4 11.^ e ear Heft Accounts of 



Vertue had carefully conMted. There he 

 found the following entries * ; 



" MCCXXVIII, Ao. 12. Hen. III. m. f. 

 ^^ Rex thef. et earner, fuis falutem. Libe- 

 " rate cuidam piclori los. ad cameram mag- 

 ^' ni fcaccarii depingendam," 



This does not exprels the kind ; whether 

 the chamber was to be painted with figures, 

 ornaments, &c. or whether the ^idam Pic- 

 tor was not a meer houfe-painter ; probably 

 an artift of higher rank, as twenty Ihillings 

 would have been a great price in that age 

 for painting wainfcot. However the next 

 record is more explicit, and afcertains the 

 point in quefbion. 



* There are two records more ancient than any that 

 follow ; but tliey relate to architedlare, not painting ; 

 however, as not foreign to this work, I fhall infert them 

 here : They are both of the reign of King John : 



** Anno, 1209, Vicecomites Lond. et Midi, alloca- 

 ** verunt Elyae ingeniatori x marcas, ad reperationem 

 ** domorum regis apnd Wellmonall. per breve H. Ar- 

 ** chiep. Cantuar." 



Anno, 1 2 10, Willelmus Puintellas redd. comp. de 

 1216/. 13-f. 6d. quos " recepit de thefauro ad opera- 

 *■* tiones turris Londoniae." 



William Puintell might be only a furveyor, but 

 Elyas was certainly an archite^^. 



'' MCCXXXIII. 



