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latter, £9 2*. 0«?. ; for riding expenses, £53 6«. 0^. ; and for boat 

 hire, £13 6*. 8^. John de Padua is mentioned again in Rymer's 

 Fcedera, on the grant of a fee of 2*. per diem." Walpole then prints 

 the patent, from Rymer's Fcedera, dated 1544. This patent specifies 

 payment for services in architecture and music, architecture being 

 put first. It was to endure during the King's pleasure and is 

 retrospective, payment commencing from Easter, 1542. The patent 

 was renewed in 1549, for life, and payment was continued till the 

 reign of Philip and Mary. 



The oflBce book, referred to by Walpole, does not appear to be 

 now forthcoming, but perhaps search may not have been made for 

 it, in the right place. 



Speaking of the reign of Edward the Sixth, Walpole says :— 

 " Architecture preserved in this reign the footing it had acquired 

 under the last King. Somerset House is a compound of Grecian 

 and Gothic. It was built on the site of Chester inn, where the 

 ancient poet Occleve formerly lived. As the pension to John of 

 Padua was renewed in the third of this King, one may suppose that 

 he owed it to the Protector, and was the architect of this ^ palace. 

 In the same style, and dating its origin from the same power, aa 

 Somerset House, is Longleat, though not begun till 1567. It was 

 built by Sir John Thynne, a principal officer to the Protector.'' 



It will thus be seen that it is simply a conjecture, on Walpole's 

 part, that John of Padua was employed on old Somerset House, but 

 it is a very probable conjecture. What he says about Longleat ia 

 rather vague, but he seems to have considered Longleat to be in the 

 same style as the old work at Somerset House. I think it quite 

 possible, however, that he may have made the comparison with 

 work there that was really not quite so early as the lifetime of the 

 Protector Somerset. 



Canon Jackson, in a very interesting paper, published in the 

 Society's Magazine, in 1886,^ attempted to identify John of Padua 



' Anecdotes of Painting, edition of 1762, reads " his." 

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