Note 341 — THE TRIUMPHS OF LOVE AND ANTIQUITY.
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Crismas] Or Christmas.—“At the end of this [pageant,—Heywood’s Londini Artium et Scientiarum Scaturigo, &c. 1632] is a panegyric on Maister Gerard Christmas, for bringing the pageants and figures to such great perfection both in symmetry and substance, being before but unshapen monsters, made only of slight wicker and paper. This man designed Aldersgate, and carved the equestrian statue of James I. there, and the old piece of Northumberland house.” Biog. Dram., vol. iii. p. 118.