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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
The interest which you so kindly took in the communication that I made to the Society at the beginning of the present year upon the portrait at Windsor Castle, presumed to represent Prince Arthur, eldest son of Henry VII., induces me to address this letter to you. I do so the more willingly as it enables me to state the result of a few investigations begun at your suggestion, and also to acknowledge the liberal assistance I received from various sources whilst prosecuting my researches.
page 457 note a Archæologia, Vol. XXXIX. p. 245.
page 458 note a The miniature here referred to is now the property of C.S.Bale, Esq. It has been engraved in Harding's Biographical Mirror. Very little reliance can be placed on the genuineness either of this portrait or the inscription round it.
page 458 note b For further notes on this picture see Appendix C.
page 459 note a See Appendix B.
page 460 note a This opinion has since been modified, as will be seen by a reference to Appendix B.
page 461 note a They were of the imperial house of Austria, and sisters of Margaret, who married Philip III. King of Spain. Mary Christina married Sigismund Batthori, Prince of Transylvania, August 1595; and died without issue April 1621.—See Anderson's Royal Genealogies and Tables, p. 463, and Histoire Généalogiqne des Maisons souveraines de l'Europe, vol. ii. pp. 130 and 136. (Maison d'Habsbourg-Autriche.)