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TO THE LORDS AND COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT.
May it please your Honours:
IT being lately re∣ported that your Honours have deliberated to have the
A brief discourse concerning the three chief principles of magnificent building viz., solidity, conveniency, and ornament / by Sr. Balthazar Gerbier D'ouvilly, Knight.
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- A brief discourse concerning the three chief principles of magnificent building viz., solidity, conveniency, and ornament / by Sr. Balthazar Gerbier D'ouvilly, Knight.
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- Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667.
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- London :: [s.n.],
- 1662.
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Streets made clean, to en∣large some of them, and to Build a Sumptuous Gate at Temple-Barr. I thought it my Duty to Pre∣sent this small Discourse of the three Principles of good Building, and with∣all a Printed Paper con∣cerning the Cleaning of the Streets, the Levelling the Valley at Fleet-Bridge, with Fleet-Street and
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Cheapside, add the make∣ing of a Sumptuous Gate at Temple-Barr, whereof a Draught hath been pre∣sented to his Sacred Ma∣jesty, and is ready also to be produced to your Ho∣nours upon Command, with all the Devotion of
Your Honours Most humble and most obedient Servant B. Gerbier Douvilly Knight.