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30 THE ANCESTOR left side of the vignette is the word ' Guyana ' (Guiana), oppo- site it, on the right side, ' St. Thomae.' The vignette evi- dently represents the attack on St. Thome, where this gallant young man lost his life in his twenty-fourth year. Hanging between the Raleigh portraits is a fine miniature of Henry Prince of Wales, eldest son of James I., by Peter Oliver. The prince is in gilded armour, wearing the blue ribbon of the garter and a fine lace ruff. In W. Saunderson's Anlicus Coquinari^y a curious pamphlet published in 1650, in the account of the prince's last illness, mention is made of his visit to Belvoir to meet his father, James I. 'His active body used violent exercises ; for at this time, being to meet the king at Bever in Nottinghamshire, he rode it in two days, neer a hundred miles, in the extremity of heat in summer. For he set out early and came to Sir Oliver Cromwell's, neer Huntingden, by ten a clock before noon, neer sixty miles, and the next day betimes to Bever, forty miles. He was comely, tall, five foot eight inches high, strong and well made, somewhat broad shoulders, a small waste, amiable with majesty. His haire aborn (auburn) colour ; long faced and broad for-head ; a pearcing grave eye and gracious smile, but with a frowne, danting.' The miniature is signed with the monogram R). Hanging beneath his brother is a very curious and charm- ing miniature of Charles I. when Prince of Wales ; round the portrait is a Latin inscription to this effect : ' The most illus- trious and serene Charles, Prince of Wales, the greatest hope of Great Britain, in the fourteenth year of his age.' On the curtain are the plume, crown, crescent and stars (the crescent is the heraldic mark showing he was the second son of James I.). The prince is in a large ruff and wearing the George. The painter is unknown. Isaac Oliver is well represented by a fine portrait of William Herbert third Earl of Pembroke. An additional interest is attached to this miniature when we remember that he and his brother Philip, who succeeded him, are the incomparable pair of brethren to whom the first folio of Shakespeare's works is dedicated (1623), and Lord Pembroke is possibly the W. H. (Mr. William Herbert) alluded to as ' the onlie begetter ' of Shakespeare's .S^. sonnets. This miniature is signed with the monogram O and dated 161 6. The collec- JL tion is especially rich in Coopers. Richard A