Trustie and welbeloved Wee greete you well. Where we are informed of a Table of painting in yo{r} Hall wherein is the Picture of o{r} Predecesso{r} of famous memorie K. Henry the 8{th}, together with diverse of yo{r} Companie, w{ch} being both like him, and well done, Wee are desirous to have copyed. Wherfore o{r} pleasure is that you presently deliver it unto this bearer Our Welbeloved Servant S{r} Lionell Cranfield Knight, One of Our Maisters of Requests, whome Wee have commaunded to receave it of you and to see it w{th} all expedition copied and redelivered safely; and so Wee bid you farewell. Given at Our Court at Newmarket the 13{th} day of Januarie 1617.[83] [83] _i.e._, 1617/8. The Court of course agreed to lend the picture, though doubtless with some misgivings; contrary however to the practice of the time when money was “lent” to the King, it found its way back to the Hall. In 1627, Charles I, a more suspicious borrower than his father, had it to Whitehall, but here again we fortunately had it returned. The Royal College of Surgeons possess some Cartoons, from which, it has been said, this picture was painted; this is, however, very doubtful. Some particulars as to these Cartoons may be seen in Mr. D’Arcy Power’s book, p. 96. In 1734 the Company agreed with Mr. Bernard Baron for him to engrave the picture for 150 guineas, and several details relating thereto are recorded in the Minutes. It was published in 1736, and is a faithful reproduction, much sought after by collectors. Baron has however copied the picture, exactly as he saw it on to the copperplate, so that when the impressions were struck off, everything was reversed. His original study, a red crayon, beautifully executed, is preserved in the Court Room, and the copperplate is still used, each Assistant on his election being presented with a copy of the engraving. The Company also possess a rather rough proof before letters. The print is dedicated to the Earl of Burlington, with a Latin inscription, of which the following is a translation. “To the Most Noble Lord Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington and Cork, &c., Knight of the Most Illustrious Order of the Garter. For the restoration, with the greatest liberality, at his own costs, of the Anatomical Theatre built a hundred years before, with the greatest skill, by the very celebrated Architect Inigo Jones, and decayed by lapse of time. This painting of Holbein representing the granting of a Charter given with his own hand by Henry VIII, King of England, &c., to the Society of Surgeons in London and preserved in their Hall, is by the Society of Surgeons of London humbly dedicated.” This inscription, written at a time when the relations between the Barbers and the Surgeons of the Company were becoming strained, was evidently drawn by a Surgeon, who coolly ignored the Barbers throughout.