the Reign of Henry VIIL 195 



It is certain that the Gothic tafte remain- 

 ed in vogue 'till towards the end of the 

 reign of Henry VIIL His father's chapel 

 at Weftminller is entirely of that manner. 

 So is Wolfey's tomb-houfe at Windfor. But 

 foon after the Grecian ftyle was introduced ;' 

 and no wonder when lb many Italians were 

 entertained in the king's fervice. They had 

 feen that architedture revived in their own 

 country in all it's purity — but whether they 

 were not perfediy mafters of it, or that it 

 was neceflary to introduce the innovation 

 by degrees, it certainly did not at firfl ob- 

 tain full polTefllon. It was plaiftered upon 

 Gothic, and made a barbarous mixture. Re- 

 gular columns, with ornaments, neither 



Lady-chapel (now Trinity-church) at Ely, and the 

 Lantern-tower in the fame cathedral, noble works of 

 the fame time : and the chapel of bifhop Weft (alfo at 

 Ely) who died in 1533, for exquifite art in the lefler 

 ftyle. Thefe notices certainly can add no honour to a 

 name already fo diltinguifhed as Mr. Gray's ; it is my 

 own gratitude or vanity that prompts me to name him ; 

 and I muft add, that if feme parts of this work are 

 more accurate than my own ignorance or careleflhefs 

 would have left them, the reader and I are obliged to 

 the fame gentleman, who condefcended to corred, what 

 he never could hav« defcended to write. 



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