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FlG. 240. Design for Temple Bar, London, by Inigo Jones, 1636. 



From the Burlington-Devonshire Collection at the R.I.B.A. 



drawings of this by Webb in the Burlington-Devonshire collec- 

 tion at the Royal Institute of British Architects. In the same 

 collection is a design for Temple Bar by Jones (Fig. 240), never 

 carried out ; a drawing of the constructional brickwork for the 

 same, signed by him and dated 1638 ; and a drawing by Webb 

 dated 1636. The two large circular panels represent " Laetitia 

 Publica" and " Hylaritas Publica." If this design had been 

 carried out, there would have been a grim irony in the custom 

 of exhibiting rebels' heads just above roundels of such cheerful 



