. Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze . Fig. 19.—House of Peter Bladelin, Bruges it might retain some of the traffic which was passing awayto Sluys. He had fortified the town and built himself acastle there, and when the fall of Dinant happened he in-duced a colony of Dinantois to settle in it. Such was hisinfluence with the English king, who possibly visited Middel-burg in 1468 when he was at Damme for the marriage ofhis sister Margaret of York with Charles the Bold, that he. ILAIE A FOXT, S. AIARTIX, IL\L THE NETHERLANDS 75 obtained from him
. Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze . Fig. 19.—House of Peter Bladelin, Bruges it might retain some of the traffic which was passing awayto Sluys. He had fortified the town and built himself acastle there, and when the fall of Dinant happened he in-duced a colony of Dinantois to settle in it. Such was hisinfluence with the English king, who possibly visited Middel-burg in 1468 when he was at Damme for the marriage ofhis sister Margaret of York with Charles the Bold, that he. ILAIE A FOXT, S. AIARTIX, IL\L THE NETHERLANDS 75 obtained from him a charter, which was confirmed at West-minster in November 1470, conferring on the batteurs ofMiddelburg the right to import their wares, free of duty,into England. It is sad to relate that the quarrelsome spiritof the Dinantois had not been cured by the fate of theirnative city, and they began to mix themselves up in thetroubles of their neighbours, and they so provoked theBrugeois that they, in 1488, attacked and dismantled thetown. The sea retired still further away, and this completedits ruin ; and now, save for its great church, it has little todistinguish it from the surrounding hamlets, and few mapseven record its name. Towards the end of the fifteenth century we have twofine pieces of work, the authorship of which we know tobe due to William le Fevre, a founder of Tournay ; one is thelectern in the Church of S. Gislain, near Mons, made in 1472,and the other the font of Hal, of which we give an illustration(Pla
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