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CONTENTS. 

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Portrait Painters of Queen Elizabetli, by Sir F. Madden 237 

 The early Piratical Editions of Junius ... 239 

 Notes on London - - . - - -241 



Folic Lore: — Leafing of the Oak and Ash — Nursery 



Game — Spur Sunday - ... - 241 



Timothy Eglington and Robert Donald - - - 242 



Minor Notes : — Illustration of a Passage in Shakspeare 



— St. Crispin's (or King Crispin's) Day — St. Paul 

 and ^schines — Paley's Lectures on Locke — Guide- 

 book German ..--.- 243 



Ql'ERIES : — 



Egbert and the Octarchy . - - - - 244 



The Robin Redbreast 244 



Minor Queries: — Irish Names — Crest of the Bassett 

 Family — Jane Barker — " To die for what we love " 



— Crossing the Line — Churchyard — The Book of 

 Destinies — Burying alive as a Punishment — Trustees 

 of the National Gallery — General Wolfe's Family — 

 Phansagars and Thugs — Bare Cross — The Bride's 

 Seat at Church - - - - - - 244 



Minor Queries Answered:" — Reverend applied to 

 Clergymen — Punishment for Treason — The United 

 Churcliof England and Ireland ... S4G 



Replies : — 



Francis Davison and Dr. Donne, by S. W. Singer, &c. 247 

 Royal Arms in Churches, by H. T. EUacombe, &c. - 248 

 " Merchant of Venice," Act III. Sc. 2., by S. Hickson 249 

 Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester, by Lord Farnham - 249 



Can Bishops vacate their Sees ? - - - - 250 



Photography in the open Air - - - - 251 



St. Veronica - - - - - - 252 



Emaciated Monumental Effigies, by Thomas L. Walker 252 

 Dutch Pottery - - - - - - 253 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Birthplace of Wickliffe — 

 Constables of France — Monumental Brasses abroad — 

 Remarkable Trees — Portrait of Sir Kenelm Digby— 

 Dress of the Clergy — Furye Family — Seventeen 

 Year Locusts — On the World lasting 6000 Years — 

 Church Brasses subsequent to 1G88— Irish Language 

 in the West Indies — Cowdray Family — Beef- 

 eaters— " To differ with "— Phoebe Hassel — Passage 

 in the Somnium Scipionis — Alteration in Prayer 

 Books — The Etymology of Llewelyn — Reverence to 

 the Altar — Inscription on a Bell — Time when Briefs 

 were abolished — Shan-dra-dam—Portrafts of Wolsey 



— Lunar Occultation, &c. - - . . 254 

 Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, Sec. - . . - . 258 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - - - - 258 



Notices to Correspondents - - - . 258 



Advertisements - - ... - 259 



Vol. VL — No. 150. 



PORTRAIT PAINTERS OP QUEEN ELIZABETH. 



^' There is no evidence," says Walpole, " that 

 Elizabeth had much taste for painting ; but she 

 loved pictures of herself ." Her extreme sensitive- 

 ness in regard to the manner in which her portrait 

 ■was drawn, is curiously illustrated by the procla- 

 mation written by Cecil in 1563 (existing in the 

 State Paper Office), which was printed in the 

 ArchcBologia, vol. ii. p. 169. Although at so early 

 a period of her reign, it is stated that "great 

 nomber of paynters, and some printers and 

 gravers," had already and did daily attempt to 

 make portraitures of her Majesty ; with all of 

 which the queen being much dissatisfied, since 

 " hytherto none hath sufficiently expressed the 

 naturall representation of hir JNIajesties person, 

 favor, _ or grace," at the request of the Privy 

 Council her Majesty is pleased to declare that 

 " some coning person mete therefore shall shortly 

 make a pourtraict of hir person or visage, to be 

 participated to others for satisfaction of hir loving 

 subjects;" and in the mean time all persons are 

 ordered to forbear from painting, graving, or 

 printing any portrait of the royal visage, untU the 

 special person appointed should have finished the 

 pattern : after which her Majesty was content that 

 all other painters, printers, or gravers, " that shall 

 be known men of understanding, and so thereto 

 licensed by the hed officers of the plaicis where 

 they shall dwell," shall or may follow and copy 

 the said " patron or first pourtraicture." It is, in 

 all probability, to the proceedings consequent on 

 this proclamation that Sir Walter Raleigh alludes 

 in his Preface to the History of the World, in 

 which he says, that the pictures of Queen Eliza- 

 beth "made by unskilful and common painters" 

 were by her own commandment " knocked in 

 pieces and cast into the fire." It would be inter- 

 esting to know the name of the "coning person" 

 who was specially authorised to make the pattern 

 portrait of her Majesty, and Dallaway, in a note 

 on Walpole, conjectures it to have been Zuccaro ; 

 but as this artist is stated to have come to Eng- 

 land only in 1574, it Avill seem hardly probable 

 that ten years should have elapsed after the date 

 of the proclamation before the portrait-loving 



