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 DEDICATION. to the noble Arts and. The Firt of thee your Majety has been pleas'd to honour, as well in expreing a Satisfaction with the Performances, as in extending Tour Royal Munificence to that great Mater thereof Signor Verrio.

 altho Affairs of higher Conequence have hitherto deferr'd your Majety's Commands for Raiing WHITE-HALL from its Ruins; yet has not Architecture been without Encouragement, under Your Majety's Mot Aupicious Reign: Witnes the great Dipatch lately given to thoe Noble Fabricks of St. PAU's, Greenwich-Hopital, and Blenheim.

 eem to pre age, that a Time is coming, when thro the Ble ing of Peace, and the happy Influence of Your Maje ty's Government, WHITE-HALL hall become a Structure worthy its Great Retorer, and its Name as much Celebrated among Palaces, as Your Royal Vertues are Illustrious among Princes: When Your Maje ty's Subjects hall exert themelves as much to their Country's Honour, in the Arts of Deign, and Civil Architecture, as they have already done in the Art Military, and Peronal Valour.

 to uch Happy Seaon, I preume this Art of Perpective made Practicable, may not be improper; being One of the mot Ueful, tho hitherto the