tapestry the king paid thirty pounds to Thomas de
Hebenhith, mercer of London. ("Wardrobe accounts of Edward
II."--"Archaeologia," vol. xxvi. p. 344.)

[440] Will of the Black Prince, in Nichols, "A Collection of Wills,"
London, 1780, 4to; inventory of the books of Falstofe (who died under
Henry VI.), "Archaeologia," vol. xxi. p. 232; in one single castle
belonging to him, that of Caister near Yarmouth, were found after his
death 13,400 ounces of silver. Already, in the thirteenth century, Henry
III., who had a passion for art, had caused to be painted in his chamber
in the Tower the history of Antioch (3rd crusade), and in his palace of
Clarendon that "Pas de Saladin" which was the subject of one of the
Black Prince's tapestries; he had a painting of Jesse on the mantelpiece
of his chimney at Westminster. (Hardy, "A description of the close rolls
in the Tower," London, 1833, 8vo, p. 179, and Devon, "Issues of the
Exchequer," 1837, p. 64.) He was so fond of the painting executed for
him at Clarendon, that he ordered it to be covered with a linen cloth in
his absence, so that it would not get injured. In the fourteenth century
the walls were hung instead of being painted, as in the thirteenth; rich
people had "salles"--that is to say, suits of hangings for a room.
Common ones were made at Norwich; the finest came from Flanders.

[441] These recipes and counsels are found in: "The forme of Cury, a
roll of ancient English cookery compiled about A.D. 1390, by the
master-cook of King Richard II.," ed. Pegge, London, 1780, 8vo (found
too in the "Antiquitates Culinariae," of Warner, 1791, 4to). The prologue
informs us that this master-cook of Richard's had been guided by
principle, and that the book "was compiled by assent and avysement of
maisters [of] phisik and of philosophie that dwellid in his
court."--"The boke of Nurture folowyng Englondis gise by me John
Russell," ed. Furnivall, Early English Text Society, 1868, 8vo. Russell
was marshal of the hall to Humphrey, duke of Gloucester; he wrote when
he was old, in the first part of the fifteenth century; as he claims to
teach the traditions and good manners of former times, it must be
supposed the customs he describes date from the reign of Richard II. See
below, p. 515.

[442] Year 1363. The "aignel" and the "gopil" are, however, tolerated.
"Rotuli Parliamentorum," vol. ii. p. 281.

[443] "Issues of the Exchequer," ed. Devon, 1837, pp. 142, 147, 189,
209, 6 Ed. III. R