Amongst the _Italick-Letters_ many are to be _Kern’d_, some only on one side, and some both sides. The _Kern’d-Letters_ are such as have part of their _Face_ hanging over one side or both sides of their _Shanck_: These cannot be _Rub’d_, because part of the _Face_ would _Rub_ away when the whole side of the _Shanck_ is toucht by the _Stone_: Therefore they must be _Kern’d_, as _Founders_ call it: Which to do, they provide a small Stick bigger or less, according as the _Body_ of the _Letter_ that is to be _Kern’d_. This _Kerning-stick_ is somewhat more than an Handful long, and it matters not whether it be square or round: But if it be square the Edges of it must be pretty well rounded away, lest with long usage and hard Cutting they Gall the Hand. The upper-side of this _Kerning-Stick_ is flatted away somewhat more than the length of the _Letter_, and on that flat part is cut away a flat bottom with two square sides like the _Sides_ or _Ledges_ of the _Lining-stick_ to serve for two _Sholders_. That side to be _Kern’d_ and _scrap’d_, is laid upwards, and its opposite side on the bottom of the _Kerning-stick_ with the _Foot_ of the _Letter_ against the bottom _Sholder_, and the side of the _Letter_ against the side _Sholder_ of the _Kerning-stick_. He also provides a _Kerning-Knife_: This is a pretty strong piece of a broken Knife, about three Inches long, which he fits into a Wooden-Handle: But first he breaks off the Back of the Knife towards the Point, so as the whole edge lying in a straight line the piece broken off from the back to the edge may leave an angle at the point of about 45 Degrees, which irregular breaking (for so we must suppose it) he either _Grinds_ or _Rubs_ off on a _Grind-stone_. Then he takes a piece of a Broom-stick for his Handle, and splits one end of it about two Inches long towards the other end, and the split part he either Cuts or Rasps away about a _Brevier_ deep round about that end of the Handle. Then he puts about an Inch and an half of his broken blade into the split or slit in the Handle, and ties a four or five doubled Paper a little below the Rasped part of the Handle round about it, to either a _Pica_ or _Long-Primmer_ thick of the slit end of the Handle. This _Paper_ is so ordered that all its sides round about shall stand equally distant from all the Rasped part of the Handle: For then setting the other end of the Handle in Clay, or otherwise fastening it upright, when _Mettal_ is poured in between the Rasped part of the Handle and the Paper about it, that _Mettal_ will make a strong _Ferril_ to the _Handle_ of the _Knife_. The irregularities that may happen in _Casting_ this _Ferril_ may be Rasped away to make it more handy and Handsome.