A BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND, From Egbert the Great to the Revolution: CONSISTING OF CHARACTERS DISPOSED IN DIFFERENT CLASSES, AND ADAPTED TO A METHODICAL CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVED BRITISH HEADS: INTENDED AS AN ESSAY TOWARDS REDUCING OUR BIOGRAPHY TO SYSTEM, AND INTERSPERSED WITH A VARIETY OF ANECDOTES, AND MEMOIRS OF A GREAT NUMBER OF PERSONS, NOT TO BE FOUND IN ANY OTHER BIOGRAPHICAL WORK. WITH A PREFACE, SHEWING THE UTILITY OF A COLLECTION OF ENGRAVED PORTRAITS TO SUPPLY THE DEFECT, AND ANSWER THE VARIOUS PURPOSES, OF MEDALS. BY THE REV. J. GRANGER, VICAR OF SHIPLAKE, IN OXFORDSHIRE. Animum picturâ pascit inani.-VIRG. FIFTH EDITION, WITH UPWARDS OF FOUR HUNDRED ADDITIONAL LIVES. IN SIX VOLUMES: VOL. II. LONDON: PRINTED FOR WILLIAM BAYNES AND SON, PATERNOSTER ROW: AND SOLD BY W. CLARKE, NEW BOND STREET; J. MAJOR, FLEET STREET; J. AND J. ARCH, CORNHILL.: J. PARKER, OXFORD: DEIGHTON AND SONS, CAMBRIDGE: H. S. BAYNES AND CO. EDINBURGH; AND R. M. TIMS, DUBLIN. 1824. A BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND. JAMES I. BEGAN HIS REIGN THE 24TH OF MARCH, 1602-3. CLASS I. THE ROYAL FAMILY. JACOBUS I. &c. Vandyck p. ab originali minuta,* facta per Fra. Hilyard, 1617. Smith f. 1721; h. sh. mezz. JACOBUS I. &c. A copy of the above print, by Faber; h.sh. mezz. JACOBUS, &c. From a painting of Vandyck; Vertue sc. 8vo. At Hampton-court are whole length portraits of James I. the Queen of Bohemia, and Prince Henry, by Vandyck, from originals done in this reign. The last has great merit. JAMES I. &c. Van Somer p. Vertue sc. From an original at Hampton-court. Engraved for Rapin's * Sir Ant. Weldon informs us, that James could not be prevailed on to sit for his picture." Court and Character of K. James," p. 177. |