the Grand Master's health gave way, and he expired on the 21st of August, 1534, in the seventy-first year of his age. On his tomb is written, Ici repose la vertu victorieuse No. 4.-WILLIAM KEY.' PERARI DI CREMONA. (A very fine portrait.) Half-length; standing figure. Head uncovered; short black hair, short mustachios, and beard round the edge of the chin. He wears a vest of figured black silk, fitting close to the body, and fastened in front with round gold buttons, with sleeves full above the elbows. Round the waist is a belt, to which are attached on the left side a sword, and over the right hip a dagger; the left arm rests on the hilt of the sword, and the hand holds a pair of buff leather gloves; on the little finger is a ring. The right hand rests upon a table. Painted on panel. At back of the panel are the remains of an old inscription. I William Key died in the Netherlands 1568, after painting a portrait of the Duke of Alva. Lampsonius, in a Latin eulogy on the artist, writes his name Caius, and says he was the first portrait-painter of his time next to Antonio More. The picture described above is painted on oak panel, which makes it probable that, though the subject was of an Italian gentleman, it was painted in Flanders. No. 5.. PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN. (Subject unknown.) Picture on panel; small size. Head and shoulders; full yellowish hair. He wears on the head a black cap; a loose black dress, with black fur cape, open in front and showing the top of a close linen shirt. The left hand is bare, with a ring on the forefinger, bearing the initials BE, and pulls on the right hand a white glove with slashes on the fore-finger to admit of a ring appearing. Among Sir William Musgrove's manuscripts in the British Museum (Addit. MS. 6391, F. 75) is a catalogue, made anno 1780, of the pictures at the Grove. The catalogue is imperfect, and not correct. This portrait is entered there as the work of Holbein: it is of that school, but is either inferior to many of his works or has been painted over. Dr. Waagen considers it to be by Holbein, but much injured by repairs. QUEEN ELIZABETH. No. 6.-ZUCCHERO. QUEEN ELIZABETH. (A good picture.) Three-quarters length, not quite the size of life; yellowish hair, turned back from the forehead. She wears a single row of pearls round the neck, and a triple row hanging down to the waist; a tight black gown with large gold buttons from the neck down to the waist; a high standing-up lace ruff. The gown is trimmed down the sleeves, round the wrists, upon the shoulder, and round the top, with lace; the hands uncovered. Her right hand rests on the end 7th of September, 1533. Queen Elizabeth was born the After the accession of Mary she fell under the suspicion of being concerned in Sir Thomas Wyatt's insurrection, and was examined by the Privy Council; on some new suspicion was again seized, taken to Hampton Court as a state prisoner, and sent to the Tower. She was not released from captivity till the marriage of Philip with Mary. On the 17th of November, 1558, Elizabeth succeeded to the throne. On the 24th of March, 1603, she expired at her palace at Richmond. She was the author of many works, and there are still some curious specimens of her industry in translating to be seen in the MSS. at the State Paper Office. "There are few great personages in history who have been more exposed to the calumny of enemies and the adulations of "friends than Queen Elizabeth, and yet there is scarce any whose "reputation has been more certainly determined by the unani mous consent of posterity. . . . . Her singular talents for go"vernment were founded equally on her temper and on her 66 "capacity. Endowed with a great command over herself, she soon obtained an uncontrolled ascendant over her people; and "while she merited all their esteem by her real virtues, she "also engaged their affections by her pretended ones. Few "Sovereigns of England succeeded to the throne in more diffi"cult circumstances, and none ever conducted the government "with such uniform success and felicity."-Hume's History of England. No. 7.-FROM MARK GERRARD (in the collection at Knole). LORD BUCKHURST. Long irregular shape; three-quarters length, standing figure. On the head a black hat; long grey moustachios and beard. He wears a black dress, with a fur tippet hanging down in front; loose black robes, with gold stripes over the shoulders; full plaited ruff round the throat, and round his neck the blue ribbon, from which the George is suspended. His right hand holds a white wand; his left hand rests on a table, on which there are two books and some papers. On one of the papers is the inscription TOVTJOVRS LOYAL. Background consists of a curtain and the wall of a room, with a portion of landscape. Inscription on the Picture. Lord Bvckhvrst. Thomas Sackville, son of Richard Sackville (Chancellor of the Court of Augmentation), and of Winifred Bruges his wife, was born at Buckhurst, in Sussex. He was educated first at the university of Oxford and then at Cambridge. He studied the law at the Inner Temple and became a barrister. He abandoned the law for literary pursuits, and travelled in France and Italy. At Rome he was made prisoner, as it is said, on account of his love to religion and his duty to his sovereign.' He obtained his release and returned on the death of his father. Abbott's Funeral Sermon. In June 1567 he was knighted and created Baron Buckhurst. In 1570 he was sent by Queen Elizabeth to congratulate Charles IX. of France on his marriage with Elizabeth of Austria. In 1573 he sat on the trial of Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk. In 1586 he was one of the Commissioners for the trial of Mary Queen of Scots. The following year, 1587, he was sent ambassador to the States of the United Provinces to examine the cause of their disapprobation of the Earl of Leicester's proceedings. He faithfully performed his trust and incurred the displeasure of the favourite, and was made prisoner in his own house for many months. On the death of Leicester he was released and elected Knight of the Garter. On the death of the Lord Chancellor Hatton, in 1590, he was one of the four Lords of the Privy Council who had for a time the custody of the Great Seal; and he succeeded Sir Christopher Hatton as Chancellor of the University of Oxford. In September, 1592, he received a visit from the Queen at Oxford. In 1598 he joined with Lord Burleigh in effecting a treaty with Spain; and on the 15th of May of that year he succeeded Lord Burleigh as Treasurer. In 1600-1 he presided as Lord Steward on the trial of the Earl of Essex, and in an eloquent speech advised him to implore the Queen's mercy. On the 28th of March, 1603, he signed a letter with other commissioners to notify the Queen's death to King James, and met the King on the 2nd of May at Broxborn, Herts, when the King reappointed him Lord Treasurer. On the 13th of March following he was created Earl of Dorset; in August, 1604, he signed the Treaty of Peace with Spain. On the 29th of April, 1608, while sitting at the Council-table, he died suddenly in the seventy-fourth year of his age, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. He was celebrated no less as a poet than as a statesman; his tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex' was acted before the Queen by the gentlemen of the Inner Temple, January 18, 1561. He also wrote the Judication,' the Mirror for Magistrates,' and the Complaint of the Duke of Buckingham.' He married Cecile, daughter of Sir John Baker, and had four sons and three daughters. VOL. III. T |