Sir William Blackstone is almost equally admiring.
This statement was believed by subsequent writers until the time of Blackstone, who was the first to discover the mistake.
This, however, was not the original text, which was neglected until the time of Blackstone, who printed the various issues of the charter in his book The Great Charter and the Charter of the Forest (1759).
The architect was Mnesicles; the material Pentelic marble, with Eleusinian blackstone for dados and other details.
He managed also to hear Blackstone's lectures at Oxford, but says that he immediately detected the fallacies which underlay the rounded periods of the future judge.