It may not be impertinent to remark, that the lady of Sir Robert Cary, afterwards earl of Monmouth, was mistress of the sweet (or perfumed) coffers to Anne of Denmark; an office which answered to that of mistress of the robes at present *. It appears from portraits, that long coats were worn by boys, till they were feven or eight years of age. We are told by dean Fell, that the famous Dr. Hammond was in long coats, when he was fent to Eton school f. When James came to the crown, there was in the wardrobe, in the Tower, a great variety of dresses of our ancient kings; which, to the regret of antiquaries, were foon given away and difperfedt. Such a collection must have been of much greater use to the ftudious in venerable antiquity, than a review of the "ragged regiment" in Westminster Abbey §. . APPENDIX to the Reign of JAMES I. FOREIGN PRINCES, allied to the KING. CHRISTIAN IV. king of Denmark; a large head; S. Paffæus fc. CHRISTIAN IV. with his eldeft fon Frederic; W. Passæus fc. h. fb. See "Memoirs of Robert Cary, earl of Monmouth;" 8vo. 1759. p. 193. ronations. § Tattered effigies of our kings, fo called, formerly dreffed up for co There There is a good portrait of Chriftian, by Paul Van Somer, at Hampton Court. king, 1590. Chriftian IV. brother to queen Anne, came into Eng- Elected land in 1606, where he was treated with all poffible magnificence. In 1614, he made the king a fecond vifit. He was, for the greater part of his reign, engaged in unfuccessful wars with the Swedes and Germans. In 1618, he fent a fleet to the isle of Zeylon, in the East Indies, which returned richly laden with spices. This was the first fleet that ever failed from Denmark to that part of the world. Ob. 28 Feb. 1648. See more of him towards the end of Bond's dedication of his "Horace" to prince Henry. FREDERIC III. was, in the former part of his reign, embroiled in a disastrous war with the Swedes, who penetrated as far as his capital, which would inevitably have fallen into the enemies hands, had not the emperor, the kings of England and Poland, and the Dutch, engaged themselves in the quarrel: upon which a peace was concluded near Copenhagen. After this peace, the king, at a diet held at that place, was declared abfolute; and a total change in the government enfued, which put an end to an oppreffive ariftocracy. Ob. 16 Feb. 1670. Chriftian V. his fon, fucceeded to the crown by hereditary right. FREDERICUS, comes Palatinus, &c. Crifpinus Paf fæus fc. Small 4to. FREDERICUS, &c. Crifp. Paffaus jun. fig. et fc. oval; ornaments; b. fb. FREDERICK, elector Palatine, &c. Delaram fc. 4to. Frederic, elector Palatine, accepted of the crown of G ple; ple; vainly prefuming, that the king his father-in-law, with whofe pacific and unenterprising character he seems to have been but little acquainted, would fix him on the throne. But that prince was fo far from answering his expectation, that he tamely fuffered him not only to be deprived of his new kingdom, but even of his hereditary dominions. Ob. 29 Nov. 1632. A KNIGHT of the GARTER. MAURICE de Naffau, without infcription; 4to. This print is known by the appofite device; namely, the stump of a tree; the trunk of which appears to have been cut off, and a shoot growing out of it; with this motto, "Tandem fit furculus arbor." This alludes to the affaffination of his father, his youth when he fucceeded him, and his hopes of becoming as great a man. I have been particular in the defcription, as the head has been mistaken for that of prince Maurice, fon to the king of Bohemia. MAURITIUS, princeps Araufionenfium, &c. Ex archetypo. Petri Ifaaci F. B. a Bolfvert exc. Ornaments; fine; fb. MAURITIUS, &c. 1618; h. fb. MAURITIUS, &c. Æt. 58, 1625; hat and feather, on a table; Stock fc. 1627; fine; large sh. There is an equestrian portrait of him in the horsemanship drawing-room at Welbec: I think I have seen a print after it. Maurice of Naffau, prince of Orange, fucceeded his father in the government of the United Provinces, at the age of fixteen. He, in a few years, became one of the greatest generals of his time, and completely executed the noble plan of liberty which his father had formed, by reducing the Spaniards to a neceflity of making peace. Upon Upon this the Hollanders concluded a treaty with them, on the foot of free provinces. He took near forty towns, and as many fortreffes, and won a confiderable number of pitched battles. But the ftrongest proof of his capacity, was his forcing Alexander Farnefe, who had fucceeded before in all his enterprises, to raise the fiege of Bergen op Zoom. The young nobility and gentry went from all parts of Europe to learn the art of war under him. Ob. 23 April, 1625, Et. 58 *. Cardinal BARBERINI, and his three nephews; viz. Francisco, and the two Antonios. Camafs. delin. Greuter incid. whole lengths; b.sh. Maffeo Barberini was famous for the variety of his learning, and the elegance of his genius. He was protector of the Scots nation †, and held his protectorate by the fame charter by which the popes themselves hold their fupremacy. Upon his advancement to the papal chair, he affumed the name of Urban VIII. and after the example of Sixtus V. his patron, made a strict enquiry into abufes which had been committed long before. In 1626, The following story is told by Barclay in his "Icon Animorum." Prince Maurice in an engagement with the Spaniards, took twenty-four prisoners, one of whom was an Englishman t. He ordered eight of these to be hanged, to retaliate a like fentence passed by arch duke Albert, upon the fame number of Hollanders. The fate of the unhappy victims was to be determined by drawing lots. The Englishman, who had the good fortune to escape, feeing a Spaniard exprefs the ftrongest fymptoms of horror, when it came to his turn to put his hand into the helmet, offered for twelve crowns to ftand his chance. The offer was accepted, and he was fo fortunate as to escape a second time. Upon being called a fool for so presumptuously tempting his fate, he faid he thought he had acted very prudently; for "as he daily hazarded his life for fix-pence, he must have made a "good bargain in venturing it for twelve crowns." Rycaut's "Lives of the Popes," p. 273. This occafioned the following pafquinade. The ftatue of St. Peter, on the bridge of St. Angelo, was equipped with a pair of fpurs; the oppofite ftatue of 1623. he confecrated the great church of St. Peter with fuch pomp and folemnity, as had fcarce ever been seen before in Rome itself. He took the Corinthian brafs from the roof of the Pantheon, with which was made the high altar of St. Peter's, and a large cannon. This occafioned the famous pafquinade, " Quod non fecerunt Barbari, "fecerunt Barberini." All his nephews were made cardinals; and indeed whatever elfe he was able to make them, he having carried nepotism to a greater height than any of his predeceffors. His Latin poems were republished by Jof. Browne, A. M. 1726; 8vo *. Ob. 29 July, 1644. AMBASSADORS to JAMES I. &c. MAXIMILIAN DE BETHUNE, &c. Edelinck fc. b. fb. Maximilian de Bethune, marquis of Rofni, and afterwards duke of Sully, was fent ambaffador from Henry IV. of France, to James I. upon his acceffion to the throne. He was justly celebrated for his great induftry and capacity; and was rather an intimate friend and confident of his mafter, than his prime minifter. He had a more tender regard for the fame of that prince, than he had himfelf; ventured to oppose his moft violent paffions, when derogatory from his honour or intereft; and even dared to tear in pieces, before his face, the marriage contract which he had prepared for the marchionefs of Verneuil, with St. Paul was fuppofed to ask him, whither he was going. His answer was, "from "Rome, as fast as poffible; as I expect to be called to an account for denying my "master." St. Paul replied, "I will not be long after you, as I am as likely to "be queftioned for perfecuting the chriftians." The late worthy provost of Queen's College, in Oxford. whom |