Painters in the Reign of ^een Elizabeth, 27 3 



probably for a fet of hangings mentioned 

 in the inventory; and 6L — i6j. — od, to 

 Randolph the painter* 



death who died July 6, i6oo) thus, Mr. Oliver Crom- 

 well and the lady Anne Palavicini were married July 7, 

 1601." In a MS. of Sir John Crew ofUthington, a 

 great antiquary and herald, was this epitaph, corrobora- 

 tive of the tradition abovementioned ; 



Here lies Horatio Palavazenc, 



Who robb'd the pope, to lend the queene. 



He was a theif : a theif ! thou lyeft ; 



For whie ? he robb'd but Antichrift. 



Him Death wyth befome fwept from Babram 



Into the bofome of oulde Abraham : 



But then came Hercules with his club. 



And llruck him down to Belzebub. 



In Peck's Defiderata Curiofa, vol. ii. p. 52. lib. 7, it 

 is faid that when the lord Arundel was imprifoned by 

 queen Elizabeth for accepting the title of count of the 

 empire, he referred his cafe to Sir Horatio and others, 

 adding thefe words in his letter to one cf the principal 

 lords of the court ; " Neither doe I thinke England to 

 be fo unfurnifhed of experienced men, but that either 

 Sir Horatio Palavicini, Sir Robert Sidney, Mr. Dyer, 

 or fome other, can witnefs a truth therein.'* But Pala- 

 vicini had higher merit, as appears by an inconteftable 

 record ; he was one of the commanders againft the 

 Spanifli armada in 1588, and his portrait is preferved 

 amongft thofe heroes in the borders of the tapellry in 

 the Houfe of Lords, engraved by Pine. 



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