The  Triumphal,  Oval,  and  Civical  Crowns  of  Laurel,  Oak,  and  Myrtle,
when  fully  made,  were  pleated  after  this  .order.  And  to  omit  the
crofled  Crowns  of  Chriftian  Princes-,  what  figure  that  was  which  Antftafim
defcribed  upon  the  Head  of  Leo  the  third  -,  or  who  firft  brought  in  the
Arched  Crown  ^  That  of  Charles  the  Great,  (which  feems  the  firft  remark
ably  clofed  Crown,)  was  framed  after  this  (£)  manner  j  with  an  interfeftion
in  the  middle  from  the  main  croffmg  barrs  ,  and  the  interfpaces  ,  unco  the
frontal  circle  ,  continued  by  handfome  Network-plates  ,  much  after  this  or
der.  Whereon  we  mall  not  infift,  becaufe  from  greater  Antiquity  ,  and
practice  of  Confecration,  we  meet  with  the  radiated,  and  ftarry  Crown,
upon  the  Head  of  ^Mgnftm,  and  many  fucceeding  Emperors.  Since  the  Ar
menians  and  ParthiMs  had  a  peculiar  Royal  Cap  -,  And  the  Grecians  from
Alexander  another  kind  of  Diadem.  And  even  Diadems  themfelve;  were
but  Fafciations,  and  handfome  Ligatures,  abouc  che  Heads  of  Princes-,  nor
wholly  omitted  in  the  Mitral  Crown,  which  common  Pi&ure  feems  tofet  too
upright  and  forward  upon  the  Head  of  Aaron:  *  Worn  fometimes  fingly,or
doubly  by  Princes,  according  to  their  Kingdoms-,  and  no  more  to  be  ex
pected  from  two  Crowns  at  once  ,  upon  the  Head  of  Ptolomj  And  fo  ea-
llly  made  out  when  Hiftorians  tell  us,  fome  bound  up  wounds,  fome  hang
ed  them  (elves  with  Diadems.
The  Beds  of  the  Ancients  were  corded  fomewhat  after  this  fafhion:  That
is,  not  directly,  as-  oars  at  prefenc,  but  obliquely  ,  from  fide  to  fide,  and  after
the  manner  of  Nee-  work  -,  whereby  they  lirengthened  the^-W*  or  Bedfides,
and  fpent  lefs  Cord  in  the  Work  :  as  is  demonftrated  by  (O  BIMCMM.
