72 State of Paintings Sec. 



by John Lidgate the famous poetic monk 

 of Bury. Dugdale has preferved the lines, 

 and Holbein by borrowing the thought, 

 ennobled the pictures f. 



In this reign John de Whethamfted abbot 

 of St. Albans, a man of great learning and 

 tnerit, adorned the chapel of our lady there 

 with various paintings, as he did the fides 

 of the church and his own lodgings, under 

 all which paintings he caufed mottos and 

 infcriptions to be placed. At his manor of 

 Tittenhanger he had pidlures in the church 

 of all the faints of his own name J. 



I fhall clofe my notes on the ftate cf 

 painting under Henry VI. with obferving 

 that the portraits on glafs in the windows 

 of the college of All Souls at Oxford were 

 painted in his reign. 



f See Dugdale's St. Paul's, p. 134, and Stowe, 354. 

 :J Chauncy, 445. 



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