the Reign of Henry VIII. 199 



thefe imperfcd notes may lead curious per- 

 fons to farther difcoveries. Jerome di Trc- 

 Vifi, one of the painters mentioned before, 

 is alfo faid to have built fome houfes here. * 

 Henry had another architect of much note 

 in his time, but who excelled chiefly in Go- 

 thic (from whence it is clear that the new 

 tafte was alfo introduced) This was Sir Ri- 

 chard Lea mafter mafon, and mafler of the 

 pioneers in Scotland. Henry gave him f 

 the manor of Sopewell in Hertfordfhire, 

 and he himfelf bellowed a brazen font on 

 the church of Verulam, or St. Alban's, 

 within a mile of which place out of the 

 ruins of the abbey he built a feat called 

 Lees- place. The font was taken in the 

 Scottifh wars, and had ferved for the chrif- 

 tening of the royal children of that king- 

 dom. A pompous infcription J was en- 



hamdiire was perhaps of the fame hand. The porch of 

 Charlcot-houfe, the feat of the Lucys, is in the fame 

 llyle, and at ivenclworth was another, with the arms of 

 Dudley Earl of Leiceiler. 



* Felibien vol. ii. p. 71. 



t Chauncy's Hertfordfhire p. 461, where he is called 

 5ir Richard a Leigh. 



J See it in Camden's Britannia p. 355. vol. I. edit. 

 1722. 



N 4 graved 



