SOME FURTHER NOTES ON BURTON ABBEY PLAN 40 
have looked around to see what work remaining to us it was most 
like. I first looked to Winchester, as our first twelve Abbots were 
all monks of Winchester, but it did not fit in with Hollar’s drawing, 
but the nave of Rochester, also a Benedictine House, was so very 
near that I take it to illustrate what the interior of the nave of Burton 
was like when finished, late in the 12th or early in the 13th century. 
A curious thing was when I came to look up the history of the 
work at Rochester, I found that the date of the reconstruction fof 
the nave, which was originally Bishop Gundulf’s work, 1077-1090, 
is ascribed to Bishop Ernulf and John, 1115-1130, or one year later 
than the date of our work at Burton ; also, that in 1182, Richard, 
Prior of Rochester, became Abbot of Burton. 
On entering the room to read this paper, I was introduced to 
Sir Reginald Hardy, who showed me a copy of a sketch (see frontis- 
piece), which he had found in the Salt Library at Stafford, of the 
interior of the nave of Burton Monastic Church, bearing the initials 
W.II., and the date 1643, that is to say, 18 years earlier than the 
exterior drawing, and the year before the before mentioned explosion 
of gunpowder. It shows the nave at the East end in a most 
ruinous state ; also, that the groined roof and vault had not been 
done away with, though it must certainly have gone by 1661; and 
that the aisles were certainly groined and vaulted. 
A few words as to Hollar may be of interest. Wenceslaus 
Hollar was an Austrian engraver of the 17th century, and brought 
to England by the Earl of Arundel. He soon obtained profitable 
employment, and eventually became drawing master to the Prince of 
Wales (afterwards Charles II), When the Civil War broke out in 
1642, he served in the Royalist ranks, and was taken prisoner at 
Basing House, 1643, but managed to escape to Antwerp. There he 
found little to do, so returned to England in 1652, and was engaged 
upon plates for Dugdale, for which he is said to have been paid about 
fourpence per hour ‘at his usual method by the hour-glass.” 
