4. Roger of Brussels, otherwise called Roger Vander Weyde,
Was the author of those memorable representations of Justice which are to be seen in the Town-Hall of Brussels: The 1st of which represents the Emperor Trajan in his expe∣dition against the Dacians at the head of his Army, doing Justice upon the complaint of a poor Woman, against a Soldi∣er that had murthered her son; The Woman appears prostrate at the Emperor's feet, demanding Justice, with a counte∣nance that expresses a grief sufficient to excite compassion in the most obdurate, in the Emperor is to be seen a Severe Majestick air, that makes his looks terrible, yet seeming moved at the importunity of the afflicted mother, causes the Soldier to be brought forth, in whose face appears the: marks of his guilt, and the tokens of death; The hangman with a fierce and savage look standing by ready to execute the sentence of death to be pronounced against him. In another, you behold an aged person, pale and languishing on a purple bed, yet as if wrath supplied force to his feeble limbs, He seems, as it were, to start up half naked, and with eyes, though half dead, yet sparkling with indignation, and gnashing his teeth, he catches by the hair of the head fast hold of a young man of goodly Aspect, and furiously strikes him to the heart with a Dagger. One would presently imagine the old man, of the two, to be the Criminal; But the truth of the story will make it appear otherwise: For, Archambraut Prince of Brabant understanding that his Nephew and Heir had ravished a young woman, he commanded his Judges to proceed to punish him according to the severity of the Law; but they slightly passed it over, be∣cause the Criminal was not only the next Heir, but upon the point of succeeding his dying Ʋncle. This neglect of theirs so provoked Archambraut, that having concealed his indigna∣tion for some time, and finding his end approaching, he sent for the young Prince to his bed side, and seeming, as if he had somthing to impart to him concerning his succession, he seized upon him as you have heard, and stabbed him to expiate his Crime with his blood: This famous Painter died in the year 1529.