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[Illustration: _London Bridge and the Tower._
_from a MS. of the Poems of Charles, Duke of Orleans. British Museum._]
_By_ WILLIAM BENHAM, D.D., F.S.A. _Rector of St. Edmund the King, Lombard Street, and Honorary Canon of Canterbury_,
CHARLES WELCH, F.S.A. _Librarian to the Corporation of London_.
LONDON SEELEY AND CO. LIMITED, GREAT RUSSELL STREET NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1901
LONDON BRIDGE AND THE TOWER. From a Manuscript of the Poems of Charles, duke of Orleans. British Museum, 16 F. ii. _Frontispiece_
A TOURNAMENT. From a Manuscript of the Romance of the Sire Jehan de Saintre. British Museum, Nero D. ix. _P._ 10
RICHARD II. RIDING OUT OF LONDON TO THE WAR IN IRELAND. From a Manuscript of Froissart's Chronicles. British Museum, Harl. 4380. _P._ 18
RICHARD II. DELIVERED BY BOLINBROKE TO THE CITIZENS OF LONDON. From a Manuscript of the Metrical History of Richard II. British Museum, Harl. 1319. _P._ 34
THE FUNERAL OF RICHARD II. From a Manuscript of Froissart's Chronicles. British Museum, Harl. 4380. _P._ 74
THE PRINCIPAL PARTS OF A PEN DRAWING OF LONDON FROM WESTMINSTER TO GREENWICH, BY ANTONIE VAN DEN WYNGAERDE. Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Of this Flemish artist very little is known. There exists a rescript of Philip II. addressed to Margaret of Parma, regent of the Low Countries, giving him permission to remove with his goods and to settle in Spain, from which it is supposed that he was in the King's service. The drawing was made, probably for Philip, before the fall of the spire of St. Paul's in 1561. It is unfinished, blank spaces being left for Whitehall, Bridewell, and some other buildings. There are also memoranda on the drawing which show that the artist intended to colour it, leaden roofs, for instance, being marked "blau." The Bodleian Library possesses forty-seven other drawings of his, two of which are here reproduced: one of Whitehall, intended no doubt to fill the blank space in the large view, and one of Greenwich Palace from the Observatory Hill, which is coloured in a simple manner. It is not improbable that Wyngaerde left England on the death of Queen Mary. A copy of the drawing of London, much altered and embellished, was made and engraved by N. Whittock in 1849.