[4] Anecdotes of Painting, 8vo. Vol. I. P. 123.
[5] History of Poetry, Vol. I. P. 210.
[6] Warton’s Hist. of Poetry, Vol. II. P. 54.
[7] Ibid.
[8] Formerly called Pardon Church-Yard, about which, says Weever, Ancient Funeral Monuments, 4to Edition, 1767, P. 168, “was artificially and richly painted, the Dance of Death commonly called the Dance of Paul’s; the Picture of Death leading all Estates.”
The above Jenken Carpenter was Executor to Sir Richard Whittington, and had a Licence granted him, Anno 1430, 8 Hen. VI. to establish upon the Charnel-House of St. Paul’s a Chaplain, to have eight Marks a Year.
Weever, ubi supra.
[9] Stow’s Survey of London, Edit. 4to. 1618, P. 616. An Engraving of it is inserted in Dugdale’s Hist. of St. Paul’s, Edit. 1658, P. 290, and under it are given Lydgate’s Verses, which he observes at the End he had translated,
“Not Word by Word, but following in Substance.”
The Characters, as may be collected from the Titles to the Verses, are the Pope, Emperor, Cardinal, King, Patriarch, Constable, Archbishop, Baron, Princess, Bishop, Squire, Abbot, Abbess, Bailiff, Astronomer, Burgess, Canon Secular, Merchant, Chartreux, Serjeant, Monk, Usurer, Physician, Amorous Squire, Gentlewoman, Man of Law, Mr. John Rekill Tregetour, [i. e. Jugler. See the Glossary to Urry’s Chaucer, Art. Treget] Parson, Juror, Minstrel, Labourer, Friar Minor, Child, Young Clerk, Hermit, the King eaten of Worms, Machabree the Doctor.—Dugdale, P. 132, says that Carpenter was a Citizen of London, and that the Painting at St. Paul’s was in Imitation of that in the Cloister adjoining to St. Innocent’s Church-Yard, in Paris.