[42] “The Old Colleges of Oxford,” by Aymer Vallance, p. 62.
[43] Illustrated in “Early Renaissance Architecture in England,” by the present author (Batsford).
[44] “Ashburnham House and the Precincts of Westminster Abbey,” by Harry Sirr, Journal of the R.I.B.A., 8th January 1910.
[45] “Windsor Castle,” by Sir W. H. St John Hope, p. 329.
[46] It was perhaps Pierre le Muet whose work most influenced Wren.
[47] “Lives of the British Architects,” by E. Beresford Chancellor, p. 79.
[48] Walpole’s “Anecdotes of Painting.”
[49] Collins’s “Peerage.”
[50] This conjecture is strengthened by a reference of Evelyn’s, who notes that in going from Reading to Marlborough in June 1654 he saw “my Lord Craven’s house at Causam now in ruines, his goodly woods felling by the rebels.”
[51] “Vit. Brit.,” i. 43, 44.