Many flocking to see it."

Old St. Paul's, then, suffered the fate of its predecessors in the
first week of September, 1666. By the Friday the conflagration had so
far exhausted itself that Pepys was able to walk from Paul's Wharf to
the churchyard. The City within the Walls was well-nigh burnt out, and
of the eighty-three parish churches consumed only forty-eight were
rebuilt; and these with the thirteen untouched left accommodation more
than sufficient for the surrounding population. Our regret for the
cathedral would have been greater, had this magnificent monument of
mediaeval genius--probably of its kind as fine as any in the
world--been capable of a conservative restoration: it is to be feared
that neglect, the destroyer, and the restorer had amongst them
rendered this task well-nigh impossible.

So far as existing authorities guide us, it remains to describe the
architecture.[37]

FOOTNOTES:

[21] "Short History," pp. 298, 299. Green says, "The awakening of a
rational Christianity."

[22] See Dr. Lupton's "Life of Colet," 1887.

[23] When I was living in the parish of Kensington, St. Paul's School
was, as I believe it still is, _facile princeps_.

[24] Assuming that the date of the meeting from Hall's _Chronicle_ is
correctly printed in Milman, November 7, 1530.

[25] "Chapters in the History," p. 169. Milman (p. 202) adds that the
hearers pulled the doll to pieces. The dean is made to say "Ridley,
now bishop of Rochester"; but Ridley was bishop 1547-1550, as Milman
elsewhere implies (p. 211).

[26] Milman, p. 216.

[27] My authorities for this well-nigh incredible story are in "St.
Paul's and Old City Life," p. 234.

[28] "Plot" I must continue to call it, with all due deference to
certain modern apologists.

[29] Horace Walpole (quoted in Longman, p. 69) says that Inigo Jones
renewed the sides with "very bad Gothic." Assuming the accuracy of the
prints in Dugdale, it is difficult to see where the Gothic comes in.

[30] Carlyle's "Cromwell," vol i., chap. iv.

[31] There is some confusion as to receipts and expenditure. I take
Dugdale to mean that under the Charles commission L101,000 was raised,
and L35,000 spent; but it seems uncertain whether we are to include
Sir Paul Pindar's liberality in this sum. Dean Milman estimates that
only L17,000 was confiscated. The enormous cost of the army caused a
chronic deficit.

[32] "Cromwell," vol ii., part v.: The Levellers.

[33] Ibid. Friday, Apr