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« MCCXXXIII. Liberate A.\ 17. Hen. 

 *^ III. m. 6. Mandatum eft Vicecomiti 

 *^ Southton. quod cameram regis * lambruf- 

 '^ catam de Caftro Winton. depingi faciat 

 " eifdem hilloriis et pifturis quibus fuerat 

 *' prius depi6ta. Et cuftum, &c. coniputabi- 

 *^ tiir. Tefte rege apud Kideminiftr. iii die 

 '' Junii.'* 



There are more remarkable circumftances 

 than one in this venerable fcrap : as, the 

 fuTiplicity of the times j the king fending a 

 precept to the fherifF of Hampfhire to have 

 a chamber in the royal caftle painted ; and 

 his majefty, like the Roman general, who 

 threatened his foldiers if they broke any of 

 the antique Corinthian ftatiies that they 

 Ihould pay for having others made, giving 

 orders to the fame fheriff to have the cham- 

 ber repainted with the fame pictures and 

 hiftories with which it had been adorned be- 

 fore J and which, by the way, implies, that 

 hiftory-painting had been in ufe ftill longer 

 than this date, which was the earlieft Mr. 

 Vertue could difcover f . 



* Lambrnfcatamy wainfcotted, from the French, Lam- 

 bris, 



f Some have afcribed the introdu(flion of painting 

 into this illaiid to venerable Bede. 



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