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rafters are moft exactly ranged in Rank 

 and File, not unlike our Numbers in Arith- 

 metick. 



Notwithftanding which I find they do va- 

 ry thebignefs of the Charafter upon feveral 

 Occafions^ as in the Titles of Books, in the 

 Titles of the Chapters or Sedions, in the 

 Comments, Explications or Notes, and upoa 

 feveral other occafions of variety, which 

 they do at Pleafure with their Pencil, as we 

 ufe variety of Letters in the Printing of a 

 Book, The Titles of Books are generally in 

 very large Characters, 5 or 8 times as big as 

 thofe of the Book, the explication Notes i 

 of the bignefs, the Contents ufually twice as 

 big, and the like variety on feveral other 

 occafions. I have met with alfo three feve- 

 ral kinds of Charafters, the molt ufually 

 twice as big, and the like variety on feveral 

 other occafions. I have met with alfo three 

 feveral kinds of Characters, the moft ufual 

 is the fixed or fet Iquare form. The fecond 

 fort is the running Hand, in which the or- 

 ders of the Courts are written by their Se-^ 

 cretaries, of which I have feen 3 or 4 kinds^ 

 in which the Pencil is never taken ofi^, till 

 the whole Character be finiflied, and fome- 

 times two or three are all written without 

 break. The third feems to be fomewhat 

 like the flourifliing great Letters, ufed by 

 Scriveners at the beginning of Deeds, and 

 by the Germans in the beginning of Chapters 

 and Sections. They are compounded of the 

 fame ftrokes as the fet Cliarafter, but modu- 

 lated and fhaped a little otherwife to make 

 them appear the more beautiful and regular. 



