VIII. and was in such favour with the king, that he left him a legacy, and appointed him one of his executors, and one of the council to Prince Edward his son. Ob. 1548, and was buried at Battel Abbey.

GEORGE TALBOT, earl of Shrewsbury, with ANN HASTINGS, his first wife; large quarto. J. Thane.

George, son of John earl of Shrewsbury, was only five years old at the death of his father in 1485. He was early made one of the king's privy council and one of the principal commanders of the forces sent in aid of Maximilian the emperor against the French; was with King Henry VIII. present at the memorable interview with Francis I. of France, and one of the witnesses examined in the cause of divorce between the king and Catharine his first wife. In the rebellion in the north, called the Pilgrimage of Grace, occasioned by the dissolution of the lesser monasteries, he was appointed the king's lieutenant, and, with the Duke of Norfolk, brought them to make their submission, and obtained for them the king's pardon. He is said to have been noble, prudent, and moderate, through the whole of his life; and died at his manor of Wingfield, in the county of Derby, 1542. He married two wives; first, Ann, daughter of William, lord Hastings, chamberlain to King Edward IV.; his second wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Walden, of Erith, in Kent.

A SCOTCH PEER.

ARCHIBALD DOUGLASS, earle of Anguish (Angus), &c.; a small oval, belonging to a set of the kings of Scotland.

ARCHIBALD, earl of Angus, with MARY, queen dowager. J. Thane.

Archibald, earl of Angus, united the talents of the gentleman, the statesman, and the soldier. Margaret, widow of James IV. and regent of Scotland, "for her better support," as Crauford tells us, married this lord. She had, doubtless, another inducement: he was the most accomplished of her subjects. In the minority of

• Buchanan says: "Archibaldo Duglassio, Comiti Angusiæ, adolescenti, genere, forma, omnibus denique bonis artibus, Scoticæ juventutis primario, nupsit." This

James V. his son-in-law, he was one of his privy counsellors. In 1521, he was promoted to the high office of chancellor of Scotland. But afterward, falling under the king's displeasure, he was outlawed: and, retiring into England, was graciously received by Henry VIII. who took him into his privy council. Upon the death of James, he returned to his own country, and his outlawry was Annulled by parliament. He commanded the vanguard of the Sets army against the English, at the disastrous battle of Pinkiefeld, where he gave sufficient proof of his bravery. Ob. 1557. See Crauford's "Peerage," p. 102, 103.

CLASS IV.

THE CLERGY.

CARDINALS.

THOMAS WOLSEUS, card. et archiep. Eborac. &c. Holbein p. Faber f. One of the Founders, 4to.

mezz.

Wolsey intended to procure copies of all the MSS. in the Vatican, for his college at Oxford; which, if finished according to his plan, would have been the noblest foundation in the world. He founded the first professorship for the Greek language in that university.

THOMAS WOLSEY, &c.; a label proceeding from his mouth, inscribed, "Ego, meus et rex;" 4to.

The cardinal has been much censured for his arrogance in this egotism but any other order of the words would, according to the strictness of the Latin idiom, have been preposterous. Here the schoolmaster seems to have got the better of the courtier.*

THOMAS WOLSEY, &c. R. Elstracke sc. 4to.

author not being accurate as to the time of the marriage, his learned editor, Ruddiman, adds this note: "6 Augusti, anno 1514, Leslæus et Holinshedius nuptam testantur."

He was schoolmaster of Magdalen College, in Oxford.

There are two copies of the same, one of them with arms. Eight Latin verses. Compton Holland exc. 1529.

rare.

The original print is, as I am informed, before his life, by Mr. Cavendish, the founder of the Devonshire family who was his gentleman-usher. Perhaps this has been copied for a latter edition of that book. I find, in a large manuscript catalogue of English heads by Vertue, in my possession, that there is a head of him by Loggan.

THOMAS WOLSEUS; in Holland's "Heroologia;" 8vo. THOMAS WOLSEY. W. M. (Marshall) sc. Small; in Fuller's "Holy State."

THOMAS WOLSAUS. Fourdrinier sc. h. len. h. sh. In his Life, by Fiddes; fol.

CARDINAL WOLSEY. Houbraken sc. Illust. Head. In the possession of Mr. Kingsley.

THOMAS WOLSEY, &c. Desrochers sc. 4to.

CARDINAL WOLSEY; inscribed C. W. Vertue sc. A small oval.*

CARDINAL WOLSEY; in Harding's Shakspeare. Harding sc. 1791.

THOMAS WOLSEY; in Hutchinson's Durham.

THOMAS WOLSEY; in the "Oxford Almanacks," for 1724, 1730, 1748.

Cardinal Wolsey possessed, for some years, all that power and grandeur which could be enjoyed by the greatest favourite, and

* There is no head of Wolsey which is not in profile. That which is carved in wood, in the central board of the gateway which leads to the Butchery of Ipswich, has such an appearance of antiquity, that it is supposed to have been done when he was living by the side of it is a butcher's knife. It is said, that his portraits were done in profile, because he had but one eye. This defect has been imputed, perhaps falsely, to a disgraceful distemper.

1515.

Sept. 7, most absolute minister, under an arbitrary prince. After he was created cardinal, and constituted legate, he exercised as absolute a power in the church, as he did before in the state. His abilities were equal to his great offices; but these were by no means equal to his ambition.* He was the only man that ever had the ascendant over Henry; but his friendship for him did not “exceed the love of women:" the violence of that passion was not only too strong for the ties of friendship, but of every law human and divine. Had the cardinal not opposed it, he had perhaps been safe. He fell into disgrace soon after the king's marriage with Anne Bolen. Ob. 29 Nov. 1530.

CARDINAL BEATON. G. Sibelius sculp. In Pennant's "Scotland," 4to.

DAVID BEATON, cardinal; in Iconographia Scotica. David Beaton was born in 1494, received his education in the university of St. Andrew's, and afterward at Paris, where he studied divinity. In 1519 he was appointed resident at the court of France; about which time his uncle gave him the rectory of Campsay, to which was added, in 1523, the abbacy of Arbroath. After filling the office of lord privy seal, and being employed in several public concerns, he was made a cardinal in 1538, and on the death of his uncle succeeded him in the archbishopric of St. Andrew's. Being zealously devoted to the papal authority, he laboured with great earnestness to root out what he denominated heresy; and many persons of consequence were prosecuted with the greatest rigour. On the death of the king, the archbishop made considerable exertion to be acknowledged one of the regency; instead of which he was thrown into Blackness castle. After a short confinement, he obtained his release by the Earl of Arran, then the sole regent, who conferred upon him the post of chancellor, and obtained him the appointment of legate à latere from the pope. His power being thus restored and increased, he made use of it with redoubled ardour in suppressing the new religion; and among others who were condemned to the flames by him, was the celebrated George Wishart, whose execution took place under the window and before the eyes of the cardinal. A

He had one thousand in family; see his speech upon his disgrace in Dod's "Church History," vol. i. p. 310, or in Stow; the cardinal mentions this himself,

story is told, that Wishart, at the stake, denounced the divine judgments against his persecutor; but it rests upon no credible foundation. Soon afterward, however, a conspiracy was entered into by some enemies of the prelate, headed by Norman Lesley, eldest son of the Earl of Rothes, and his uncle John, who broke into the castle, and murdered the archbishop, on the 29th of May, 1546. He left three natural sons, who were all legitimated in the lifetime of their father. It is said, that the cardinal wrote memoirs of his embassies, but nothing is known of the manuscript.

JOHANNES FISCHERUS, episcopus Roffensis. H. Holbein inv. F. V. W. exc. 4to.

FISHER, bishop of Rochester. Holbein p. Houbraken sc. Illust. Head. In the collection of Mr. Richardson.*

JOANNES Roffensis episc. 6 Latin verses, 4to.

FISCHERUS, episcopus Roffensis; in Boissard's "Bibliotheca Chalcog."

JOHN FISCHER, bishop of Rochester. Vaughan sc. Six Eng. verses; 12mo.

JEAN FISCHER, Anglois; hand on an hour-glass ; in Thevet, 4to. There is a foreign wooden print of him, with an ornamented border, large 4to.

JOHN FISCHER; in " Imagin. 12 Cardin," 1598. T. Galle sc.

JOHN FISCHER; 4to. De Larmessin sc.

JOHN FISHER; in "Recueil des Portr." Des Rochers sc.

JOHN FISHER. H. Holbein pin. F. Bartolozzi sc. In the Royal Collection.

JOHN FISHER; in Larrey's "History."

This collection was sold and dispersed.