Note 10 — THE GRENVILLES OF STOW,
Reading edition
I hardly know which portrait Kingsley is describing. One of the finest that I have seen is a photograph of that now in the possession of the Thynne family. It represents Sir Richard at about thirty years of age, and with the most keen and determined expression imaginable. Another is engraved in Prince's 'Worthies of Devon;' and Crispin Pass engraved a likeness of him for his 'Heroologia,' probably from the same original as Prince's; it bears the motto—
'Neptuni proles, qui magni Martis alumnus Grenvilius patrias sanguine tinxit aquas.'