[137] Hubert Le Soeur was a pupil of John of Bologna; he came to England in 1630. The statue of Lord Pembroke at Oxford, and that of King Charles, which has Le Soeur’s name on the horse’s hoof, are all that now remain of his works.
[138] On the statue of King Charles I. at Charing Cross in the year 1674. E. Waller.
[139] The model was long preserved in what was called the Trophy Room of S. Paul’s. ‘It unfortunately has suffered much from neglect, decay, and the uncontrolled mischief of visitors; that which was one of its noblest features, its long stately western portico, has entirely disappeared. The model was lent to and still remains in the Architectural Exhibition at South Kensington, on condition of repairing some of its reparable parts (a condition but imperfectly fulfilled).’—Annals of S. Paul’s Cathedral, Dean Milman, p. 40.
[140] An engraving giving a section of this very curious design is to be found at page 97 of Mr. Longman’s exhaustive and interesting Three Cathedrals dedicated to S. Paul’s in London.
[141] The fourth portion of the tax on coal granted for the public buildings of the City was given for the rebuilding of S. Paul’s.
[142] Thomas was the son of Mr. Valentine Strong, a well-known master-mason of Hertfordshire; his six sons were all engaged in the same trade as himself. Life of Sir C. Wren, p. 316. Elmes.
[143] Sir C. Wren gave the mallet and trowel used on this occasion to the Freemasons’ lodge of which he was master, then called after his name, now the ‘Lodge of Antiquity, No. 21.’
[144] J. Woodward, the founder of the Cambridge Geological Professorship, was born 1665, published a series of curious geological speculations under the name of A Natural History of the Earth. In 1707 he published An Account of Roman Urns and Antiquities lately dug up near Bishopsgate, addressed to Sir C. Wren, whom, as I have said, he did not convince. Woodward was a Fellow of the Royal Society and the College of Physicians. He died 1728.
[145] Francis Atterbury, born 1662, made Dean of Westminster and Bishop of Rochester 1715; was a strong Jacobite, and was banished in 1723: died 1732.
[146] A stone altar was however found during some excavations in Foster Lane in 1830, at no great distance from the Cathedral, with an image of Diana about which there can be no misapprehension, as it closely resembles the Diana of the Louvre.—Annals of S. Paul’s, p. 7.