"The Lady Hobbie."
The orthography of the names is the same as engraved on the portraits.
The former was Sir Philip Hoby, one of the Privy Council to King Henry
VIII.; and the lady was, I believe, the wife of Sir Thomas Hoby, of
Leominster, co. Hereford, who died in 1596, aged thirty-six. Was this the
learned Lady Hoby, who wrote one of the epitaphs above referred to? Are
there any other portraits of members of this ancient, but now extinct
family, in existence? They bore for arms, "Arg. three spindles in fesse
gules, threaded or." What was their crest and motto?