nor a military man; but Philip the fon of a "merchant. If you wish to preferve my friend fhip then, call me by my real name, and do "not offend me by adding titles to it to which I "have no claim. The firft offence I attribute "to ignorance; but, if it happen a fecond time, I fhall attribute it to a defire to affront me." M. Requier has published a Life of Strozzi in French with this title: "The Life of Philip "Strozzi, the firft Merchant of Florence and of all Italy, under the Reigns of Charles the "Fifth, of Francis the Firft, Chief of his House, "the Rival of that of the Medici under the Sove reignty of Duke Alexander. Tranflated "from the Italian of Lorenzo the Brother of "Strozzi." MICHAEL ANGELO. IN the Gallery at Florence there is a buft of the younger Brutus left unfinished by this great artift. Cardinal Bembo made this diftich upon it: Dum Bruti effigiem Sculptor de marn.ore finxit Whilft the fam'd Sculptor, by his power of art, Bids Brutus' features from the maible start, Remembrance Remembrance of his crime his mind appals, And from his trembling hand the chiffel falls. It is no wonder that Michael Angelo was a bad colourift; for it was his opinion, that a Painter could do better without yellow than without blue. Vigenerez had often heard him fay fo, as well as Daniel De Volterra. See Vigener. Philoftrat. p. 247. How differently he thought from Titian, and the great Mafters of the Lombard and Flemish Schools, who excelled in colouring, may be feen from their pictures, but more particularly when one comes to mix colours in a palette to copy them. "MS. Notes on "Richardfon's Treatife on the Statues and Bas "Reliefs, &c. in Italy, translated into French, "by Mr. Richardson, jun." Mr. Roscoe fays ingenioufly of Michael Angelo's manner," that it is the falt of art;" that peculiar fubftance, which in a certain degree united to others procures them a high taste and relish, but which by itself is too frong and pungent. MART MARY, QUEEN OF ENGLAND. THE turn of the English Nation for humourous Political Prints firft fhewed itself in this reign. An engraving was published representing this Queen extremely thin, with many Spaniards hanging to her and fucking her to the bone. SIR JAMES HALES. BY the kindnefs of EDMUND TURNER, ESQ. the COMPILER is enabled to enrich his Volumes with the following account of a Dialogue which paffed between Sir James Hales and the Lord Chancellor Bishop Gardiner in Westminster-Hall. Sir James was a very exemplary Judge in the time of King Edward the Sixth, and honestly. gave his opinion in favour of Queen Mary's fucceffion; but, not favouring that Queen's partiality to the Catholic religion, he was removed from his employment early in the reign of that Princefs. The Dialogue is printed from a scarce pamphlet, and is entitled, THE "THE COMMỲNICATION BETWENE MY LORD 66 CHAUNCELOR AND IUDGE HALES, BEING "AMONG OTHER IUDGES TO TAKE HIS IN WESTMINSTER HALL. "ANNO. M.D.LIII. VI. OF OCTOBER. 86 ОТН "CHAUNCELOR. HALES. "MASTER HALES, ye fhall vnderstand "that like as the Quenes Highnes hath hertofore "receiuid good opinion of you, especiallie, for "that ye ftoode both faithfullie and laufulli in hir cause of iuft fucceffion, refusing to set your hande to the booke amonge others that were "against hir Grace in that behalfe: fo nowe "through your owne late defertes: against cer"tain hir Highnes dooinges: ye ftande not well " in hir Graces fauour. And therfor, before ye "take anie othe, it fhal be neceffarie for you to "make your purgation. "HALES. "I praie you my Lorde, what is the cause ? "Informatiō is geuen that ye haue indicted ❝ certain pristes in Kent, for faiing of Masse. SUPPLEMENT. C "HALES. (6 HALES. "Mi Lorde it is not fo. I indicted none, but « in dede certaine indictamentes of like matter (6 wer brought before me at the lafte affifes there "holde, and I gaue order therein as the lawe re"quired. For I haue profeffed the law, against "which, in cafes of iuftice wil I neuer (God 66 willinge) procede, nor in ani wife diffemble, "but with the fame fhewe forth mi conscience, "and if it were to do againe, I wolde doe no "leffe then I did. "CHAUNCELOR. "Yea master Hales, your cofience is knowne "wel inough. I know yę lacke no conscience. "HALES. "Mi Lord, ye mai do wel to ferch your owne "confcience, for mine is better knowne to mie "felfe then to you, and to be plaine, I did afwell "vse iustice in your faide Masse case bi mi "cōfcience as bi the law, wherin I am fulli bent "to ftand in trial to the vttermoft that can be "obiected. And if I haue therin done ani iniuri "or wrag: let me be iudged bi the lawe, for I "will feeke no better defence, confidering chiefli "that it is mi profeffion. "CHAUN |