There is in common Use here in _England_, about eleven Bodies, as I shewed in §. 2. ¶. 2. of this Volumne. I told you even now, that all the _Punches_ for the same Body must not have the same Heighth and Thickness: For some are Long; as, J j Q, and several others; as you may see in the Drafts of Letters: and these long Letters stand upon the whole Heighth of the Body. The Ascending and Descending Letters reach from the Foot-Line, up to the Top-Line; as all the Capital Letters are Ascending Letters, and so are many of the Lower-Case Letters; as, b d f, and several others. The Descending Letters are of the same Length with the Ascending Letters; as, g p q and several others. These are contained between the Head-Line and the Bottom-Line. The Short-Letters are contained between the Head-Line and the Bottom-line. These are three different Sizes of Heighth the _Punches_ are made to, for Letters of the same Body. But in proper place I shall handle this Subject more large and distinctly. And as there is three Heighths or Sizes to be considered in Letters Cut to the same Body, so is there three Sizes to be considered, with respect to the Thicknesses of all these Letters, when the _Punches_ are to be Forged: For some are m thick; by m thick is meant m _Quadrat_ thick, which is just so thick as the Body is high: Some are n thick; that is to say, n _Quadrat_ thick, _viz._ half so thick as the Body is high: And some are _Space_ thick; that is, one quarter so thick as the Body is high; though Spaces are seldom Cast so thick, as shall be shewed when we come to _Casting_: and therefore, for distinction sake, we shall call these Spaces, Thick Spaces. The first three Sizes fit exactly in Heighth to all the Letters of the same Body; but the last three Sizes fit not exactly in Thickness to the Letters of the same Body; for that some few among the Capitals are more than m thick, some less than m thick, and more than n thick; and some less than n thick, and more than Space thick; yet for Forging the _Punches_, these three Sizes are only in general Considered, with Exception had to Æ _Æ_ _Q_, and most of the Swash-Letters; which being too thick to stand on an m, must be Forged thicker, according to the Workman’s Reason. After the Workman has accounted the exact number of Letters he is to Cut for one Set, he considers what number he shall use of each of these several Sizes in the _Roman_, and of each of these several Sizes in the _Italick_; (for the _Punches_ of _Romans_ and _Italicks_, if the Body is large, are not to be Forged to the same shape, as shall be shewed by and by) and makes of a piece of Wood one Pattern of the several Sizes that he must have each number Forged to. Upon every one of these Wooden Patterns I use to write with a Pen and Ink the number of _Punches_ to be Forged of that Size, lest afterwards I might be troubled with Recollections.