age." Some additions have also been made to the notes in the present edition.
A beautiful reduced copy of the exquisite drawing by Holbein, in the collection of his late Majesty, has been added, as giving the most authentic idea of Sir Thomas More's person[1], and therefore the most appropriate accompaniment to this interesting delineation of his life and virtues.
The following minute description of his person and habits, said to be "according to the relation of those who best knew him," may be no unacceptable addition to the article in the Appendix.
"Sir Thomas More was no tall man; all the parts of his body were in good proportion, and congruous as man could wish. His skin was something white; the colour of his face drew rather to whiteness than to paleness, far from
- ↑ The picture of the More family, described in Hearne's preface, and in No. XVII of the Appendix, has been about the last fourteen years at Nostall, in Yorkshire, the seat of Mr. Winn. Sir Win. Strickland informs me that he believes it is now in the same state as when it came from Well Hall, in Essex, except that it has lately been judiciously repaired in some few immaterial places, which has neither altered or injured it in the least. The picture is as perfect as any picture of that age can be, though some of the faces of the female figures do appear a little faded. It appears that Hearne must have been in error when he asserted that part of it had been painted over again by some inferior artist, for a person well skilled in pictures asserts that there is no appearance of that having been the case. The picture which is mentioned as being in the possession of the Lenthal family, and which is still probably at Burford, seems to have been in part copied from the former, but apparently not by the hand of Holbein, and there are additions which bring it down a generation or two lower.
