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Louvre, shows him with a small sun-dial in hand), wrote 



a book on sun-dials and designed two to be placed at 



Oxford, where he was a lecturer on 



astronomy and mathematics. The 



first book in English devoted to 



dialling was published in 1533, and 



was largely a translation from Wit- 



kendus. At this period the actual 



dial was more fanciful than at a 



later date and often formed 



armillary sphere. 



an 



A water supply was considered a very important Receptacles 

 adjunct to the garden. A central feature was often a 

 well or fountain fed by a spring, or a cistern "well 

 mortarred to receive and keep rain-water." Cisterns 

 were also made of lead and decorated in such a way as 

 to make them very ornamental. Borde advises that there 

 should be also a " pool or two for fish, if the pool be clean 

 kept." Such pools were usually lined with stone, and 

 square or oblong in shape. Good examples of them 

 exist at Drayton and Brickwall. 



Various games were played in the garden or its Garden 

 vicinity. Bowling-alleys and greens for archery were 

 common. " And among other things a payre of buttes 

 (targets for archery) is a decent thing about a mansion, 

 otherwise for a great many necessary it is to pass his 

 time with bowls in an alley." No dimensions are given. 



games. 



