Henry III. to the End of Henry VI. 69 



by a more egregious adb of folly, the king 

 with his own hand crowning the young 

 duke of Warwick kino; of the ille of Wio^ht 



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— nor can one eafdy conceive a more ridi- 

 culous circumflance, than a man who had 

 loft the kingdom of France amufing himlelf 

 with beftowing the diadem of the little ille 

 of Wight — but to return to our artifts — I 

 find the name of another fculptor at the 

 fame aera ; not employed indeed in any con- 

 fiderable work, and called only Richard the 

 carver ; he and one brother Row/by a monk 

 were engaged on fome repairs in the church 

 of St. Mary at Stanford f. 



But the moft valuable artifts of that age 

 were the illuminators of manufcripts. Their 

 drawing was undoubtedly ftiff, but many of 

 the ornaments, as animals, flowers and foli- 

 age they often painted in a good tafte, and 

 finiftied highly. To feveral miffals were 

 added portraits of the princes and princefles 

 to whom they belonged, or for whom they 

 were defigned as prefents. The dreftcs and 

 buildings of the times are preferved, though 

 by frequent anachronifms applied to the 



t See Peck's Antiquities of Stanford, lib. 14. cap. 5. 



E 3 ages 



