Types of hill
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Steps; Crumpett; Fess with Battlement
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Triangles; Trepans
Image from published plate... The third is an old fashioned Treepan, an Instrument belonging to Chyrugery. Of these there hath of antient times been several sorts and ways of making them, but now they are out of use; only kept in memory by their use in Arms. See numb. 105.
The fourth is another fashioned Trepan, two ends thereof being adorned with Roses. See chap. 12. numb. 6.
Inside main posts of a mill; Crouch; Pillar; Rammer
Image from published plateCXXIII. The first thing in this quarter is termed the Inside Main Posts, or stays of a Wind-Mill. ...
Pillar; Milk tankard; Chess bishop
Image from published plate... The second is termed a Tankerd or Milk Tankerd.
The third is termed a Chess Bishop. This is one of those kind of Rooks or Chess men called a Bishop; having a kind of Miter on his head: This could I have told what it had been before it was Engraven in this Plate, it should have been set among its Fellows in Chap. 16. numb 31.
Octagon
Image from published platePowder box; Octagon; Five square
Image from published plateCXXVI. The first in this square, I take it to be an Horsemans Flask or Powder Box, wherewith Troopers charge both their Pistols and Carbines. Some have them with Feet, some without; others with 2 loops on the sides, and others but with one, which is to hang them by their sides. See of these sorts of Flasks after the English mode, Chap 18. numb. 60
Old fashioned mirror; Cauldron reversed
Image from published plateCXXVII. He beareth in this square, two sorts of things, the first is an old fashioned Mirrour.
The second is a Caldron reversed.
Steel ferris; Cross
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Lozenges
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Strainer or cullender; Goldsmiths jigging tool; Bezant; Ancient club
Image from published plateCXXX. The first is termed a Clenser or Strainer, a Cullender.
The second, which is that more near the chief is named a Goldsmiths Jigging Iron, this is used by all Chafers of Plate. See chap.20. numb. 121.
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Fleams; Ancient M
Image from published plate... [First and second objects] The second is termed an old or Ancient Flegme, or Fleame, or an Instrument used by Chirurgions, for the nipping of Teeth. See chap.11. numb.30.
Pile
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Bulls horns
Image from published plateOctagon and coronet
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