Five Upper Pyramids would be contiguous, and thus would be of the same shape and as high as the same below, as Varro asserts with some suspicion, fearing how they would stand, but I with confidence, the Proportions persuading, which indeed are very fine. The Heighth to the Breadth of the Basis is 6 to 1. The Heighth of the Pyramids to the Brass Petasus is 2 to 1, but taking in their whole heighth it would have 4 to 1, but allowing the Point of the Pyramid to be taken off (as it ought) and allowing for the Brasen Brim and Bells it will be 250 foot, above which was the Floor that bore the Five upper Pyramids of 4 to 1, so the Heighth is 550 foot as 6 to II. I have ventured to put some Ornaments, at ye Top belonging to the Tuscan superstition, (They then us'd not Statues) They are Golden Thunderbolts, so the whole will be 600 foot high, that is double to the Basis and the Heighth to the Brass circle will appear half the Face, or like the Façade of a Tuscan Temple, to which the Breadth of the Brim of the Petasus and the Bells supply the Place of an Entablature: I have been the longer in this Description because the Fabrick was in the Age of Pythagoras and his School, when the World began to be fond of Geometry and Arithmetick. N.B. In all the Editions of Pliny for Tricenum read Tricentinûm as the sense requires. At the end of the Discourse on Architecture is an elevation, drawn in pen and sepia, of the tomb of Mausolus, as Sir Christopher supposed from Pliny's account that it must have been constructed. It is drawn to a scale, with indications of statues, of which he supposed there to have been forty-eight. It is remarkable how closely Sir Christopher's conjectural elevation tallies with what recent excavations have brought to light. INDEX. ABB ABBOT, Bishop of London, 11, 14; Archbishop of Canter- Académie Royale des Sciences, Addison, 74, 179 All Hallows, Bread Street, rebuilt Lombard Street, rebuilt by Thames Street, 240 122 Anne, Queen, 300, 301, 305, 317, 320, 327 Annual Register,' the (1765), 174 BIL Architecture, 119, 148, 150, 171, Artillery Company, the, 185 Ashmole, Mr. Elias, founder of the Aubrey, the Wiltshire Antiquary, 91 BANCROFT, Archbishop, 14 Barrow, Dr. Isaac, eulogy of, Bedloe, witness in the Popish plot, Benson, William, appointed by Bernini, Giov., 145, 149 Billing, A., Restoration of the BIR Bird, Francis, sculptor, 300, 304 Blenheim Palace, building of, by Blenheim, victory of (1704), 301 Bow Church. See S. Mary-le-Bow Brewster, Sir David, 'Life of British Association, the, report of, Brouncker, Lord, 124, 126, 143 Busby, Dr., head-master of West- minster, 41, 300 CA 'AMBRIDGE, 6, 15, 45, 216 Cave, Dr. William, 240 Charles II., escape of, after the battle of Worcester, 91; letter of, COR ment given by, to the founding Chelsea College, building of the mentary troops, 79, 123 Christ Church, Newgate, repaired Christ Church, Oxford, gateway at, 'Church Quarterly Review,' the, 65, Cibber, Caius, 207 City churches, the. See Names of City Church and Churchyard Pro- City companies' halls rebuilt by Claypole, Richard, 99 Coal, portion of tax on, granted for Corbet, Bishop of Norwich, of Ox- COS INDEX. GOD 353 FAWLEY Court built by Wren, C sin, Dean of Peterborough, FA Bishop of Durham, 153 DALE, Rev. T. P., rector of S. Vedast's, Foster Lane, impri- Dore, Abbey of, 19 Doyley, 'Life of Sancroft,' 165, 166 tion against the Sallee pirates, 20 Ely, 44, 45 Ely House, 118, 119 Ely, Bishop of. See Wren; Turner Exchange. See Royal Exchange 245 Fell, Bishop of Oxford, 220 -'Illustrated Handbook of Archi- Fifty new churches, Act for build- Fire of London, the, 155, 159, 175, Fogg, Captain, pillage of S. History of the Book of Common Freemasons, the Order of, 147, Frogley, Richard, Wren's carpen- Fuller, Dr. Thomas, 6, 10 George, Prince, 235, 300 Gibbs, James, pupil of Wren's God lard, Dr., Warden of Merton 125 |