Sib. T . More.
aged queen, doting with unfeafonable love; and a criminal crjj
dulity in the iniinuation of his foes.
Sir Thomas More ; a half length, dreffed in that plainnefs ft
apparel which he ufed, when the dignity of office was laid afidj
in a furred robe, with a coarfe capuchin cap. He Was the nfl
virtuous, and the greateft chara&er of his time ; who, by|
circumftance that might humiliate human nature, fell a vida g his poft in reigns of fuch different tempers,
for a religious adherence to his awn opinion; after being a vis
lent perfecutor of others, for firmnefs to the diftates of that igion *.
own confcience. To fuch inconfiftencies are the belt ofmankii|
liable!
E a r l o r S u r r y . The gallant, accomplifhed, poetical Earl o i Surry; in black, wil|
a fword and dagger, the date 1545. The ornament (fays Mb
Waif ole) of a boifterous, yet not unpoliffied court; a viftim t|
jealous tyrant, and to family difcord. The articles alledged agal
him, and his conviftion, are the ihame of the times.
C o u n t e s s of
Lincoln.
A portrait of a lady in a lingular drefs of black and gol| iedical and magical. He is reprefented as a very handfoftie man,
A mb rose E a r l of
W a r w i c k .
with a red and gold petticoat, dated 1560. This is called
beth, third wife of Edward Earl of Lincoln, the fair Gird
celebrated fo highly by the Earl of Surry; but fo ill-favoreJ
this picture, that I muff give it to his firft wife, Elizabeth Blm
Geraldine was the young wife of his old age. Her portrait“
Woburn reprefents her an obje.it worthy the pen of the amoro|
Surry. I
Ambrofe Dudley, Earl of Warwick, fon of the great I
Duke of Northumberland. His drefs a bonnet, furred cloak,
ruff, and pendant George. This p e e r f o l l o w e d the fortunes
father, but was received into mercy, and reftored in blood
fraa
create^
jtited Earl of Warwick by Queen Elizabeth, and proved a gallant
H faithful fubjeit. He died in 1589, and lies under an elegant
Ms tomb in the chapel at Warwick,
Sir William Peter, or Petre, native of Devonjhire, fellow of All-
i college, and afterwards fecretary of ftate to four princes ; Henry
I. Edward VI. Mary, and Elizabeth. His prudence, in maintainis
evident; but
that of Mary he attended only to politics ; of Elizabeth, to
[The firft Earl of Bedford, engraven among the illuftrious heads.
half-length of the famous eccentric phy lician and chymift of the
"Keith century, Philip Theophrajlus P a r a c e l s u s Bombajl de Hohen-
on the piiture is added alfo the title of Aureolus. The cures he
fought were fo very furprizing in that age, that he was fuppofed
haverecourfe to fupernatural aid ; and probably, to give greater
jthority to his pra£tice, he might iniinuate that he joined the arts
in a clofe black gown, with both hands on a great fword, on
|iofe hilt is infcribed the word A z o t . This, was the name of his
mliar fpirit, that he kept imprifoned in the pummel, to coniult
emergent occafions. Butler humoroufty defcribes this circumance:
Bombafius kept a devil’ s bird
Shut in the pummel o f his fword ;
T h a t taught him all the cunning pranks
O f pail or future mountebanks. +
* Bugdak's Baron. II. 388.
t Buditrai, part II. c. iii.
Prince’ s Worthies o f Devtmßire, 498.
T t A head
S i r W i l l i a m
P e t e r .
P a r a c e l s u s .