and the Christian religion, she was brought to England, and introduced and graciously received at court. The next year, upon her return home, she died on ship-board, at Gravesend, strongly impressed with religious sentiments. The good sense, humanity, and generosity of this woman, do her honour; as they carried her far above the prejudices of her education, and the barbarous customs of her country. She was the first Virginian who was converted to Christianity, that could speak our national language, or had a child by an Englishman.

MARY HONEYWOOD, aged 93; who had 367 descendants living the year preceding her death; in the " Wonderful Museum;" 1803.

Mary Waters was born at Lanham, in the county of Kent, about 1533, and was united in marriage early in life to Robert Honeywood, esq. of Charing in the same county, her only husband. "She had at her decease, lawfully descended from her, 367 children; 16 of her own body, 114 grand-children, 228 in the third generation, and nine in the fourth. She led a most pious life; and in a Christian manner, died here at Mark's-hall, in the 93d year of her age, and the 44th of her widowhood,the 19th of May, A.D. 1620; from whence her corpse was conveyed into Kent, and buried at Royton, the place of her birth, according to her desire.

A SCOTCH LADY.

ARABELLA STUART. The print, which is very rare, is thus inscribed: "The picture of the most noble and learned lady Arabella Steuart." Sold by George Humble. J. W. sc. small 4to.

ARABELLA STEUART, &c. W. Richardson.

LADY ARABELLA STUART; prefixed to Lodge's "Illustration of English History," 1791; 4to. J. Ba

sire sc.

Her portrait is at Welbeck. Mr. Walpole has a good copy of it in water-colours.

Arabella, daughter of Charles Stuart, earl of Lenox, and brother of Henry, lord Darnley, was too nearly allied to the crown not to give umbrage to the king; and too remotely to found any claim, or receive any advantage, from that alliance. Though of an artless and unambitious character herself, it was suspected that she might be the tool of others' ambition, which was the occasion of her confinement in the Tower, and the various miseries, which she suffered. Her misfortunes, especially her separation from her husband,* whom she tenderly loved, turned her brain,† and, soon after, put an early period to her life, on the 27th of September, 1615. It was suspected, that Sir Walter Raleigh's plot, as it was commonly called, was contrived with a view of supplanting King James, and raising her to the throne. As she died within two years of Sir Thomas Overbury, a report was propagated, that her death was the effect of poison. This occasioned an examination of her body by several able physicians, who were unanimously of opinion, that she died of a chronical distemper.

Countess of MAR. Harding exc. 8vo.

Mary Stuart, countess of Mar, was the daughter of Esme, duke of Lenox. John Erskine, seventh earl of Mar, being enamoured of her charms, and rejected by her pride, is said to have sickened of vexation. James I. learning the situation of the companion of his boyish years, exclaimed "Be my saul Mar shanna dee for e'er a lass in the land!" The king's application overcame all obstacles: and she proved a fruitful mother, and excellent wife.

CATHERINE FITZ-GERALD, (the long lived) countess of Desmond; from an original family pic

Mr. William Seymour, son of the Lord Beauchamp.

I know of no authority for her losing her senses. There are some of her latest letters in the Museum; they do not prove that she had parts, but betray no appearance of madness. I believe she was imprisoned for marrying without the king's knowledge. Her husband was afterward the Marquis of Hertford, often mentioned by Lord Clarendon. Another of the family also married a princess of the blood, Lady Catharine Gray, sister of Jane Gray.-LORD ORFORD.

ture of the same size, painted on board, in the possession of the Right Honourable Maurice Fitz-Gerald, knight of Kerry, &c. &c. &c.-This illustrious lady was born about the year 1464; was married in the reign of Edward IV.; lived during the entire reigns of Edward V. Richard III. Henry VII. Henry VIII. Edward VI. Mary, and Elizabeth, and died at the latter end of James I.'s or beginning of Charles's reign, at the great age (as is generally supposed) of 162 years. Engraved in Cork, by N. Grogan; the only genuine likeness of this lady extant.

CATHERINE, countess of Desmond; engraved for the quarto edition of Pennant's "Tour in Scotland."

This picture, according to the inscription on the back, represents Rembrandt's mother; but Mr. Pennant tells me, that he is persuaded the inscription is erroneous; as he has seen several portraits similar to that which he caused to be engraved; all of which were called the Countess of Desmond.-W. RICHARDSON.

I do not think it an original, supposing it to represent the Countess of Desmond. It is Rembrandt's mother, and is so written on the back of the picture, and is so called in King Charles's catalogue. -LORD ORFORD.

There was, and probably is still, a portrait of her in the standardcloset, at Windsor. This I learn from an authentic transcript of a catalogue of the pictures there, in the hand-writing of Dr. William Derham, the elder.

This celebrated lady, who lived at Inchiquin, in Munster, was well known to Sir Walter Raleigh. She was married in the reign' of Edward IV. when she danced with Richard, duke of Gloucester. She held her jointure from all the earls of Desmond since that time, and was as remarkable for her sprightliness as her age.

It is probable, that her dancing days were not over when a century of her life had elapsed; certain it is, that, after she had stood the shock of a hundred and forty years, she went from Bristol to London, to solicit some relief from the court; as she had long been very poor, from the ruin of the house of Desmond by an attainder. She, according to Sir William Temple, died some years above a hundred and forty; and Lord Bacon informs us, that she twice, at least, renewed her teeth. I am uncertain in what year she died, but she was not living in 1614, when Sir Walter Raleigh published his "History."

CLASS XII.

PERSONS REMARKABLE FROM A SINGLE CIRCUMSTANCE IN THEIR LIVES, &c.

THOMAS PERCY; inscribed, "Hæc est vera et prima originalis editio Thoma Perci;" &c. six Latin verses; snakes twined about the oval of the frame; ornaments relative to his actions. C. Van de Pass exc. 4to.

scarce.

THOMAS PERCY; two different. W. Richardson.

THOMAS PERCY; in the print of the gunpowder conspirators.

THOMAS PERCY; in an oval, between forty-eight

In his "Hist. Vitæ et Mortis, Operatio super exclusionem aeris," ii. sect. 14, he says, "ter per vices dentiisse;" and in his "Nat. Hist." cent. viii. 755, he tells us, "that she did dentire twice or thrice."

Dutch verses; a Latin inscription at the bottom between two circles; his apprehending, &c. rare.

THOMAS PERCY, one of the conspirators in the gunpowder-plot. Adam sc.

Thomas Percy, a most particular and intimate friend of Robert Catesby, was nearly allied to, and greatly in the confidence of, Henry Percy, earl of Northumberland, and was by him, as captain of the gentlemen pensioners, admitted into that band, without taking the customary oaths;-for which omission, and the known intimacy between them, the earl suffered a tedious imprisonment of fifteen

years.

Percy was by far the most virulent of the conspirators, and on one occasion, offered to rush into the presence-chamber, and stab the king: but this was objected to by the more wily Catesby, who then first opened to him his scheme of extirpating the whole royal family, and nobles, by gunpowder: to aid which purpose, Percy engaged to furnish 4000l. out of the Earl of Northumberland's rents, and to provide ten swift horses in case of any emergency that might require speed. Upon the discovery of the plot, he betook himself to flight, and was killed with Catesby in the following manner: "One John Street, of Worcester, who had charged his musket with a brace of bullets, and resting it upon a wall by the gate of the house, where they had taken refuge, shot at them as they were coming in rank, and not in file, from the door towards the gate; each bullet, as he thought, killed a man; for which action the king gave him two shillings a day during his natural life, to be paid him out of the Exchequer.

CONCILIUM CONJURANTIUM in Necem. Jac. I. &c. viz. Robert Catesby, Thomas Percy, Thomas and Robert Winter, Guido Fawkes, John and Christopher Wright, Bates, servant to Catesby; 4to. very scarce and curious.

GUNPOWDER CONSPIRATORS; twelve Latin verses, thirteen French verses, and under four Dutch lines, "Hic halst gevisteger Leser," &c. scarce.