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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°d S. VII. Apkil9. '59, 



indenture made the 11th May, 1635, between 

 Ld. Dunluce, son of the E. of Antrim, and 

 Catherine Duchess of Buckingham, wife of the 

 sd. Ld. Dunluce, of the one part, and Philip E. 

 of Fembroke and Sir Robt. Vye of the other part, 

 &c. &c., the following pieces are ascribed to Ru- 

 bens : — 



Jn the coming in above [or passage Rooml. 

 One winter piece. 



In the great chamher. 



1. A preat peice for the ceiling of my Lord's closset. 



2. My lord Duke on horseback. 



3. Our Saviour on the cross. 



4. Mj' Lord Denbigh at length. 

 6. The Torments of Hell. 



6. A great Landskip. 



7. The Hunting of the Bear. 



8. A little landskip, a morning. 



9. A little landskip, an evening. 



10. The Archduchess of Brabant. 



11. The Duchess of Grin. 



12. Marquess Spinola. 



In the passage hy the Lady\ closset. 



1. * A fair picture of the Virgin Mary in a garland of 

 flowers. 



2. Leander and Hero. 



3. Children tying up fruitage about a statue. 



4. The picture of Paracelsus. 



5. * The 3 Graces sacrificeing. 



[Qy. If this be that picture in print, and 

 lateh' sold to Sir James Thornhill.] 



6. Three Graces with a basket of flowers. 



7. The picture of the Marquis d'Este^ in armour. 



8. A Portugal lady. 



9. f Medusas's head with snakes. 



10. t The picture of Mars. 



11. A centaur and Diana. 



12. The [three?] little old mens heads. 



13. The Dutches of Brabant and her love. 



In my Lord's closet. 

 The picture of the French queen. 

 In the gallery, 



1. Drunken Silvanus. 



2. The hunting of Lyons. 



3. A great piece with fishes. 



4. Chimon with Epheginia, and naked ladyes sleep- 

 ing. 



Amongst the items in the disbursements of the 

 privy purse of the Duke of Buckingham in his 

 L""'. Journey to France begun the 10th of May, 

 1625, we read — 



" Giuen to M'. Rubens for drawing his Li". picture on 

 horsback. 500/t. Os. Od." 



This was probably some time in the month of 

 May, as the preceding entry is dated 11th May. 



Cl. Hoppee. 



but the greater part have the masters' names in the 

 margin. 



* Those with this mark are mentioned as painted by 

 Rubens and Brugle (John Breughel). 



t Those with this mark are noted in the margin as 

 follows: Rubens and siibter L. Snyder. 



FUR rR.5;DESTINATUS. 



Dr. Jackson of the Wesleyan College, Rich- 

 mond, has lately discussed the authorship of this 

 once famous book. I have not yet seen his article, 

 but wish without delay to throw what light I can 

 upon this subject, and so in some measure to re- 

 pay a literary courtesy. 



Gataker {Vindication of the Annotations on 

 Jerem. x. 2. p. 17.) speaks thus of the book : — 



"Howsoever .... another of les note [than Hooker"] 

 in a late Satyrical Libel (for no other it is) intituled Fur 

 prwdestinatas, do therein both grossely abuse Calvin, and 

 jeer the Presbyterian, or Genevian Discipline as such that 

 any debauched person, by an Hypocritical disguise of con- 

 trition a7id dejection for his loose and lewd courses, might 

 easily both delude and elude." 



In the margin we read " F. G. apud Trinovant. 

 Ministr." One F. G. is mentioned in tlie title- 

 page of the Fur (ed. D'Oyly) : " Londini, impen- 

 sis F. G., typis G. D. Anno Dom.^ 1651." 



In a note on George Kendall's Fur pro Tri- 

 hunali, Examen Dialogismi ciii inscribitur Fur prce- 

 destinatus, Oxon. 1657, Dr. Bliss refers to Birch's 

 Life of Tillotson, p. 160, Birch, quoting Whar- 

 ton's MS. collections as his authority, informs us 

 that Sancroft, George Davenport, and one other 

 friend, jointly composed " that severe satire upon 

 Calvinism," 



Salter (Preface to Letters of Whichcot and 

 Tuchney, xxxv.) also speaks of Sancroft as the 

 author. 



In the Bodleian Catalogue, on the authority of 

 Geeraert Brandt, the authorship is assigned to H. 

 Slatius, In like manner a well-informed writer 

 in the Theologian and Ecclesiastic (xii, 94.), states 

 that it had long been known to have been written 

 by a Dutchman, and to have appeared in Holland 

 long before Sancroft was capable of writing any 

 such thing. 



Glasius (Godgeleerd Nederland, 1856, vol. iii, p, 

 365,, a valuable book, rivalled by Dr. Sprague in 

 his Annals of the American Pulpit, but altogether 

 without a parallel in England) names de ghepre- 

 destineerde Dief (Frederikst. 1619) among the 

 works ascribed to Slatius ; and two copies occur 

 under the same name in the catalogue of the 

 noble theological library of the Messts. Van 

 Voorst, lately sold by Muller at Amsterdam (arti- 

 cles 2642, 2653.). 



It may be worth while to compare the tract of 

 J. A. Corvinus, Bekeeringe van de gepredestineer- 

 den Dief. (See A, J. van der Aa, Biographisch 

 Woordenboeck der Nederlanden, iii. 754.) 



J, E. B. Mayor. 



St. John's College, Cambridge. 



[By the courtesy of Dr. Jackson, we have received a 

 copy of his article "Archbishop Sancroft not the Author of 

 ' The Predestined Thief.' " Dr. Jackson does not seem to 

 have been aware that the authorship had been correctly 

 assigned to Slatius in the Bodleian Catalogue. — Eu. " N. 

 & Q."] 



