Painters in the Reign of Henry VII I. 17 j 



as told by Raphael in the cartoons— pro- 

 bably the cartoons being configned to Flan- 

 ders for tapeftry, drawings from them were 

 fent hither ; an inftance of the diligence of 

 our glafs-painters in obtaining the bell de- 

 figns for their work. 



John Muftyan born at Enguien, is re- 

 corded as Henry's arras-maker ; John de 

 Mayne as his feal-graver ; and Richard At- 

 fyll * as his graver of ftones. f Skelton 

 mentions one mafter Newton as a painter of 

 that time j 



Galling my fight the chambre about 

 To Te how duly eche thyng in ordre was, 

 Towarde the dore as we were commying out 

 I faw maiiler Newton fyt with his compas 

 His plummet, his penfell, his fpeclacles of g\:^i, 

 Devyfing.in pidure by his induftrious wit 

 Of my laurel the proces every whitte. 



And among the payments of the treafurer 

 of the chambers, reported above, is one of 



* Hillyard (the fame perfon probably, of whom more 

 hereafter) cut the images of Henry VIII. and his chil- 

 dren on a fardonyx, in the colledion of the duke of Dc- 

 vonfhire. The earl of Exeter has fuch another. Lady 

 Mary V/ortlcy had a head of the fame king on a 

 little (lone in a ring ; cameo on one fide and intaglia 

 on the other. 



t WitJi a hz of twenty pounds a year. 



40 /. 



