[111-*] For specimens of Decorated windows with flowing tracery in the heads, vide cuts, pp. 12 and 13.
CHAPTER VIII.
OF THE FLORID OR PERPENDICULAR ENGLISH STYLE.
Q. When may this style be said to have commenced, and how long did it prevail?
A. We find traces of it in buildings erected at the close of the reign of Edward the Third (circa A. D. 1375); and it prevailed for about a century and half, or rather more, till late in the reign of Henry the Eighth (circa A. D. 1539).
Q. Whence does it derive its appellation?