A HISTORY OF NORFOLK 



to 1298. In these, under the head of Pictor, or ' le Peyntur,' occur the 

 following names : 



Thomas de Lint. 



Lawrence de Kirkestede. 



Ralph de Attleburg. 



Roger le pictor, son of Wm. de Racheya ' le peyntur.' 



Giles le Fleming of Bruges. 



John le peyntur 



Richard pictor. 



Olyve le peyntur. 



Alan pictor.^ 



Furthermore, from the publications of the Norfolk and Norwich Archso- 

 logical Society, the following list, furnished by Mr. L'Estrange, of painters, 

 stainers, and glaziers in Norwich extending from 1373 to 1539, may be quoted 

 in illustration of the subject. It runs thus : * 



The same authority gives an extract from the will of Margaret, widow 

 of Sir Robert Berney, knight, dated 141 6, from which it is to be learnt that 

 the painter Robert Okyll of Norwich received 34^. 4^. for painting a certain 

 table or panel with the history of St. Catherine, probably a small altar piece 

 for a private chapel.* The name Okyll occurs twice in the long list of Norwich 

 painters just given, though with somewhat different spelling, the second 

 entry being dated 1407. It is possible that this was the same man who in 

 the fabric accounts of the College of Mettingham, previously cited, is put 

 down as receiving in 141 3-14 66s. ^d. in part payment for painting a table 

 {tabiiia) for the high altar of the chapel of the college, the sum remaining 

 due to him being paid up three years after.* Thomas Barsham, or Thomas 

 of Yarmouth, another painter and carver whose name has also been previously 

 referred to, figures in these same accounts as having received ^^6 loj. in part 

 payment for making and painting two images. The next year ^8 10/. was 

 paid him for further work upon and about them, and for executing a table 

 {tabula) for the altar, and a similar entry occurs the following year with 



' I owe the list given in the text to the kindness of the Rev. W. Hudson, M.A., F.S.A. 

 2 Illustrations of the Rood Screen at Barton Tur/{iS6()), p. 14. 

 ^ Ibid. 



* ' Extracts from Ancient Accounts of Mettingham College, Suffolk,' AreL Joum. (1849), vi. 64. 



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