Painting in England, 17 



^' num, qui eft in domo fua London. Gal- 

 " lico ydiomate fcriptum, in quo conti- 

 " nentur gefta Antiochiae et regum alio- 

 '^ rum, &. Tefte rege apud Weftm. xvii 

 " die Maii." 



The two next fpecify the ufe that was 

 to be made of the above-mentioned book, 

 which I conclude contained an * account 

 of the Crufade, the hiftory of which the 

 king orders to be painted in the tower and 

 at Weftminfter in a low chamber in the 

 garden near what in the writ is named the 

 king's Jewry, f and which room his ma- 

 jefty orders to be thenceforward called the 

 Antioch-chamber i the origine probably of 



Henry king, our prince, at Wellmynfter kirke 

 The erlys douhter of Province, the fairefl may o lif. 

 Her name is Helianore, of gentille norture, 

 Bizond the fe that wore was non fuilk creature. 

 * The emperor Frederic II. had fent to king Henry 

 a large account of his war in the Holy Land, in a letter 

 under his own feal. See note to Tindal's Rapin under 

 the year 1228. 



f This Judaifm or Jewry, was probably an exche- 

 quer or treafury eredled by Henry for receiving the 

 fums levied on the Jews, from whom he extorted a third 

 part of their fubftance to carry on the war with France. 

 Rapin ubi fupra. 



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