Fréart, Roland; Evelyn, John; Alberti, Leon Battista; Wotton, Henry [Hrsg.]: A parallel of the ancient architecture with the modern: in a collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders viz. Palladio and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L. B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and De Lorme, compared with one another ; the three Greek orders, Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian, comprise the first part of this treatise ; and the two Latin, Tuscan and Composita, the latter (London, 1733)

T O

My most Honoured Friend,

SirCmusToPHERW ren,


Surveyor of His Majejtys Buildings and Works.
SIR,
H A T I take the Boldness to adorn this Little
Work with the Name ot the Ma/feroi the Works
(vvhose Patronage alone can give it Reputation)
I have no Excuse for; but an Ambition of Publick-
ly Declaring the great Esteem I have ever had of
Your Virtues and Accomplissiments, not only in
the Art of Building, but through all the Learned Cycle of the
most Useful Knowledge and Abjirufer Sciences; as well as of the
most Polite and Shining : All which is so justly to be allowed
You, that You need no Tanegyric, or other Hi/lory to Eternize
them than the great e/lCity of the Univerfe, which You have Re-
built and Beautified, and are st ill improving: Witness the Church-
es, the Royal Courts, Stately Halls, Magazines, Talaces, and
other Publick Structures ; besides what You have Built of Great
and Magnificent in both the Univerfities, at Chelfey, and in the
Country; and are now advancing of the Royal Marine Hofpitalzt
Greenwich, &c. All of them so many Trophies of Your Skill
and Industry, and Conducted with that Success, that if
the whole Art of Building were lost, it might be reco-
vered and found again in St. Tauss, the Hiftorical Tillar, and
those other Monuments of Your Happy Talent and extraordi-
nary Genius.
1 have Named St. Tauls, and truly, not without Admiration,
as oft as I recall toMind (as frequently I do) the sad and deplora-
ble Condition it was in, when (after it had been made a Stable
of Horses, and asDen of Thieves) You (with other Gentlemen
and my self ) were by the late King Charles, named CommiJJioners
to