“Parcels delivered to Mr. Secretary by me, Cornelys Hayes, goldsmith. A silver cradle, price 16_li._ For making a silver plate, altering the images, making the roses underneath the cradle, the roses about the pillars, and new burnishing, 13_s._ 4_d._ For the stones that were set in gold in the cradle, 15_s._; for fringes, the gold about the cushions, tassels, white satin, cloth of gold, lining, sypars, and swadyl-bands, 13_s._ 6_d._ Total, 18_li._ 1_s._ 10_d._ The silver that went to the dressing of the Adam and Eve, the making of all the apples, the gilding of the foot and setting of the currall (coral), 33_s._ 4_d._ To Hance, painter, for painting the same Adam and Eve, 20_s._”[200] Other items are included in the account which need not be quoted. Footnote 200: _C.L.P._, vol. vii. 1668. The “Hance, painter,” who supplied this picture of “Adam and Eve,” was undoubtedly Holbein, who was acquainted with Hayes, as we learn from Bourbon’s letter, and for whom he almost certainly provided designs for jewellery.[201] The document is not very clear, and on a first reading it would appear that the “Adam and Eve” formed part of the decoration of the cradle; but it is more probable that it had nothing to do with it, but was a separate piece of work, either a picture or a carving in wood, honestone, or alabaster, which Holbein was employed to colour; possibly the latter, as the fee paid, twenty shillings, was a small one for an original painting from his brush. Whether picture or carving, it was evidently set in a very elaborate silver frame, decorated with silver apples in relief, as appropriate to the subject it contained, and with coral inset. No trace of this work remains, but the possibility that Holbein’s share in it was a small picture recalls that earlier “Adam and Eve” of the first Basel years, which, as already noted,[202] bears a considerable resemblance to the heads in the picture of the same subject by Mabuse in Hampton Court. Footnote 201: The same paper contains an item for “the garnishing of two books with silver-gilt, 66 oz. at 6_s._,” which recalls Holbein’s designs in the British Museum for work of a similar kind. The velvet for covering them was supplied by William Lock, the leading London mercer, at a cost of 43_s._ 9_d._ Footnote 202: See Vol. i. p. 56. [Sidenote: PORTRAITS OF HENRY VIII]