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repeated it before. He tells you then, that those Architects " db“ vided their Structures in parietes continues, <& intermiftos, into in-" tire or continued Walls, andlntermislions made by Columns, or Pil-“ lars.” Now, it seems that he was so taken with John de Laet'%Latin, as that he forgot Sir H. Wottoris Engliih, for the whole Text isclearly Sir Henrys own, who after informing you, that Walls are ei-ther entire and continual, or intermitted j faith, and the Intermijsionsbe either ‘Pillars or Pylafters: not as this Doctor unfaithfully deli-vers them, thus (mark I pray) and Intermijsions made by Columns orbut,}, io; Pillars i when Laet\ Words also are, Parietes aut funt integritycontinui, aut intermijs: & intermijftones aut funt Column£ autAntæ, which he hath already told you were Pylafters ; so that hereyou find him guilty of a double, yea treble Fault, conferring uponthe Roman Architetls, the Honour due unto our own Country-man, braving it with their Authority, and falsifying the Text also,by omitting the chief thing of Concernment, not only to the pre-sent Disquisition, but our main Scrutiny likewise, viz. the WordPylafters. And fee what follows in like manner; for upon the fameAccount he would not have it come unto your Knowledge, thatSir Henry having divided the Intermissions into the two Particulars,as was said, first treats of the Pillars and the Community of them;ci.Auhi.f. 4f. and afterwards of the Pylafters apart, telling us, that they were usedboth in publick and private Buildings. And if these, for whichthe Orders themselves of Architecture were invented, be not com-mon to them, I will positively fay, none are. But, this Doctor know-ing that he writ against a Man dead, and confident therefore thatthe Original would never be produced against him, biit his Quota-tion trusted to 5 as, he absolutely leaves out the Word Pylafters,so,'not denying their Community, shiftingly faith, that, the Pillarsof all the Orders are of a round Figure ; which, he was certain everyMan would grant, and without further enquiring join with himtherein; as being, according to the vulgar Acceptation, not to begainsaid. But our great Doctors in Law will tell you, that Titlesare not to be made good by such indirect Ways as these.

The second Community is by Dr. Charleton x'ms, assigned; " Om-" nes diminuuntur & contrahuntur insenftbiliter, plus aut minus, se-“ cundum proportionem suœ altitudinis, ab tertia parte fe apt Juifur-" sum, All are contracted or lessened insensibly, more or less, ac-" cording to the Proportion of their Altitude, from the third Part of" their Scape, or lower Part upward.” If here, by the MonosyllableAH, he means Pylafters as well as Pillars, I have little more to fay;if not, what have we to do with round Columns, (I should have de-manded before) seeing our Antiquity consists of square Pillars only >yet, since the diminishing of Pylafters, as well as Pillars, is so ge-nerally known, I will not long detain you with proving the same;scam. lib. o. f av j n(r? t h e letting you know, that Scamozzi hath given us a setCap- 3 °- Ruie°for the Diminution de Fufte delle Colonne, e Pilaflri, of theBodies of Columns and Pylafters both; Vitruvius having treatedvery obscurely in the mechanical or practical Part thereof.

To the Insensibility, nevertheless, of their diminishing, I shall saysomething, Sir H. Wotton being to be otherwise understood, thaneither this Doctor conceives, or willingly Would have discovered.

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