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IX. Copy of a Libel against Archbishop Neville, temp. Rich. II. and of the Draft of an Indenture of Covenant for the erecting of a Monument to King Henry VIII. and his Queen, by Peter Torrigiano; communicated by William Illingworth, Esq. F.A.S. in a Letter to William Bray, Esq. Treasurer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

William Illingworth Esq.
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I beg leave to enclose to you a transcript (No 1,) of a libel against Alexander Neville, Archbishop of York, in the reign of Richard the Second; which is a curious specimen of the old English, in the northern dialect of that day; and expresses the popular opinion and animosity entertained against the archbishop, as one of the favourites of the unfortunate king, at the commencement of the civil discords of that reign. It appears from an original parliamentary petition, that two copies of this libel were affixed on the pillar of the Chapter House of Westminster, where the Lords and Commons were assembled in parliament, and a third on the door of Saint Paul's Cathedral.

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Archaeologia , Volume 16 , 1812 , pp. 80 - 88
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1812

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page 80 note a Among the Petitions in Parliament, temp, Richard II. in the Record Office at ths Tower.

page 85 note a So in the original.

page 88 note a Pietro Torrigiano, (the artist who appears as a party to the foregoing Indenture, by the name of Torisany), was a celebrated sculptor of Florence; Vasari, in his life of this artist, says, that he was taken to England by certain Florentine merchants, where he executed a great many works for the King, in marble, bronze, and wood: after he quitted England, he went into Spain, where, being accused of heresy, he was imprisoned, tried, and condemned by the Inquisition, but escaped execution, by starving himself to death, in* the year 1522. See the Vite de Pittori, part iii. p. 61, Edit. 1647. Besides the magnificent monument of King Henry the Seventh, in his chapel, at Westminster: Vertue ascribes to the same artist the tomb of Margaret, Countess of Richmond, and that of Dr. Young, Master of the Rolls in the Rolls Chapel, Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting, Vol. I p. 98, first edition.