n8 2 Paint trs in the Reign of ^een Elizabeth, 



mentioning Sir Francis Drake's return, fays«, 

 there were books, pidures and ballads pub- 

 lifhed of him/' In another point too there 

 was a parity; au6bions were grown into 

 vogue, and confequently, abufe ; the firft 

 orders for regulating them by the lord 

 mayor v/ere ifTued in that reign. 



At the fame period was introduced the 

 cuilom of publifhing reprefentations of mag- 

 nificent funerals. There is a lonor roll ex- 



o 



iiibiting the procefTion at the obfequies of 

 Sir Philip Sidney. It was (as is faid at the 

 bottom of it) contrived and invented by 

 Thomas Lant, * gentleman, fervant to the 



faid 



portraited ; yet to be joined with the faid king or with 

 any other prince that is kno.vn to have made any re- 

 qusil in marriage to her majeHy, is not to be allowed ; 

 And therefore your lordlliip Ihould fend for the warden 

 •of the ilationers or other wardens that have fuch papers 

 to fell, and caufe fach papers to be taken from them 

 and packed up together in fuch fort as none of them be 

 permitted to be feen in any place." The efFedt of this 

 -order appears from a paffage in Evelyn's art of chalco- 

 -graphy ; ** Had queen Elizabeth been thus circum- 

 fpefl, there had not been fo many vile copies multi- 

 .plied from an ill painting ; as being called in and 

 brought to Effex-houfe, did for feveral years furnifh the 

 padrymcn with peels for the ufe of their ovens." p. 25. 

 * This Thomas Lant was portcullis pourfuivant : there 



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