Sir Christopher Wren: His Family and His Times

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Lucy Phillimore. Sir Christopher Wren: His Family and His Times

Sir Christopher Wren: His Family and His Times

Table of Contents

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. 1585–1636

CHAPTER II. 1630–1640

CHAPTER III. 1641–1647

CHAPTER IV. 1646–1658

CHAPTER V. 1659–1663

CHAPTER VI. 1664–1667

CHAPTER VII. 1668–1673

CHAPTER VIII. 1672–1677

CHAPTER IX. 1677–1682

CHAPTER X. 1681–1686

CHAPTER XI. 1687–1696

CHAPTER XII. 1697–1699

CHAPTER XIII. 1700–1708

CHAPTER XIV. 1709–1723

APPENDICES

APPENDIX I

APPENDIX II

APPENDIX III

Footnote

INDEX

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Lucy Phillimore

With Original Letters and a Discourse on Architecture Hitherto Unpublished. 1585-1723

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AT WINCHESTER HOUSE.

Previous to this event, and soon after the Prince’s return, a singular incident occurred. Wren, who had been down to Cambridge, came up, as he says, ‘suddenly’ to London, and as it was late, lodged with his sister in Friday Street, instead of going to Winchester House, where the Bishop kept ‘three rooms near the garden’ fitted and reserved for him, and where he had lodged twice or thrice. He had, however, seen the Bishop twice, also the Bishops of Durham and S. David’s, had taken leave of them on a Saturday, and was prepared to return to Cambridge on the Monday morning following. His journey was, however, delayed by an event which shall be given in his own words:—[9]

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