Of OXFO\V^Hl%E. ift 



150. Wherein a a a zndbbb (lie w the walls of the Theater that 

 fupport this frame of timber, and the places of the pilafters of the 

 rail and ballifier round it ; ccc and ^/^/^/ the leads and pipes let 

 down into the wall for conveyance of water ; eee and /// the 

 wall plate ov lintel, and places of its joints ; ggg the girders of 

 the femi circle, each fupported by a King piece or C t own p of cut oft* 

 athhh, and lcrewed into the binding beam i i i ; which is fom- 

 what different from the reft of the binding beams k.k.k> III, mm mi 

 nnn, having (everal prick-pofts let into it at 0000, befide the 

 King-pofts that fupport this and the reft at ppppp, isfc. The Let- 

 ters qqq fhew thepurlines between the binding beams, not fet right 

 againft one another becaufe of room to turn the /crews whereby 

 they are faftened, and rrrr two dragon (perhaps rather Trigon) 

 beams or braces lying under the joifts ss ss ss, (src. the true lengths 

 and diflances whereof, and of all other pieces of timber and places 

 whatever, are all (hewn by the fcale Fig. 2. 



151. And fo are the lengtbs and diflances of the feveral pieces 

 of timber fet over this flat floor, fuch as the principal rafters tttt, 

 the Crown polls or King pieces uuuu, the prick pofts www, braces 

 or punchons xxx, by all which together the binding beams, girders, 

 joifls, (src. are all held up as it were by an Arch above, as in Tab. 



14. Fig. 3. which is the whole band of Timber that ftands next 

 the femi circle, having prickpoffs and different lockages from the 

 reft of the four bands, as is fufficiently reprefented by one half of 

 one of them, Tab. 14. Fig. 4. 



152. Which is all I think need be fa id concerning this fine 

 piece of Timber-work.-, only that there are crofs braces between the 

 middle Crown pofts as they ftand in a line from the front to the fe- 

 micide, as h reprefented Tab. i\.Fig.$. mark'd with the letters 

 yyyyyy DOtn here, and as they ftand Fig. 1 . And that it was con- 

 trived by our Englifh Vitruvius, the Right Worfhipful and Learn- 

 ed Sir Christopher Wren % and worked by Richard Frogley an able 

 Carpenter ; and both thk, and the tlone-work.too, at the fole charge 

 of the moft Reverend Father in God Gilbert, by Divine Provi- 

 dence, Lord Arch-Biftiop of Canterbury, Primat of all England, 

 and Metropolitan, who finifhing, and having endowed i/witha 

 competent Eflate for its reparations forever, It is like to ftand a 

 moft magnificent and lafting monument of his Graces Munificence, 

 and favor of good Learning to all pofterity . 



Mm 153. There 



