Henry III. to the End of Henry VI. 6 J 



There are feveral other articles which 

 the reader may find at length in the ori- 

 ginal from whence I have copied thefe J. 



If it is objedled to me, that This was 

 meer herald's painting, I anfwer. That was 

 almoft the only painting we had. The art 

 was engrofled by and confined to the va- 

 nity or devotion of the nobility. The 

 arms they bore and quartered, their mifTals, 

 their church-windows and the images of 

 their idols w^ere the only circumflances in 

 which they had any employment for a 

 painter. Even portraits, the obje61: of mo- 

 dern vanity, feem not to have been in 

 fafhion. I know not one except of the 

 blood royal or of a bifhop or two, painted 

 during the period of which I am writing. 

 Devout fubjefls were held in fufficient efli- 

 mation. Ifabel countefs of Warwick in 

 1439, bequeathed her tablet with the image 

 of our lady to the church of Walfmgham, 

 and it is even mentioned that this tablet 

 had a glafs over it. I cannot pafs over 

 this magnificent lady without taking a little 

 notice of fome other particulars of her will. 



% Dugdale's Warwickftiire, p. 40S. 



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