The art of dravving vvith the pen, and limming in water colours more exactlie then heretofore taught and enlarged with the true manner of painting vpon glasse, the order of making your furnace, annealing, &c. Published, for the behoofe of all young gentlemen, or any els that are desirous for to become practicioners in this excellent, and most ingenious art, by H. Pecham., gent.

The manner of Annealing and painting vpon glasse. CHAP. I.

AS there haue been of late years ma∣ny artes inuented, and others, that in a manner laie rude and vnregarded, through the industry of our times growne to ful perfection: So I make no question on the other side, but di∣uers by our Idlenes & negligence are vtterly lost and forgotten; that I may alledge one in stead of the rest, I would know what Lapidarie, or any els could shew mee the art of casting that marble, where of wee see many fayre and beautifull pillars in Westminster, Lincolne, Peterborough; &c, and in many places whole pauements, as in Saint Albanes Abbey, Gor∣manchester, &c; surely I think not any: And what hath been in greater request then good workmanship in glasse, when scarce now any maie bee found (excepte some few in Londō, and they perhaps dutchmen to) that haue but the ordinary skill of annealing and

laying their colours: verily I am perswaded, if our forefat hers had knowne, how little we regarded ei∣ther their deuotion or cost in painting glasse win∣dowes, they would haue spared their mony, to some better purpose; nay if we would in many places imi∣tate them so farre, as but to allow our Churches and Chappels glasse, it were wel; where many times you shall see whole panes (whereof some haue carried the names of their deuout and religious founders; o∣thers the royal coates either of our auncient kinges of this land, their Allies, or of the benefactors and Lords of that place, monuments many times of great importance,) for want of repaire partly beene beaten downe by the weather, partly by ouer pre∣cise parsōs & vicars, (as one in Northamptonshire did in his chauncel, the armes of King Edward the 3. and the dukes of Yorke and Clarence, taking them for images,) and the windowes stopt vp with strawe and sedge, or damd vp quite, a regard I confes hath been had of these abuses, but I feare me a great deal too late.

The best workmanship that may be seene in Eng∣land at this daie in glasse, is in K. Colledge Chappel in Cambridge, containing (as they say) the whole history both of the old and new testament, the next to that in Henry the seuenths Chapel at Westmin∣ster the one finished, the other wholly builte by the said religious King. There are many good peeces els in diuers other places, as Canterbury, Lin∣colne, &c: vnto which being drawne by their own antiquitye, and loue of arte, I haue in a manner

gone in pilgrimage, neither, as I thought, loosing my labour, since I can shew almost 8 hundred seuerall auncient coates, which out of old and decaied win∣dowes, I haue entertained from the iniury of rude hands, and fowle weather.