Hans Holbein the younger . ing in his time in the Closet at Kensington Palace. There is a miniature of Godsalve in the Bodleian Library. The father, Thomas Godsalve, who died in 1542, was registrar ofthe consistory court at Norwich, and the owner of landed propertyin Norfolk. He was an intimate friend of Thomas Cromwell. In aletter to the latter, dated Norwich, November 6, 1531, after thankingCromwell for kindnesses shown to his son, he says : I send you halfa dozen swans of my wifes feeding ;3 and a year or two later hesends six swans and a maund with pears of my own grafting. 4The son, John
Hans Holbein the younger . ing in his time in the Closet at Kensington Palace. There is a miniature of Godsalve in the Bodleian Library. The father, Thomas Godsalve, who died in 1542, was registrar ofthe consistory court at Norwich, and the owner of landed propertyin Norfolk. He was an intimate friend of Thomas Cromwell. In aletter to the latter, dated Norwich, November 6, 1531, after thankingCromwell for kindnesses shown to his son, he says : I send you halfa dozen swans of my wifes feeding ;3 and a year or two later hesends six swans and a maund with pears of my own grafting. 4The son, John Godsalve, who died in 1556, became Clerk of the Signetto Henry VIII, and was present at the siege of Boulogne. He wasknighted at the coronation of Edward VI, and a year or two laterwas made Comptroller of the Mint. Various letters from him are 1 Woltmann, i. 345. 2 Norfolk, vii. 214. 3 , v. 514. « , vii. 1189 (25th Sept. 1534). I ,.] Vol. I., Plate 84 THOMAS AND JOHN GODSALVE1528 Royal Picture Gallery, Dresden. PORTRAIT OF NIKLAUS KRATZER 327 included in the Calendars of State Papers. In one of them (1533),addressed to Eustace, clerk of the works at Hampton Court, he appearsin the character of a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles/ Sendme, he writes, as many golden balls as you can conveniently pro-cure, and such fanes (vanes ?) and other things at your pleasure. Helpthe bearer into the spicery to have an antique which I left there ; ofwhich he has the key. Send me also the head under the stair, andwhatsoever other things your gentle heart can lovingly depart from. *John Godsalve had some connection with the Steelyard, a number ofwhose merchants were painted by Holbein, for in November 1532,he and one William Blakenhall received a grant in survivorship ofthe office of common meter of all cloths of gold and silver tissue, tynsett, satin, damask, and other cloths and canvas of aliens andothers called foreyns, alias le Stilliarde, in the city of London,with the usual f
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