Note II — 1820 (continued 3)
Reading edition
The following note was added, by Henry Crabb Robinson, to Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal:—"It is perfectly notorious that this picture suffered more from the negligence of the monks than from the scorn of the French. A hole was broken thro' the lower part of the centre of the picture to admit hot dishes from the Kitchen into the Refectory.—H. C. R."—Ed.