CI 7 8 Painters in the Reign of ^leen Elizabeth, 



dante with deyifes painted on it given by 

 eight mafkers in the Chriftmas week anno 

 regni 24. The agate was perhaps the work 

 of Vicentino. 



It is certain, though the queen's oecono- 

 my or want of tafte reflrained her from af- 

 fording great encouragement to genius, that 

 the riches and flourifhing fituation of the 

 country offered fufficient invitations to the 

 arts. Archbifhop Parker retained in his 

 fervice at Lambeth a printer, a painter and 

 more than one engraver. Of the latter, the 

 principal were Berg or Hogen Bei-g, and 

 Lyne above-mentioned, who was probably 

 his painter too. Prefixed to the archbifliop's 

 life, printed at Lambeth, is a cut of his 

 grace, infcribed, R. Berg f. Above twenty 

 books were publifhed by the archbifhop 

 from his own printing-houfe : two only 

 have this head. At Ruckolt in the parifli 

 of Low-layton in EfTex (the manfionofthe 

 Hicks's) was a large genealogy of the kings 

 of Englr.nd from the conquefl to queen Eli- 

 zabeth, v/ith all the line of France and 

 England under thefe two titles, Linea Vale- 

 fiorum et Linea Angliae 3 at bottom the 

 workman's name, Remigius Hogenbergius, 



fervus 



