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7 "ATHENAEUM" 3 July. 1886. A portrait by Holbein. Whitefield House, Rothbury, Morpeth.

June 19. 1886

The Pomerantius mentioned by Roger North in the extract quoted by Dr. Jessop in the "Athenaeum" of the 19th inst. is probably either Nicolo Cireignani, who was called 'El Pomerancio" from his birthplace in Tuscany, or his son Antonio Circignani who bore the same name. But the date shows that the story cannot have been told correctly. Sir Thomas More was beheaded on the 6. July 1535. George XIV was not Pope until 1590. Nicolo Circignani was born in 1516. he was employed by George XIII, But Gregory XIII did not become Pope until 1572, while Henry VIII died on the 28th January 1547.

Where is the difficulty as to date? Pomerantius may easily have been in England in 1535, where he was painter to Greory XIII and Gregory XIV.