Painters in the Reign of ^een Elizabeth, 269 



full painter James Morgues, fome time 

 living in the Blackfryars London, he whom 

 monfieur ChatiUon, then Admiral of France, 

 fent thither with Laudonniere for that pur.- 

 pofe." 



We have feen in the life of Hilliard that 

 Shoote and Bettes are mentioned as painters 

 in miniature. The former I fuppofe was 

 John Shute, who ftyles himfelf paynter and 

 architedie in a book written and publifhed 

 by him in folio in 1563, called. The firft and 

 chief groundes of architecture, ufed in all 

 the auncient and famous monyments, with 

 a farther and more ample difcourfe uppon 

 the fame, than hitherto hath been ^tt out 

 by any other. The cuts and figures in the 

 book are in a better ilyle than ordinary, 

 the author, as he tells the queen in the 

 dedication, having been fcnt into Italy in 

 1550 by the duke of Northumberland, (in 

 whofe fervice he had been) and who main- 

 tained him there in his ftudies under the 

 befl architedls. This perfon publifhed ano- 

 ther work, intituled, Two notable com- 

 mentaries, the one of the original of the 

 Turks, &:c. the other of the warres of the 

 Turke againft George Scanderbeg, &c» 

 tianllated out of Italian into Enrrliih. Print- 



ed 



