A.D. 1722
Mrs. Mary Prince is recorded to have presented heads of our Blessed Lord and of King Charles I, painted by herself. They appear to be the two paintings on copper, now hanging in the Sub-librarian’s study, called Mus. Bibl. II. Beneath that of our Lord is the following inscription: ‘This present figure is the symylytude of our Lorde Jesus our Saviour, imprinted in amyrald by the Predecessors of the Great Turke, & sent to Pope Innocent ye Eight at the cost of the Great Turke for a token, for this caus, to redeme his brother that was taken prisner.’ The inscription is, of course, if the painting be Mrs. Prince’s work, reproduced literatim from some older copy.
The attachment to the old Stuart family, which was so warmly cherished in Oxford, appears to have lingered in the Bodleian, notwithstanding Hearne’s departure, who himself would scarcely have thought that a vestige of it had been left behind. For in the Benefaction Register for this year, the gift of a portrait of Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, from his widow Catherine, a natural daughter of James II, is entered as coming from ‘filia Regis Jacobi II, του μακαριτου.’
Chrysanthus, Patriarch of Jerusalem. See 1715.