balustered

The Court below is formd into a Squar by a Corridor, having over the chiefe Entrance a stately Cupola cover’d with stone, the rest is cloysterd & arch’d on Pillasters of rustique-worke; The Tarace ascending before the Front, pav’d with white & black marble is balustred about with white marble exquisitely polish’d:

1644, John Evelyn, edited by Esmond Samuel De Beer, The diary of John Evelyn, volume 2, IRL Press at Oxford University Press, published 2003, page 129