against the Moors, and in 1511 received at Burgos the honour of knighthood from Ferdinand and Isabella, who likewise paid him the compliment of adding to his family arms the Pomegranate of Granada. He was probably a man of good parts and education, since he appears in the number of Erasmus's English Correspondents; but seems to have had no turn for politics. He died in 1532, aged about 44. Holbein's fine picture after this drawing is in perfect preservation at Kensington Palace.

XXIV. THE LADY HENEGHAM.

This lady was Mary, one of the daughters of Sir John Shelton, of Shelton, in Norfolk, by Anne, daughter of Sir William Boleyn, and aunt to the unfortunate Queen Anne. She became the second wife of Sir Anthony Heveningham or Henningham of Ketteringham in Norfolk about the year 1546. She died about the year 1563.

XXV. SIR PHILIP HOBBY.

He had attained to the middle age before he became known at court. His zeal for the Reformation recommended him to Henry VIII, and that prince towards the end of his reign employed him in some foreign negociations of no great moment. He died on the 31st of May, 1558, aged 53, and was buried at Bisham, in Berkshire.

XXVI. THE LADY HOBBY

Was Elizabeth, third of the four celebrated daughters of Sir Anthony Cooke, of Gidea-Hall in Essex, and wife of Sir Thomas Hobby, brother of Sir Philip. Lady Hobby, as well as her sisters, cultivated studies which are not usually admitted into the education of females. Her translation from the French of a Treatise "Touching the true nature and substance of the Body and Blood of Christ

in the Sacrament," was printed in 1605. She died about 1596, and is buried at Bisham.

XXVII. QUEEN CATHERINE HOWARD.

Catherine Howard was the fifth wife of King Henry VIII, and suffered death on the scaffold, on the 12th of February, 1541-2, for her ante-nuptial frailties.

XXVIII. HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY.

The Editor has taken some pains to prove, on account of the inscription at the corner of the picture "Tho. Howard, E. of Surrey," that it must be the portrait of the celebrated Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, who in the romantic style of ancient chivalry, challenged, fought, and conquered, for his fair Geraldine; under which poetical denomination he is now pretty well understood to have meant the lady Elizabeth, daughter of Gerald Fitzgerald, Earl of Kildare.

XXIX. MOTHER JAK.

The Earl of Orford is said to have mentioned, that a portrait by Holbein, after this drawing, inscribed " Mother Jak, nurse to King Edward the Sixth," was sold several years since in the collection of a Mrs. Hunter.

Vertue, in his Catalogue of the Collection of K. Charles I, mentions this drawing, and, on what authority we know not, calls the person whom it represents," Mother Jackson."

XXX. THE LADY LISTER.

This lady was Jane, daughter of Ralph Shirley, of Wistneston in Sussex, Esquire for the body to King Henry VII. She was first married to Sir John Dawtrey, of Moor House, Sussex, and after his death to Sir Richard Lister, Lord Chief Justice of England in 1546.

XXXI. THE LADY MARY.

She was born at Greenwich, February 18th 1517, the daughter of Henry VIII, by Catherine of Arragon.

She succeeded her brother, on the throne, in 1553, and was married to Philip of Spain, July 20th, 1554, which marriage seemed to be the signal for the commencement of those horrors which blackened her short reign. She died on the 17th of November, 1558.

XXXII. PHILIP MELANCTHON.

He was born at Brette, a village of the Palatinate, on the 16th of February, 1497, and made an amazing progress in languages even in his childhood. Luther, and his doctrines, appeared about this time, and Melancthon stood forward as their most strenuous supporter; indeed the Lutheran system was in a great measure planned by him, and the famous instrument by which it was publicly declared, called the Confession of Augsburg was the production of his

pen:

Melancthon was the intimate friend of Erasmus, and Erasmus the patron of Holbein : this connexion may account for his appearance in a collection of portraits of Englishmen, for he never was in this country. He died at Wirtemberg, on the 19th of April, 1560, aged 64.

XXXIII. THE LADY MEUTAS.

The maiden name of this lady was Joan Ashley. She was married young to Sir Peter Meutas, a person considerably favoured by Henry VIII.

XXXIV. THE LADY MONTEAGLE.

Thomas Stanley, second Lord Monteagle, who died in 1560, was twice married, first to Mary, daughter of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, and secondly, to Ellen,

daughter of Thomas Preston, of Preston Patrick in Westmoreland, and widow of Sir James Leyburne, but for which of these ladies the portrait here given was intended, has not been ascertained.

XXXV. SIR JOHN MORE.!

This gentleman was the father of Sir Thomas More. He was appointed a Judge of the King's Bench in 1518, and died in 1533, aged 90.

XXXVI. SIR THOMAS MORE.

He was born in Milk Street, London, about the year 1480, and having embraced his father's profession, and soon becoming famous in it, he was very early a member of the House of Commons, of which he was chosen Speaker in 1523, and in 1530, in spite of his objections to Henry's darling project of divorcing Queen Catherine, Lord Chancellor of England. He sat but three years in his high office, and refusing to comply with the King's demands, requested leave to resign. He was afterwards committed to the Tower, on a charge of misprision of treason, and was beheaded on the 6th of June, 1535.

It is almost needless to mention his literary works: his Utopia and Life of Richard III, are well known: his smaller productions consist chiefly of Latin Poems, and polemical tracts.

Το say that Sir Thomas More was the brightest character of the age in which he lived, an age which exhibited the ferocity of uncivilized man without his simplicity, and the

The Rev. T. F. Dibdin has recently obliged the world with a new edition of the "Utopia," executed in a very classical manner, which cannot fail of proving an agreeable present to the lovers of our earlier literature. It will of course have a place in every good English Library.

degeneracy of modern times without their refinement, were praise beneath his merit ; but if the wise and honest statesman, the acute and uncorrupt magistrate, the loyal but independent subject, constitute an excellent public man; if the good father, the good husband, and the good master, the firm friend, the moral though witty companion, the upright neighbour, the pious Christian, and the patient martyr, form a perfect character-Sir Thomas More was the man.

- This person, Mr. Chamberlaine observes, could have been no other than Thomas Boleyn, father of the unfortunate Anne, and son of Sir William Boleyn of Blickling, in Norfolk, K. B. by Margaret, daughter and coheir of Thomas Butler, the last Earl of Ormond of his line.

XXXIX. WILLIAM PARR, MARQUIS OF NORTHAMPTON, Was the only son of Sir Thomas Parr, and being brought young to court, and nearly of the same age with the King, he ran that course of romantic gallantry and magnificence, which distinguished the first years of that Prince's reign. He was created by Edward VI, in 1547, Marquis of Northampton, and on the death of that Monarch, and the accession of Queen Mary, was arraigned of high treason, and sentenced to death, for the part he took in favour of Lady Jane Grey. His execution was however respited from time to time, though his titles and estates were withheld from him during the remainder of that reign. He was reinstated in both by Elizabeth, who gave him the order of the Garter. He died in 1571.

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