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 290 ENGLISH MEDIEVAL EMBROIDERY. patterns of their predecessors. Hence may be seen a per- petual recurrence of the same rudimental forms. In Tudor and Jacobean carving this is strikingly perceptible ; all the outlines of this are in reality but variations of particular figures, just as the caprice or imitative ability of the artist prompted him to make the alteration. So also in the con- ventional patterns' painted on quarries of glass, or in those depicted on the bases of rood skreens, or on embroidered garments, the same kind of repetition is observable. Thus to take an illustration from the needlework of the countess of Shrewsbury, (for the same principle pervades this EMBROIDERY, HARDWICK HALL, DERBTSHTRE, and every other kind of medieval art,) and this particular branch is more immediately apposite to the present subject, her framed, it may probably with stricter propriety be said, her sampler