EXPENDITURE. L s. d. Preliminary 10,909 7 8 Purchase of Houses 14,808 3 10 Cost as in "Parentalia" 736,752 2 3 Interest on Loans 83,744 18 9 ---------------- Total L846,214 12 6 BALANCE in 1723 L32,308 19 9 My balance does not tally with Mr. Longman's. He tells us that the coal duty, which was on sea-borne coal, was 1s. 6d. per chaldron, whereof four-fifths went to St. Paul's. The age of Indulgences was over, and, unlike the cathedrals of the Middle Ages, the cost of building St. Paul's was chiefly defrayed by a public impost; and this cost may be estimated in round numbers at about three-quarters 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.