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LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4. 18C0. 



No. 214. — CONTENTS. 



NOTES:— Thilip Rubens, the Brother of Sir Peter Paul 

 Rubens, 75 — Gowrie Conspiracy, 76 — Firelock and Bayo- 

 net Exercise, lb.— St. Thomas Cantilupe, Bishop of Here- 

 ford, 77. 



Minor Notes: — What's in a Name — Fish, called Sprot — 

 Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D. — Singhalese Folk-lore — " Could 

 we with ink the ocean fill " — Vise, Vised, Vis6ed,',Visaed — 

 Leighton's Pulpit, 7S. 



QUERIES : — A Jew Jesuit, 79 — Mob Cap — Naval Ballad 



— " Frederic Latimer " — Scottish College at Paris — Trea- 

 surie of Similies — Arms — Inscription — John Ffishwick 



— Versiera — The Sea Serjeants — The Label in Heraldry 

 —Michael Angelo —Thomas Sydenham — Rev. Christopher 

 Chilcott, MA. — " Bregis," &c. — John Du Quesne — <c The 

 Black List " — Mence Family — Foxe's Book of Martyrs — 

 Dinner Etiquette — Sir Eustace or Sir Estus Smith, 79. 



Queries with Answers : — Matthew Scrivener — King 

 David's Mother — The Butler of Burford Priory — Monkey 



— Samuel Bayes — Crinoline : Plon-Plon — Neck Verse, 

 ftc — Herald quoted by Leland, 82. 



REPLIES: — The Hyperboreans in Italy, 84 — Drummond 

 of Colquhalzie, lb.— Patron Saints, 85 — Bishops Elect, lb. 

 — Macaulay Family, 86 — The Young Pretender in Eng- 

 land, lb. — Breeches Bible — Bacon on Conversation — 

 Dr. Dan. Featly — Poems by Burns — Destruction of MSS. 



— Origin of ™ Cockney " — Sir John Danvers — Familiar 

 Epistles on the Lrish Stage — Folk-lore — Rev. William 

 Dunkin, D.D. — Sans-Culottes — James Anderson, D.D. — 

 Henry Lord Power — This Day Eight Days — Refreshment 

 for Clergymen — Lever — " Modern Slang," &c. — " The 

 Load of Mischief" — Bazels of Baize — Samuel Daniel — 



— Mince Pies — Stakes fastened together with Lead as a 

 Defence — Trepasser — Supervisor — Hymns for the Holy 

 Communion — Oliver Goldsmith — The Prussian Iron 

 Medal — The Oath of Vargas, &c, 87. 



PHILIP RUBENS, 



THE BROTHER OF SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS. 



Philip, the third son of John Rubens and Maria 

 Pijpelincx*, was born at Cologne (v. Kal. May, 

 1574), to •which place his parents had fled from 

 their native city of Antwerp. The father himself, 

 a man of great erudition, took upon himself the 

 education of his son Philip at home, until the boy 

 had arrived at the age of twelve, when he closed 

 a life of usefulness. The widow, with her chil- 

 dren, returned to Antwerp ; and Philip, having 

 finished his studies, entered the service of' Joannes 

 Ricbardotus, President of the Council, as his secre- 

 tary, and was entrusted with the education of his 

 two sons, William and Antony. He became after- 

 wards the disciple and friend of the learned Jus- 

 tus Lipsius, and travelled into Italy with one of 

 the sons of his first patron, Richavdotus. He re- 

 turned thence 1604. It appears, moreover, that 

 at one period he accepted the position of librarian 

 to the Cardinal AscaniuB Colonna. The Duke of 

 Tuscany also invited his services, but being sum- 

 moned by the senate of Antwerp to become their 

 secretary, he returned to the city of his ancestors. 

 Anno 1608, on the 9th of October, his mother de- 



* Query, which is the correct orthography of this sur- 

 name, Pypelincx, or Pijpelincx? 



parted from the world, having completed the 

 seventieth year of her age. 



Philip wedded the youngest of the three daugh- 

 ters of Henricus de Moy, who, within a year of 

 their marriage, presented him with a daughter, 

 whose name we learn from the monument was 

 Clara. But in the flower of his age, and arrived 

 at the summit of his ambition, beiug seized with 

 a deadly fever, on the v. Kal. Sept. 1611, he was 

 snatched from his sorrowing friends and compa- 

 triots, leaving his brother, the great painter, the 

 only surviving child of seven. 



Within two days, his remains were committed 

 to the earth in the church of St. Michael. 



Shortly after (pridie Id. Septemb.), his widow 

 gave birth to a son, to whom Nicolaus Rokoxius 

 stood sponsor, and gave him at the font the name 

 of his father. 



In memory of her husband, she erected a monu- 

 ment with this inscription, the wording of whicn 

 is alleged to be from the pen of Sir Peter Paul 

 Rubens, the force of which would be marred by 

 any translation : — 



" Phillippo Eubenio, I. C. 



Joannis civis et senatoris Antverp: F. 



Magni Lipsi Discipulo et Alumno 



Cujus doctrinam paene assecutus, 



Modestiam feliciter adaequavit : 



Bruxella? Prsesidi Bichardoto, 



Fiomfe AscaDio Cardinali columnar, 



Ab Epistolis, et studiis, 



S. P. Q. Antverpiensi a secretis. 



Abiit, non obiit, virtute et scriptis sibi superstes, 



V. Kal. Septemb. Anno Christi mdcxi. aHat. xxxix. 



Marito bene merenti Maria de Moy, 



Duum ex illo liberorum Clara? et Philippi mater, 



Propter illius ejusque matris Maria? Pijpelincx sepulchrum, 



Hoc mceroris et amoris sui monumentum P. C. 



Bonis viator bene precare manibus : 



Et cogita, pneivit ille, mox sequar." 



Upon his decease,* Joannes Noverus addressed 

 to his brother a long epistle of condolence, which 

 commences thus : — 



" Quod in luctu summum est Petre Paulle V. amicis- 

 sime ad nobis indenuntiato hoc casu fratris tui luctuos- 

 sima scilicet in morte evenisse, merito in cselum sublatis 

 testamur suspiriis," etc. 



Various of his friends and admirers wrote elegies 

 upon his death. One, addresssed " Ad eximium 

 virum Petrum Paullum super obitu fratris ejus 

 Phillipi Rubeni," I suspect to be from the pen of 

 one of the Brant family. The concluding lines of 

 one of these elegiac compositions, by Laurentius 

 Beyerlinck, makes an elegant allusion to the 

 talents of the great painter : — 



" Fac etiam ut fratris frater post fata superstes, 

 ( Kmuhi cui eaelo dextera, mensquc data est ; 

 Qua poterit, ccrta sollers arte exprimat ora, 

 Et frater fratris vivat in effigie 

 Dumque hie arte sua, superestque in imagine Frater 

 Alteri ab alterius munere surget honos." 



The undermentioned letters, written by Philip 

 to his brother Peter Paul, would have made an 



