Brayley, in his Concise Account of Lambeth Palace, describes a portrait, in the vestry, of “A young man in a clerical habit, or rather that of a student, with a motto beneath, ‘Rapido contrarium orbo’” (whether the motto, as thus given, is the printer’s or the painter’s error does not appear), “supposed to be Abp.  Sancroft when young.—­Date 1650.”

G.A.S.

Robertson of Muirtown (Vol. ii., p. 135.).—­C.R.M. will find a pedigree of the family of Robertson of Muirton in a small duodecimo entitled: 

    “The History and Martial Atchievements of the Robertsons of
    Strowan.  Edinburgh:  printed for and by Alex.  Robertson in
    Morison’s Close; where Subscribers may call for their copies.”

The date of publication is not given; I think, however, it must have been printed soon after 1st January 1771, which is the latest date in the body of the work.

The greater portion of the volume is occupied with the poems of Alexander Robertson of Strowan who died in 1749.

A.R.X.

Paisley.

“Noli me tangere” (Vol. ii., p. 153.)—­The following list of some of the painters of this subject may assist B.R.:—­

Timoteo delle Vite—­for St. Angelo at Cogli.

Titian—­formerly in the Orleans collection, and engraved by N. Tardieu, in the Crozat Gallery.

Ippolito Scarsella (Lo Scarsellino)—­for St. Nicolo Ferrara.

Cristoforo Roncalli (Il Cav. delle Pomarance)—­for the Eremitani at St. Severino.

Lucio Massari—­for the Celestini, Bologna.

Francesco Boni (Il Gobbino)—­for the Dominicani, Faenza.

I.Z.P.

Clergy sold for Slaves (Vol. ii., p. 51.),—­MR. SANSOM will find in the Cromwellian Diary of Thomas Burton, iv. 255. 273. 301-305., ample material for an answer to his question respecting the sale of any of the loyal party for slaves during the rebellion.

There is no evidence of any clergymen having been sold as slaves to Algiers or Barbadoes.  Drs. Beale, Martin, and Sterne, heads of colleges, were threatened with this outrage (see Querela Cantabrigiensis appended to the Mercurius Rusticus p. 184).  In the life of Dr. John Barwick, one of the authors of the Querela (in the Eng. transl. p. 42.), the story is thus told: 

“The rebels at that time threatened some of their greatest men and most learned heads (such as Dr William Beale, Dr. Edward Martin, and Dr. Richard Sterne) transportation into the isles of America, or even to the barbarian Turks:  for these great men, and several other very eminent divines, were kept close prisoners in a ship on the Thames, under the hatches, almost killed with stench, hunger, and watching; and treated by the senseless mariners with more insolence than if they had been the vilest slaves, or had been confined there