Painting to the End of Henry VII. 77 



that is to fay, two fpears, two axes, two 

 paves y 



Item, Four pair of angeFs wings, for four 

 angels, made of timber and well-painted. 



Item, The fadre, the crown and vifage, 

 the bell with a crofs upon it well-gilt with 

 fine gold j 



Item, The Holy Ghofl: coming out of 

 heven into the fepulchre ; 



Item, Longeth to the angels four che- 

 velers '^, 



T-JENRY VIL feems never to have laid 



out any money fo willingly, as on what 



he could never enjoy, his tomib f — on that 



he was profufe -, but the very fervice for 



X This memorandum is copied from tKe minutes of 

 the Antiquarian Society under the year 1736. T^juo 

 pai^£s : A pave (in French, pavois or talevas) is a large 

 buckler, forming an angle in front, like the ridge of a 

 houfe, and big enough to cover the talleil man from 

 head to foot. The bell ^-cvitb the crc/s : probably the baU 

 or mound. Feur chevelers : clieve lares or perukes. 



t The whole chapel, called by his name, is properly 

 but his maufoleum, he building it folely for the burial 

 place of himfelf and the royal family, and accordingly 

 ordering by his will that no other perfons ftiould be in- 

 terred there. See Dart's Antiquities of Weftminfter 

 abbey, vol. i, p. 32. The tomb was the work of one 

 Peter a Florentine, as one Peter a Roman made the 

 fhrine of Edward the Confeflbr. 



which 



