Notes and Queries, Number 57, November 30, 1850

Notes and Queries, Number 57,
November 30, 1850

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CONTENTS.
NOTES:-- Portrait of Cardinal Beaton 433 On the Pointing of a
Passage in "All's Well that Ends Well" by A. Roffe 434
Folk-Lore:--The bigger the Ring, the nearer the Wet --Power of
prophesying before Death--Change in the Appearance of the
Dead--Strange Remedies--Mice as a Medicine--Omens from Birds 434
Mode of computing Interest 435 On the Cultivation of Geometry in
Lancashire 436 Minor Notes.--Sermon's Pills--An Infant Prodigy-- A
Hint for Publishers--"He who runs may read"-- The Rolliad--The
Conquest 438
QUERIES:-- Bibliographical Queries 440 Minor Queries.--Dr. Timothy
Thruscross--Echo Song--Meaning of Thwaites--Deus Justificatus--
Death by Burning--Irish Bull--Farquharson's Observations on
Auroræ--Defender of the Faith-- Calendar of Sundays in Greek and
Roman Churches-- Dandridge the Painter--Chaucer's Portrait by
Occleve-- John o'Groat's House--Dancing the Bride to Bed--Duke and
Earl of Albermarle 441
REPLIES:-- Julin, the Drowned City 443 Nicholas Ferrar and the
so-called Arminian Nunnery of Little Gidding 444 Vineyards 446
Treatise of Equivocation, by J. Sansom 446 Riots in London 446
Replies to Minor Queries:--Osnaburg Bishoprick-- Death of Richard
II.--Scottish Prisoners sold to Plantations--Lachrymatories--Querela
Cantabrigiensis-- "Then" for "than."--Doctrine of the Immaculate
Conception-- Letters of Horning--Dr. Euseby Cleaver--Mrs.
Partington--"Never did Cardinal bring good to England"--Florentine
Edition of the Pandects--Master John Shorne--"Her Brow was
Fair"--Dodd's Church History--Blackwall Docks-- Wives of
Ecclesiastics--Stephens' Sermons--Saying of Montaigne--Scala
Coeli--Red Hand 447
MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales Catalogues, &c. 453
Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 453 Notices to Correspondents 454
Advertisements 454
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NOTES
PORTRAIT OF CARDINAL BEATON.
A portrait of this eminent Man was engraved by Pennant, from a
picture at Holyrood House, in
Part II. of his _Tour in Scotland_, p. 243. 4to.
Lond.
1776. Lodge has an engraving from the same portrait in his collection
of Illustrious Personages. This is a strange circumstance; because,
when Pinkerton was about to include this portrait in his collection,
Pennant wrote to him, on 30th April, 1796, as follows:
"Give me leave to say, that I suspect the authenticity of my Cardinal
Beaton. I fear it is Cardinal Falconer or Falconieri. I think there is a
genuine one somewhere in Scotland. It will be worth your while to
inquire if there be one, and engrave it, and add my suspicions, which
induce you do it."--Pinkerton's _Correspondence_, vol. i. p. 402. 8vo.
Lond. 1830.
Pinkerton made inquiry, and on Dec. 1st, 1797, writes to the Earl of
Buchan:
"Mr. Pennant informs me the Cardinal Beaton is false. It is, indeed, too
modern. A real Beaton is said to exist in Fife."--Pinkerton's
_Correspondence_, vol. ii. p. 17.
Lord Buchan writes to him that Mr. Beaton, of Balfour, believes
himself to have a genuine portrait of the Cardinal, and offers it for
engraving. The authenticity of this portrait, however, appears not to
have been established, and it was not engraved. Another was found at
Yester, and was at first concluded to be a genuine original: but Lady
Ancram soon discovered that it possessed no marks of originality, but
might be a good copy: it was, however, certainly not one of the six
cardinals purchased by the third Earl of Lothian. Finally, it was rejected
altogether. A copy of a portrait from the Vatican was also rejected as
undoubtedly spurious. It appears, therefore, that Pinkerton, in this case
at least, exercised caution in the selection of his subject for engraving,
so far as concerned authenticity. His criticism, that the Holyrood House
portrait is "too modern," will be agreed in by all who will take the
trouble to compare the portrait in Lodge with undoubted portraits of the

time: the style is too modern by a hundred years. But the portrait is of a
man upwards of sixty years old: Beaton was murdered in 1546, in the
fiftieth year of his age. The portrait is of a dark haired man without
beard.
I now