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NOTES TO CHAPTER 4
1. Veblen T. B., Theory of the Leisure Class, 1899.
2. The exterior of Longleat has no very significant relation to the interior, and
this is the case with most Elizabethan and Jacobean houses. There are the usual
hall, long gallery, and parlours, and they are fitted in so as not to detract from the
uniformity of the exterior. Of the original interior decoration of Longleat almost
nothing remains, since it was remodelled in 1683 and again about 1860. The hall,
however, has a hammer-beam roof closely related to that of Middle Temple Hall
( 1558-70) on the one hand and Wollaton ( 1580-8) on the other.
3. In a letter to Lord Carlisle ( Wal. Soc., XIX, 126).
4. Preserved in the Nottingham University Library.
5. There are house plans by Robert Smythson among the Smythson drawings
at the Royal Institute of British Architects which suggest that he may have created
several important and widespread types. That he was respected as a master outside
his own Midland area is proved by the inclusion of a drawing of Wollaton in
Thorpe's book.
6. The interior of Hardwick, consisting of all the usual Elizabethan apartments,
is notable for many things, chiefly perhaps the plaster friezes of Abraham Smith,
the great heraldic cartouche over the hall fireplace and the Doric screen at the en-
trance end of the hall, resembling the design for a screen at Worksop among the
Smythson drawings, given in Plate 17B.
7. There is a most striking resemblance between the Kirby pilasters and those
of the church tower at Chars (Seine-et-Oise), attributed to the Lemercier family
of masons. Hautecœur, op. cit. i, p. 391.
8. It was then bought by Sir Christopher Hatton, whose successors made many
alterations up to 1632. The house is now a ruin.
9. Billingbere, Berks., built for Henry Neville, perhaps with John Thorpe's
advice, may be a little earlier, but is tentative compared with Wimbledon.
10. This arrangement of gables, however, on a small building can be paralleled
in the conduit-house at Bristol, mentioned on p. 17, and illustrated in J. S. Prout,
Picturesque Antiquities of Bristol.

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