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vinity-fchool at Oxford, fhould have dared 

 under his roof to dabble with witches and 

 necromancers ? His firft wife Jaqudine, the 

 amorous Countefs of Holland, is known by 

 more than one monument. Two fine prints 

 of her, and her lall hufband, were publiflied 

 in 1753 by Folkema, from piflures painted 

 by Moflert at Harlem, William Bridges, 

 the firft Garter king at Arms, inflituted by 

 Henry V. fet up in the windows of the 

 church of St. George at Stanford the por- 

 traits of the firft Knights of the Garter : it 

 was from thefe paintings that Hollar etched 

 the plate of them publiflied in Aflimole's 

 hiflory of the order 7, 



In the reign of Henry VI. our field be- 

 gins to grow lefs barren. Many portraits 

 of the king himfclf are preferved, as on 

 board at Kenfington and on glafs in the 

 chapel of King's college. In my pofTelfion 

 is a remarkable piece, which fo many cir- 

 cumftances afHx to the hiftory of this prince 

 that I cannot hefitate to believe it dcfigned 

 for him, though I imagine it was painted 

 after his death. It is the reprefentation of 



f Peck's Annals of Stanford, book ii, chap. i8. 



his 



