having been the Names of the Architects, who by the Laws of their Country were never permitted to inscribe their own Names upon their Works. For the same Reason it is thought, that the Forelock of the Horse in the Antique Equestrian Statue of
Marcus Aurelius
, represents at a Distance the Shape of an Owl, to intimate the Country of the Statuary, who, in all probability, was an
Athenian
. This kind of Wit was very much in Vogue among our own Countrymen about an Age or two ago, who did not practise it for any oblique Reason, as the Ancients abovementioned, but purely for the sake of being Witty. Among innumerable Instances that may be given of this Nature, I shall produce the Device of one Mr
Newberry
, as I find it mentioned by our learned
Cambden
in his Remains. Mr
Newberry