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Portrait of CardinRl Beaton . - - - 



On the Pointing of a Passage in " All's Well that Ends 



Well," by A . Roffe ..... 



Folli-Lore : — The bigger l.he Ring, the nearer the Wet 



— Power of propliesying before Deatli — Change in the 



Appe-irance of the Dead— Strange Remedies — Mice 



as a Medicine — Omens from Birtis . - - 



Mode of computing Interest _ . - . 



On the Cultivaiion of Geometry in Lancashire - 



Minor Notes : — Sermon's IMlls — An Infant Prodigy — 



A Hint for Publishers — " He who runs may read" — 



The Kulliad — Tiie Conquest - . - - 



Queries : — 



Bibliographical Queries ..... 



Minor Queries : — Dr. Timothy Thruscross — Echo 

 Song — Meaning of Thwaites — Deus Justificatus — 

 Death by Burning — Irish Bull — Farquharson's Ob- 

 servations on ,Auror<e — Defender of the Faith — 

 Calendar of .Sundays in Greeli and Roman Churches — 

 Dandridue the Painter — Chaucer's Portrait i.y Oc 

 cleve — John o'(iroat's House — Dancing the Bride to 

 Bed — Duke and Earl of Albcrmarle ... 



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Julin, the Drowned City . . - - - 



Nicholas Ferrar and the so-called Arminian Nunnery of 

 Little Gidding -...-- 

 Vineyards _.-..-. 

 Treatise of Equivocation, by J. Sansom . - - 



Riots in London ..-.-. 

 Replies to Minor Queries : —Osnaburg Bishoprick — 

 Death of Kicliard 11. — Scottish Prisoners sold to 

 Plantations — Lachrymatories — Querela Cant ibrigi- 

 ensis — '• Then" for '* Tlian"— Doctrine of the Imma- 

 culate Conception — Letters of Horni g — Dr. Fuseliy 

 Cleaver— Mrs. Partington — "Never did Cardinal 

 bring good to l-'.ngland " — Florentine Edition of the 

 p. indects— Master John Sliorne — 'Her Brow was 

 fair " — Dodd's Church History — Blackwall Docks — 

 Wives of Kcclcsiastics — Stephens' Sermons — Saying 

 of Montaigne — Scala Cecil — Red Hand 



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Notes on Books. S.ales, Catalogues, &c. ... 

 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted ... 



Notices to Correspondents . - - - 



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PORTRAIT OF CARDINAL BEATON. 



A portrait of this einiiient man was eiio;rave<l by 

 Pennant, from a picture at Ilolyi'ood House, in 

 Part II. of his Toiu- in Scotland, i).243. 4to. Lend. 

 1776. Lodge has an engraving from the same 

 portrait in his collection ot' Illuslrious Personai^cs. 

 J'his is a strange circumstance ; because, when 

 Pinkerton was about to include this [loitrait in his 

 collection, Pennant wrote to hun, on aOtii April, 

 1796, as follows : 



" Give me leave to say, that I suspect the authen^ 

 ticity of my Cardinal Beaton. I fear it is Cardinal 

 Falconer or Falconieri. I think there is a genuine 

 one somewheie in Scotland. It will be worth your 

 wliile to inquire if tliere be one, and engrave it. and 

 add my suspicions, wliich induce you to do it." — 

 Pinkcrloii's Correspondence, vol. i. p. 402. 8vo. Loud, 

 1830. 



Pinkerton made inipiiry, and on Dec. 1st, 1797, 

 writes to the Earl of liuchaii : 



" Mr. Pennant Informs me the Cardinal Beaton is 

 fal-e. It is, indeed, too modern. A real Beaton is 

 said to exist in Fife." — Piiikertun's Correspondence, 

 vol. ii. p. 1 7. 



Lord Buchan writes to him that Mr. Beaton, of 

 Balfour, believes himself to have a genuine por- 

 trait of the Cardinal, and otTers it for engraving. 

 The authenticity ot this portrait, however, appears 

 not to have been established, and it was not en- 

 graved. Another was found at Yester, and was 

 at first concluded to be a genuine original; but 

 Ladv Ancram soon discovered that it possessed no 

 marks of originality, but might be a good copy : it 

 was, however, certainly not one of the six cardinals 

 purchased by the third Earl of Lothian. Einallv, 

 it vv'as rejected altogether. A cojiy of a p<u-trait 

 from the Vatican was also rejected as undoubtedly 

 spurious. It appears, therefiire, that Pinkerton, 

 in this case at least, exercised due caution in the 

 selection of his subject for engraving, so i'ar as 

 concerned authenticity. His criticism, that the 

 Holyrood House portrait is " too modern," will be 

 agreed in by all who will take the trouble to com- 

 j)aie the portrait in Lodge with undoubted por- 

 traits of the time : the style is too modern by a 

 huntlred years. But the jiortrait is of a man 

 upwai'ds of si.xty years old : Beaton was murdered 

 in 154G, in the fiftieth year of his age. The por- 

 trait is of a darkdiaired man without beard. 



I now come to a portrait of Beaton which tliere 

 appears reason to think is genuine, and I beg the 

 lav(mr of your correspondents to give me any in- 

 formation in their power regarding it. This por- 

 trait is in the Komau Catholii^ College at l{lair.s, 

 near Aberdeen. It was in the Scotch Colleg(! at 

 Pome down to the peiif.d of the French occujiation 

 of that city in 17!)8, and l()rnied part of the 1>1 under 



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