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time, is a mark of virginity. It has 

 been fuppofed that the two elder were 

 the wives of the dukes of Clarence and 

 Bedford, and the two younger their fillers ; 

 but this clalhes v/ith all hiftory and chro- 

 nology. Blanche and Philippa were both 

 married early in their father's reign : and to 

 fuppofe the two younger ladies the brides 

 of Clarence and Bedford would be ground- 

 lefsj for Margaret Holland the wife of the 

 former was a widow when he married hen 

 As all the portraits are imaginary, it does 

 not much fignify for whom the painter in- 

 tended them. A larger angel (landing, 

 Jiolds the cloth of the ^two tents together. 

 On a rifing ground above the tents is St. 

 George on a brown fleed flriking with his 

 fword at the dragon, which is flying in the 

 air, and already pierced through the fore- 

 head with a fpear, on which is a flag with 

 the crofs of St. George. Cleodelinde, with 

 a lamb, is praying beneath the dragon. On 

 the hills are gothic buildings and caftles in a 

 pretty tafle. 



This curious pi6lure;, after it was taken 

 from Shene, was in the Arundelian collec- 

 tion, and was fold at Tart-hall in 17 19. In 

 the long gallery at Lambeth is an ancient 

 D 4 portrait 



