SUPPLEMENT. 



BY the favour of the earl of Warwick, 

 I am enabled to bring to light a very 

 capital Artift, who defigned or improved 

 moft of the principal and palatial edifices 

 erefted in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. 

 though even his name was totally forgotten. 

 I am empowered by the fame condefcenfion 

 to point out a volume of drawings of that 

 individual architect 



JOHN THORPE, 



who has left a folio of plans, now in lord 

 Warwick's poflefTion. There are not many 

 uprights;, but fever al ground plans of fome 

 of the palaces and many of the feats of the 

 nobility, extant, eredted, or altered at that 

 period. Of fome he names himfelf the au* 

 thor — of others he either defigned, fu- 

 pervifed, or propofed alterations — though, 

 according to the negligence of that age, he 

 is not circumilantial in particulars. There 

 are ground plans of Somerfet houfe ; of 

 Vol. I. T Buckhurft 



