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is fo much commended by a brother artift, 

 one may believe he had merit, and as the 

 teftimony may lead to farther inveftigation, 

 I ihall give the extrad in the author's own 

 words ; 



" Neverthelefs, if a man be fo induced by 

 nature, and live in time of trouble and un- 

 der a government wherein arts be not 

 efleemed, and himfelf but of fmall means, 

 woe be unto him, as unto an untimely birth; 

 for of my own knowledge, it hath made 

 poor men poorer, as amongft others many, 

 that mod rare Englifh drawer of ftory works 

 in black and white 



JOHN BOSSAM, 



One for his fkill worthy to have been fer- 

 jeant-painter to any king or emperor, whofe 

 works in that kind are comparable with the 

 bed whatfoever in cloth, and in diflemper- 

 colours for black and white ; who being 

 very poor, and belike wanting to buy fairer 

 colours, wrought therefore for the mofl 

 part in white and black ; and growing yet 

 poorer by charge of children, &c. gave 

 painting clean over : but being a very fair- 

 conditioned, zealous and godly perfon 

 grew into a love of God's divine fervice 



upon 



