tage towards
the close of the year 1682. There exists of this actress an
extremely interesting portrait which was offered for sale at
Stevens' Auction Rooms, 26 February, 1901, but not reaching the
reserve price, withdrawn. It is mistakenly described in the
catalogue as 'Miniature Portrait of Nell Gwynn on copper with
original case and 30 cover dresses on talc...' An illustrated
article on it, entitled, 'Nell Gwynne's Various Guises', appeared in
the _Lady's Pictorial_, 23 March, of the same year, p. 470, in the
course of which the writer says: 'Accompanying the miniature are
some thirty mica covers in different stages of preservation upon
which various headdresses and costumes are painted. The place where,
in the ordinary course, the face would come is in all cases left
blank, the talc being of course transparent, when it is laid upon
the original miniature the countenance of the latter becomes
visible, and we are enabled to see Nell Gwynne [Anne Quin] as she
would appear in various characters.' The old error has been
perpetuated here, but the _Lady's Pictorial_ reproduced half-a-dozen
of these painted mica covers, and the costumes for the two roles of
Queen Elizabeth and Sunamire can be distinctly recognized. Doubtless
an examination of the original micas would soon yield an
identification of other characters. The miniature, it may be noted,
does not in the least resemble Nell Gwynne, so there is bare excuse
here for the confusion.

+Act I: Scene i+

p. 11 _Siege of Pampelona._ Pampluna, the strongly fortified capital
of Navarra, has from its geographical position very frequently been
a centre of military operations. It will be remembered that it was
during a siege of Pampluna in 1521 Ignatius Loyola received the
wound which indirectly led to the founding of the Jesuits.

p. 13 _King Sancho the First._ Sancho I, 'the Fat', of Castile and
Leon, reigned 955-67: Sancho I of Aragon 1067-94. But the phrase is
here only in a vague general sense to denote some musty and
immemorial antiquity without any exact reference.

p. 14 _Hostel de Dieu._ The first Spanish hospital was erected at
Granada by St. Juan de Dios, founder of the Order of Hospitallers.
ob. 1550.

p. 14 _Gambo._ The Gambia in W. Africa has been a British Colony
since 1664, when a fort, now Fort James, was founded at the mouth of
the river.

+Act I: Scene ii+

p. 17 _Hogoes.