tyS Pahiters in the Reign of Henry VIII. 



fays, executed many works of marble and 

 bronze for Henry, and got an ample for- 

 tune, with which he returned to his native 

 country, but his eyes having fuffered by 

 working in the foundcry, he grew blind in 

 1550 and died foon after. The celebrated 

 Baccio Bandinelli made an admirable model 

 of wood with figures of wax for the fame 

 monument ; but Benedetto of Rovezzano, 

 it feems, was preferred. * 



The fepulchral f chapel was never com- 

 pleated. Henry and Jane Seymour were 

 buried in St. George's church, with an in- 

 tention of their being removed into the mo- 

 nument as foon as it Ihould be finifhed. 

 Charles I. refumed the defign, propofmg to 



* I fuppofe it was Antony Cavallari or Benedetto da 

 Rovezzano who made the large ilatue in metal of 

 Henr)' VIII. in a cloyfler at Gorhambury ; it is not in 

 a bad tafte. 



f Leland fays that the ancient chapel of St. George 

 built by Edward III. ftocd on this very fpot, and that 

 Henry VII. pulled it down, and ercfted the prefent 

 tomb-houfe in it's place, intending himfelf to be buried 

 there ; but afterwards changed his mind and built his 

 chapel at WeftminRer. Sec Leland's comment on the 

 Cygnea Cantio puhlifhed with his Itinerary by Heame, 

 vol. 9. 



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