his father at Prefton Hall, and died in 1602, had a right to quarter

the arms of Hardrefhull with his paternal coat. Viewing the in- fcription on the oafthoufe in this light, T. C. with the Colepeper arms fmgle might have reference to the father, and the other T. C. with the fhield quartered, to the fon. The ftyle of flruc"lure of the oafthoufe is conformable to the buildings of that age, and the fame obfervation will apply to the barn. Under a notion that the figures on the window-cafe were compe- tent evidence of an earlier introduction of Arabic numerals into this country than had been hitherto fuppofed, a far greater antiquity has been imputed to the barn than an examination of it will warrant. Dr. Harris, indeed, only terms it an antient barn d~ ; but as he at the fame time averred that the date afcertains the then ufe of the common figures in Kent, fuch a positive aflertion implied a belief of his having thought that fome part of the barn at leaft might be of that age. And though Mr. Hafted obferves that the quartered fhield of arms proves this date to have been put up fubfequent to the year 1300, yet by ftyling it a flone building he wimed to have it underftood that it was older than it really is ; and the draughtf- man he employed has countenanced the deception, by exhibiting the frame as fet in a ftone-wall. In the bird's eye view given of this feat and its environs by Harris, there is fuch a reprefentation of the barn as muft have con- vinced the doctor, had he attended to it, that his notion of its very high antiquity was erroneous ; and I fufpect, that the barn itfelf was not clofely infpected by either hiftorian, as will appear from the following defcription of it. The fide walls of the northern bay are conftructcd with ftone to the height of about fix feet and nine inches, but along the other [</] Harris's Hiftory of Kent, p. 32. 7 bays