S. IGNATIUS de LOYALA. wert sc. whole length, large h. sh. graved a print of him after Rubens, him in a church, casting out devils.*

Rubens p. Bols

Marinus has enwhich represents

S. IGNATIUS de LOYALA; small, whole length, by Sadeler.

S. IGNATIUS LOIOLAE, &c. Marcus Pitteri fecit, sheet.

S. IGNATIUS LOYALA. Several by Wieria, &c. Vita Beati P. Ignatii Loiola; Roma, 1609; on 79 plates, with his portrait and engraved title.

IGNATIUS LOYOLA, with the Constitution of the Socicty open before him, &c. and the following lines: "He that hath oft ye Swethland Pole seduced, Murdred ye French, and England's king abuced, A spie for Austria, a cunning knave for Spaine, And soothes th' Italian states for popish gaine, Is all one man, and Jesuite is his name."

Ignatio Loyola, a Spanish gentleman, who was dangerously wounded at the siege of Pampeluna, having heated his imagination by reading "The Lives of the Saints," which were brought him in his illness instead of a romance, conceived a strong ambition to be the founder of a religious order: this is well known by the appellation of the Society of Jesus. Many of the members of this body, which hath been ever above the sour and sordid austerities of the lower monastic orders, have acted as if they thought that Christ's kingdom was of this world, and have aimed at being his prime ministers. Great numbers, however, of the brightest ornaments of the church of Rome, both for their piety and learning, have been of this society. It should also be remembered, that prevaricating and pernicious casuists, intriguing politicians, embroilers of kingdoms, and assas

in his "Ciceronianus" exposes, with his usual strength of reason and poignancy of ridicule, the affectation of writing every thing in the language of Cicero.

* Ribadeneira fairly owns that he had not the gift of working miracles.

The Jesuits and Benedictines have, in literature, outshone all the other orders of the church of Rome.

sins of kings, have been of the same fraternity. The innocent founder hath been unjustly branded for the crimes of his degenerate sons. "He came hither a begging about the year 1531, as appears from his life by Ribadeneira,* and found his account in it."+ His life had been written by about twenty authors besides; and a thousand have written against him and the Jesuits. Beza styles the order, "Anhelantis Satanæ ultimus crepitus."

Loyola died the 31st of July, 1556.

PETRUS RONSARDUS, crowned with laurel; four French verses; wood-cut.

PETRUS RONSARDUS; in Freherus.

PETRUS RONSARDUS, &c. in Boissard, small 4to.

Peter Ronsard applied himself late to study; but by the acuteness of his genius, and continual application, he made ample amends for the time he had lost. Though he formed himself upon the Greek and Latin classics, scarcely any author, at least of his day, has a more original and natural air. He possessed judgment and fire in an extraordinary degree: hence it is that Thuanus, who was partially fond of him, prefers him to any poet since the Augustan age. He, like other old poets, hath been censured for his peculiarities: he might, perhaps, as well have been blamed for wearing an antiquated dress; which was owing more to the prevailing fashion of the times, than the caprice or affectation of the wearer. He died the 27th of December, 1585. He is placed here as having attended James V. from Paris into Scotland, in 1537, where he continued two years; after which he resided about half a year in England. See his elogium in Thuanus, and his article in Bayle's Dictionary.

Lib. ii. cap. 1.

t I am obliged to the reverend and learned Mr. Bowle, of Idmiston, near Salisbury, for my knowledge of this circumstance, and other notices relative to foreigners. The pope some time since published a bull for the abolition of this order.

EDWARD VI.

BEGAN HIS REIGN THE 28th OF JAN. 1546-7.

CLASS I.

THE KING.

EDWARDUS VI. Holbein p. W. H. (Winceslaus Hollar) f. ex Collect. Arundel. 1650; h. sh.

There was an original of him (whole length) by Holbein, at Houghton.

EDWARDUS VI. Holbein p. Gribelin sc.

EDVARDUS Sextus; 8vo. From the "
From the "Heroologia."

EDWARD VI. Vaughan sc. a small oval, with ornaments, before his Life, by Sir John Hayward; 4to. 1630, and 1636.

EDOUARD VI. Vander Werff p. P. a Gunst sc. h.sh. EDWARD de VI. Coninck van Enghelant, &c. in armour; 4to.

EDVARDUS Sextus, &c.

Faber f. large 4to. mezz.

EDVARDUS VI. &c. J. Faber exc. 8vo. mezz.

EDWARD VI. Vertue sc. h. sh.

EDWARDUS Sextus, Et. 15; oval, ornaments, neatly cut in wood by Virgilio Sole,* of Brussels, 8vo. It belongs to the New Testament, printed by Richard Jugge, 1552, by command of the king.

EDWARDUS VI. H. Holbein pin. Winceslaus. Hollar

This engraver had his eyes put out for copying some obscene prints, engraved by Marc Antonio, after the designs of Julio Romano, to which Aretin wrote the

verses.

fecit, 1650; eight Latin verses by Richard Morisin; half sheet; rare,

EDWARD VI. mezz. Houston.

EDWARD VI. Holbein. Bartolozzi sc. 1793, three different; from the Royal Collection.

EDWARD VI. Holbein. Dalton sc. three different; from ditto.

EDWARD VI.; in Noble Authors by Park, 1806.

EDOARDUS, Dei Gratia Angl. Francia, et Hibern. Rer. in cap and feathers; at bottom two Latin lines, Rex fuit extremi his EDVARDUS, &c. scarce.

EDWARDUS VI. &c.; in the "Atrium Heroicum Cæsarum, Regum, aliarumque Summatum et procerum, qui intra proximum seculum vixere et hodie supersunt. Chalcographo et Editore Dominic. Custode Cive Aug. Vin

del." Pars prima, &c. 1600, pars quarta 1602; small folio. A scarce and curious book: it is in the Bodleian library.

EDWARD VI. sitting on his throne, giving the Bible to Archbishop Cranmer, nobles kneeling; Holbein del. a wooden print, 4to. From Cranmer's "Catechism," printed by Walter Lynn, 1548.

EDWARD VI. giving the charter of Bridewell to the lord mayor of London, Sir George Barnes, knt. &c. On the right of the throne is the lord-chancellor, Tho. Goodrick, bishop of Ely, standing; on the left is Sir Robert Bowes, master of the Rolls. The portrait with the collar of the garter is William, earl of Pembroke; behind whom is Hans Holbein the painter.-The two persons kneeling behind the lord mayor, are William Gerrard and John Maynard, aldermen, and then sheriffs of London: their names are omitted in the inscription of

the print. Bridewell was formerly the palace of King John. It was rebuilt by Henry VIII. in 1532. This historical piece, which is in a large sheet, was engraved by Vertue, after the original by Holbein, in the hall at Bridewell. The donation to the city was in 1553.

EDWARD VI. with the prayer that he made a little before his death. S. Passæus sc. 4to.

There is a small whole length of Edward VI. by Holbein, at Houghton.

The great virtue and capacity of this young prince, like those of several other princes who have died young, prognosticated a very happy reign. The English historians are thought to speak in a high strain of panegyric of his learning, and other accomplishments; but Cardan, the celebrated Italian philosopher, who conversed with him, has given him such a character, as renders almost every thing that is said of him highly credible. See the "Life of Cardan" written by himself; or see the same account in Fox's " Martyrology."

CLASS II.

GREAT OFFICERS OF STATE AND OF
THE HOUSEHOLD.

EDWARD SEYMOUR, duke of Somerset. Holbein p. Houbraken sc. In the collection of the Earl of Hertford. Illust. Head.

EDVARDUS SEIMERUS; in the "Heroologia;" 8vo.

EDWARDUS SEIMERUS, Somerseti dux.

regis avunculus, &c. R. White sc. h. sh.

Edwardi

* Henry VIII. laid strong injunctions on his executors to effect a marriage between Edward VI. and Queen Mary of Scotland. The Scots, however, under the influence of French councils, having rejected all overtures for that purpose, the Protector formed a resolution of bringing about an alliance and union by arms. Upon which a Scots nobleman said, I always liked the marrriage; but upon my faith I fancy not the wooing.