9S Painters in the Reign of Henry VIII. 



Item, One table of the hiftory of Chrif- 

 tiana Patientia. 



Item, One table of the paflion, of cloth 

 of gold, adorned with pearls and rubies. 



Item, One table of ruflet and black, of 

 the parable of the i8th chapter of Matthew, 

 raifed with liquid gold and filver. 



Item, One table of the king's highnefs, 

 {landing upon a mitre with three crowns, 

 having a ferpent with feven heads going 

 out of it, and having a fword in his hand, 

 whereon is written, Verbum Dei. 



Item, One cloth flained with Phebus 

 rideing with his cart in the air, with the 

 kiftory of him. 



Item, One pifture of Mofes made of 

 earth, and fet in a box of wood. * 



Another 



* In an old chapter-houfe at Chrift church Oxford 1 

 iifcovered two portraits, admirably painted and in the 

 moft perfed prefervation, which certainly belonged to 

 Henry VIII. the one an elderly, the other, a young- 

 man, both in black bonnets, and large as life. On the 

 back of the one is this mark, N". JJ{ 22 3 on the 



other, N°, fJJ 25. ^^ ^^e catalogue of King Henry's 

 piftures in the augmentation office, N°, 25. is Frederic 

 Duke of Saxony, N°. 26. is Philip Archduke of Auftria ; 

 in all probability thefe very pidures. They have a 



great 



