8 ^e earliefi Accounts of 



rihus ', and where ever it could be done 

 moil conveniently, there were to be drawn 

 in the fame chapel two images of St. Ed- 

 ward holding out a ring and delivering it 

 to St. John the Evangelift. " E; dealbari 

 " faciatis, adds the record, totum vecerem 

 '* murum circa fepedi6lam turrim nofiram. 

 " Et cuftum quod ad hoc pofueritis, per 

 " vifum et teftimonium legalium hominum, 

 " computabitur vobis ad feaccarium. Telle 

 " rege apud Windefor. x. die Decembr.'* 



It is evident from this and fome follow- 

 ing paiTages that as * painting on glals was 

 then known, the art of painting in general 

 could not be at a very low ebb. 



Then follows another, regarding the fame 

 place ; " Rex eifdem lalutem. Praecipimus 

 " vobis quod cancellum beatae Mariae in 

 *' ecclefia fandli Petri infra ballium turris 

 *' noftrae London, et cancellum beati Petri 

 " in eadem ecclefia, et ab introitu cancelli 

 •* beati Petri ufque ad fpatium quatuor pe- 

 *' dum ultra ftallos ad opus noftrum et regi- 



* In Aubrey's MS. furvey of Wikfiiire, in the li- 

 brary of the Royal Society, he fays, on the authority 

 of Sir W. Dugdale, th.it the firft painted glafs in Eng- 

 land was done in king John's time. Vol. ii. p. 85. 



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