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ESSAY. 7
And afterwards,
" I needfeth not you more to tellen,
Of these yates flourishings,
Ke of compaces ne of carvings,
Ne how the hacking in masonries^
As corbetts and imageriesf."
And in an old poem, called Pierce the Plow-
mans Creede, written perhaps before Chau-
cer's, where the author is describing an abbey-
cliurch:
" Than I munte me forth the minstre for to knowen.
And awayted a woon, wonderly well ybild;
With arches on everich half, and beliyche ycorven
With crochctes on corneres, with knottes of gold.
Wyd windowes ywrought, ywriten full thicke.
Tombes upon tabernacles, tyld opon loft.
Housed in homes, harde sett abouten
Of armed aiabaustre."-------
These innovations, at length, were most
beautifully displayed in the roof of the divi-
nity school at Oxford, which began to be built
1427. The university, in their letters to
Kempe, bishop of London, quoted by Wood %
speak of this edifice as one of the miracles of
the age: they mention particularly, " Orna-
menta ad naturalis coeli imaginem variis pic-
turis, subtilique artificio, caelata; valvarum
B. iii. fol. 267, verso, col. 2.
Hist. Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. ii. p.. 22.
And afterwards,
" I needfeth not you more to tellen,
Of these yates flourishings,
Ke of compaces ne of carvings,
Ne how the hacking in masonries^
As corbetts and imageriesf."
And in an old poem, called Pierce the Plow-
mans Creede, written perhaps before Chau-
cer's, where the author is describing an abbey-
cliurch:
" Than I munte me forth the minstre for to knowen.
And awayted a woon, wonderly well ybild;
With arches on everich half, and beliyche ycorven
With crochctes on corneres, with knottes of gold.
Wyd windowes ywrought, ywriten full thicke.
Tombes upon tabernacles, tyld opon loft.
Housed in homes, harde sett abouten
Of armed aiabaustre."-------
These innovations, at length, were most
beautifully displayed in the roof of the divi-
nity school at Oxford, which began to be built
1427. The university, in their letters to
Kempe, bishop of London, quoted by Wood %
speak of this edifice as one of the miracles of
the age: they mention particularly, " Orna-
menta ad naturalis coeli imaginem variis pic-
turis, subtilique artificio, caelata; valvarum
B. iii. fol. 267, verso, col. 2.
Hist. Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. ii. p.. 22.