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and count of Provence, much known from 

 having loft ah-noft all his dominions ; yet it 

 has been little remarked that he was one of 

 the very few princes who did not deferve to 

 lofe them, having merited from his fub- 

 jecSts the title of the good. His own pic- 

 ture painted by himfelf is ftill extant in the 

 chapel of the Carmelites at Aix, and the 

 print from it in Montfaucon*s Antiquities of 

 France will juftify what I have faid of this 

 prince's talent. 



In this age was finifhed the cloyfter ad- 

 joining to the old church of St. Paul : It 

 was built round a chapel in Pardon-church 

 Hawgh, a place fituated on the north fide 

 of the church, where Thomas More dean 

 of St. Paul's in the reign of Henry V. re- 

 ftored an ancient chapel, but dying before 

 he had accomplifhed it, it was finifhed by 

 his executors, by licenfe from Henry VI. 

 On the walls of this cloyfter was painted, 

 at the charge of Jenkyn Carpenter, a ci- 

 tizen of London, the Dance of Death, in 

 imitation of that in the cloyfter adjoining 

 to St. Innocent's church-yard at Paris. Un- 

 derneath were Englifti verfes ( to explain 

 the paintings) tranflated from the Frencli, 

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