[341] _Liber Albus_, p. xc. [342] _Historical Collections of a Citizen of London in the Fifteenth Century_ (Camden Society, 1876). [343] Diary, July 26, 1664. [344] Whitwell (Roy. Hist. Soc. Trans., xvii. p. 208). [345] Extracts from the Liberate Rolls relative to loans supplied by Italian merchants to the Kings of England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, with an Introductory Memoir by E. A. Bond (_Archæologia_, xxviii. (1839), pp. 207-326). There has lately been a revival of interest in this subject. In 1902 Mr. W. E. Rhodes published a paper on 'The Italian Bankers in England, and their Loans to Edward I. and Edward II.,' in _Historical Essays by Members of the Owen's College, Manchester_. Mr. R. J. Whitwell read his important paper on 'Italian Bankers and the English Crown' before the Royal Historical Society on March 19, 1903, which is published in the Transactions of that Society, N.S., xvii. pp. 175-233. [346] Cal. Letter Book B, p. 94. [347] _Ibid._, p. 165. [348] Longman's _Edward III._, vol. ii. pp. 262, 263. [349] _Archæologia_, vol. xxviii. p. 240. [350] _Three Fifteenth Century Chronicles_ (Camden Society, 1880), p. 9. [351] _'De Verborum Significatione._ The Exposition of the Termes and difficill wordes contained in the foure buiks of Regiam Maiestatem and uthers. Collected and exponed by Master John Skene. London, 1641.' [352] Cal. Letter Book A, ed. Dr. Reginald Sharpe, p. iv. [353] _See_ Jewitt and Hope's _Corporation Plate_, etc., vol. ii. p. 123 (Cal. Letter Book A, p. 79). [354] Scott's _Lectures on Mediæval Architecture_, vol. ii. p. 29. [355] Sparrow Simpson's _Chapters in the History of Old St. Paul's_, 1881, p. 19. [356] The dimensions as given by Dugdale agree with those stated on a tablet which once hung in the Cathedral on a column near the tomb of John of Gaunt. They are:-- Length 690 ft. Breadth 130 ft. Height of roof of west part from floor 102 ft. Height of roof of new fabric (viz., east from steeple) 88 ft. Body of church 150 ft. Height of tower steeple from the level ground 260 ft. Height of the spire of wood, covered with lead 274 ft. 'And yet the whole, viz., tower and spire, exceedeth not' 520 ft. Cross, 'length' above the ball 15 ft. Cross, traverse 6 ft. Ball contains ten bushels of corn. Space on which the cathedral stands, 3-1/2 acres, 1-1/2 roods, 6 perches. --(_Documents Illustrating the History of St. Paul's Cathedral_, Camden Society, 1880, p. 191.)