Notes

The pillage of Castle of Basil

"Pillage of the Castle of Basil" mentioned in an article in the Boston Sunday Globe, dated 1915 as an event of "Cromwell's time."^[1]
- Oliver Cromwell
- English Civil War - (1642–1651)

"Castle of Basil" mentioned in a book in The Mirror of Literary Amusement and Instruction dated 1825 as a castle ruled by Basil, Prince of Novogorod, in Novogorod. Son of Boguslas and Amelfa Timofeiewna. ^[2]
Possible mention in The Reception of Classical German Literature in England, 1760-1860, Volume 4
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In The Monthly Review or Literary Journal, Enlarged, From January to April, inclusive, Vol. 73, Page 449, The appendix to the seventy second volume of the monthly review enlarged, Page 450-451 states "... Basil, the Son of Boguslas, is translated from a collection printed at Moscow in 1783. Richter out into German, and the present author thence into French. We will translate it for the third time. It has a native character, and is unlike those European stories which have been tolled, like church bells, in the ears of grandsire and grandson, and which we should discover to be heavy toned if they did not belong to the parish. ^[3]

The The Lancaster Examiner, dated 28 November 1903, mentions a location called the 'the castle of "Basil Jennico".
- the "Pride of Jennico" The Pride of Jennico is a four-act play based on the book by the same name from Agnes Castle and Egerton Castle published in 1897 by the Macmillan Company.^[4]

Basil II Porphyrogenitus - was the senior Byzantine Emperor for almost 50 years.^[5]
- it doesn't seem likely the artwork in question refers an Byzantine Emperor.