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135 103
DUCAL PALACE WINDOWS TO NORTH DIFFERENCE OF
STYLE.
Canta: which has - most fortunately its two spiral
flanking shafts left - of the same section as all the rest
and with the truncated fillings, and of section opposite
and bearing leaf capitals; bold out - of the time of the
windows - c - d - e &c and with lions heads like
theirs - or rather like the intermediate ones of window
k, and here getting up to the tracery mark, I saw - the
abacus of the capital on which it fell being entirely left
that the rough chiselled mark which I had a doubt about in
k, l, and m is indeed merely the roughness allowed to
be left as holding tracery cement better. - it is not
any cuttingaway: But now note that in k-lm m-n-o- there
is this chiselled mark of the tracery - with no bolt holes
but in c-d-f -g-h, smooth soffit, with a stain of tracery
only, and bolt holes: and observe - at k the intermediate
lions heads begin - so that I suspect here I have another
date - closely connected with the rough chiselling which
marks the last and most degraded work of all - and yet
always retai[r]ning the spiral shaft easily imitated (x)
Vide note a t p 88
Here then I have Four distinct periods - the first
of a and b, 2nd of c to h, 3rd of k to o 4th of
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