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and became a pupil of Giulo Romano ; but though his 

 original inclination led him to the painting of large sub- 

 jects, his instructor and his friends perceived that his 

 real excellence lay in the execution of small pictures. 

 He accordingly cultivated this talent, and placed himself 

 under the instruction of Girolamo Veronese, called also 

 "deiLibri,"a celebrated decorator of books. After the 

 devastation of Rome by the Spaniards in 1527, for the 

 sake of security Giulio attached himself to the Order of 

 Scopetine Canons- Regular at Mantua, and took their 

 habit in the monastery of San Ruffino. In the course of 

 the next five years he executed several very excellent 

 works ; but in one of those removals from one monastery 

 to another, which Vasari states was the manner of those 

 friars, he broke his leg, and was taken to the monasterj' 

 of Candiano to be cured. Giulio Clovio died in 157&, af . 

 the age of eighty, and there is something extre*|'ly1i 

 touching and honourable in the manner in which Gio'fgio 

 Vasari writes of him as he was living ten years previously. 

 "Now Don Giulio, — although being old he does not study 

 or do anvthing but seek the salvation of his soul by 

 good works, and a life spent wholly apart from mundane 

 aft'airs, being in all respects an old man, and living as 

 such,— does yet continue to work occasionally, amidst the 

 repose and comfort by which he is surrounded in the Far- 

 nese palace : where he willingly and most courteously 

 shows his productions to those who visit him for the pur- 

 pose of seeing them, as they would any other of the won- 

 ders of Rome." For notices of Anse Memling, better 

 known as Hans Hemling, see Boisseree, in the Kunstblalt, 

 No. 11 (1821), and No. 43 (1825). The latest edition of 

 Rrvan's Dictionary of Painters, 8vo. 1849, gives an ex- 

 teflent compendium of the notices of this artist, furnished 

 by different writers.] 



^'■Peruvian Tales." — In 1734 was printed at 

 London 



" Peruvian Tales, related in One Thousand and One 

 Hours, by one of the select Virgins of Cusco to the Ynca 

 of Peru, to dissuade him from a resolution he had taken 

 to destroy himself by Poison." 



They are represented as " translated from the 

 Original French by Samuel Humphreys, Esq.," 

 and are by him dedicated to the Princess Amelia. 

 Two volumes then appeared, and a third was ad- 

 vertised. No third volume by Mr. Humphreys 

 ever was printed; but in 1739 "John Kelly, Esq." 

 favoured the world with what it is presumed 

 was his own composition, viz. a continuation of 

 these tales, the "French" author havinj? in the 

 interim died. Upon turning to the Biogi-aphia 

 Dramatica, a " Mr. Humphreys" (Christian name 

 not given) is mentioned as the author of three 

 oratorios and one opera, and it is said that he 

 died at Canonbury, January 11, 1738, aged about 

 forty. 



Perhaps some of your correspondents can iden- 

 tify the Mr. Humphreys of the Biographia with 

 the alleged translator of the Peruvian Tales, and 

 mention where the French version is to be found. 

 From the appearance of the third volume so soon 

 after the death of Humphreys, supposing they are 

 the same persons, one might infer that he was not 

 a translator, but a manufacturer of the tales ; and 

 it is odd that the French novelist and his English 

 adapter should die about the same time. 



Kelly was probably the same person who is 

 stated in the above work to have written four or 

 five dramatic pieces, and who died July 16, 1751. 



Lowndes, in his useful but very incomplete 

 work, notices only the third edition of the Peru- 

 vian Tales, Lond. 1730, in 3 vols., nnd ascribes 

 the whole work to Humphreys. 



We regret exceedingly that in the reprint of 

 Lowndes almost all the errors have been retained: 

 an improved and enlarged edition is much wanted. 



J. M. 



[From the following notice of Samuel Huinphreys in 

 ^the Daily Post, copie.l in Nichols's History of Canonbury, 

 •p. 32., it would appear that the dramatist "was also the 

 translator o( Peruvian Tales: "On Jan. II, 1738 [1737], 

 died at Canonburx', aged about forty, Mr. Samuel Hum- 

 phreys. 'He was,' says the Daily Post, 'a gentleman 

 well skilled in the learned languages, and the polite 

 among the modern. Though he was very conversant in 

 and fond of history, and every part of the Belles Lettrcs, 

 yet his genius led him chiefly to poetry, in which (liad 

 Fortune been as indulgent to him as Nature) he would 

 have left such compositions as must have delighted late 

 posterity. The admired Mr. Handel had a due esteem 

 for the harmony of his numbers ; and the great Mixicenas, 

 the Duke of Chandos, shewed the regard he had for his 

 muse, by so generously rewarding him for celebrating his 

 Grace's seat at Canons. Some disappointments Mr. Hum- 

 phreys met with forced him to appear as a translator, on 

 which occasion the graceful e.ise and other beauties of 

 his versions gained him no little applause; but his too 

 intense application (for he sometimes wrote the whole 

 night), and his never taking any exercise, greatly im- 

 paired his health ; and at last brought him into a con- 

 sumption, which proved fatal to him. His corpse was 

 buried, in a private but decent manner, in Islington 

 Churchyard.' He wrote Ulysses, an opera ; translated 

 Spectacle de la Nature; wrote Canons, a poem, and seve- 

 ral other pieces."] 



Anonymous Works. — Who wrote the following 

 works ? — 



" The Free-born Subject, or the Englishman's Birth- 

 right: asserted against all Tyrannical Usurpations either 

 in Church or State. Lond. 1679, 4to. pp. 34." 



[Bj' Sir Roger L'Estrange.] 



" The History of Passive Obedience since the Refor- 

 mation. Amsterdam, 1689, 4to. pp. 132. exclusive of 

 preface and list of authors." 



[By Abraham Seller.] 



Joseph Rix. 



St. Neots. 



Lady Radclif and her Descendants. — AVhat is 

 known of the Lady Mary Tudor Radclif, daughter 

 of Francis, Earl of Derwentwater, and her de- 

 scendants. Any particulars of them would greatly 



oblisre James Coleman. 



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[" Lady Mary Tudor RadclifTe, only daughter of Ed- 

 ward [Francis?] second Earl of Derwentwater, married 

 William Petre of Stamford Rivers, and died without 

 leaving issue surviving." (^Diiston Halt, by W. S. Gibson, 

 1850, p. 28.) The death of her mother, Mary Tudor, na- 

 tural daughter of King Charles II., by Mrs. Davis, is 

 thus noticed in the Chronological Diary of the Historical 

 Jicyisler for 1726 ; "Nov. 5, died at Paris, aged fifty-three 



