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The general theory of X-ray diffraction by a one-dimensionally disordered structure, developed in a previous communication, is here applied to the special case of close-packed structures having a `three-layer influence' on the arrangement of the neighbouring planes. The intensity of diffraction is expressed in terms of two quantities and K which are themselves functions of and , where (1 - ) is the probability that a fourth layer continues a hexagonal arrangement and is the probability that a fourth layer continues a cubic arrangement of the three preceding layers. The line widths and displacements of the positions of certain reflexion-maxima depend on the degree of order and so enable this quantity to be determined experimentally.