Titles of Books are geaeFall^ in vef y: ; krge Characters, 6 of 
S times as big a^'tliaff^ of ths Book, the E xplication notes ; 
of the bigneis, the contents ufually twice as big, and the 
Uke variety on fevQral other occafions. I have met with alfo 
rhre^ feveirai kinder of Charactei-s^ the moft ^fual is the fixed 
or let fquareform. i;:The fecond fort is the Running liand in 
which the orders of the Courts are written by their Secreta- 
ries, of which I have feen 5 or 4 kinds, in whicli the Pencil 
is never taken off till the whole Character be Finifhed, and 
Jfbmetimes 2 or 3 areall written without break. The third 
feems to be fome what like the flourifhing great Letters ufed 
by Scriveners at the beginning of Deeds, and by the Ger- 
7mm in the beginning of Chapters and Sections. They are 
compounded of the lame ftrokes as the fet Character, but 
modulated and fhaped a. little otherwife^ to. make. them ap- 
pear the more beautiful & regular, ^ A,: Specimen of each 
of thefe three are in the plate. This third is made ufe 
of for Epitaphs and other Infcriptims on Buildings or Mo- 
numents. Thefe 3 forts I may<:;all the three general kinds 
of wrixingjbut there is: to be found an almoft infinite variety 
of forms, which men ufe. This will be the more eafie to be be- 
]ieyed,when we confider that the Printed Charafters are ex- 
aflily the fame with the v/ritten. inlbmuch that every va- 
riety in each ftroke, line or point, that is or can be made 
with tl;e Pencil,, is perfeftly exprelTed in the ImprefEpa^ 
and the forme mode, or hand, as we call it of every Writer 
is exhibited fo curioufly, thati think it hardly poffible to 
be performed after the way of wooden Cutts as Authors af- 
firms it is, but muft be done after the Method of our Copper 
cutts, printed by a Roule-pr^fs^ which the way of expreiiiiig 
the Running or Court-hand, does, I conceive moft evidently 
demoiaftrate, and from divers: Circumfi:ances, I could evi- 
dently make appear from the Book it felf, which I cannot 
lb well cxprels in writing. Their Paper is generally very 
thyri fi^^? very tranfparent, but bro\^^, fo that 
what eyef i^ Written or Prini^id on is a^lmc^^as .Legible 
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