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on the other fide, are four figures of females 
in the drefles of the day; one, fulppofed 
to be Queen Philippa; the face, head- 
drefs, &c. being fimilar to her monument 
in Weftminfter Abbey. 
‘Three faints, fimilar to thofe before de- 
feribed, were painted under three moft ele- 
gant pointed arches. Over what is fuppoled 
to have been the royal entrance, are the 
arms of Edward, on a {tone canopy, fu- 
perbly gilt and painted. One of the pic- 
tures reprefents a boy in white, {winging 
an incenfe pot. 
The antiquarians are fomewhat ata lofs 
about the portrait generally faid to be 
Richard IL. for though it certainly bears 
a refemblance to the portrait in the Jeru- 
falem Chamber, which is confidered as au- 
thentic; yet, admitting thefe decorations 
to have been made in 1349, it cannot be 
intended for Richard, who was not born 
until 1366. 
They are alfo puzzled about the names, 
Euflace and Mercure, which were infcribed 
under two figures in the chapel. As to 
the firft indeed, he might be a Chriftian 
knight ; but for the fecond,— 
_*¢ Although the name is neither new nor 
rare, 
We wonder how the devil it came there!” 
Query, might not thefe two names form 
part of an infcription, which has been 
partly obliterated by time, and might con- 
tain allufions to either heathen deities, or 
any thing elfe ? 
Behind the gallery were two gilt aud 
painted plinths, exquifitely ornamented, 
with canopies over them, fimilar to thole 
in the beautiful little chapel belonging to 
the Speaker. Inthe brackets that fuppert 
the arches, is a moft beautiful and piétur- 
efque variety: fome of them are compofed 
of vine leaves ; others of rofe buds, cut 
wnderneath 5; and oak leaves, with acorns 
for the centre ornaments ; ail richly gilt, 
and the internal parts paft over with ver- 
million ; which trom its peculiar adhefion 
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to the ftone, has been here generally laid 
on as aback ground. ‘The pateras feem 
to have been made of fome kind of compo- 
fition, put on wet, and ftamped upon the 
wall,and gilt and coloured when dry. The 
back grounds, except in the Scripture hif. 
tories, prefent no attempt at perfpective, 
but round the outline is raifed fomewhat 
higher than the figure. The armorial 
enfigns are invariably painter on a rich 
gold ground ; by which means, fome of 
the colours which were originally blue, or 
fable, have turned to a fort of green. 
Many of them, as well as the other pic- 
tures, have fince their being laid open, 
fuffered very much from the too frequent 
application of a wet fpunge: but fortus 
nately for the lovers of heraldry, we have 
been told that the blazonry, &c. has beea 
taken by Mr. Richards, of the Exchequer, 
whofe univerfality of acquirement, and ac- 
curacy of inveftigation, are toowell known 
to require = encomium. 
With re! ‘pect to the other piétures, des 
corations, &c. we have been informed that 
Mr. John Thomas Smith, engraver of The 
Antiqutties of London, had, at the time the 
alterations in the chapel commenced, the 
permiffion of the furveyors of his majetty” s 
, 
works, to make drawings from the whole; — 
whieh we underftand he has availed him- 
felf of in the fulleft extent, by copying 
all, eventhe minuteft parts, which he means 
to publ ifh. To Mr. Smith, we believe, 
there is an allufion in p. 736 of the Gen- 
tleman’s Magezine for Augult, where he 
is denominated a jereign arti? We have 
always confidered him as a native of this 
city ; and if we can confide in the teftimo- 
nies of many of the moft reipectable pain- 
ters of this country, which were given in 
his favour, and printed when he was a 
candidate for the ofiiceof drawing -mafter 
to Chrift’s Hofpital, he is an admirable 
draughtiman, a lapal fubject, and an he- 
neit man. 
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