32 2^^ earlleji Accounts of 



die time, but confounds his own account 

 fo llrangcly as to make Peter Cavalini 

 fcholar of Giotto, who was twenty years 

 younger. If it may be imagined that Ri- 

 chard Ware could not have intereft enough 

 to feduce fo capital a workman from the 

 fervice of the pope, it might ftill be ac- 

 counted for, by higher authority. Ed- 

 ward I. returning from the Holy Land was 

 condu6led by the king of Sicily to Rome 

 to vifit Gregory X. who had been Ed- 

 ward's companion and friend in the Holy 

 War. An artful Pope would certainly be 

 glad to furnifli a young king with ar- 

 tifts who \vould encourage him in railing 

 fhrines and temples. The monument of 

 Henry III. eredled by his fon, is beautified 

 in the fame tafte with porphyry and mo- 

 faic 'y and the firft brazen llatue known ta 

 have been cafl here, lies upon it. The old 

 paintings round the chapel of St. Edward, 

 and thole, in a very beautiful and fuperior 

 llyle, though much decayed, over the rag- 

 ged regiment, Vcrtue afcribes to the fame 

 Cavalini. This painter and fculptor pro- 

 bably, as I have faid, gave the defigns 

 for the crofies erected by Edward to his 



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