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 y^e 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.