ly
gave them to Gough, the antiquary, who bequeathed them
to the University of Oxford. The Armada tapestry, which
is stated to have been designed by Henry Cornelius
Vroom, the Dutch marine painter, and woven by Francis
Spiering, appears to have been, in 1602, in the
possession of Lord Howard, Lord High Admiral and the
hero of the Armada. Fuller particulars are given in
Walpole's "Anecdotes," i. p. 246, under the name of
Vroom, Sandart being the principal authority. Part of
them were in the House of Lords till 1834, when they
perished in the fire. These had been engraved in 1739 by
John Pine, but it appears that at that time there were
in the royal wardrobe other pieces, now lost.

[421] Lloyd's "Worthies."

[422] Calendar of State Papers, cx. No. 26, James I.,
1619-23.

[423] Calendar of State Papers, vol. clxxxi. No. 48.

[424] Rymer, "Foedera," vol. viii. p. 66, ed. 1743.

[425] Brydges, "Northamptonshire," i. p. 323, under the
head of "Stoke Bruere," pt. 1, p. 48.

[426] Manning and Bray's "History of Surrey," vol. iii.
p. 302.

[427] Horace Walpole, "Anecdotes of Painting in
England," vol. ii. p. 22.

[428] Macpherson, "Annals of Commerce."

[429] There is in Brydges' "Northamptonshire," under the
head of "Stoke Bruere" (the estate which King James gave
to Sir F. Crane as part payment of the deficit of
L16,400 in his tapestry business), mention of the
cartoons of "Raphael of Urbin, ... had from Genoa," and
their cost, L300, besides the transport. M. Blanc says,
with great justness, that Raphael, when he prepared
these cartoons for tapestry, made designs for weaving,
and _did not paint pictures_. If they had been intended
for oil pictures, they would have been very differently
treated.

[430] Calendar State Papers, Domestic, Sept. 28th, 1653.

[431] Horace Walpole's "Anecdotes of Painting," vol.
iii. p. 64.

[432] See Evelyn's very scarce tract, entitled "Mundus
Muliebris," printed 1690, p. 8.

[433] Lord Tyrconnell, Lord Exeter, and Lord Guildford
had married three of the Brownlow heiresses of Belton,
who had a winter residence at Stamford.

[434] Designed by Francesco Zuccharelli. Rock,
Introduction, p. cxiv.

[435] It has been at different periods the crowning
glory of the craft of the weaver to plac