Inscription on a Portrait.—Can any of your correspondents explain the meaning of the following inscription:—
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placed at the top left-hand corner of an old portrait in my possession, supposed to be that of Philip II. of Spain?
C. Edwards.
Burton's Parliamentary Diary.—The sale of clergymen for slaves is alluded to in vol. iv. of Burton's Diary. This has received elucidation at p. 253. of your present volume.
Tobacconists.—At p. 320, vol. i., of Burton's Parliamentary Diary it is stated, that
"Sir John Reynolds said he had numbered the House, and there were at rising at least 220 present, besides tobacconists."
What and who were the persons designated as tobacconists?
P. T.