i-ji Painters in the Reign of Henry Xlll. 



In thefe inftruments there appears little 

 lefs^ fimplicity than in the old ones I have 

 reported of Henry III. Yet as much as we 

 imagine ourfelves arrived at higher perfec- 

 tion in the arts, it would not be eafy for 

 a mafter of a college now to go into St. 

 Margaret's parifh or Southwark and befpeak 

 the roof of fuch a chapel as that of King's 

 college, and a dozen or two of windows, 

 fo adiTiirabiv drawn, and order them to be 

 fent home by fuch a day, as if he was be- 

 fpeaking a chequered pavement or a church 

 bible. Even thofe obfcure artifts Williani- 

 lon, Symonds, Flower, Hoone, &:c. would 

 figure as confiderable painters in any reign ; 

 and what a rarity in a colledtion of draw- 

 in2:s would b^ one of their vidimus's ! It is 

 remarkable that one of the fin:;f(: of thefe 

 windows is the fiory of Ananias and Saphira 



or college of St. Alizhiel of Cambr : and the fcolers of 

 ihe fame en the oan part, and maift: Henry Coffey, 

 warden of the college or hall of the Annantiation or 

 Gop.ville hall, and the fcllou-es and fcolers of the fame, 

 on the o:her part, of and upon the Evcfdroppe in the 

 garden of FA'sihwyke hol^le, belonginge to Gon- 

 ville hall S<c. V.'ritten at Cambr: 17. Aug. 1476. 

 16, Edw. 4." 



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