20 'The earliefi Accounts of 



" cipimus tibi quod in camera reginae nof- 

 " trae aput Nottingham depingi facias 

 ** hilloriam Alexandri circiimquaque ; et 

 " cuftum quod ad iioc pofueritis computa- 

 " bitur. Tcfle rege apud Nottingham xv 

 " die Januarii." 



'' Liberat. 36. Hen. III. m. 15. Man- 

 ^^ datum vie. Nordiampton. quod fieri fa- 

 '' ciat in caflro North, feneftras de albo 

 " vitro, et in eifdem hiftoriam Lazari et 

 ^^ Divitis depingi." 



" Clauf. 2>^, Hex. III. m. 22. Manda- 

 " turn ell Raduipho de Dungun, cuflodi 

 " librorum * regis, quod magiftro Williel- 

 " mo pidori regis habere faciat colores ad 

 " depingendum parvam garderobam regi- 

 " nae, ct emendandum pidluram magnae 

 *' camerae regis et camerae reginae. Tefle 

 " rege apud Weilm. xxv die Febr. Per re- 

 *' gem." 



The fix next precepts appertain to va- 

 rious arts, not to painting in particular. 



* It would be a great curiofity if we could recover a 

 lift of his majefty's library. It probably contained fome 

 illaminated MSS. as the librarian had the keeping of 

 the colours too. The original copy of Matthew Paris 

 with miniatures, in the Britifh Mufeum, was certainly 

 a prefent to this king from the author. 



" Clauf. 



