6G State of Painting from the Reign of 



fmyth, John Bourde of Corffe caflle, marb- 

 ler, Bartholomew Lambfpring a Dutch 

 gold-fmith ', they agree on all the parti- 

 culars for the image on the tomb, and the 

 little images and cfcutcheons round it. The 

 tomb with the image ftill extant in po- 

 lifhed brafs of the higheit prefervation wit- 

 nelTes that the artifts were excellent enough 

 to deferve this memoriaL John Prudde of 

 Weftminfter, called fimply, glazier, appears 

 to have painted the windows of the cha- 

 pel J and it was particularly ftipulated that 

 ^^ he fhould employ no glafs of England, 

 but with glals beyond the feas, and that in 

 the finefl wife, with the bed, cleanelf, and 

 ftrongefl glafle of beyond fea that may be 

 had in England, and of the finefl colours 

 of blew, yellow, red, purpure, fanguine and 

 violet, and of all other colours that ihall 

 be mod neceflary and bed to make rich 

 and embellifh the matters, images and do- 

 ries that diall be delivered and appointed 

 by the faid executors by patterns in paper, 

 afterwards to be newly traced and pidured 

 by another painter in rich colour at the 

 charges of the faid glazier." By all thefe 

 circumdances it is plain that the executors 



thought 



