940 G E 
of Agincourt owing to the Englifn ar¬ 
chers, 57 ; a falhionable amufement in 
the time of Henry VIII. which is en¬ 
couraged by feverai adts of parliament, 
and even enforced from the pulpit, 
57,58; inftitution of the Artillery Com¬ 
pany, 58 ; names of the principal eftab- 
lilhments for the practice of archery as 
an amufement in England, 59 ; con¬ 
cluding eulogy on Britith archery, ibid. 
Henry VIII. Iris various laws for the en¬ 
couragement of archery, 57, 58 ; infti- 
tutes the Artillery Company, 58. 
A R 
A BACUS, its original intent, 65. 
Alaric, king of the Goths, 78. 
Amphyproftyle, 72. 
Ancient architecture, 64-78 ; of the Egyp¬ 
tians, Perfians, All'yrians, and Baby¬ 
lonians, 65 ; of the Chinefe and Indians, 
66; of the Greeks and Romans, 67; 
of the Etrufcans, ibid, facred buildings 
of the ancients, 72 ; not always con¬ 
fined to the rules of Vitruvius, 74 ; 
houfes of the ancients, 76 ; Pliny’s vil¬ 
la, 77 - 
Antis, a temple fo called, 72- 
Aquatic buildings, 122. 
Arch, 85-88; pointed, fenricircular, and 
hoi^fe-ffioe, 85 ; to determine tiie joints, 
87 ; particular ufe of arcades, and their 
proportions, [05. 
Architrave, 65. 
Areoftyle, mode of building, 73 ; by a mo¬ 
dern contrivance is introduced into por¬ 
ticos and periftyles, 105. 
Afiyrians and Babylonians ignorant of the 
conftrudtion of arches, 65. 
Aftragals, 65. 
Attics, their origin, 71. 
Ballultrades, io6;lheirproporlions,&c. 107. 
Barbarian, meaning of the word, 78. 
Bafe of a column, 71. 
Bafements, their proportions and orna¬ 
ments, 106. 
Beams and rafters, ufeful remarks on, 78. 
Bridges, to conitrudt and execute, 122; 
their proportional dimentions, 124; 
Weftminfter-bridge in London, and 
ElTex-bridge in Dublin, 125 ; wooden 
bridges, 126; London-bridge, ibid. 
Capital, whence its idea fir ft derived, 64. 
Caryatides, ornaments fo called, 72. 
Caftle Trodden, an ancient building in 
Scotland, 80. 
Cadies, built in the time of William the 
Conqueror,-83 ; architecture and gene¬ 
ral fituation of caftles, 93 ; mode of at¬ 
tack and defence, 94 ; Scottifh caftles, 
ibid, cattle of Old Sarum, ibid. 
Cathedral-church of Sajilbury, the mod 
complete fpecimeri of the Norman Go¬ 
thic architecture in England, 92 ; of St. 
Paul, 120, 121.' 
Ceilings, 108 ; coved, 109. 
Chimneys and chimney-pieces, their or¬ 
naments, proportions, andfituation, 107. 
Churches, 91 ; Salilbury cathedral, 92; 
St. Paul’s, 120. 
Civil architecture, 64. 
Columns', their appearance how varied, 
7 1 ; rules for diminishing, 7 i, 73, too ; 
Vitruvius’s rules for their difpofition, 
73 ; firft invented by Hermogeries, ibid, 
of intercolumnations, 105.- 
Compofite order, its proportions, 70 ; its . 
deftinationi 99 ; to draw, or fet off, 104. 
Corinthian order, 69; proportions adapted 
NERAL IND 
M.ufical notes difeovered by the twang¬ 
ing of the bow-ftring, 50. 
Petfiari archery, as deferibed by Chardin, 
49> 5°> 55 > on borfeback, deferibed by 
Chardin and Tavernier, 55. 
Popinjay, the mark for arbalifters to fhoot 
at, 54. 
Quarrels or bolts, the names given to ar¬ 
rows lliot from crofs-bows, 54. 
Quiver, coryto, or corytus, 53. 
Romans contemned archery, 49, 
Strength and addrefs required in the ma¬ 
nagement of the bow, 50 ; addrefs be- 
to this order by the moderns, 70; its 
peculiar beauty, 99; to draw or project, 
104. 
Cornices, &c. 65. 
Coventry, Walter of, an ancient Englilh 
architect, 83. 
Croyland abbey, 80, 81. 
Denteles, 65 ; properly belong to the Io¬ 
nic cornice, 69. 
Diaftyle mode of difpoftng columns, 73. 
Dipteral, a fort of ancient building, 72. 
Domes or cupolas not in ufc among the 
ancients, 88 ; cupola of the church of 
Santa Maria de Fiore, of St. Genevieve, 
and of Santa Sophia, ibid. 
Doors, 90; difference between the Gothic 
doors and tliofe of the ancients, ibid, 
their general proportions, 107 ; their 
ornaments, ic8. 
Doric order, 68 ; its modern proportions, 
69; its peculiar characters, 99 ; man¬ 
ner of projecting, or fetting oft, 104. 
Drains and fewers, 1 17. 
Egyptian architecture, 65-67; pyramids, 
labyrinth, and palace, 65 ; proportions 
in building, according to Vitruvius, 
ibid. Egyptian column, 66 ; Greek ar¬ 
chitecture derived from the Egyptian,67. 
England, progrefs of architecture in, 79; 
introduction of Greek and Roman ar¬ 
chitecture, 82, 83. 
Euftyle manner of building, 73. 
Fillets, 65. 
Floors, need not be ornamented, 118. 
Foundations, how to choofe, 116 ; direc¬ 
tions for working, 117. 
Flutings of columns, 71 ; how to project 
flutes and fillets, 101. 
Frize, 65. 
Gates and piers, 116. 
Gluing up the bafe, fhaft, and capital, 99; 
the Ionic capital, 100. 
Gothic architecture, 78; rofe on the ruin 
of the Roman empire, 79 ; obtains a 
footing in Britain, 79 ; gives place to 
the Greek and Roman, 82 ; two forts of 
Gothic architecture, 83 ; Warburton’s 
account of Gothic architecture, 84; re¬ 
mains of the Saxon Gothic, ibid, of the 
Norman-Gothic, ibid, beauty of the Go¬ 
thic cathedrals, 85 ; method of con¬ 
ftrudtion, 93. \ 
Goths, an account of them, 78, 79. 
GreekarchiteCture.derived from the Egyp¬ 
tian, 67; declined after the overthrow 
of the Roman empire, 79 ; .brought into 
ufe in England by Inigo Jones, 82. 
Groins of brick and plalter, 112. 
Hermogenes, his improvements in archi¬ 
tecture, 73. 
Houles, or private buildings, of the an¬ 
cients, 76-78 ; of the Greeks and Ro¬ 
mans, 76; Vitruvius’s rules, 77 ; Pliny’s 
villa at Laurentinum, 77, 78; private 
C H I T E C T 
E X. 
yond ftrength in that exercife, exem¬ 
plified in an anecdote of Mr. Topliam, 
a remarkably ftrong man, ibid. 
Stringing of bows, 51. 
Turkith archery, 55. 
Welch archers, two very extraordinary 
anecdotes, 54. 
Xenophon's account of the Carducian ar¬ 
chers, 49. 
R E. 
houfes in England previous to James l. 
82 ; method of arranging at prefect, 
96; hints for their improvement, 97. 
Hypaethral edifices, 72. 
Indian architecture, 66; pagodas deferib¬ 
ed, 66, 67. 
Jones, Inigo, brings Roman and Greek ar¬ 
chitecture into ufe in England, 82, 83. 
Ior.ic order, 69 ; its delicacy, 99 ; to de- 
feribe the Ionic volute, 102, 104. 
•Manfion-houfe,directionsforereCting, t x8. 
Military architecture, 64. 
Modern or practical architecture, 94; firft 
introduced by Inigo Jones and Sir Chrif- 
topher Wren, 95 ; proportions of rooms, 
&c. ibid, external proportion, 96. 
Modillion, 65. 
Monopteral round temples, 72. 
Murphy, Mr. his account of arches, 86. 
Niches, little ufed in ancient churches, 
91 ; their proportions, 107, 111. 
Norman-Gothic architecture, 84; pillar, 8.5. 
Orders upon orders, 106. 
Ornaments for mouldings, 70 ; for pedef- 
tals, 71; for gates,. 1.16. . 
Palace of Verfailles, Sir Chriftopher Wren’s 
account of it, 97. . 
Pedeltals, general rules refpefting them,71. 
Pediments, their form and ufe, 106; tode- 
feribe, fir. 
Peripteral, a fort of facred edifice, 72; 
round temples thus called, i-bid. 
Perfepoiis, ruins of, 65. 
Perfians, ornaments.fu called, 72. 
Pilafters, how they differ from columns, 
71 ; fometimes employed in preference 
to columns, ibid. 
Pillars, the Norman-Gothic, 85; deftina- 
tion of pillars in general, 97. 
Plinth, its origin pointed out, 64. 
Proftyle, a fort of temple, 72. 
Pfeudodypteral, a fort of facred edifice, 
72 . 73 - 
Pycnoftyle, a mode of placing columns, 73. 
Quays or harbours, how to conftrudt, 129. 
Roman architedlure, 67. 
Roofs, their proportions, 114, 118; tim¬ 
bers to be ufed, 115; coverings for 
roofs, 116. 
Rules for working the five orders, 98. 
St. Paul’s cathedral deferibed, 120; its di^ 
mentions, 121. 
Saxons introduced the Gothic architedluro 
into England, 83 ; remains of the Sax¬ 
on-Gothic in this kingdom, 84. 
Scottifh architecture, 80. 
Sens, William de, a great architedt of old 
time, 83. 
Ship-building, 64. 
Situation, to be ftudied by an architedl, 96. 
Sky-lights, their proportions,&c. 113, 1 14. 
Soffits, how to defcribe in different fitu- 
ations, 110, 111. 
Somerfet-houfe, remarks on that building, 
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