[351] ‘De Verborum Significatione. The Exposition of the Termes and difficill wordes contained in the foure buiks of Regiam Maiestatem and uthers. Collected and exponed by Master John Skene. London, 1641.’

[352] Cal. Letter Book A, ed. Dr. Reginald Sharpe, p. iv.

[353] See Jewitt and Hope’s Corporation Plate, etc., vol. ii. p. 123 (Cal. Letter Book A, p. 79).

[354] Scott’s Lectures on Mediæval Architecture, vol. ii. p. 29.

[355] Sparrow Simpson’s Chapters in the History of Old St. Paul’s, 1881, p. 19.

[356] The dimensions as given by Dugdale agree with those stated on a tablet which once hung in the Cathedral on a column near the tomb of John of Gaunt. They are:—

Length690 ft.
Breadth130 ft.
Height of roof of west part from floor102 ft.
Height of roof of new fabric (viz., east from steeple)88 ft.
Body of church150 ft.
Height of tower steeple from the level ground260 ft.
Height of the spire of wood, covered with lead274 ft.
‘And yet the whole, viz., tower and spire, exceedeth not’520 ft.
Cross, ‘length’ above the ball15 ft.
Cross, traverse6 ft.
Ball contains ten bushels of corn.
Space on which the cathedral stands, 3½ acres, 1½ roods, 6 perches.

—(Documents Illustrating the History of St. Paul’s Cathedral, Camden Society, 1880, p. 191.)

Mr. Edmund B. Ferrey, who worked on Hollar’s plans, and made illustrations for Mr. William Longman’s Three Cathedrals of St. Paul (1873), considers that Dugdale’s figures are untrustworthy. His own figures are:—

Length (inclusive of end walls)596 ft.
Breadth (including aisle walls)104 ft.
Height of roof, west part (up to ridge of vaulting)93 ft.
Height of roof (up to vault ridge) to ‘choir proper’101 ft.6 in.
Height of roof at Lady Chapel98 ft.6 in.
External height (ground to ridge of outer roof to choir)142 ft.
External height (ground to ridge of outer roof to nave)130 ft.
Height of tower steeple from level ground285 ft.
Height of the spire covered with lead208 ft.
(or 204 ft. if calculated from top of tower parapet).