Painters in the Reign of^een Elizabeth. 27 9 

 fervus D. Matt, archiep. Cant, fculpfic 

 1574.* 



There was another fuch genealogic chart, 

 intituled, Regnum Britanniae tandem plene 

 in Heptarchiam redadtuoi a Saxonibus, ex- 

 pulfis Britannis, &c. A\ 686. executed in 

 wood very plain and well : the nanne, 

 Richardus Lyne, fervus D. Matih. archiep. 

 Cant, fculpfit 1574. 



One Lyly too is mentioned as curious in 

 copying the hands of ancient deeds, who 

 was employed by the fame patron. 



D. John Twifden, a divine of that age, 

 was himfelf a performer in painting. He 

 died at the age of eighty-five in 1588. Ver- 

 ,tue was fhowed a fmall portrait of him 

 neatly done by himfelf in oil on copper 

 about forty years before his death. 



But there was one gentleman in this 

 reign, who .really attained the perfedion 

 of a mafter. Sir Nathaniel Bacon j- knight 

 of the Bath, a younger fon of the keeper, 

 and half brothqr of the great Sir Francis. 



* Ames*s Typograph. antiqu. p. 540. 



f He married the daughter of the famous Sir Thomris 

 Qrefham, by whom he was ancellor of the preient lord 

 Towniliend. SeeCollirii's Englilh Baronets, vol. i.p. 4. 



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