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though it has been used for such purposes ; e.g., the warm-toned red sandstone 'of Chester Cathedral, now much honeycombed. Information can also be got from Dr. Cox's other books, such as his ' Norfolk Churches' ; Bryant's 'Churches of Suffolk' ; articles in The "Builder / Street's ' Brick and Marble in the Middle Ages' ; the works of Bond, Bumpus, Ditchfield, Pratt, Murray, and Winkles ; and books on the individual cathedrals, as in Bell's " Cathedral Series," in which much attention is paid to the fabric. These may not be guide-books in the generally accepted meaning of the term, but may help the inquirer.

ABCHIBALD SPARKE, F.R.S.L.

t?I have the following information in my notes, but I cannot give my authorities for it :

Caen stone is used at Canterbury, Chi- chester, and in Winchester nave.

Portland stone is used at St. Paul's.

Barnack stone is used at Peterborough, Norwich, and Ely.

Doulting stone is used at Wells.

Mansfield stone is used at Southwell.

Somersetshire stone is used at Christ- church, Dublin.

When roads were practically non-existent, water traffic was the only possible one for heavy goods, which explains the use of Barnack stone at Norwich, and of Caen stone at Chichester, &c.

I believe the stone for St. Paul's all came by sea, but cannot give chapter and verse. Barnack, by the way, is in Northampton- shire, and Doulting in Somersetshire.

J. W. R.

Lichfield Cathedral is built of a local triassic sandstone. For references see the valuable little ' Handbook ' by the late John Hewitt. S. A. GRUNDY-NEWMAN.

Walsall.

THE SITE OF THE GLOBE.

(11 S. x. 209, 290, 335 ; xi. 447 ; xii. 10, 50, 70, 121, 143, 161, 201, 224.)

IN order to correct an error may I refer once again to the view entitled ' Profil de la Ville de Londre,' by Boisseau ? I said of it that " there were indications that erasion had been made on the north side of the Thames. Old St. Paul's had been rubbed out, and Wren's cathedral had been inserted." This remark should have referred to De Wit's view, and not Boisseau' s. As a matter of

fact, Boisseau shows old St. Paul's. MARTIN does not appear to have noticed this mistake, for he says :

'As regards Boisseau's viev, MR. HUBBABD actually cites this degraded derivative of a well- known type to assist him, although, as he says, Wren's cathedral is substituted for old St. Paul's. St. Paul's was burnt in the Great Fire of 1666, and Wren's cathedral erected at a much later date. Yet this map is cited as evidence of topographical detail prior to 1644, when the Globe was de- molished."

DR. MARTIN implies that I quoted a view made after 1666 as evidence of topographical detail prior to 1644. I did nothing of the kind ; De Wit's view was made prior to the Fire. The unskilful hand which rubbed out old St. Paul's, and then substituted Wren's cathedral, is in strong contrast to De Wit's fine drawing, and it does not invalidate the remainder of the view.

Apparently through my error of mention- ing Boisseau instead of De Wit, DR. MARTIN falls upon Boisseau, and calls his view a " degraded derivative," and implies that Boisseau's view was made after the 1666 Fire. Boisseau's view, however, is dated 1643.

With regard to the Merian view, 1638 r DR. MARTIN says :

' This alone shows the Globe, the Rose Play- house, and the Bear Garden in existence contem- poraneously as we know them to have been."

If I may suggest it, I think that he is wrong in supposing that the Rose is included in the view. The Rose was demolished over thirty years before the publication of the map, and yet, to use DR. MARTIN'S own words, this is cited as evidence of topo- graphical detail prior to 1606, when the Rose was demolished. Moreover, the Rose stood at the corner of Maid Lane and Rose Alley, on land lying to the south, and outside the Merian view, and it could not, therefore,, be properly included in it.

Furthermore, the Merian view is not alone in showing the building which DR. MARTIN calls the Rose Playhouse, for it also appears in ' Londinum Urbs Praecipua Regni Angliae/ DR. MARTIN does not appear to have seen this- view, otherwise he would not have said that the Merian view " alone" showed the Rose.

I commend this view to him ; he will find it very instructive. In the first place, the line of its southern boundary does not cut through the way or lane which is wrongly referred to by him as Maid Lane in the Merian and other views. A fair amount of the Bishop's park is included, but there is no vestige of the second Globe Alley. The Globe