Note CW — AUBREY'S 'BRIEF LIVES' (continued 6)
Reading edition
Aubrey wrote 'a very rich Gothique ...,' and added a note in the margin 'quaere Sir Chr. W<ren> nomen.' Wren told him 'water-table,' which he then inserted in the text, striking out the marginal note.
In MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 4v, is the note:—'Basis, or list, or I thinke they call it the water-table, of the parish church wall at St. Edmundsbury in Suffolke. Of which fashion was the foundation of that famous began chapell or cathedrall of Cardinal Wolsey's which went towards the Blew-bore in Oxford, and pulled downe by deane Fell about 1671. Magdalen parish <-church> tower <Oxford> is also of this fashion, viz. of Henry VIII.'