QUEEN ELIZABETH S LODGE, EPPING FOREST. 1 55 



these is called " Create Standinge " on " Dannett's Hill " and is 

 identified by Mr. Waller with Queen Elizabeth's Lodge. The 

 document is imperfect, but the description of the building very 

 closely corresponds with my idea of its original state, gained fiom 

 actual observation before I knew of ihe existence of Mr. Waller's 

 article (it should be remembered that in this document the 

 ground floor is called the first floor and so on) : — 



" G^bC great [lo{|dg upon Dannett Hill being built . . . cheife roomes 

 or Stories in height. The first whereof serving for necessarie Uses. The second ' 



for convenient standing to viewe the game(?). The 



Th[ird] serveth likewise for convenient standing to vievi' the game (?). . 

 And the height Is f " 



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Queen Elizabeth's Lodge. Plan of the Main Upright Timbers. 

 For explanations see tex-t Di'awn by W . W . Loivc. 



I have drawn a birds-eye view plan showing section of the 

 upright timbers as exposed during the work of restoration. All the 

 moulded square spaces, at the present window levels on both 

 first and second floors, which are now filled in with windows and 

 lath-and-plaster panels, were evidently originally wholly open to 

 the weather. It will be seen from the plan that the timbers are 

 moulded on the outside in entire correspondence with the mould- 

 ings on the inside, although afterwards covered over with lath 

 and plaster, as shown in old drawings of the building. I imagine 

 that the open spaces were filled in with lath-and-plaster subse- 



