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294 THE PORTRAITS OF JOHN KNOX. still one Portrait of him to produce, the BomerviUe Portrait so-named, widely different from the Beza Icon and its progeny ; and "will therewith close. III. In 1836 the Society for the Diffusion of TJsefal Knowledge, or the late Charles Knight in the name of that, published an engraving of a Portrait which had not before been heard of among the readers of Knox, and which gave a new and greatly more credible account of Knox's face and outward appearance. This is what has since been called the Somerville Por- trait of Knox ; of which Engraving a fac-simile is here laid before the reader. In 1849 the same Engraving was a second time published, in Knight's Pictorial History of England. It was out of this latter that I first obtained sight of it ; and as soon as possible, had another copy of the Engraving framed and hung up beside me ; believing that Mr. Knight, or the Society he published for, had made the due enquiries from the Somerville family, and found the answers satisfactory; I myself nothing doubting to accept it as the veritable Portrait of Knox. Copies