JO ^he earlieft Accounts of 



ral coftly works in that city. About four 

 years before the arrival of Abbat Ware, 

 that is in 1256, had been ereded a fplen- 

 did (lirine * for the martyrs Simplicius and 

 Fauftina, at the expence cf John James Ca- 

 poccio and his wife, adorned with twilled 

 columns and inlaid with precious marbles 

 exadlly in the tafle, though not in the pre- 

 cife form of that of St Edward. Nothing 

 is more probable than that a rich abbat, 

 cither at his own expence, or to gratify the 

 tafle of his magnificent mafter fhould en- 

 gage a capital artift to return with him and 

 undertake the fhrine of his mafter's pa- 

 tron-faint, and the great patron of his own 

 church. Weaver fays exprefly that the 

 abbat brought back with him from Rome 



* A draught of it by Mr. Talman in the proper 

 colours is preferved in the firft volume of the drawings 

 belonging to the Society of Antiquaries. A fketch of 

 it I have among Vertue's MSS. Great part of that 

 identic fhrine, which flood originally in the church of 

 Santa Maria Maggiore at Rome, and was removed of 

 late years, on making a new pavement to the church, 

 is now at Strawberry-hill, in a chapel ere<fted on purpofe 

 to receive it ; being fent to Mr. Walpole by Sir Wil- 

 liam Hamilton Envoy to Naples, who purchafed it on 

 its removal. 



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