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t2"* S. IX. Feb. 25. '60. 



large piece, — three nymphs sleeping, two satyrs, the 

 landscape of Snyders, with dead game," — mentioned 

 afterwards as being in Whitehall in 1(587-8. When King 

 Charles's pictures were resolved upon to be disposed by 

 the Commonwealth, this was marked as " soid to Mr. 

 Latham," &c, in a dividend as appraised 23rd Oct. 1651, 

 for 50/. 



2. " Diana and Actxon " (a copy after Titian), appraised 

 at 30/.; and sold Mr. Jasper, 21st May, 1650, for 31/. 



3. "Peace and Plenty," with many figures as big as 

 the life ; appraised at, and sold for 100/. Sold Mr. Har- 

 rison. . 



[There would appear to have been two paintings from 

 the pencil of Rubens upon this subject: — 

 i. The picture of an emblem wherein the difference 

 and ensvences between Peace and War are shewed, 

 which Sir Peter Paul Rubens, when he was in Eng- 

 land, did paint, anil presented himself to the King, 

 containing some nine figures. 6 ft. 8 in. x 9 ft. 1 1 in. 



ii. Trophies emblematic of Peace and War (see 

 Smith's Cat. Rais., p. 271.) 



Which of these two is the one valued above?] 



4. "The Duke of Mantua," 30/. Sold Mr. Bass and 

 others, 19th Dec. 1651. Probably this may answer to 

 the one intituled: "The Picture of the lately deceased 

 young Duke Mantua's Brother, done in armour to the 

 shoulders, when he was in Italy, in a carved wooden gilded 

 frame." 2 ft. 1 in. x 1ft. 10 in. 



[Bought by the King when he was Prince.] 



5. " The Duchess of Mantua," 2/. Sold Mr. Baggley, 

 &c, 23rd Oct. 1651. 



[This picture is not mentioned in Smith's Cat. Rai$.~\ 



C. " Christ hanging on the Cross," after Rubens, 31. 

 Sold Mr. Drayton, 19th Feb. 1649, for 4/. (Classed 

 among Somerset House pictures.) 



7. One piece done by Rubens (among the " Greenwich 

 Pictures"), 150/. Sold Mr. Latham, &c, 23rd Oct. 1651. 



[This, as bearing the highest valuation of paintings by 

 the hand of Rubens, has no other description than the 

 above ; and I would ask, can it in any way be identified ? ] 



8. "Diana and Calista," bv Rubens after Rubens, 30/. 

 Sold Mr. Jasper, 21st May, 1650, for 31/. 



It is well known that Rubens copied the works 

 of other masters, and sometimes reproduced those 

 painted by himself; but my last entry will show 

 that occasionally lie did not even disdain the art 

 of a restorer : — 



" Item, a man's picture with two hands, wherof uSjV 

 Peter Paul Rubens has mended the said hands, being in a 

 black habit, done by Julio Romano, bought by the king, 

 so big as the life, done upon board in a black frame. 3 ft. 

 1 in. x 2 ft. 6 in." 



POLECAUP ClIENER. 



Bishop Berkeley's Works and Lifr. — It is 

 singular that no tolerable Life of Bishop Berkeley, 

 nor any edition of his complete works', has yet 

 been given to the world. In the meantime your 

 correspondents may in some measure supply these 

 wants by collecting the scattered materials. In 

 the hope of elieiling more valuable contributions, 

 I offer my quota, omitting the common books of 

 reference. 



He made tar-water fashionable (Abp. Herring's 

 Letters, 1777, pp. 70. 74.). He is noticed by 

 Whiston (Memoirs of Clarke, 133, 134.). On his 

 American scheme, see Chandler's Life of (the 

 American) Dr. Sam. Johnson, p. 40. seq., and 

 Berkeley's Letters (ibid.), pp. 155—164* The 

 death of his widow (who printed some interesting 

 notices of his habits in the Addenda to his article 

 in Kippis's Biogr. Urit.) is recorded in the Euro- 

 pean Magazine, ix. 470. Several of his letters are 

 given in George Monck Berkeley's Literary Relics, 

 and one in the Ilanmer Correspondence, p. 230. 



On the Berkeley MSS., formerly in the hands 

 of Mrs. Hugh James Rose, see Anderson's Colo- 

 nial Church (ed. 1.), iii. 176. 461. 488. 



For D' Alenibert's praise of the bishop, see Gent. 

 Mag., July 1850, p. 51. 



Dr. Berkeley, the younger, almost equalled his 

 father in devoted zeal, and deserves an honourable 

 place in the church history of the eighteenth cen- 

 tury. A letter to him from Dr. Sam. Johnson is 

 given in the collection known as John Hughes's 

 Letters, iii. 165. (Stratford in Connecticut, Nov. 

 1, 1771.) J. E. B. Mayor. 



St. John's College, Cambridge. 



A Legend op the Zuiderzee. — We read that 

 in the first centuries of our era, the Roode Klif 

 (Red Cliff), a hillock on the sea-coast, near the 

 town of Stavoren, was reported thrice to have 

 vomited fire ; whereupon the still heathenish 

 Frisians consulted with their idol Stavo, to know 

 the meaning of this prodigy. The priests told 

 them how to extinguish the fire, and predicted 

 that this phenomenon of heat would be succeeded 

 by "a cold substance." What this cold substance 

 was, is explained in the Chronique ofte Historische 

 Geschiedeuisse van Vrieslant, beschreven door Doct, 

 Pierium Winsemium, fol. 47., under the year 

 513: — 



" It is stated that, about this period, there lived H man, 

 yclept Tvo Hoppers, owning the Lands Bit Rate between 

 Stavoren and Hoorn, which region still to this da}' is 

 calle I Hoppe, but now quite has crumbled down into the 

 Zuider Zee, after the breaking through of the Northern 

 Downs. As this man's maid once was drawing water 

 from a certain Well, that had been dug into this same 

 Sand, by hap a live Herring was caught in the Bucket, 

 which made him, 'PVo Hoppers, sore afraid, as he remem- 

 bered the niiracle of the Idol Stavo, who had prophesied 

 that a cold substance would come after those flames of 

 fire from the Rood Clif, intending thereby to predict that 

 the fire was a prognostication of future floods, which 

 breaking into and falling over the Lands between East 

 and West Friesland, at last should turn into a great Sea, 

 as was afterwards the case. Having pondered on this, 

 he resolved, at the very first opportunity, to sell or ex- 

 change these Lands in order to prevent, the loss thereby 

 to be incurred, which being accomplished, he settled far 

 East of Stavoren, in the neighbourhood of the Wood 

 Fluyssen. On this herring-capture, shortly afterwards 



* Compare the Index to Updike's History of the Epis- 

 copal Church in Narragansett (New York, 1847, 8vo.). 



