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z Cylinder of ft one, is an ingenious contrivance. 



142. There are many lofty fares about the Country as well as 

 City, built all of Free-ftone, and of exquifite workmanftiip, fuch 

 as thofe of Bampton, Witney, Burford, Bloxham, Spelsbury, Kidling- 

 ton, (ye. but that which excels all the reft is the /pire of St, Mary's 

 in Oxford, the Vniverfity Church, the Battlements whereof were 

 repaired, and thus thick fet with Pinnacles as it now ftands, by 

 Dr. .ffi/zg Dean of Chrift Church, then Vice-Chancellor of the Vni- 

 verftty, afterwards Biiliop of London. 



143. For Towers, that of Merton College is a large well built 

 thing; and fo is that of the Schools, but more remarkable, for 

 that it is .adorned on the inner fide next the Quadrangle, with all 

 the orders of Pillars. But for a neat plain piece of work, that 

 of Magdalen College excells all I have yetfeen, adorned on the top 

 with well proportion'd Pinnacles, and within with a moft tunable 

 fweet ring of bells. 



MiramTurrim egregiam facro JEre fonantem. 



144. Amongft curiofities in Timber-work. > we may reckon fe- 

 \e12Xfcreens in College Chappels 5 fuch as that of Magdalen College, 

 that of Cedar at Lincoln College, and another at Corpus Chrijii now 

 erecting. There is zn Altar rail at Ml Souls College of curious 

 workmanftiip, and to this place belongs the Tomb of St. Fridef- 

 wide, ftill remaining at Chrifl Church, the top whereof is wood, 

 and a fine old piece of work : But not comparable to the Tomb 

 of fair Rofamund at Godjiow, in the Chapter-houfe of the Nuns 

 there, which according to the defcription of Ranulph Higden 

 feems to have been alfo of wood, and of wonderful contrivance, 

 ciftaejufdempuelU (fays he, having fpoken before of her death and 

 Epitaph,zna\ of the Amoufs between her and K. Henry the fecond) 

 vix UpedalU menfur<x.,fedmirabili6 architeliur*. ibidem cernitur, &c r m 

 i. e. That her cheft coffin or tomb was there to be feen, not above 

 two foot long, or perhaps rather fquare, but a ftupendous piece 

 of workmanftiip, in qua (fays the fame Author at the fame place) 

 confliclus Pugilum, geftws animalium, volatm avium, faltws pifcium 

 abfquehominps impulfu confyiciuntur, i. e. where in might be feen 

 the conoids of champions, the geftures of animals, the flights of birds, 

 withfifies leaping, and all done without the affiftance of man. 



1 Ravulphi Higden polychron. Ub.-].inHtn.2,MS.fol.inBil>. Bod- 



145. By 



