"From this room is the entrance into the hall, which is a very noble one: at the upper end is a picture by Holbein,[83] representing Edward VI. delivering the Charter of the hospital to Sir George Barnes, then Lord Mayor; near him are William, Earl of Pembroke, and Thomas Goodrich, Bishop of Ely. There are ten figures in the picture, besides the king, whose portrait is painted with great truth and feeling: it displays all that languor and debility which mark an approaching dissolution, and which, unhappily, followed so soon after, together with that of the painter; so that it has been sometimes doubted whether the picture was really painted by Holbein--his portrait, however, is introduced; it is the furthest figure in the corner on the right hand, looking over the shoulders of the persons before him. "On one side of this picture is a portrait of Charles II. sitting, and, on the other, that of James II. standing; they are both painted by Sir Peter Lely. Round the room are several portraits of the Presidents and different benefactors, ending with that of Sir Richard Carr Glyn. The walls of this room are covered with the names of those who have been friends to the institution, written in letters of gold." This Hall was pulled down in 1862. [Footnote 76: See next page.] [Footnote 77: Of Spain.] [Footnote 78: A.D. 1553.] [Footnote 79: A Beetle is a portion of a trunk of a tree, large or small as occasion demanded, sometimes more than one man could lift, _vide_ Shakspeare (2 _Hen. IV._ act i. sc. 2), "Fillip me with a three-man beetle," _i.e._, one with three handles. All exogenous fibres have to be crushed, in order to release the fibre from the wooden core, and this, which is now done by machinery, was then done by beetles, or wooden hammers.] [Footnote 80: Brazil wood.] [Footnote 81: Sir Robert Jeffries the President and Justice at Bridewell, when he knocked with a hammer the punishment ceased.] [Footnote 82: In Hogarth's picture both men and women are working together.] [Footnote 83: The writer is in error, as the event it represents took place some ten years after Holbein's death. The picture is now in Christ's Hospital.] [Illustration] CHAPTER XVIII.