Painters in the Reign of ^een Elizaleth. 283 



faid honorable knight, and graven in copper 

 by Derick or Theodor de Brie in the city 

 of London 15S7. It contains about thirty- 

 four plates. Prefixed is a fmall oval head 

 of Mr. Lant. aet. 32. The fame perfon 

 Wrote a treatife of Heraldry. 



John Holland * of Wortwell efq; livin* 

 in 1586;, is commended as an ingenious 

 painter in a book called '^ The excellent 

 Art of Paihting," p. 20. But it is to the ■}• 

 fame hand, to which this work owes many 

 of it*s improvements, that I am indebted 

 for the difcovery of a very valuable artiil in 

 the reign of queen Elizabeth. 



The eaftern fide of the college of Caius 

 and Gonville at Cambridge, in which are 

 the Portae Virtutis et Sapientiae, was built 

 in the years 1566 and 1567. Thefe are 



are feverai copies extant In MS. of a treatife called^ the 

 Armoury of Nobility, firfl gathered by Robert Cook Cla- 

 rencieux, correfted by Robert Glover, Somerfet herald, 

 and laftly augmented with the knights of the garter by 

 Thomas Lant, portcullis, anno 1589. One copy of this 

 work is in the pofTeflion of the Rev. Mr. Charles Parkin 

 of Oxburgh in Norfolk, to whom I am obliged for this 

 and other curious communications, 



* See the pedigree of Holland in Blomfield's Nor- 

 folk. 



f Mr. Gray. 



joined 



