. William Shakespere : a biography. i^Chapel of the Guild, and Grammar School; Street Front.] The interior now presents nothing very remarkable. But upon a general repairof the Chapel in 1804, beneath the whitewash of successive generations wasdiscovered a series of most remarkable paintings, some in that portion of thebuilding erected by Sir Hugh Clopton, and others in the far more ancientChancel. A very elaborate series of coloured engravings has been publisluMlfrom these paintings, from drawings made at the time of their discovery by WILLIAM SlIAKSlEKE : Mr. Thomas Fisher. There can be litt
. William Shakespere : a biography. i^Chapel of the Guild, and Grammar School; Street Front.] The interior now presents nothing very remarkable. But upon a general repairof the Chapel in 1804, beneath the whitewash of successive generations wasdiscovered a series of most remarkable paintings, some in that portion of thebuilding erected by Sir Hugh Clopton, and others in the far more ancientChancel. A very elaborate series of coloured engravings has been publisluMlfrom these paintings, from drawings made at the time of their discovery by WILLIAM SlIAKSlEKE : Mr. Thomas Fisher. There can be little doubt, from the defacement of some ofthe paintings, that they were partially destroyed by violenqe, and all attemptedto be obliterated in the progress of the Reformation. But that outbreak of zealdid not belong to the first periods of religious change ; and it is most probablethat these paintings were existing in the early years of Elizabeths reign. Whentlie five priests of the guild were driven from their home and their means o
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