arters of a
million for the actual building, with an additional hundred thousand
for incidental expenses.

FOOTNOTES:

[52] This village, near Salisbury, is called East Knoyle, Knoyle
Magna, and Bishop-Knoyle. The entry of baptism runs: "Christopher (2nd
sic.) sonne of Christopher Wren Doctor in Divinitie and Rector now."
The rector placed this entry, dated only "10th," before March, 1632/31
in a vacant place. Hence the statement that the surveyor was born in
1631, but both the rector and Christopher himself dated the birth
October 20, 1632. My thanks are due to the Rev. Canon Milford, Rector
of East Knoyle, for the above, and also to his copy of Miss Lucy
Phillimore's "Life."

[53] "Parentalia," p. 227 and elsewhere, gives details of his
extensive knowledge of anatomy in its various branches.

[54] His inaugural address at Gresham College, in Latin, when he was
twenty-five (1657) fills eight folios in the "Parentalia," and is
given in facsimile of his handwriting.

[55] The humorous letter of Sprat to Wren says: "I endeavoured to
persuade him [the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford] that the drawing of Lines
in Sir Harry Savill's School was not altogether of so great a
Concernment for the Benefit of Christendom, as the rebuilding of St.
Paul's or the fortifying of Tangier: (for I understood those were the
great Works in which that extraordinary genius of yours was judg'd
necessary to be employed)" ("Parentalia," p. 260).

[56] As it seems to have been ignored how carefully Wren studied
cathedrals and other buildings, the following may be of interest:
"These Surveys [of Salisbury with elaborate report for the Bishop,
Seth Ward] and other occasional Inspections of the most noted
cathedral Churches and Chapels in _England_ and foreign Parts"
("Parentalia," p. 306). He never saw, we may assume, his three
favourite buildings at Rome--the Pantheon, the Basilica of Maxentius,
and St. Peter's.

[57] Ground-plan in "Parentalia," p. 268; and Blomfield's "Renaissance
Architecture in England."

[58] Milman, p. 407, with geological diagram. The archaeological
remains disinterred have been already mentioned, pp. 3 and 4.

[59] Mr. Longman seems to think that the cathedral rests on the loam.
The following shows that the strata are irregular, and that in some
places the loam is very thin. Edward Strong the younger "also repaired
all the blemishes and fractures in the several legs and arches of the
dome, occasioned by the great w