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builders of Gothic, it is a real lofs : there 

 is beauty, genius and invention enough in 

 their works to make one wiih to know the 

 authors. I will fay no more on this fubje(fb, 

 than that, on confidering and comparing 

 it's progrefs, the delicacy, lightnefs and 

 tafte of it's ornaments, it feems to have been 

 at it's perfection about the reign of Hen- 

 ry IV. as may be feen particularly by the 

 tombs of the archbilhops at Canterbury. 

 That cathedral I fnould recommend pre- 

 ferably to Weftminfter to thofe who would 

 borrow ornaments in that ftile. The fret- 

 work in the fmall oratories at Winchefter, 

 and the part behind the choir at Glocefter 

 >vould furnifh beautifull models. The win- 

 dows in feveral cathedrals offer graceful! 

 patterns -, for airy towers of almoft filigraine 

 we have none to be compared with thofe of 

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» Some inllances of particular beauty, whofe con- 

 ftruftions date at different aeras from what I have men- 

 tioned, have been pointed out to me by a gentleman to 

 whofe tafte I readily yield ; fuch as the nave of the min- 

 fter at York (in tlie great and fimple ftyle) and the 

 choir of the fame church (in the rich and filigraine 

 workmanfhip) both of the reign of tdward III. The 

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