once, at least, in pursuit of a scheme which he seems to have had much at heart, and which was greatly approved of by Leopold. This was to engage several of the European princes in a treaty of commerce, and a league offensive and defensive with the King of Ethiopia against the Turks, who threatened the empire; and consequently the liberties of Europe. Charles II. received him graciously, paid attention to his proposal, and referred him to the EastIndia company, from whom he met with no encouragement. He died the 8th of April, 1704, in the 80th year of his age. Besides an Ethiopic Grammar and Lexicon, he published a "History of Ethiopia," which was translated by J. P. gent. and printed in folio, in 1684. See more of him in his remarkable "Life," by Christian Juncker, subjoined to which is a curious specimen of the language of the Hottentots.

ANTOINETTE BOURIGNON; in Caulfield's "Remarkable Persons;" Svo.

ANTOINETTE BOURIGNON; prefixed to her " Life;"

8vo.

Antoinette Bourignon was one of those devotees who imagine themselves to be conducted by some particular inspiration. She was born at Lisle in 1616, and was very much deformed. Her father had promised her in marriage to a Frenchman; but she determining not to marry, went away on Easter-day, 1636. Her design was to retire into some desert; she clothed herself therefore like a hermit, and got forward as fast as she could; but in a village of Hainault, somebody suspecting her to be a young woman, stopped her; and it being mentioned to the archbishop of Cambray, he came to examine her, dissuaded her from a hermit's life, and obliged her to return to her father. She was soon afterward persecuted with proposals of marriage, which occasioned her to run away once more. Among other places she resorted to in her wandering, she visited Scotland in the reign of Charles II. She afterward was governess of a hospital, and there locked herself up in a cloister, having taken the order and habit of St. Augustin.-She published several books; and died at Franeker, in the province of Frise, Oct. 30, 1680.

JAMES II.

BEGAN HIS REIGN THE 6th OF FEBRUARY, 1684-5.

CLASS I.

THE ROYAL FAMILY.

JACOBUS Secundus, &c. rex. G. Kneller p. P. Vandrebanc sc. 1685; large sheet.

JAMES II. &c. Kneller p. R. White sc. 1685; sh.

JACOBUS II. &c. Kneller p. Becket f. in armour ; whole length; large h. sh. mezz.

JACOBUS II. &c. Kneller p. Becket f. a head, h.sh.

mezz.

JAMES II. &c. a half length by Smith, after Kneller; ships, &c. See an account of this print in the preceding reign, Class I.

JACOBUS II. &c. Kneller p. Smith f. 1697; h. sh.

mezz.

JACOBUS II. &c. Kneller p. Smith f. 1719; 4to.

mezz.

Smith's small heads are generally copies from his large ones. Great numbers of them were sold to paint upon glass, which was formerly a practice at boarding-schools.

JAMES II. Kneller p. Van Somer f. in armour, h. sh.

mezz.

JACOBUS II. Kneller p. Faber, junior, f. 4to. mezz.

JAMES II. Kneller p. Vertue sc. From an original done for Secretary Pepys.*

It is remarkable that the king was sitting for this picture when he received the news that the Prince of Orange was landed.

JAMES II. Kneller p. Edelinck sc. 12mo.

JAQUES II. Kneller p. Picart sc. direx. 1724; 4to. JAQUES II. Thomassin sc. 1703; copied from Edelinck.

JACOBUS Secundus. Largilliere p. J. Smith f. h.sh.

mezz.

JACOBUS II. &c. N. de Largilliere p. Picart f. large h. sh. mezz.

JACOBUS II. Williams f. mezz.

JACOBUS II. J. Oliver f. large h.sh. mezz.

JAMES II. P. Tempest exc. h. sh. mezz.

JACOBUS II. P. Tempest exc. mezz. 4to.

JACOBUS II. Edward Rixon f. large h. sh. mezz.

JAMES II. Becket exc. 4to. mezz.

JAMES II. Cooper exc. 4to. mezz.

JAMES II. Loggan sc.

* One of the set of Kings.

JAMES II. R. White sc. large h. sh.

JAMES II. crowned. R. White sc.

JAMES II. Van Hove sc.

JAMES II. Vandergucht sc.

JACOBUS II. &c. J. Munnekhuysen f. et exc.

JAMES II. whole length, richly dressed. Arnoult.

JAMES II. two prints; no name of painter or engraver.

JAMES II. playing on a harp like King David; small 4to. mezz.

JACOBUS II. P. Landry del. et exc. Parisiis; coronation robes; whole length; large h. sh.

JACOBUS II. P. a Gunst sc. oval; foliage; large h.sh.

JACOBUS II. a large medallion; Thomassin sc. 1703;

4to.

JAMES II. sitting on his throne, Abp. Sancroft and the Lord-chancellor Jefferies standing. R. White sc. 12mo. Before Chamberlayne's " Present State of England.”

JAMES II. on his throne; on the right and left are those that presented their addresses of thanks to him, upon his declaration for liberty of conscience. Sold by Is. Oliver, on Ludgate-hill; sh.

There is a scarce set of historical prints, twenty in number, which exhibit the most interesting scenes of the life of James II. They were engraved by Schoonebeck (or Schoonebeek) a Dutchman.

JACOBUS II. &c. 8vo. in a sheet, with his dying words.

The history of this reign consists of little more than the weak and irregular efforts of a bigoted and tyrannical prince to introduce popery; an attempt so big with absurdity, that it did not meet with the least encouragement from the pope himself. The capacity of James was by no means equal to the subversion of those deep and solid foundations which supported the civil and religious liberties of his people. The share which he had in his father's sufferings had not sufficiently taught him, that jealousy of the royal prerogative is a fundamental principle in the English constitution. He was so violent and precipitate in his conduct, that he never failed to counteract his own purposes. Every step he took to advance his power, helped greatly to destroy it; and he established the Protestant religion on a firmer basis than ever, by his wild attempts to introduce that of the church of Rome. Though he ascended the throne with almost every advantage, he could never sit easy in it: and having taught even the advocates of non-resistance to resist, he was forced to relinquish a crown which he was absolutely unfit to wear. He fled into France, where the palace of St. Germain was assigned him; but the convent of La Trappe would have been a much more suitable retreat. He died 6 Sept. 1701. His body was deposited in the monastery of the Benedictines at Paris, his brain in the church of St. Andrew, belonging to the Scotch College, in that city, and his heart in the nunnery of Chaillot. It is well known that he supplied father Orleans with materials to write his history. See the two former reigns.

MARIA, D. G. &c. Wissing p. Williams f. 4to.

mezz.

MARIA, &c. Wissing p. Smith f. 4to. mezz.

The Duke of Buckingham gave this character of the two royal brothers, Charles and James: That the elder could see things, if he would; and the younger would see things, if he could. The preposterous conduct of King James no where appears in a stronger light than in the circumstantial account of his behaviour at Oxford, in the "Life of Anthony Wood," lately published.

t He is said to have " I frequently visited the poor monks of La Trappe, who were much edified by his humble and pious deportment." Several miracles were reported to have been wrought at his tomb.