OF BUILDING in 



rooms for a dining place of servants. For otherwise you 

 shall have the servants' dinner after your own : for the 

 steam of it will come up as in a tunnel. And so much 

 for the front. Only I understand the height of the first 

 stairs to be sixteen foot, which is the height of the lower 

 room. 



Beyond this front is there to be a fair court, but three 

 sides of it, of a far lower building than the front. And in 

 all the four corners of that court fair stair-cases, cast into 

 turrets, on the outside, and not within the row of buildings 

 themselves. But those towers are not to be of the height 

 of the front, but rather proportionable to the lower building. 

 Let the court not be paved, for that striketh up a great 

 heat in summer, and much cold in winter. But only some 

 side alleys, with a cross, and the quarters to graze, being 

 kept shorn, but not too near shorn. The row of return 

 on the banquet side, let it be all stately galleries : in which 

 galleries let there be three, or five, fine cupolas in the 

 length of it, placed at equal distance ; and fine coloured 

 windows of several works. On the household side, 

 chambers of presence and ordinary entertainments, with 

 some bed-chambers ; and let all three sides be a double 

 house, without thorough lights on the sides, that you may 

 have rooms from the sun, both for forenoon and afternoon. 

 Cast it also, that you may have rooms both for summer 

 and winter ; shady for summer, and warm for winter. 

 You shall have sometimes fair houses so full of glass, that 

 one cannot tell where to become to be out of the sun or 

 cold. For inbowed windows, I hold them of good use ; 

 (in cities, indeed, upright do better, in respect of the 

 uniformity towards the street ;) for they be pretty retiring 

 places for conference ; and besides, they keep both the 

 wind and sun off; for that which would strike almost 

 thorough the room doth scarce pass the window. But let 

 them be but few, four in the court, on the sides only. 



Beyond this court, let there be an inward court, of the 

 same square and height ; which is to be environed with the 

 garden on all sides; and in the inside, cloistered on all 

 sides, upon decent and beautiful arches, as high as the first 



