Crossword-Solution: BETTES 6 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The immediate effect may be noted by mentioning here the names of GUILLIM STREETES, who was possibly English born, and JOHN BETTES who certainly was.

There were two brothers, THOMAS and JOHN BETTES who are mentioned by Meres with several other English painters in _Palladis Tamia_, published in 1598--"As Greece had moreover their painters, so in England we have also these, William and Francis Segar, brethren, Thomas and John Bettes, Lockie, Lyne, Peake, Peter Cole, Arnolde, Marcus (Mark Garrard)," etc.

Nicholas Bettes, Vicar of Radcliffe, Moses Couteryn, Philip Bartholomew, and John Brown, procurators of Radcliffe, beforesaid, a new sepulchre, well gilt, and cover thereto; an image of God rising out of the same sepulchre, with all the ordinance that longeth thereto: that is to say--Item, a lath, made of timber, and iron work thereto.

The name of James Bettes occurs as master of the works, as also that of Nicholas Townley as chief comptroller, and that of Laurence Stubbes, paymaster of the works, and that of Henry Williams, surveyor; but probably the design of Hampton Court must be attributed to Wolsey himself, who had the examples of other mediæval prelatic builders to guide him.