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the Park wall than usual"; from which it would appear that subsequently to 1759, and between that date and August, 1783, the pro hac vice structure was erected further to the north, across the Edgware Road higher up the " where " I have queried ante.

This record cannot be considered complete without some reference to the line of route of the procession from Newgate to Tyburn, which, at all events on the last two occasions, presented some interesting incidents con- nected with its deviation from the course of the sad journeys of former times ; but with this phase of the subject, as well as with a demonstration that 1783 by no means saw the last of the old, squalid, grim, ramshackle procession excused if not actually approved by Dr. Johnson* but that for nearly half a century subsequently a similar rowdy, shambling. gathering around a nucleus issuing from Newgate Debtors' Door, and bound north, east, and west, but usually east, was to be occasionally, but too frequently, beheld disgracing the metropolitan thorough- fares, I will, with your kind permission, deal in a subsequent paper. NEMO.

Temple.

ANCIENT ZODIACS.

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Italian Zodiacs.

132. " Jupiter enthroned between Mars and Mercury standing, above an arch, under which old Oceanus half emerges from his waves, the whole enclosed within the circle ol the zodiac." Renaissance, sard. Marlborough coll. King, i. 243.

133. Around Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, anc Oceanus. Renaissance, sardonyx. Foulc coll. King, i. 243.

134. Surrounding Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, and Oceanus. Renaissance, cameo. Webb coll. King, i. 243.

135. Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, and Oceanu within the zodiac. Renaissance. Louvre coll. In Raspe, ii. pi. xvii. fig. 3127. King i. 243.

136. Around Phoebus in his car. Circular gem, cinquecento. In King, ii. 50, pi. xvi No. 3.

137. A zodiac is mentioned as being in Lucca of some antiquity. 'Dictionary o' Architecture.'

138. The symbols of the signs are said to be found on a doorway in San Zenone Verona, twelfth century.

139. The cipher emblems of the signs are

1783.
 * Boswell's ' Life,' under date Sunday, 30 March

Iso said to be sculptured on the north door- way of Modena Cathedral. Twelfth century.

140. Represented as round Phoebus in a jhariot, in a bedroom in a palace at Florence. In 'Diet. Arch.,' i. 54, pi. 118.

141. In fresco by Semino, on the ceiling of the hall in the Ferdinando Spinola palace

formerly Palazzo Grimaldi). Strada Nuova, S"o. 44, Genoa.

142. In tessellated pavement in the crypt of San Savino, Piacenza, A.D. 903. Murray,

Northern Italy,' 1847, p. 373.

143. In the pavement of the choir in Aosta Cathedral, Piedmont. Mediaeval. Fowler,

Archceologia, xliv.

144. On a circular arch, with inscriptions in very early Longobardic characters, in the Sacra di San Michele della Chiusa, on Monte Pirichiano, in Piedmont, A.D. 966-988. Cor- dero, 'Italiana Architettura,' Brescia, 1829, p. 173. 'Diet. Arch.'

145. In the doorway of the Duomo, Pia- cenza, circa twelfth century. Murray, ' Northern Italy,' 358.

146. On the facade of the cathedral, Milan, twelfth or thirteenth century. Pucinelli, ' Lod. di Milano,' ii. ' Diet. Arch.'

147. In a black and white marble inlaid pavement in San Miniato, near Florence, 1207. 'Annales Archeologiques.' Waring, 'Arts,' 1858, pi. 24.

148. Fragments of one are in the baptistry of the cathedral at Parma, in the triforium, 1281. Archceologia, xliv. ' Diet. Arch.'

149. In the marble pavement of the bap- tistry of the Duomo, at Florence, is a square panel, containing a circle with twelve divi- sions holding the signs, the four cherubic figures being at the corners. Fourteenth cen- tury. In 'The Architectural Illustration Society Papers,' second series, pi. 379. 'An- nales Archeologiques,' xv. 231.

150. On the archivolt of the west doorway of San Marco, Venice. Eleventh century Ruskin, 'Stones of Venice.'

151. In the baptistry of the cathedral, Pisa ; finished fourteenth century. ' Diction- ary of Architecture.'

152. On a globe on the summit of the clock tower in the Grand Piazza, Venice. 1492. Dickens, ' Pictures of Italy.'

153. In fresco by Giotti (d. 1337) in the great hall, Padua. ' Annales Archeologiques,' xviii. and xxvi. 'Diet. Arch.'

154. On one of the archivolts of the great central entrance to the Duomo in Piaoenza. Fifteenth century. Ruskin, ii. 271. Murray, 372. 'Diet. Arch.'

155. In a MS. poem by Palmieri, entitled 'Citta di Vita,' 1437, preserved in the Lauren-