Painting in England. \^ 



" Clauf. 54. Hen. III. m. 7. Mandatum 

 *^ eft Edwardo * de Weftm. quod in ca- 

 *^ pella beati Stephani depingi faciat ima- 



♦ This Edward of Weftminfter^is the fame perfon 

 with Edward Fitz-Odo mentioned in the preceding 

 order, and I fuppofe fon of Odo Aurifaber, recorded 

 above. It appears by Dart's Hiftory of the Abbey that 

 he was mafter of the works ; and Dart quotes the re- 

 cords in the tower on the authority of Strype. The 

 whole pafTage is worth tranfcribing, as it Ihows the 

 paffion of Henry for adorning his new foundation there, 

 called then. The new work at Wellminfter f . 



'* In the 28th of his reign he commanded Edward 

 Fitz-Odo to make a dragon, in manner of a flandard or 

 enfign, of red famit, to be embroidered with gold, and 

 his tongue to appear, as though continually moving, 

 and his eyes of fapphire, or other flones agreeable to 

 him, to be placed in this church agaiufl the king's com- 

 ing thither. 



" And the queen fet up In the feretry of St. Ed- 

 ward the image of the bleffed Virgin Mary j and the 

 king caufed the aforefaid Edward Fitz-Odo, keeper of 

 his works at Wellminfter, to place upon her forehead for 

 ornament, an emerald and a ruby, taken out of two 

 rings which the bifliop of Chichefter had left the king 

 for a legacy." Dart. vol. i. p. 26. edit. 1742 t- 



f Duchefne, antiq. France, vol. i. p. 145, fays the Louvre was fo 

 called from Toeuvre, the new work. 



X The Fitz-Othos were German?, brought over by Henry lil: ; and 

 the family rofe to fuch eminence, that Thomas, fon of William, mar- 

 ried a daughter of W. Beauchamp, baron of Bedford, &c. Of William 

 19 a curious feal, as Mint-mafter, in Nichols's Biblioth. Topograph. 

 N° XX. p. 63. 



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