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painting and adorning a staircase for Madame GAVIU , in her house at Windsor , by his Maj . ' s direction , £ 150 . And more to him for his pension of £ 200 , granted by his Maj . for his extraordinary care and pains in painting and adorning- of his Maj . ' s Castle of Windsor , £ 2 , 600 . "— -Works at

Windsor 1 Oct ., 1680 , to 30 th- Sept ., 1682 . " Seignior Verrio , for painting and adorning St . George ' s Hall , in Windsor Castle , with several figures and other ornaments of painting , finding all Avorkmanship and colours ( the gilding Avork excepted ) , according to an agreement made by

him with the late Lord Arlington , for one year ending at Midsummer , 1683 , £ 1 , 000 . More to him for his pension , for tAvo years , at £ 200 per ami ., £ 400 . More to him by his Maj ' s appointment for painting and making seA ~ eral pictures over chimneys and doors in Madam Gvryn ' s house in

Windsor , £ 170 . More to him for extraordinary painting in St . George's Hall , more than his first , £ 250 . More to him for the cnstome of several tierces of wine , according to the directions of the Lords of his Maj ' Treasury , £ 50 . More to him by virtue of his Maj ' s t elated 25 June 1864 being

, , thereby constituted first ancl chief painter fo his Majy , with the salary of £ 200 per aim . " —Works at Windsor , 1 st Oct ., 1682 , to oOth September , 1684 .

" Seignior Verrio , for painting and adorning her Maj 3 Round Drawing-room or closet upon the lea . ds , at Windsor ( clone according to a design approved of by her Majesty ) , finding all Avorkmanship and colours , gilding excepted , £ 250 . " —Works at Windsor ,, 1 st Oct ., 1684 , to SOth Sept ., 1686 .

" Seignior Verrio , for painting , adorning , and finishing the remaining parts of the ceilings , sidewalk , ancl end-walls of King Henry VIII . 's Chapel , in Windsor Castle , according to an agreement made Avith him , for the sum of £ 1000 . " —Works at Windsor , 1 st Oct ., 1686 , to 25 th Sept ., 1688 .

A royal sign manual warrant , hither unpublished ( Audit Office Enrolments , vol . D , p . 439 ) , Avill be read Avith interest : "JAMES R ., " Whereas AA e have been graciously pleased , by a warr * unci 1 " Our Signet and Royall Signe Manuall

beareing date the xx 1 ' 1 day of March [ 1684-5 ] , in the first 3 ear of our Reigne to constitute the Sieur Antonio Verrio to "be our Chiefe and fjirst Painter , to enjoy the said place withe the sallary of Two hundred pounds per ami . : Our will ancl pleasure is that out of such our treasure as shall from

time to time be remayning in yo hands and custody , you pay or cause to be paid unto y said Sieur Antonio Verrio the said sallary of Two Hundred Pounds per ami . by equall quarterly payments , from Mich as IIOAV last dureing Our pleasure , aud the sume of Three Hundred pounds forthwith

for the yea-re and halfe which comenced at Ladyday , 1685 , and ended at Mich as last . And for so doeing this shal be yo warrant . Given at Our

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Court at Whitehall , the Sixteenth day of November , in the second yea-re of our Raigne , 1686 . " By his Ma command , " SUNDEELAND . " To our trusty and Avell-beloA r ecl " Edward Griffin , Esq .,

" Trea ' rer of Our Chamber , & c . " This is a reneAval ( consequent on a new reign ) of a like allowance of £ 200 made to Verrio by King Charles II ., on the 30 th July , 1680 ;* renewed hy William III ., and again renoAved by Queen Anne . Verrio left tAvo sons John Baptist and Francisco .

His will , Avhich I have seen , made , when " sick and weak of body , " is dated the day before his death . lie died Sunday , 17 th June , 1707 . When Avorking at Windsor , A ' errio AA as lodged in the house of Charles Bowles , Esq ., and the rent , £ 65 a-year , Avas paid by the CroAvn . f

When in London in 1675 and 1676 , he lived in Portugal-street ( IIOAV part of Piccadilly ) , OA er against St . James's Church , next but one eastward to Sir Thomas Clarges , and next but one Avest-Avard to the famous Sir William Vetty . % The grant to Verrio of a gold chain " of the

value of two hundred pounds or thereabouts , " was made by a Avarrant of the Lord Chamberlain to the Master of the Jewel House , dated 24 th January , 1676-7 . ^ PETER CUNNINGHAM , in the Builder .

Terra-Cotta And Luca Della Robbia Ware, Considered On The Principles Oe Decorative Art.

TERRA-COTTA AND LUCA DELLA ROBBIA WARE , CONSIDERED ON THE PRINCIPLES OE DECORATIVE ART .

BY D . ROCK , D . D . A Lecture delivered at the South Kensington Museum . Some five-and-thirty years ago , Avhen li \ ing- in the moorlands of Staffordshire , not many miles from the Potteries , it Avas my good fortune to

become acquainted with that amiable and able man , the late Herbert Minton , and whenever anything brought him to Alton Towers , or I happened to go to Stoke-upon-Treni , our couA ^ ersation , sooner or later , ahvays got upon the subject ' eA er uppermost in his thoughts , the potter's ancient ,

timehonoured art . His then ambition Avas to keep a place upon one of the topmost branches of the commercial tree , by manufacturing the finer sorts of hardware and porcelain , richly gilt and beautifully painted tea ancl dinner services in china , and other articles of household requirement . His first flight , in soaring after a higher kind , Avas the pro-