[14] Wood was author of three architectural treatises: one of them descriptive of Bath; and another entitled 'The Origin of Building; or, the Plagiarism of the Heathens Detected, 1741.' The former work contains an elaborate, illustrated account of the mansion at Prior Park.
[15] A member of this family—a Truro man, it is believed—accompanied Sir Francis Drake in his famous voyage round the world.
[16] It may not be out of place to remark that an article on Ralph Allen in the Family Economist, and another (apparently by the same writer) in Chambers's Journal, entitled 'The Bath Post Boy,' are mere romances, with only a slight sprinkling of facts.
[JOHN ANSTIS,]
THE HERALD
