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names of every artist employed, the 
wages they received, and the price 
of every article used, as far as the 
account continues. 
The amount of the wages dur- 
ing the whole time of this account, 
was 3601. 12s. ofd.; and of the 
materials used in the building, 
1581. 4s. 44d.; making together 
gco8l. 16s. 55d. 
These works were not completed 
for several years after the termi- 
nation of this account; but on 
the 6th of August" 1348, in the 
22d year of Edward II1. that king, 
by his royal charter, recited that 
a spacious chapel, situate within 
the palace of Westminster, in ho- 
nour of St. Stephen, protomartyr, 
had been nobly begun by his pro- 
genitors, and had been completed 
at his own expence, which, to the 
honour of Almighty God, and es- 
pecially of the blessed Mary his 
mother, and of the said martyr, 
he ordained, constituted and ap- 
pointed to be collegiate, 
Notwithstanding this constitu. 
tion of the college, yet it is evident 
that the chapel was not then tinished ; 
for on the 1Sth of March, 1350, 
in the 24th Edward ILI, the king 
appointed Hugh de St. Albans, 
them master ot the painters for the 
works within the chapel, to take and 
chocse as many painters, and other 
workmen, as should be necessary 
for carrying on the works in the 
chapel, 2s he should find in the 
counties of Kent, Middlesex, Essex, 
Surry, and Sussex ; such workmen 
to be employed and paid at the 
expence of the king. Rymer’s 
Foedera, tom. 5, p. 670. 
A like appointment was made 
of John Athelard, for the counties 
of Lincoin, Northampton, Oxtord 
Warwick, and Leicester; and of 
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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1706. 
Benedi& Nightengale, for the couns 
ties of Cambridge, Huntingdon, 
Norfolk, and Suffolk. 
Again in the 37th Edward III. 
June 4th, 1363, according to Ry- 
mer, William de Walsingham was 
appointed to take a sufficient num- 
ber of painters and workmen, to 
be employed at the charge of the 
king, in the chapel of St. Stephen, 
within the reyal palace. Unfor- 
tunately the accounts. of these 
workmen have not come to our 
view, 
King Edward III. ereéted for 
the use of this college, at some diss 
tance west, in the Little Sanctuary, 
out of the palace court, a strong 
clochard, or bell tower, of stone 
and timber, covered with lead ; 
and placed therein three great bells, 
which were afterwards usually rung 
at Coronations, triumphs, and funee 
r2ls’ of princes, which gave such 
a huge sound,that it was commonly 
said they soured all the drink in 
the town. Howell’s Londinopos 
lisy |p. 378. 
This college of St. Stephen was 
valued at the suppression to be 
worth 10851. ros. 5d. and was sur- 
rendered ih the first year of king 
Edward VI. A list of the deans 
and eanons of this college may be 
seen in Newcourt’s Repertorimn, 
‘The chapel of St. Stephen was 
soon afterwards fitted up for the 
meeting of the house of commons, 
which had before usually assembled 
in the chapter house. of the abbey 
of Westminster, and has since con- 
tinued to be appropriated to the 
same use, to the present time. 
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Of ancient Spain and its original 
Inhabitants. From Mannert’s Nor- 
thern Geography of the Greeks 
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