NOTE OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
For assistance in the preparation of this volume my thanks are
due in the first place to the Commissioners of H.M. Works for
placing their records, accounts and photographs at my disposal;
and to Professor Geoffrey Callender and the Trustees of the National
Maritime Museum for generous help and encouragement.
His Majesty the King has graciously allowed the picture of Greenwich
in the Royal collection at Buckingham Palace to be reproduced
(Plate 9).
Thanks are also due to the Commissioners of Crown Lands for
permission to reproduce the Survey on Plate 12; to the Controller
of H.M. Stationery Office for Plates 37 and 60; to the Trustees of
the National Portrait Gallery, the Bodleian Library, All Souls'
College, Oxford, Worcester College, Oxford, the Royal Institute of
British Architects, Captain Bruce S. Ingram (S.N.R.), Mr. H. S.
Pite, and the Trustees of the National Maritime Museum for
permission to reproduce paintings, photographs and drawings;
and to the Courtauld Institute of Fine Art for the photographs of
the painted ceiling in the Queen's Bedchamber.
G. H. Chettle.