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and it will make 1590 Foot, which divide by 272! makes five Poles, or 

 Rods, three fourths, and forty two Feet ; but if 'tis more or less than 

 a Brick and a half thick, you must reduce it to a Brick and a half by 

 multiplying the length and the height by the Number of half Bricks 

 that the wall is in thickness; dividing the Product by three, and the 

 quotient by 272 \. Chimneys are commonly done by the Hearth. And 

 note, that one Brick and a half thick is fourteen Inches, two Bricks is 

 one foot and a half, and that four thousand five hundred of Bricks will 

 do a Pole Square of walling one Brick and a half thick, and twenty five 

 Bushels of Lime where the Sand is good, that is, where 'tis of a large 

 rough Grain, and not mixed with Soil. 



Tiling. 



Tiling is measured by the ten Foot Square, the workmanship of which 

 is three Shillings and Sixpence a square in the Country ; to find all but 

 Tiles is twelve Shillings, and to find Tiles and other materials is one 

 Pound six Shillings a square. Three bushels of Lime will do a square 

 of Tiling, but I prefer Loam and Horse-dung mixed together, and laid 

 about the middle of the Tile so as not to touch the Pins or Laths, nor to 

 be so near the point as to wash out, because Lime is too corroding, 

 being apt to make the Tiles scale, and to grow with Moss. 



Slates are a light covering for Houses, and in Northamptonshire are 

 ordered thus : They dig the Stone about Michaelmas, and pile it up in 

 Stacks, which they cover with Sand till the Frost comes, and then they 

 take them down and lay each Stone flat on the ground, and sprinkle 

 Water on them, always keeping of them moist : For should they let the 

 Stones lie exposed to the Sun and Wind they would not cleave. A piece 

 of flat Stone two Inches thick, will run perhaps into twenty Slates, 

 according to the Clefts made by the Frosts, which the frequenter they 

 are, the clearer and finer the stones cleave. 



Underpinning for the Bricklayer to dig the Foundation where 'tis 

 a Brick thick and a foot deep, is a Penny a foot, and where 'tis two foot 

 and a half running measure, 'tis Two pence a foot, and so proportion- 

 able. 



Bricks. 



Bricks may be made of any Earth that is clear of Stones, even Sea- 

 owse, but all Earth will not burn red. To burn a Clamp of Brick of 

 sixteen thousand, they commonly allow seven Ton of Coals, twenty 

 hundred to a Ton, or nine hundred of Faggots of about three foot long, 

 and to some Earth ten Bushels of Coals to a thousand of Bricks. Bricks 

 ought to be nine Inches long, four Inches and a half broad, and two 

 Inches and a half thick ; a yard Square of Clay will make seven or eight 

 hundred of Bricks, and the workmen have commonly six Shillings 

 a thousand to make them. 



Plasterers. 



The Plasterers work is commonly done by the Yard Square for 

 Lathing; Laying and Setting is Eight pence a Yard, rendring on a 

 Brick wall is Threepence a yard, stopping and whiting a Penny a yard ; 

 bul Lathing, Laying and Setting with Oak-Laths is ten or twelve Pence 

 a yard. 



