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CONTENTS.-No. 64.
NOTES Tather Sarpi's Portraits, 201 -The Cecil Lan- eua*e 202-Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy -French Proverbial Phrases, 203-Suakespeare's Pall-bearers-Irish Folk-lore -" Vicariate," 204-'D.N.B.' and 'Index and Epitome '-Cicero's Busts - 'Beyond the Church - "Mungoose," 205 -Parliamentary Quotation-Sir George Grove on Spurgeon's Scholarship- Jacobeaa Houses 111 Fleet Street, 20t5.
QUERIES :-Dickens or Wilkie Collins ? Pawnbroker's Sign and the Medici Arms, 207 -William Carroll Willes- deii Families Willesden : the Place-name Madame Parisot-Catherine of Braganza American Prayer-Rook Balances or Scales-Arms of Cumbria "Allen, 208- Carr and Chitty Families Schools First Established Sir Harry Bath : Shotover "Beating the Bounds, 209.
REPLIES : Scottish Naval and Milifarv Academy, 209 Spltt Infinitive, 210 "Undertaker" Moscow Campaign Song Wanted Sir James Cotter, 212-Burns's Letters to George Thomson " Tbe Naked Boy and Coffin Joseph Wilfred Parkins Englishmen holding Positions under Foreign Governments, 213 Horseshoes for Luck, 214 "Tongue-Twisters," 216-" Call a spade a spade - ' Diiikums" "Quandary," 217.
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FATHER PAUL SARPI'S PORTRAITS.
(See ante, pp. 44, 84, 144.)
THE earliest English references to Sarpi which have been published are contained in some letters of William Bedell to Adam New ton. Two of these letters (dated 1 January, 1607/8, and 1 January, 1608/9) were published in ' Some Original Letters of Bishop Bedell,' &c., edited by E. Hudson, Dublin, 1742. These, with a third letter dated 26 December, 1607, in which there are also references to . Sarpi, have been recently reprinted by E. S. Shuckburgh, M.A., in his 'Two Biographies of William Bedell,' Cambridge, University Press, 1902. I may add that the collection of Sir Henry Wotton's letters which I hope to publish shortly will contain a good deal of hitherto unpublished information about Sarpi from Wotton's letters and other documents.
A note in regard to portraits of Sarpi in England may be of interest to the readers of
- N. & Q.' Fulgentio, in his life of Father
Paul, states that Sarpi would never allow his portrait to be taken, and that all the pictures of him in existence were copies of one said to be in the gallery of a great king, which
was taken against his will, "e con bel strata-
gema"(2 ml S. iv. 122). There can be little
doubt that James I. is the great king referred
to, and that the " bel stratagema " was
planned by Sir Henry Wotton, then James's
Ambassador in Venice. On 13 September,
1607 (X.S.), Wotton wrote to Lord Salisbury
that he was sending to England " a very true
picture of Maestro Paulo, the Servite, taken
from him at my request," as he thought it
might please the king " to behold a sound
Protestant " (these words in cipher), " as yet
in the habit of a friar." Wotton's stratagem
seems to have consisted in sending to see
Sarpi on some pretence a painter who made a
sketch of the Father without his knowledge.
(See Wotton's letter to Dr. Collins, quoted
ante, p. 45.) This portrait, however, did
not reach England ; the Papal Xuncio in
Venice, who kept a strict watch on Wotton's
movements, sent news of it to the Pope,
Paul V., who complained of it to the Venetian
Ambassador at Rome ('Cal. S.P., Ven., 1607-
1610,' p. 26), and when the bearer of the por-
trait reached Milan, on his way to England,
he was arrested by the officers of the Inquisi-
tion, thrown into prison, and the portrait
confiscated. In spite of the Pope's "bel
stratagema," Wotton succeeded in sending a
second portrait of Sarpi to England. This
was painted after the attempted assassination
in October, 1607, and bore, Wotton wrote
(21 December, 1607), "the late addition of
his scars." From this portrait and a com-
panion picture of Fulgentio frequent replicas
were made, and Wotton, after his return to
England, seems to have been in the habit of
giving them to his friends. The letter he
wrote when presenting one to Dr. Collins,
Provost of King's College, Cambridge, has
already been quoted in 'N. & Q.' (ante, p. 45).
Another pair of these replicas (no doubt a
present from Wotton) was bequeathed by Dr.
Donne to Dr. King (2 m i S. vii. 350) ; another
was in the rooms of Sir Xathaniel Brent at
Merton College ; another at Roydon Hall
(ibid ) ; and a sixth portrait of Sarpi seems
to have been in the possession of a brother
of the Rev. Samuel Blithe, Master of Clare
Hall (letter of Edward Browne to Samuel
Blithe, quoted 'Cal. S.P., Ven., 1607-1610,'
p. xxxvi). The portrait of Sarpi at King's
College disappeared about 1744 ('N. & Q.,
2 ud S." vii. 350), that at Roydon Hall about
1827 (iv. 122), and all attempts to trace
these or any other of Sarpi's portraits in
England have hitherto been unsuccessful,
none of those interested in the subject being
aware that one of them is preserved in the
picture gallery of the Bodleian. On taking
