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FOOTNOTES:
[1] Thomas Dekker, the pamphleteer and dramatist, describes the Exchange as it was in 1607, when "at every turn a man is put in mind of Babel, there is such a confusion of languages"; and as late as 1644 the picturesque dresses of the foreign merchants appear in an engraving by Hollar.
[2] Camden speaks of "this so stately building," and in his terse fashion conveys the effect of the interior: "The west part, as also the Cross-yle, are spacious, high-built, and goodly to be seene by reason of the huge Pillars and a right beautiful arched Roof of stone."
[3] This is Stow's figure. Camden gives the measurement as 534 feet.
[4] The name survives in Pike Gardens, Bankside.
[5] See the "Bear-house" near the "Play-house" (i.e., the Rose) in Norden's plan, 1593.
[6] Cal. State Papers, 1603-10, p. 367.
[7] During the time that the Jacobites were formidable, and long after, it was firmly believed that the Old Pretender was brought into this room as a baby in a warming pan, and plans of the room were common to show how the fraud was committed.
[8] Rariora, vol. i., p. 17.
[9] Originally the crosses were of a blue colour, but Dr. Creighton says that the colour was changed to red before the plague of 1603.
[10] A full account of the fire and of the rebuilding of the city has still to be written, and the materials for the latter are to hand in the remarkable "Fire Papers" in the British Museum. I have long desired to work on this congenial subject, but having been prevented by other duties from doing so, I hope that some London expert will be induced to give the public a general idea of the contents of these valuable collections.
[11] Cf. Cathedral Churches of Great Britain. (Dent & Co.)
[12] Cf. Mr. Philip Norman's notes on a recent lecture by Mr. Arthur Keen. Architect, December 27th, 1907.
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