28 ^^ earViefi Accounts of 



" tat. ct praediclus Wiiliclmus ciiftos fue- 

 '^ rit operationum praedidtarum, ficut eos 

 " temporibus retroaclis ante turbationem 

 *^ habitam in regno ibidem percipere con- 

 " fuevit : et cuftum, &:c. Tefte rege apud 

 " Wcllm. xxix die Jan." 



Befides the palaces above-mentioned, this 

 prince laid out too large fums in repairing 

 and beautifying Kenelworth caftle, ciel- 

 ing the chapel with wainfcot, painting 

 that and the queen's chamber, and re- 

 building the wall on the outfide, as it re- 

 mained to the time of Sir William Dug- 

 dale *. 



I cannot pafs over the princefs Eleanor, 

 fo much celebrated by our legendary hif- 

 torians for fucking the poifon out of her 

 hufoand's wound, without mentioning the 

 croiTes erected to her memory, which Ver- 

 tue with great probability fjppofed were 



* See his Warwlckni. p. 244. In the fame reign John 

 cf Hertford, Abbot of St. Albans, made great addi- 

 tions to his convent, and in one of the chambers placed 

 A KOBLE PICTURE. Scc WilUs's mitred abbics, vol. i. 

 p. 21. One Larahbirt, builder or repairer of the fame 

 church, heaped his own rebus, a lamb and a bird, 

 among the ornament;. Alcn Strayler was illuminator 

 to that abbey. 



built 



