[154] I suspect that this was what was afterwards known as Cotton Garden. I have been unable to trace the date at which it was conveyed to Sir Robert Cotton.
[155] G. P. B. No. 40.
[156] See p. 63.
[157] See p. 90.
[158] This we know from Capon’s pencilled notes to the sketch in the frontispiece.
[159] The late Chairman of the Works Department of the London County Council; than whom no man is better qualified to speak on such matters.
[160] There are indeed old walls marked in Capon’s plan beneath the ground, but we do not know of what substance they were composed or how near the surface they came.
[161] Speed, no doubt, rested this assertion on Winter’s evidence that ‘we underpropped it, as we went, with wood.’ (See p. 64.)
[162] Gerard, pp. 66, 67.
[163] See the remarks of the Edinburgh Reviewer on the ease with which Baron Trenck executed a far harder piece of work without being discovered for a considerable time.