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a broadside panegyric

Peake, Robert (active 1635-died 1667) Robert (later Sir Robert) Peake was son of the print publisher William Peake. In 1635 he and William jointly published The Booke of five Columnes at their house near Holborn Conduit. On William's death in 1639 (Edmonds, Burlington Magazine, 118 (1976), p. 79), Robert inherited and continued the business. He published the finest prints of the early 1640s: sixteen early Faithorne plates, as well as one by Glover (Hind III 233.22), Edward Pierce's set of friezes of 1640, Hollar's set of three-quarter-length Seasons of 1641 (Pennington 610-3), and several portraits of personalities in the Civil War, many as small ovals that were probably used as badges of allegiance. In a letter to Pepys of 26 September 1690, Evelyn stated that the man 'who had the most choice' of prints was Mr Peake of Holborn Conduit (H.C. Levis, Extracts from the Diaries and Correspondence of J. Evelyn and S. Pepys relating to Engraving (1915), p. 84). Peake was associated with Archbishop Laud in the production of a set of small plates designed to illustrate Bibles (see G.Henderson, 'Bible illustration in the age of Laud', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 8 (1982), pp. 178ff.). In 1642 Peake closed his business in order to join the Royalist army. He arrived at Basing House as Lieutenant-Colonel on 31 July 1643 with William Faithorne serving as his ensign. As a soldier Robert had a glittering career, which culminated in his being knighted by Charles I at Oxford on 27 March 1645 (Vertue I p. 71 from Symonds ms). In October he was taken prisoner at the siege of Basing House, and a box of unspecified copper plates was found among his possessions. He was first imprisoned at Winchester House, then in Aldersgate, and was later exiled for refusing to take the oath of allegiance to Cromwell. He returned to England at an unknown time, and became vice-president and leader of the Honourable Artillery Company. He died in 1667, and was buried in St Sepulchre's. His will (Edmonds p. 133) shows that he had wished to spend the vast sum of £500 on his funeral, but that the Great Fire had consumed his 'houses and tenements at Holborn Conduitt' so that he had to reduce the sum to £200. His fame was such that a broadside panegyric was published on his death (BL 82 l.8(27)).

Peake, William (fl. 1626-died 1639) All previous writings on the Peake family have been made obsolete by Mary Edmond, who has worked out the family tree ('Limners and Picturemakers', Walpole Society, 47 (1978-80), pp. 129-33). She shows that there were three generations of the family in the publishing business. The eldest was the well-known painter Robert Peake (c.1551-1619), who held the position of Serjeant-Painter to James I jointly with John de Critz, and was also painter to Prince Henry. It was he who leased a house at Holborn Conduit from the Saddlers' Company, whence he published a number of books, such as the 1611 translation of Serlio's First Book of Architecture, which he dedicated to Prince Henry (Harris cat.817). The blocks used to illustrate this were imported from the Continent where they had first been used in Antwerp c.1540. William was his eldest son, and was also trained as a painter. Like all generations of the family he was a freeman of the Goldsmiths' Company. On his father's death in 1619 he inherited the shop at Holborn Conduit next to the Sun Tavern at the bottom of Snow Hill. Although he presumably took over his father's illustrated book publishing business, there are no signs of his acting as a publisher of single sheet prints before 1626. His address appears on a large number of ex-Humble plates. One of them (Hind II 265.45) has a date 1626 which suggests that the transfer took place in this year. In 1635 the engraver William Faithorne was apprenticed to him, and at an unknown earlier date the painter William Dobson. William published various sets of Senses, Complexions, Worthies etc. by Cecill and Glover.

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more sulphure for Basing...

 

As for Civil Structures,  Basing, built by the first Marquess of Winchester, was the greatest of any Subjects House in England, yea larger than most (Eagles have not the biggest Nests of all Birds) of the Kings Palaces. The Motto Love Loyaltie, was often written in every window thereof, and was well practised in it, when for resistance on that account, it was lately levelled to the Ground.

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What blood was shed at  Basing, after they

Had spent their sury, with their pois'nous breath:
And wanted strength unto their wills to slay,
But promis'd quarter! let the harmless earth
It fell on, witness! may it ne'er forsake
That tincture, untill Heav'n enquiry make.

Select and choice poems collected out of the labours of Captain George Wharton.

Date: 1661

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Charles Landseer / The plundering of Basing House / exhibited 1836 [Tate]
Nothing can be more true or pathetic than Charles Landseer's picture of this event. Two hundred royalists were taken prisoners, one hundred were slain. Of the latter there were counted in the house, immediately after the assault, seventy-four men and one young lady. She was the daughter of a clergyman, Dr. Griffiths."She came," says Mr. Peters, Cromwell's messenger to the Commons, "railing against our soldiers for their rough carriage towards her father," whom even Peters acknowledges they used "hardly," i.e. "cruelly," on account of his being a clergyman; and when the daughter interfered to save her tortured parent, the wretched Roundheads killed her. "Her two sisters and six or seven other ladies of rank were permitted to escape without serious injury."

 XXXV. Doctor Griffiths Daughter, who though a Female, yet of a Masculine spirit, and for her Loyalty deserving a large share amongst those Notable Hero's slain in the Kings service; this Amazonian Lady (whose praise cannot be sufficiently celebrated) in the foresaid storm at  Basing House, was by the barbarity of the Enemies killed, and shame|fully left naked; a trophy of their Baseness, and her own eternal Renown and Honour.

Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.
Title: The loyall martyrology, or, Brief catalogues and characters of the most eminent persons who suffered for their conscience during the late times of rebellion either by death, imprisonment, banishment, or sequestration together with those who were slain in the Kings service : as also dregs of treachery : with the catalogue and characters of those regicides who sat as judges on our late dread soveraign of ever blessed memory : with others of that gang, most eminent for villany / by William Winstanley.
Date: 1665

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porta dei cieli

william faithorne

‘The Embleme of Englands distractions as also of her attained, and further expected Freedome, & Happines’ (1658), traditionally known as ‘Cromwell between Two Pillars’

 

The Wilkinson Head of Oliver Cromwell and Its Relationship to Busts, Masks and Painted Portraits

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whoever shall come for brick or for stone shall freely have the same for his pains
Commons Journals IV 309


La Dialectique Peut-Elle Casser Des Briques?



Hylomorphism
Aristotle -  clay is matter relative to a brick because a brick is made of clay, whereas bricks are matter relative to a brick house.
Aquinas - tiny pieces of brick remain in existence when the house goes out of existence... there can be no fireplace if the surrounding house has been torn down. We might say this pile of bricks once was the chimney, we cannot say that it is the chimney... characterised as a brick it still exists...

http://www.themasonictrowel.com/Articles/General/other_files/an_operative_bricklayer_builds_speculative_wall.htm

6.4 The Knocks

You will notice in the laying of the blocks you always hear the ringing of the trowel. This is music to the Brickie's ears since it indicates bricklayers at work which means money, security, and the good things of life. In like manner the knocks in a speculative lodge when heard outside the door indicate that the speculative masons are at work .... There is a certain rythem to the knocks. In the first degree they always remind me of the pound pound pound of an apprentice .... But by the time they get to the Third Degree they carry the sound of Mozart's Magic Flute .... And have the characteristic of a Master Mason lightly touching the block into its appointed place.

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