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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°d s. No 88., Sept. 5. '67. 



" Certaine Godly Prayers for certaine dayes," comprising 

 one for each of the seven days, excepting Saturday for 

 which there are two. 



" A Prayer for trust in God." 



"Certaine Godly Prayers to be vsed for sundry pur- 

 poses." These last being — 



" A general confession of sinnes to bee said cverj' morn- 

 ing," ending with the Pater noster. 



*' A Prayer to be said in the Morning," followed by 

 three prayers without headings. 

 " A Praj'er against temptation." 

 " A Praj'er for the obtaining of Wisedome." 

 " A Prayer against worldly carefulnesse." 

 " A Prayer necessary for all persons." 

 " A Praj'er for patience in trouble." 

 " A Prayer to be said at night going to bed." 

 " A Praver to be said at the houre of death." 



W. H. Husk. 



PORTRAITS OF MART QUEEN OF SCOTLAND. 



(2"'* S. iv. 13. 32.) 



The recent inquiries into tlie history and parti- 

 culars of the life and death of the ill-starred Mary 

 Queen of Scotland, make every detail of those 

 officially about her sources of considerable in- 

 terest. 



It is certainly singular so many writers, and of 

 different countries, should have employed their 

 pens at the same time in elucidating her history. 



On making application to Antwerp, for what- 

 ever inscriptions could be found there having re- 

 lation to Mary, a small pamphlet by "Door P. 

 Visschers, Pr.," Cure of St. Andrews, entitled 

 Aenteekening napens het eergraf van Barbara 

 Moubray en Elisabeth Curie, staetdamen van ho- 

 ningin Maria Stuart in St. Andries kerk te Ant- 

 werpen, 1857, with an engraving of the monument, 

 has been forwarded. The object of the writer is 

 chiefly directed to d.evelope the history of those 

 who served the Queen, and afterwards sought an 

 asylum in Antwerp, with anecdotal particulars 

 of the monument and portrait. With this pam- 

 phlet he has obligingly enclosed three inscriptions 

 not included in his work, but recording names 

 well known in the history of the period. Your 

 correspondent J. Doran, on the authority of 

 Mark Napier, in his Memoirs of John Napier of 

 Merchiston, p. 32., differs from the position taken 

 by M. de la Croix, p. 13., in reference to the sis- 

 ters Mowbray. The author of the pamphlet above 

 noticed agrees with the latter, and in a note at 

 p. 10. quotes for his authority (De Maries, Hist, 

 de Mane Stuart) the following sentence : 



" Dans ce moment les deux filles d'honneur, inondees 

 de larmes, commencferent h deshabiller leur maitresse. 

 Les bourreaux s'avancferent pour les remplacer, craignant 

 de perdre leurs droits, qui sont de recueillir la d^pouille 

 du condamnd" 



Visschers does agree with J. Doran that the 

 portrait was taken from the private stores of the 

 Queen ; and, speaking on the subject, says : 



" Booen staet het portret van Marie Stuart Coniginne 



Van Scotlant ap copere plecte originel uijt des selfs ca- 

 binet." 



De la Croix, speaking of this portrait, says, " et 

 peint dans le style de Van Dyck," a remark in- 

 tended only to convey to the reader the manner 

 adopted by the artist, or particular tincture, with- 

 out any reference to the great artist named, or 

 any other prior or subsequent painter. 



For the inscriptions on the Queen's monument, 

 see 1" S. vii. 263., and for De la Croix's translation 

 into French, 2°^ S. v. 13. '' 



For the Mowbray inscription, see 1'* S. v. 517. 



The following are the inscriptions from the 

 church of St. Andrew : 



« D. O. M. 



S. Bartolomeo Apostolo 



et memoriaj 



goneros : viri Bartolomei Brookesby armigeri Angl : 



ex licestrens : provincia farailiaque 



illustrisque rara probitate 



zelosa pietate ac avita fide illustrior 



hie vixit in exilio donee ad coelestem 



patriam avocatus piissime obiit 



ipso festo D. ThomiB Cantuariensis episcopi 



die 29 decembris a" 1618. 



Optimo parenti hie quiescent! gratus filius 



Georgius Brookesbj' 



poni curavit. 



Defunctus Vivat in gloria." 



« D. O. M. S. 

 Et memoriiB Nobilis Pietate Viri Henrici 



Clifford Angli Qui Christianae Fidei 



Et Virtutis exemplar vivens et moriens 



Hie Dedit 18 Augusti 1644. 



et 



D. Catharinaj Tempest Uxor : 



Eius Obiit 2 Junii 1654. 



Deze farailie heeft aen St. Andries kirk een legaet van 

 200 guldens geloten." 



«D. O. M. 

 Edwardus Parham Nobilis Anglus Eques 

 Auratus Catholicaa Fidei insignis cuius 

 Causa varias molestias carceres et bonorum 

 Dispendia sagpe passus est cuius zelos 

 Patriae et Parentibus quorum unicus 

 Filius relictus sese regis Catholicaj Majestatis 

 Servitio devovit eique Militavit xxvi 

 Annis A" wdcxxii eiusdem Legionis Ser- 

 geant Major A" mdcxxiv in obsidione 

 Bradana Colonellus in qua Praifectura 

 A" MDcxxxi Dum in Campo Milites invi- 

 sit et aegros consolatur seger hospitium 

 Reperiit et post xi dies pietate Prudentia 

 Fortitudine integritate Benignitate con- 

 spicua meritiss. Laboribus flnem dedit 

 Die XXX Octobris setatis Lx. 

 Pr. S. P." 



Henry D'Avenet. 



In Worthington's Portraits of the Sovereigns of 

 England, published by Pickering in 1824, there 

 occurs an engraving of Mary Queen of Scots, 

 from a painting at St. James's, 1580. 



This series of engravings was especially put 



