164 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i 2 s.ix.A TO .27,i92i. Robert (free 1564, died 1620) and Roger and other artists of the first half of the Thompson (free 158C), his grandsons or fifteenth century. William Thompson was grandnephews. Chamberlain of the city in 1526 (Skaife Willelmus Thomson, glasier. Free of the j MS., Lord Mayors and Sheriffs, in York city 1496. Probably brother of Richard Public Library). He made his will (Reg. Thompson (free 1492). Wife, Agnes. In D. and C. Ebor. 2, fol. 184d) on April 11, his will' he 'mentions his brother " Nicoles," j 1539, desiring to be "buried in the West also his " brother " ( ? brother-in-law) Thomas Browne ; " William, the said Thomas Browne ende of the churche d'edycate in the memorie of Saint Michaell called Belframe." To his son," and Robert Browne, probably another j brother " Nicoles " and his brother ( ? brother- nephew. His workmen were Ambrose I in-law) Thomas Browne a gown or a jacket Dunwith (free of the city 1517), Laurence | each, and to his nephews, William and Spencer (free of the city 153,3), Thomas j Robert Browne xija each. " To Saynt Nicholson, and Thomas Lelemaia. Richard j JohnGilde may ntened with taillers iijs iiij d ." Pille (free 1510) was either his partner or To Richard Pille (free 1510), who, as another workman, but as Pille had a son, show j n above, was probably his partner Sir Thomas, in Holy Orders, and shortly j and whom he made supervisor of his will, before the year 1543* Was in business for his " boke of portitour," evidently a sketch himself, the former is the more likely. There book of details of figure and ornament can be little doubt that William Thompson | copied from the work of other artists ; or was the artist who executed the windows | figure and landscape sketches done as an of St. Michael-le-Belfrey Church, built in j aid in his work or for amusement. Parallel 1528 and the two or three following years J examples to the above are to be found in
- during the very period of the Reformation, | Valentin Bouch, glass-painter of Metz
and said by Parker to be the last church! (died 1451), bequeathing to "his old erected in the Gothic style in England, j workman " Herman Foliq " twelve pieces Robert Petty, the last of that great family of portraiture of Italy or of Albert " (Le of glass-painters With whom Thompson most j Vieil, 'L' Art de la Peinture sur Verre,' probably learnt his trade, had die.d in 1528 p. 95), and Robert Preston the glass- whilst the church was being built and before j painter of York (vide ' N. & Q.,' 12 S. viii. it would be ready to receive its glass. Thomp- 1 486-487) leaving, in 1503, " to Robert Begge, son was not only the principal glass-painter ' my prentese (free 1504), all my bookes that of his day, but moreover lived in the parish | is fitte for one prentesse of his crafi'te to and desired to be buried in the church. ! lerne by." To Richard Pille, as well as The windows were evidently being painted | to his workmen Ambrose Dunwith, Law- between the years 1528 and 1536, when items j rence Spenser, Thomas Nicolson, and of payments for the white and coloured Bur- j Thomas Leleman, William Thompson be- gundy glass used appear in the Fabric Rolls ! queathed severally a complete outfit con- of the Minster; whilst one window, which | sisting of " one warke borde, a pare of moldes unfortunately no longer exists, was dated I (for casting lead calmes and strips of solder), 1537; i.e., previous to the date of William I a pare of sheres and a pare of clawmes Thompson's death, in 1539. These win- 1 (clamps for fastening the two hinged sides dows, although they were actually being j of the casting-moulds together whilst the painted at the very time Galyon Hone and ! molten metal was being run in)." In addi- others were at work on those for King's tion to the above, Leleman was given a College, Cambridge, show hardly any traces "moller" for grinding the glass enamel of Renaissance feeling, except in the letters! and Nicolson " a gold moller." of the monograms of the different donors and the true-lovers' knots surrounding them. The technique of the painting is generally coarse and brutal, and shows This last, if not a mistake, is very remark- able as being a very early reference to the so-called " purple of Cassius," or gold precipi- tate, used in the production of a rose-coloured 1 i /. ,1 i . . UCoUt7 LIOC'^A XIX UJLJ.U IJX V/V4. IAV-* UAV^AX Wi CW A Jf3-t ~s J* S ^IJ. ^V-l as much degeneracy from the work attri- ename l and gold pink glass, the discovery of buted to the Pettys as their work .declined j which ig ge * nera {i y attributed to Andrew from the standard of that of the Chambers i Cassius Qr ^ son / who bore the same name,
- In this year a lease was granted of " one | some time about the middle of the seven-
(feeporia "t^ % 5 ! '-nth century. There is however a recipe tions pub. by'H.M. Stationery Office, ' N. & Q,' f r preparing it in a fifteenth- century- MS. 11 S. xii., Dec. 11, 1915.) | in the library of the Convent of S. Salvatore
