medal of gold 

 of the Synod of Dort, which the States presented me 

 withal at the Hague, as also the two pictures of Padre 

 Paolo and Fulgentio which hang in the parlour at my 

 house at Paul's." 



Sir Nathanael Brent, who translated into Eng- 

 lish the History of the Council of Trent, was also 

 the fortunate possessor of a set of these portraits. 

 This we learn from the following letter from his 

 son to the Rev. Lewis Atterbury, printed in Some 

 Letters relating to the History of the Council of 

 Trent, 4to. 1705, p. 2.: — 



" What I can say of Father Paul is but little material ; 

 however, to satisfy your desire, I send you this account, 

 viz., That my father (having been once before at Ve- 

 nice) was sent by George Abbot, Archbishop of Canter- 

 bur}', a second time, on purpose to procure the History of 

 the Council of Trent, where he fell into acquaintance with 

 Padre Paulo and Padre Fulgentio, two famous fathers 

 who sat in that Council, who were the persons who com- 

 posed the History of that Council, and my father sent it 

 over weekly, as they composed it, to the Archbishop in 

 Italian ; to whose hands it came after five or six super- 

 scriptions to other persons for the greater security.f And 



* For notices of Fulgentio, see the Letters of Paolo Sarpi, 

 edit. 1693, joassm, Fulgentio was the author of. the Life 

 of Father Paul, published in 8vo. 1651, and prefixed to 

 Brent's translation of the Council of Trent, fol. 1676. To 

 Dr. Eleazar Duncan, Prebendary of Durham, when seri- 

 ously unwell at Venice, Fulgentio administered the eu- 

 charist in both kinds, after the manner observed in the 

 Church Catholic. 



t Walton, in his Life of Wotton. tells us that, " as fast 

 as Padre Paulo compiled his History of the Council of 

 Trent, it was sent in several sheets in letters by Sir 

 Henry Wotton, Jlr. Bedell, and others, unto King James 

 and the then Bishop of Canterbury [Abbot] into Eng- 

 land ; and there first made public, both in English and 

 in the universal language." Burnet states, that Father 

 Paul gave Bedell the manuscript to bring over to Eng- 

 land. Whereas Antonio de Dominis assured Bishop Cosin 

 that Father Paul delivered into his hands the History of 



