[13] Amongst other buildings, he cased the exterior of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, in London, with Bath stone, provided at his own expense; and furnished the same material for his nephew's, Thomas Daniell's house in Prince's Street, Truro. [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 [Illustration: (beginning of chapter vignette.)] _JOHN ANSTIS_, THE HERALD. 'But coronets we owe to crowns, And favour to a court's affection; By nature we are Adam's sons, And sons of Anstis by election.' PRIOR. There were three Cornishmen in succession, more or less known, who bore the above name. The grandfather, of whom little more is now ascertainable than that he was Registrar of the Archdeacon of Cornwall's Court (then held at St. Neot's),[17] that his wife's name was Mary Smith, and that he died in 1692; his son, the subject of this notice; and his grandson, who, like the second John Anstis, was also Garter King of Arms, and who died a bachelor at a comparatively early age. In Montagu Burrows' 'Worthies of All Souls,' it is stated that the second Anstis was of founder's kin; yet he failed to secure his election, notwithstanding a lawsuit instituted for that purpose.