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et in omnibus tractentur, reputentur etteneantur ut veri et fideles ligei nostri infra regnuin nostrum oriundi," &c. Patent Roll, 6 H.VIII., pt. 1, m. 14.

A saving clause at the end of the document left Flower liable to pay the customs and duties payable by a foreigner upon any goods imported or exported by him into or out of the country.

2. At the time when he thus became naturalized in England Flower was already in the service of the Crown. Henry VII. died on April 21, 1509, and the payments made on Henry VIII. 's behalf at the follow- ing Michaelmas included a sum of 121. which " Barnard Flowre " received as his " half-year's wages " (' L. and P.,' vol. ii. p. 1443). It seems reasonable therefore to infer that he was one of Henry VII. 's servants whom Henry VIII. retained on his accession to the throne. Moreover, Mr. W. R. Lethaby appears to have met with " an account of Bernard Flower's," relating to his work for Henry VII. at Westminster and Greenwich from 1500 to 1502. See ' Westminster Abbey and the Kings' Crafts- men ' (1906), p. 238. I do not, however, find Flower's name indexed in the printed ' Calendars ' to the Patent Rolls of 1485- 1509. In November, 1512, he was paid 23?. 11s. 4d. for glazing " Our Lady Chapel, Walsingham " (' L. and P.,' vol. ii. p. 1458).

3. For reasons which I will mention later Barnard Flower's death has been assigned by more than one writer tenta- tively to 1525 or 1526. But he really died

'in 1517, between July 25, the date of his will, and Aug. 14, the day on which probate of the will was granted at Lambeth (P.C.C., 32 Holder) to his widow Ede or Edy. See Mr. Challenor Smith's ' Index of " P.C.C. Wills, 1383-1558,' vol. i. (1893). He is described in the will, which is in English, as "Barnard Floure,the Kinges glasyerof England, dwelling within the precynt of Saint Thomas the martir hospitall in the Burgh of Southwerk in the county of Surry,"

and he desired to be buried in the Chapel of the Holy Trinity within the church of the said Hospital. He bequeathed 2s. to the High Altar of the church, and 3s. 4.d. to the fraternity of the chapel, and gave two sums of 20s. each to the Friars Observants at Greenwich and Richmond, in order that prayers for his soul might be said at both places. The rest of his property was to go in equal shares to his wife and his sons " Fraunces" and Lucas. He appointed his wife as sole executrix, and requested his "brothers-in-lawe " Nicholas Dyrrik and Peter Huskyn to act as overseers of the will.

4. Upon Flower's death the office which he had held of the Crown was conferred upon Galyon Hone, for " Galyon, the King's glazier, " is mentioned in a document of 1517 (' L. and P.,' vol. ii. p. 1208, No. 3862). Sir William St. John Hope, in his great book on ' Windsor Castle,' which was published in 1913, called him, at p. 250, " Galyan Hoon, a Fleming or Dutchman," but cited no record that proves this craftsman's nationality. The Patent Rolls, however, provide us with two. On Aug. 15, 1532, Hone was licensed to keep in his service four journeymen or covenant servants, besides the two allowed by the statute 14 & 15 H. VIII., and on Mar. 5, 1534/5, he, like Flower before him, received letters of denization. In the first of these docu- ments the grant is

" dilecto seryienti nostro Galieno Hone, vitriario nostro, alienigene, nato in partibus hollond' sub obedienciam imperatoris, utenti predicta arte sive mistera mechanica vocata a Glasours crafte ";

and the second, though it is merely a memorandum of the grant, adds the in- formation that he was

" alias dictus Galienus Hone de Southwerk in comitatu Surrie Glasyer."

See Patent Rolls 24 H. VIII., pt. 1, m. 17, and 26 H. VIII., pt. 2, m. 42 (' L. and P.,' vol. v. p. 550, and vol. viii. p. 186). We know that Hone, like Flower, dwelt within the precinct of St. Thomas's Hospital, because one of the lesser charges of mis- conduct which were brought against the Master of the Hospital (Richard Mabot) in 1536 (' L. and P.,' vol. xi. No. 168) was that he had robbed Hone's garden of about 60 young bay trees. For Hone's work at Hampton Court Palace see Mr. Ernest Law's ' History ' of the palace, vol. i. (1885), pp. 160, 349, 351, 356.

5. The work of glazing the windows of King's College Chapel at Cambridge, which had been entrusted to Flower, was brought by his death in 1517 to a temporary stand- still. It was apparently not resumed until a contract, dated April 30, 1526, had been obtained from Galyon Hone and other glaziers with him, and by this contract the work had to be done " after suche maner as oon Barnard Flower Glasyer late deceessed by indenture stode bounde to doo." The words " late deceessed " were the basis of the idea to which I have already alluded, that Flower died in 1525 or 1526. See Willis and Clark's ' Architectural History of the University of Cambridge,' vol. i. (1886), pp. 498-500.. 615. H. C.

Winchester College.