The prisoner of Sonderburg was forgotten by the world, and the one being who loved him best on earth, his sister Elizabeth of Brandenburg, could only commend his little daughters sadly to the Regent, and beg her to have compassion on these desolate children. Mary replied in a letter full of feeling, assuring Elizabeth that she need have no fear on this score, and that her little nieces should be treated as if they were her own daughters. She kept her word nobly.[78] FOOTNOTES: [40] Calendar of State Papers, iii. 2, 1270. [41] Altmeyer, "Relations Commerciales," 108. [42] State Papers, Record Office, vi. 139, 155-158. Calendar of State Papers, iii. 2, 1293, 1329. [43] J. Altmeyer, "Relations," etc., 108. [44] D. Schäfer, "Geschichte von Dänemark," iv. 26. [45] State Papers, Record Office, viii. 141, 156. [46] Altmeyer, "Relations," etc., 112; Schäfer, iv. 44, 48. [47] Altmeyer, "Isabelle d'Autriche," 30. [48] "Relations," etc., 126; C. Förstemann, "Neues Urkundenbuch z. Geschichte d. Reformation," i. 269. [49] J. Köstlin, "Leben Luthers," i. 66; C. Förstemann, i. 169. [50] K. Lanz, "Correspondenz Karls V.," i. 108. [51] Altmeyer, "Isabelle d'Autriche," 26. [52] Lanz, i. 145, 150, 195; Archives du Royaume: Revenus et Dépenses de Charles V., 1520-1530, Rég. 1709; Schäfer, iv. 89. [53] J. H. Schlegel, "Geschichte der Könige v. Dänemark," 123. [54] Schlegel, 124-126. [55] 2 Churchill, "Travels," vi. 348. [56] Altmeyer, "Isabelle," 35; "Relations," 160. [57] Altmeyer, "Relations," etc., 166. [58] Lanz, i. 195. [59] Archives du Royaume, Bruxelles. Régistre des Dépenses, etc., Nos. 1799, 1800, 1803. [60] L. de Laborde, "Inventaire"; Henne, iv. 387-390. [61] Henne, iv. 387-391. [62] This painting is mentioned in one of Henry VIII.'s catalogues as "A table with the pictures of the three children of the King of Denmark, with a curtain of white and yellow sarcenet." In Charles I.'s inventory it is described as "A Whitehall piece, curiously painted by Mabusius, wherein two men children and one woman child are playing with some oranges in their hands by a green table, little half-figures upon a board in a wooden frame." At the sale of the King's effects it was called a Mabuse, and valued at £10. In 1743 the same picture hung in Queen Caroline's closet at Kensington Palace, and was described by Vertue as "Prince Arthur and his sisters, children of Henry VII." Five years later it was removed to Windsor and engraved under this name. Sir George Scharf was the first to correct this obvious error and restore the original title (see "Archæologia," xxxix. 245). Old copies of the picture, mostly dating from the seventeenth century, are to be seen at Wilton, Longford, Corsham, and other places. [63] Altmeyer, "Isabelle d'Autriche," 52. [64] Lanz, i. 283; Henne. iv. 337. [65] Lanz, i. 408; Gachard, "Analecta Belgica," i. 378. [66] Schlegel, 126; Altmeyer, "Relations," etc., 186. [67] Altmeyer, "Relations," 190.