Can you give me any account of this portrait of King Charles by Vandyk, for which the Countess Du Barry paid the sum of 1000l. sterling?
What grounds are there for the allegation, that the Countess was related to the royal House of Stuart?
Henry H. Breen.
St. Lucia.
Minor Queries with Answers.
"Preparation for Martyrdom."—Can any of your correspondents discover for me the author of the following work?—
"A Preparation for Martyrdom; a Discourse about the Cause, the Temper, the Assistances, and Rewards of a Martyr of Jesus Christ: in Dialogue betwixt a Minister and a Gentleman his Parishioner. Lond. 1681, 4to."
In order to afford somewhat of a clue to this discovery, I send a few extracts from another anonymous work: A Letter to the late Author of the "Preparation for Martyrdom," alluding to various circumstances relating to the author: