Some account of domestic architecture in England from Edward I to Richard II, with notices of foreign examples and numerous illustrations of existing remains from original drawings (1882)
ing remains belong chiefly to the fourteenth cen-tury, and a later period. Mayfield seems to have been an ordinary and favouriteresidence of the archbishops of Canterbury, several of whomdied there in the fourteenth century; as Simon Mepham in1333, John Stratford in 1348, and Simon Islip in 1366.… … WILTSHIRE. 298 were surrendered by Archbishop Cranmer to Henry theEighth, who, in 1545, granted the estate to Sir HenryNorth, by whom it was sold to Sir John Gresham. It de-scended to his next brother Sir Thomas, the founder of theRoyal Exchange, who entertained Queen Elizabeth there onseveral…
Architecture, Domestic
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