lo ^he earlieji Accounts of 



The next again fpecifies the fum to be 

 expended on paintings at Weflminfter : 

 *' Rot. Liberat. A°. 21. Hen. III. m. 5. Rex 

 ** thefaurario et camerariis fuis falutem. 

 " Liberate de thefauro noftra Odoni auri- 

 **^ fabro cuftodi operationis noftrae Weftm. 

 *' quatuor libras et undecim folidos ad 

 ** piifluras faciendas in camera noftra ibi- 

 " dem. Tefte rege apud Weftm. ii die 

 '' Augufti.^' 



The next contains the firft mention we 

 have of a ftar-chamber. 



" Liberat. A°. 22. Hen. III. m. 3. Man- 

 " datum eft vie. Southampt. quod came- 

 " ram apud Win ton colorari faciat viridi 

 " colore, et ftellari auro, in quibus de- 

 *' pingantur hiftoriae veteris et novi tefta- 

 " menti." 



The next precept is very remarkable, as 

 implying the ule of oil-colours *, long be- 



* John ab Eyck the fuppored inventor of painting in 

 oil, which He was faid to difcover in a fearch for var- 

 nifh, died in 1441. In the record before us, both oil 

 and varniQi are mentioned, and the former might in- 

 deed be only ufed in the compofition of the latter, 

 Mr. Rafpe, in his curious treatife publifhed in 1781, 

 has proved that oil-painting was known long before it? 

 preiended difcovery by Van Eyck. 



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