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A T an sera, when accumulated wealth has introduced into Great Britain a univerfal tafte for every fpecies of M£~\, elegant luxury, that can add to the comfort, or increafe the pleafures of focial life ; the direction of this

national tafte to the moft innocent and refined amufements, cannot fail of meeting the approbation and encou-• ragement of all the liberal patrons of the polite arts.

If intellectual delight affords greater fatisfaCtion to the rational mind than fenfual pleafures ; a plan calculated to draw off the attention of youth from the improper purfuit of the latter to the virtuous gratifications of the former, will not want the aid of a long prefatory addrefs, or of fervile folicitations in its favour.

That fuch is the laudable defign of the prefent undertaking, no one can entertain a doubt, who reflects that the ftudent, as well as the admirer of the ingenious art of fculpture, will be fupplied with elegant engravings from the defigns of one of the firft artifts of this kingdom, at the very moderate, price of One Shilling for each plate, inftead of the ufual demand of from 2s. 6d. to 5s. made for landfcapes of inferior merit.

It would be fuperfluous to fay more of the defign, if the execution is anfwerable, which we flatter ourfelves cannot fail, from the great reputation of the Artifts engaged; we fhall want no policy of infurance, for in the public favour we fhall find an ample reward for our labours. It remains only to account for the choice of our fubjeCts ; and in this we follow an illuftrious example: the renowned Emprefs of Ruffia, the munificent patronefs of every ufeful undertaking calculated to improve the tafte and polifh the manners of her fubje&s, without corrupting their hearts, has paid the higheft compliment to the genius and tafte of this country ; by procuring, at an immenfe expence, views of all the noblemen and gentlemen’s feats, and of every delightful fpot throughout the kingdom, drawn on the fpot, and painted upon fets of china difttes and plates. If thefe views appear fo enchanting in the eyes of this great princefs, furely it muft afford the higheft fatisfaClion*to Britons themfelves, to have in their poffeflion complete reprefentations of them on a better plan for prefervation, and on much eafter terms.

T A B L E to Vol. I. containing 42 Views.

Painters. San. by. 1.

AKEFIELD LODGE, the feat of his Rooker. Grace the Duke of Grafton, in North-amptonfhire.

2.    Strawberry Hill, the villa of the Hon. Horace Ditto. • Walpole, in Middlefex.

3.    Datchec Bridge, near Windfor.    Ditto.

4.    Wynnftay, the feat of Sir Watkin Williams Ditto. Wynne, Bart, in Denbighfhire.

Ditto. 5. Chatfworth Houfe, the feat of his Grace the Ditto.

Duke of Devonfhire, in Derbyfhire.

Ditto. C. Englefield Green, the feat of Sir John Elvil, Ditto. Bart, in Surry.

Ditto. 7. Drumlanrig, the feat of his Grace the Duke Ditto, of Queenfberry, in Scotland.

Ditto. 8. South Profpeft of the Abbey Gate at Reading, Ditto, in Berkshire.

Ditto. 9. Wenfleydale, the feat of his Grace the Duke Ditto, of Bolton, in Yorlcihire.

Ditto, jo. Nunebam, the feat of the Earl of Harcourt, in Ditto. Oxfordfhire.

Ditto. 11. South View of Strawberry Hill, the villa of the Ditto. Hon. Horace Walpole, Middlefex.

Ditto. 12. Knole Park, the feat of his Grace the Duke Ditto, of Dorfet, in Kent.

Ditto. 13. Hackwood Park, another feat of his Grace the Ditto.

Duke of Bolton, in Hampfhire.

Ditto. 14. View of Charlton, in Kent.

Ditto. 15. View of the Royal Military Academy, at Wool- Ditto, wich, in Kent.

Ditto. 16. North-weft View of Wakefield-Lodge, the feat Ditto, of his Grace the Duke of Grafton, in North-amptonftiire.

Ditto. 17. Barrington, the feat of the Countefs of Tal- Ditto, bot, Gloucefterfhire.

Rooker. 18. Jennings, the feat of her Grace the Duchefs Ditto, of St. Albans, in Kent.

Ditto.

Ditto.

Ditto.

Engravers. Painters.

Engravers,

Sandby. 19. Edwinsford, the feat of Robert Banks Hodg- Watts, kinfon, Efq. Carmarthenfhire.

Ditto. 20. The Welfh Bridge at Shrewfbury, Shropfhire. B.Greem Ditto. 2i. A View of the Princes Houfe atKew, in Surrey. Rooker. Ditto. 22. South-eaft View of Windfor Caftle, Berkfhire. Ditto. Ditto. 23. Pendhill Court, the fear of George Scullard, Watts. Efq. Surry.

Ditto. 24. EmberCourt, the feat of Lord Onflow, in Surry. Rooker. Ditto. 25. Weft View of Nottingham Caftle.

Ditto. 26. SeatofSirThomasWilfon,atCharlton,inKent. Ditto. Rooker. 27. Thames Ditton, the feat of Sir Thomas Heath- Rooker, cote, Bart, in Surry.

Sandby. 28. Eaft View of Nottingham Caftle.

Ditto. 29. Try Hill, a Lodge belonging to Colonel On- Rooker. flow, in Surry.

Rooker. 30. Bagfhot Park, the feat of the Hon. Auguftus Ditto. Keppel, in Surry.

Sandby. 31. South View of Shrewfbury Caftle.    Watts.

Ditto. 32. Montreal, in Kent, the feat of Lord Amherft. Ditto. Ditto. 33. The New Lodge on Shrubs Hill, Windfor Ditto. Foreft.

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Ditto. 34. View of Lord Harcourt’s Flower Garden, at Ditto. Nuneham, Oxfordftiire.

Ditto. 35. Another View of the Flower Garden at Nune.- Ditto, horn.

Ditto. 36. Duchefs of Athol’s feat, near Charlton, in Kent. Ditto. Ditto. 37. South-eaft View of Eton College, in Bucking- Ditto, hamfhire.

Rooker, 38. Brokenhurft, in Hampftiire, the feat of Ed- Rooker. ward Morant, Efq;

Sandby. 39. St. George’s Chapel, at Windfor.    Watts.

B.Green.40. St. Kenelm’s Chapel, in the County of Salop. B.Green

Sandby. 41. Ruins of Stanton Harcourt, in Oxfordftiire.

Smith, 42. View of Virgil’s Grove, at the Leafowes, the Malon.

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WAKEF IELD-LODGE

A SEAT of His Grace the Duke of GRAFTON.

T X 7 AKEFIELD-LODGE is a feat belonging to his Grace the Duke of Grafton in Whittlebury-Foreft, if! VV the county of Northampton. To expatiate on the elegance or tafte of the ftru&ure would be unneceflary,

when it is fo ingenioufly reprefented by the pencil of a Sandby, and the engraving of a Rooker. Jt would be equally ridiculous to attempt to point out the beauties of this mafterly performance, as we apprehend that to fee is to admire. We have only to add, that this elegant retreat is fituated on the moft delightful fpot in Whittlebury-Foreft, where art and nature combine to form a kind of terreftrial paradife.

Whittlebury-Foreft is fituated about three miles from Towcefter. The gardens and woods are divided into walks and viftas, from which the profpedt over the adjacent country charms the eye of the beholder ; and the park in which the deer are kept is properly railed in. Many of the neighbouring villages were formerly allowed the ufe of common in this foreft, but they have lately been deprived of that privilege j which has greatly contributed to the depopulating of the adjacent country.

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STRAWBERRY-HILL,

The elegant Villa of the Honourable HORACE WALPOLE, at Twickenham, in

Middlesex.

^QTRAWBERRY-HILL, the villa of the Honourable Horace Walpole, near Twickenham, in Middlefex, is delightfully fituated on a fmall eminence near the Thames, commanding views of Twickenham, Richmond-tiill and park, Ham-houfe, and Kingdom The houfe is entirely finittied and furnilhed in the Gothic ftyle; the windows adorned with painted glafs. In the houfe is a large colle&ion of portraits and other pieces relative to Englifh hiftory and manners, in oil, miniature, and enamel; with fome other good pidures by great matters, befides antique butts, the celebrated eagle from the baths of the Caracalla, medals and coins ancient and modern, porcelain of various countries, arms, armour, and many other curiofities. In the garden is a Gothic chapel, with a fhrine of old Mofaic brought from Rome. There is alfo a printing-houfe, from which have appeared feveral curious pieces, well known to the public.

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YNN-STAY is a feat belonging to Sir Watkin Williams Wynne, Bart, near Wrexham, in Denbighfhire. It would be unneceflary to attempt a defcription of it, as it is fo finely reprefented by the ingenious artifts Mr. Sandby and Mr. Rooker. We fhall only obferve, that it is an elegant villa, molt delightfully fituated, and is worthy of the refidence of its opulent and hofpitable owner.

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HIS noble fabric may be faid to have had two or three different founders, who have all improved upon each other. The firft was Sir William Candifh, or Cavendifh, Knt. defcended from the noble and ancient family of the Gernons, famous in Norfolk and Effex, by a younger branch, who fettling at Cavendifh, in Suffolk, took his name from thence; but dying before it was finifhed, his lady Elizabeth, afterwards Countefs of Salifbury, finifhed it according to her hufband’s plan, which has been fince her time greatly improved; particularly by the firfl: Duke, great-grandfather of the prefent Duke of Devonfhire ; fo that it feems almoft impoflible to add to its beauty and magnificence. One thing is obfervable, that the very difadvantages of fituation contribute to the beauty of the place, and, by inconfiderable alterations, are made fubfervient to the builder’s defign. On the eaft fide, not far diftant, rifes an exceeding high mountain, which is fo thick planted with beautiful trees, that you only fee a rifing wood gradually afcending. On the plain, which extends from the top of this mountain, large body of water, of about thirty acres; and, from the afcents round it, receives, as into a ciftern, all the water that falls, which, through pipes, fupplies the cafcades, water-works, ponds, and canals in the gardens. Before the weft front of the houfe, which is the moft beautiful, and where the firft fbundrefs built a very magnificent portal, runs the river Derwent, which, though not many miles from its fource, is a very rapid ftream, when, by hafty rains or the melting of fnows, the hills pour down their waters into its channel; for the current, on account of its many contracted pafiages among the rocks (pieces of which, of an incredible bulk, come fometimes rolling down its ftream), on the leaft motion of its waters above their ordinary height, roars like the breakers on the fhores of the fea. Over this river is a (lately ftone bridge, with an ancient tower upon it; and on an iiland in the river, an ancient fabric, all of ftone, and built like a caftle, which are

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In the ufual approach to this noble fabric, it prefents itfelf thus : firft, the river, which, in calm weather, glides gently by ; then a venerable walk of trees, where the famous Hobbes ufed frequently to meditate ; a noble piece of iron-work gates and balufters, expofe the front of the houfe and court, terminated at the corners next the road with two large flone pedeftals of attic work, curioufly adorned with trophies of war, and of utenfils of all the fciences in bas relievo : this part of the building is Ionic, the whole being a quadrangle of a Angle order, but every fide of a different model, a court in the middle, with a piazza of Doric columns of one flone each, overlaid with prodigious architraves. The ftone is of an excellent fort, veined like marble, hewn out of the neighbouring quarries, and rolled down the adjacent hill, in the anti-room to the hall, are flat ftones of fourteen feet fquare, laid upon the heads of four pillars, and fo throughout. In the hall-flairs, the landing-fteps are of the fame dimcn-Aons ; the doors, chimnies, window-cafes, flairs, &c. are all of marble; the ceilings and walls of all the apartments painted by Verrio, and other eminent mafters : the bath room, all of marble, curioufly wrought. T he chapel is a moft beautiful place ; the altar end and the floor, of marble ; the feats and gallery, of cedar ; and the reft of the wall and ceiling painted.

The gardens abound with green-houfes, fummer-houfes, walks, wilderneffes, orangeries, wTith all the proper enrichments of ftatues, urns, greens, &c. with canals, bafons, and water-works of various forms and contrivances, as fea-horfes, drakes, dolphins, and other fountains, that throw up the water; an artificial willow-tree of copper fpouts, dropping water from every leaf; a wonderful cafcade, where, from a neat houfe of flone, like a temple, out of the mouths of beafts, pipes, urns, &c. a whole river defcends the (lope of a hill a quarter of a mile in length, over fteps, with a terrible noife and broken appearance, until loft ynderground. It would be endlefs to defcribe all the beauties that are to be met with in this auguft palace ; but we muft not forget two hiftorical circumftances relating to it, viz. that Mary Queen of Scots w⁷as feventeen years in cuftody in this

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houfe, under the care of the celebrated foundrefs of it. In memory of this royal captive, the new lodgings that are built inflead of the old, are ftiled the Queen of Scots’ apartment. “ Happy for her (fays a late author, fpeaking of this place) could fhe have been allowed to have paid the fame compliment to the owner of it, which was made by Count Tallard and is our other hiftorical circumfiance. When he had been entertained here for a few days by the Duke of Devonfhire, “ When I return (faid he) into my own country, and reckon up the days of my captivity, I fhall leave thofe out that I fpent at Chatfworth.”

The following is an extract of a letter of an ingenious gentleman to his friend concerning this place, which, fays he, ‘ exceeds all the high ideas and defcriptions that were given me of it : the houfe yields to none in Europe; it is prodigioufly great in every part: I never faw fuch a number of fine rooms; but the fituation fur-pafies all ; Nature has laid herfelf out in amazing variety of greatnefs and profpe&s ; a fine river below, with fine banks, fome naked and rocky, others declining and woody, many fmooth, and proper for walking, large groves and fifh-ponds, and canals between the river and the houfe, which rifes proudly in feveral terraces, and has behind it a great lawn, intermixed with plantations and great walks, all arifing one above another, at firft gently, afterwards over vaft precipices to the top of a high mountain, which was all covered upon the brows with high trees, two or three miles on either fide ; then breaks into a thoufand vales and green hills ; then refuming its former height and bulk, proceeds again a mighty mountain, covered with rocks and heath ; its fides in many places adorned with wood: the whole yielding a moft extenfive profped of many miles.”

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Englefield Green, on which Sir John Elvil’s houfe is fituated, is about three miles in extent, and is embellifhed with feveral fuperb manfions, of which, in the courfe of our work, we may probably introduce perfpeftive views.

VII.

NUMBER

His Grace the Duke of QUEENSBE RRY’s Seat at DRUMLANRIG, in the Shire of

DUMFRIES.

RUMLANRIG is a market-town of Nithfdale, in the fhire of Dumfries, in the fouth of Scotland. It

_ ¹ gives title of Earl to the Duke of Queenfberry, who has a noble palace here, magnificently feated on the

fide of a hill, an immenfe mafs, embofomed in trees. Elere is a handfome ftone bridge of two arches, of a vaft height above the Nith, which fills the bottom of a deep and wooded glen, and a very fine and well-planted park. The houfe is a fquare building, with a fquare tower at each corner, and three fmall turrets on each : within is a court, and at each angle a round tower, each containing a flair-cafe; every where is a wearifome profufion of hearts carved in ftone, the Douglas arms : every window, from the bottom to the third ftory, is well fecured with iron bars: the two principal doors have their grated guards, and the cruel dungeon was not forgot, fo that the whole has the appearance of a magnificent ftate prifon. Yet this pile rofe in compofed times; it was built by William Duke of Queenfberry, begun in 1679, and completed in 1689, His Grace

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deemed to have regretted the expence, for report fays, that he denounced, i counts, a bitter curfe on any of his pofterity who offered to infpeft them.

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The apartments are numerous; the gallery is 108 feet long, with a fire place at each end; it is ornamented with much of Gibbon’s carving, and fome good portraits ; among which are,

The firft Duchefs of Somerfet, half length, no cap, with a fmall love-lock.

William Duke of Queenfberry, diftinguifhed in the reigns of Charles and James IT.

John Earl of Traquair, Lord High Treafurerof Scotland in the turbulent reign of Charles I.

John Earl of Rothes, Chancellor of Scotland, in his gown, with the feals by him. He was in power during the cruel perfecutions of the Covenanters in Charles II.’s time, and, difcharging his truft to the fatisfadtion of the Court, was created Duke of Rothes, a title that died with him.

A head of the Duke of Perth, in a bufhy wig.

George Douglas, Earl of Dunbarton, in armour, a great wig and cravat.

General James Douglas, who in 1691 died at Namur.

Earl of Clarendon, fon of the Chancellor, half-length, in his robes.

A good portrait of a Tripoline Ambaffador.

In the gardens, which are moft expenfively cut out of a rock, is a bird-cherry, of a great fize, not lefs than feven feet eight inches in girth; and among feveral fine filver firs, one thirteen feet and a half in circumference. In the park is the white breed of wild cattle, derived from the native race of the country, and which ftill retain the primaeval favagenefs and ferocity of their anceftors, are more fhy than any deer, and run away on the appearance of any of the human fpecies, and even fet off at full gallop on the leaf! noife : during fummer they keep apart from all other cattle, but in fevere weather hunger will compel them to vifit the out-houfes in fearch of food. The keepers are obliged to fhoot them, if any are wanted : if the beaft is not killed on the fpot, it runs at the perfon who gave the wound, and who is forced, in order to fave himfelf, to fly for fafety to the intervention of fome tree. Thefe cattle are of a middle fize, have very long legs, and the cows are fine horned : the orbits of the eyes, and the tips of the nofes, are black, but the bulls have loft the manes attributed to them by Boethius.

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The beauties of Drumlanrig are not confined to the higheft part of the ground; the walks, for a very con-flderable way, by the fides of the Nith, abound with the moft pidturefque and various fcenery: below the bridge the fides are prettily wooded, but not remarkably lofty; above, the views become wildly magnificent: the rivers through a deep and rocky channel, bounded by vaft wooded cliffs, that rife fuddenly from its margin, and the

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LFRIDA, wife of Edgar the Pacific, founded a finall nunnery at Reading, in the year g^o, by way of expiation or atonement (according to the grofs conceptions of thofe dark times), for caufing her fon-in-Iaw, Edward the Martyr, to be murdered by one of her domeftics ; but Henry the Firft ordered it to be pulled down, and in its (lead built one of the moft magnificent abbeys in England, beftowing on it many manors, together with very ample privileges. It was begun in 1121, and finiftied in about four years after, for the refidence of the Benedi&ine monks ; provifion being made for two hundred of that order, befides a proper falary for the Abbot, and all the neceffary officers. Henry I. was fo enamoured with this abbey, that he continued heaping favours upon it till the time of his death, when he left orders for his body to be interred in the chancel, which w aimplied with.

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was buried in this abbey; but this cannot poffibly be true, as we are a (lured, from the teftimony of writers in thofe times, that (lie was buried in St. Peter’s, Weftminfter, four years before the foundation of the abbey of Reading was laid. The fame author has fallen into another miftake, when he fays, that the Emprefs Matilda was buried in this abbey; whereas we have the teflimony of all the ancient hiftorians, confirmed by that of a noble author now living, that that Princefs died in Normandy, and was buried there, in the ninth year of the reign of her fon Henry II.

eathufiaft in all forts of ecclefiaftical antiquities, yet we mu ft remain of the fame opinion with the Bifhop, Unleft it could be overthrown by rational evidence. The g reate ft part of this (lately edifice remained till the civil wars in the laft century, when the army of the Parliament pulled down the upper part of the walls, confidering it as a .relic of pppifti idolatry.

As much of its ruins are ftijl remaining as ferve to convey an idea of its ancient grandeur. The walls have been faced with freerftone, but the interior part is compofed of flints cemented with a mortar of a very hard texture.

The abbey of Reading continued to fiourifh till the reign, of Henry VIII. when the Abbot refufing to deliver an account to the vifi tor's of the revenues and treafures, was, together with two of his monks, found guilty of high treafon, and received fentence to be hanged and chartered, which was executed upon them within fight of the place; and immediate pofieffion being taken, great quantities of jewels and other things of value were found, befides the rents of the houfe, which amounted to one thoufand nine hundred and thirty-eight pounds fourteen (hillings and three pence. Burnet, who wrote his Hiftory of the Reformation before the Cottonian library was deftroyed, tells us, that there were difcovered by the vifitors at Reading, fuch evidences of unnatural crimes having been committed by the monks, that it was called a little Sodom. Violence againft the didates of human nature always ends in unnatural crimes ; and although what has been afierted by Burnet, has been feverely animadverted upon by the late Brown Willis, who was an

Towards the eaft end there is (fill to be feen a large room of a femi-circular form, near fixteen yards broad, and twenty-eight long, with five fine narrow windows towards the eaft, and three doors towards the weft, with three windows over them ; it was arched over, and feems to have fupported a chapel, which Dr. Stukely imagines was appropriated for the burial-place of great perfons, and that mats was daily faid here for the repofe of their

fouls.

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WENSLEYDALE,

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WENSLEYDALE,

In the North-Riding of the County of YORK, the Seat of his Grace the Duke

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r"| ^HE view here exhibited comprehends the fouth afped of the houfe, the river Eure, and the fwelling woods, J| principally upon the weft fide of the manfion, which are decorated with avenues, adapted for the convenience of wheel-carriages. The fields before the hall are laid out in conformity both to ufeand pleafure; a blended fcene of unembarrafled pafture, wood, copfe, intervening ftreams, and fcattered trees, fupplies the place of formality and ftudied art: whilft, at a diftance, a view of hold and gentle inequalities, partly naked and partly^clothed, in which an extenfive park is included, agreeably prefents itfelf, terminating the profped with great diftin&nefs, at the diftance of a few miles. The back-ground confifts of a climax of hills, which ferve to defend not only the pile, but the whole valley, from the rude aflaults of the north ; a circumftance which, together with that of a good foil, contributes to give Wenfleydale that early fertility and autumnal verdure, fo remarkably chara&eriftical of the fpot. Near the corner, on the left fide of the plate, is a {ketch of the Caftle of Bolton, the place of about two years durance of Mary Queen of the Scots. Two engravings of this Caftle, with aa hiftorical defcription of the fame, are given by Mr. Grofe, in his Antiquities of England and Wales.

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But Nature, not contented iii beftowing a profufion of her bounties below, to reward the toil of the hufband-* mart, hath liberally endowed the more elevated parts with the fineft furface, for exercife of every kind that can be imagined ; nor are the moors in this diftriCt deftitute either of amufement or wealth, fince they abound in game, produce coal, and an immenfity of lead. In fhort, whether you feek to gratify the poet, the painter, or even the fportfman’s wilh, you cannot fail of fuccefs in thefe environs, where the objects which conftitute beauty and pleafure are fo plentifully ftrew£d, fo nobly majeftic, and at the fame time fo fingularly and happily grouped.

Hence we need not wonder that fuch allurements have induced a gentleman, inhabiting the valley, to celebrate it in poetic numbers, from whofe printed notes in his Wenfleydale, we (hall conclude this defcription.

“ Sweetly agreeable as the profpeCt is from the terrafs of Leyburn Ihawl or wood, it undoubtedly yields to the plain of Prefton fear, at a ftation from a point projecting over the village, near to the turnpike road at Scarthnick.

“ The advantage of this view, befides its greater variety of objects, is likewife that of its being moll com-modioufly acceffible to all kinds of Carriages. The fpe&ator has from hence a full light of the caftles of Middle-ham and Bolton, a glimpfe of the cataraCt of Ayfgarth, no lefs than eight villages and feven churches, molt of which are ornamented with very handfome lleeples.

“ But indeed there is not an eminence which contributes to inclofe the vale, but what can boaft of the beauties of its fituation; and with this fuperiority too, above all other places I remember, that though equally fine with the downs of Wilts or Dorfet for pafture and exercife in wet or dry weather, being upon a lime-ftone, the country is highly diverfified with thofe majeftic irregularities of nature which never fatiate. Add to this, that thofe happy circumftances of pleaftlre and health run parallel on the north and fouth fide of the valley for many miles, attended with copious ftreams, and good roads.

“ The romantic fituation of the handfome church of Ayfgarth on an eminence, folitarily overlooking thefe cataraCts of the Eure, wonderfully heightens the piCturefque idea of this unufual feene.

“ If you approach the falls that are above bridge from the road on the north fide, on which it always ought to bevifited, you have a fingular advantage of feeing them through a fpacious light arch, which, from the obliquity of the highway, prefents the river, at every ftep you advance, in many pleafing attitudes, till you mount the crown of the bridge, and take the whole in one beautiful grotefque view.

“ We may add to this elegant circumftance another incident in character, that the concave of the bridge is embellilhed by hanging petrefaCtions, and its airy battlement happily feftooned with ivy; near, on the Tight of

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“ The wrater falling near half a mile upon a furface of flone, worn into infinite irriguous cavities, and inclofed by bold and fhrubby cliffs, is every where changing its face, breaking forth into irregular beauties, till it forms the grand defcent.—The late learned traveller, Dr. Pocock, whofe fearch after the fublime and marvellous brought him to this part, was faid to own, with exultation, that thefe cataraCts exceeded thofe in Egypt, to which he was no ffranger.

“ There is yet an objeCl feldom feen but by thofe who narrowly feek amufement, and even little known upon the fpot, which demands our note, for our defcription it cannot have, upon a rivulet at Heaning, diftant about two miles from thefe falls of the Eure.

“ The curiofity of this fall of water, which runs into a low deep gill, the point of view at the bottom being indeed but of difficult accefs, is fuch as to appear a filver chain, whofe highefi link feems faftened to the clouds, defending through a difplay of hovering branches and fhading foliage, which, in proportion to the thick or thinner weaving of the boughs, now burfts and then twinkles in a manner moft amazingly captivating. In a word, the moft copious language under the conduCt of poetic infufion, muft flagger in any attempt to defcribe its unutterable charms.

“ Many fcenes of entertainment of the like kind offer themfelves, but of a much inferior clafs, on the Eure and its tributary ftreams, efpecially towards its fource, fuch as thofe of Bowbridge, Hardrow Fofs, and Fofs Gill in Bifhopdale, which, however capitally pleafing they might prove in any other part, appear diminifhed when put in comparison with thofe already remarked.’’

The houfe was finifhed about the year 1678, by the Marquis of Winchefter, afterwards created Duke of Bolton,

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The Seat of the Right Hon. the EARL of HARCOURT, at NUNEHAM,

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HE elegant Teat of the Earl of Harcourt is fituated at Nuneham, in Oxfordlhire, fix miles from Oxford, and three miles from Abingdon. It is peculiarly happy in point of fituation, being on a hill, which gradually rifes from, the river Thames ; the beautiful lawn, fine park, and Hoping wood, with the pleafant river and verdant meadows, form altogether one of the moft delightful fcenes that the powers of imagination can form, or fancy paint. And perhaps no feat in England poffeffes a profpeCt fuperior in beauty or elegance. On one fide, the city of Oxford presents itfelf to the eye; on the other, the town of Abingdon, with the pleafant and beautiful river Thames. The profpeCt is unconfined and varied ; being very extenfive into Oxfordfhire, and fully commanding the blue hills of Berkfhire, known by the name of Berkfhire Downs, the fertile vale of White-horfe, and all that highly cultivated part of Berkfhire as far as Faringdon-hill. The lawn, park, and garden, are laid out and planted in a fine tafte. The houfe is not large, the neatnefs and elegance of the architecture is pleafingjy ftriking, and was built in 1760, of fione, having two wings, which form the offices : every floor is arched, to prevent the dreadful effeCts of fire (a young gentleman of this family fome years ago being burnt at Sranton-Harcourt). The rooms are very neat and convenient, furnifhed with elegance and tafte, particularly the faloon, being one of the beft rooms we remember to have feen, adorned with magnificent furniture and capital pi&ures ; the ceiling is furprifingly rich and beautiful, evidently copied by the architect from the ceiling of the Banqueting-houfe at Whitehall, or that of Somerfet-houfe chapel, the defigns of our Englifh Vitruvius, Inigo Jones. My Lord Harcourt had the old church at Nuneham taken down, and has ereCted one at a little diftance from the houfe, upon a plan different from any other in the kingdom, being after a model of one of the ancient temples of Palmyra. Its workmanfhip and carving is well executed, the building truly elegant, and covered with a dome. His Lordfhip has built two rows of houfes for his tenants, in the London road, which.

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A South View of STRAWBERRY-HILL, the Seat of the Honourable

HORACE WALPOLE.

^ I TTOUGff we' have already given a view of Strawberry-Hill, from an original painting by Mr, Sandby, we JL think it will not be difagreeable to our purchafers to have that elegant villa reprefented in another point of view by the fame artift.

To accompany this fecond view, we /hall mention fome further particulars concerning the furniture, &c. of this beautiful manfion.

Mr.

The rooms and furniture have all the noble fimplicity, yet magnificence of antiquity, without its decay. The ftate bed-chamber is hung with a plain lilac paper, and covered almoft with drawings, finely copied from the originals of Holbens, in black frames, with a gold worm: the chairs in this room (and indeed throughout the whole houfe) are black ebony exquifitely wrought : the bed, which flands behind two fcreens of antique carving, in the manner of an alcove, is made in the form of a canopy, fupported by four fluted pillars of black ebony: it is com-pofed of the fined lilac broad-cloth, lined with white flat tin, and a counterpane of white fattin alfo: the whole is adorned with a tufted fringe of black and white. At the top is a moll elegant plume of white oftrich feathers, and above that another of lilac; but the Gothic tafle is admirably preferved through the whole; this is called the Holbens-chamber. The windows are all painted) and fo exquifitely, that they feem to promife a revival of that long negle&ed art.

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Mr. Walpole has lately added an apartment to his houfe, which he calls the Gobelin room, the furniture of the bed being of that tapeftry. The pictures in this room are well chofen, many of them being by the moft capital matters.    ■ .    >

, The library contains a fine colle&ion of books, and is entirely calculated for learned retirement and contemplation.

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This manlion was originally built by Thomas Bourchier, Archbilhop of Canterbury, who purchafed it of William Fiennes, Lord Say and Seal: it was much augmented and improved by John Morton, and William Warham, his fucceflors in that fee ; but the latter finding it looked upon with envy by the nobility, exchanged it ■with the King. It lay negle&ed for fome time, till Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorfet, and Lord Treafurer, obtained it in King James the Firft’s reign. He made confiderable additions and improvements, and rendered it a fuperb manfion. It is twenty-four miles from London, on the Tunbridge-road, to which place it is fix miles, and fix from thence to the Wells.

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BASINGSTOKE,

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The Seat of His Grace the DUKE of BOLTON,

HANTS.

^TVHIS elegant manfion is fituated in a fine extenfive park, about eight miles in circumference ; and before JL each front a fine fheet of water agreeably ftrikes the beholder. The park is well wooaed and watered ;

particularly in one part, a walk is feen of a mile long, planted on each fide with chefnut trees; and, in another *    £    quarter, quarter, a walk of almofi: the fame extent, inclofed with two rows of limes. Thefe walks, or alleys, have a pleafing and noble effect; and the connoiffeur has frequent opportunities of gratifying his tafle in this delightful park, and the adjacent gardens; there being many very fine flatues, urns, obelifks, &c. agreeably difjperfed ; among which, a fine equeftrian ftatue of George the Firfl particularly claims our attention.

The park abounds with game of every kind, and may with fome propriety be faid to be overftocked. We have heard it pofitively aflerted, that, from an hill in the park, near Springfield-wood, it is no uncommon thing to fee upwards of an hundred hares at a time. There is alfo a farm in the park, well flocked with cattle and do-meflic poultry of all kinds.

The houfe is a flately and magnificent building; the apartments are capacious, and the difpofition of them displays the abilities of the architect. The furniture is elegant, and the pi&ures, which are very numerous, are the performances of fome of the bell Flemifh and Italian mailers.

NUMBER XIV.

KENT.

CHARLETON

/”“*NHARLETON, or Charlton, is a well-built pleafant village of Kent, fituated on the north-fide of Black-VJ heath, near the river Thames. This village is remarkable for a very diforderly annual fair, or rather rout, held in its neighbourhood on St. Luke’s day, O&ober 18: it is, perhaps, the only one of this kind in England, where the lowell rabble aflemble, and take all kind of liberties, fuch as are a fcandal to a civilized nation ,* the women on that day outvying the men in impudence ; as if it was a day that jullified the giving a loofe to all manner of indecency, without meriting reproach, or incurring the cenfure which fuch behaviour would deferve at another time. It is a nuifance in the neighbourhood of the city of London, which the Public have not removed, among thofe many of the fame nature which they have already extirpated with becoming zeal. This is termed Horn-fair, rams horns and horn ware of all forts being its principal commodities.

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A vulgar tradition givCs the following origin of this fair : King John, who had a palace at Eltham, in this neighbourhood, being hunting near Charleton, was feparated from his attendants, when entering a cottage, he admired the beauty of the miflrefs, whom he found alone, and embraced that opportunity of reducing her ; the * hufband, however, fuddenly returning, detected him, and threatening to kill them both, the King found himfelf under the neceflity of difcovering himfelf, and of purchafing his fafety with gold ; he alfo gave him all the lands from thence as far as the place now called Cuckold’s Point, and bellowed on him the whole hamlet, eflablifhing a fair, as a condition of his holding his new demefne, in which horns were both to be fold and worn. A fermon is preached on the fair-day in the church, which is one of the handfomeft in the county, and was repaired by Sir Edward Newton, Bart, to whom King James the Firft granted this manor. This gentleman built his houfe at the entrance of the village : it is a long Gothic flrudure, with four turrets on the top. It has a fpacious court-yard in the front, behind it are large gardens, and beyond thefe a fmall park, which joins to Woolwich common. This houfe at prefent belongs to the Earl of Egmont.

At a fmall diftance from the church, on the edge of the hill, are two fine houfes, one of which was in the pof-feffion of the late Governor Hunter, and the other vras built by the late Lord Rumney. The gardens, being on the fide of a hill, Hope down towards the Thames, and in fummer greatly enrich the profpedt.

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In this ftate it remained until the year 1764, when the Mafter General of the Ordnance was impowered by his Majefty to make fuch rules, orders, and inftrudfcions as he fhould judge neceffary, for the good government of the faid academy. The young gentlemen at prefent educated here are the fons of the nobility, officers, and others, who have intereft enough for that purpofe, to the number of forty-eight. They are called Gentlemen Cadets, not admitted under twelve, nor more than fixteen years of age, and, when qualified, are recommended to his Majefty for commiffions. They are taught writing, arithmetic, algebra, Latin, French, mathematics, fortification, together with the attack and defence of fortified places, gunnery, mining, laboratory-works, fencing, dancing, &c. The Mafter General of the Ordnance is always Captain of the company of Gentlemen Cadets, and the Lieutenant-Governor is always Captain Lieutenant, befides three more Lieutenants, a Drum-major, and a Fife-major. The academy is further under the immediate government of a Lieutenant-Governor and an Infpedfor, who are always officers of great abilities and experience. The profeifors and mafters are men of known talents and capacities. The whole expence is defrayed by government.

The prefent eftablifhment is as follows, viz.

Governor. George Lord Vifcount Townfhend.

Lieutenant Governor. General Pattifon.

Infpedor. Captain George Smith.

Profeffor of fortification and artillery. Dr. Allen Pollok, F. R. 3L

Profefl'or of mathematics. Charles Hutton, Efq; F. R. S,

Clafiie and arithmetical mafter. Rev. William Green, M. A.

Firft drawing-mafter. Paul Sandby, Efq; R. A.

Second drawing-mafter. Gamaliel Maftiott.

Fencing-Mafter. Charles Lewis Mollard, Efq;

Dancing-mafter. George Ware, Efq;

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E have already given in this work a view of the Duke of Grafton’s feat in Whittlebury Foreft [fee Number I.] —but this is a different and more extenfive view, and exhibits a beautiful landfcape of the adjacent country. It would be impertinent to attempt to give any further defcription of this pleafing fpot; we therefore refer our readers to the engraving annexed.

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Jennings is thirty-fix miles louth-eaft of London, and fix miles fouth-weft of Maidftone, the county town of Kent.    I *

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ITT' BWINSFORD, the feat of Robert Banks Hodgkinfon, Efq; in Carmarthenfhire, is fituated about fix miles ■ j north-weft of the great turnpike road. The family of Williams have poflefled this houfe many ages. It Hands upon the banks of the river Cothy, which runs through the middle of the demefne. The houfe is an antient building, but rendered very convenient by the prefent pofleflbr for a large family. Behind the houfe is a lawn containing above eighty acres, furrounded by rifing hills, woods, and walks ; at the bottom of which the hills draw together, and the river runs in a narrow channel, through rocks covered with woods, for many miles, affording many moft delightful and romantic fcenes.

A bridge near the houfe for the ufe of the family, was built by Sir Nicholas Williams, Bart, which is of great ufe to the country, who, by permiflion (upon floods, which frequently happen here), have leave to pafs

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About the diftance of three miles upon the point of the hill, in view of the houfe, the fame gentleman built a banquetting-room, with a large fpire over it, an ufeful landmark from all the neighbouring hills. This whole building was entirely demolifhed by a fevere ftorm of lightning, Feb, 8, 1772.

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SHREWSBURY is a large, populous,, and rich town of Shropfhire, delightfully fituated on an eminence, and Cj furrounded by the Severn on every fide but the North, which renders it a peninfula in the form of a horfe-fhoe. The ftreets are large, and the houfes in general wrell built. It has two ftone bridges over the river, one of which, called the WelfhBridge, has a very noble gate, and over the arch is the ftatue of Llewellin, the laft prince of North-Wales ; for in this town the ancient princes of Powis-land, or North-Wales, ufually refided. In Shrewsbury there are five churches, viz. St. Chad’s, St. Mary’s, St. Alkman’s, St. Julian’s, and Holy-Crofs, or Abbey-Foregate. It was incorporated by King Charles I. and is governed by a Mayor, a Recorder, a Steward, a Town-clerk, twenty-four Aldermen, and forty-eight Common-councilmen, who have a Sword-bearer, three Serjeants at Mace, and other inferior officers. The corporation have the power of trying caufes within themfelves, even fuch capital, except in cafes of high treafon. The burgeffes, who have right of choofing members of Parliament, amount to about four hundred and fifty. Here are .twelve incorporated trading companies, who every year, the Monday fortnight after Whitfuntide, repair in. their formalities to a place called Kingfland, on the fouth fide of the town, and on the oppofite bank, of the Severn, where they entertain the Mayor and Corporation in arbours or bowers ereded for that purpofe, each of which is diftinguifhed by fome motto or device, alluding to their feverai arts. It is laid that King Charles- II. offered to ered this town into a city, but the townfmen chofe rather that it ihould remain a borough, for which they were afterwards called the Proud Salopians.

Here is one of the largeft fchools in England, firft founded and endowed by King Edward, by the name of the Free Grammar-fchool of King Edward Vf. Queen Elizabeth rebuilt it from the ground, and further endowed it. It is a fine flrudure, with a very good library, a chapel, and convenient houfes for the mailers, of which there are three, who have falaries from 30I. to iool. a year, befides three uffiers, with falaries from 10I. to 20I. a year. 1 here is an hofpital in Frankwell, one of the fuburbs of the town, ereded and plentifully endowed

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The plenty of provifions of all forts, efpecially falmon and other river fi(h, with the pleafantnefs of the town, render it full of gentry, who have aflemblies and balls here once a week, all the year round. It is faid, that as much Welfh cottons, frizes, and flannels, are    fold at the market, as amount to 1000I. a week,    throughout    the

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on Wednefdays and Saturdays are for all forts of provifions, and that on Thurfdays for Wellh cottons, frizes, and many other commodities. Here are alfo feven fairs, which are held on the Saturday after the 15th of March, the Wednefday after Eafler-week, and the Wednefday before Whit-Sunday, for horfes, horned cattle, fheep, cheefe, and linen-cloth : on the 3d of July, and the 12th of Auguft, for horned cattle, fheep, hogs, horfes, cheefe, linen, and lamb’s wool: on the 2d of October, and the 12th of December, for horned cattle, horfes, (heep, hogs, butter, cheefe, and linen. This town gives the title of Earl to the noble family of Talbot.

Shrewfbury is fuppofed by fome to have rifen from the ruins of an ancient Roman city, at about four miles dift^nce, called Uriconium, now reduced to a fmall village, known by the name of Wroxeter.

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T/'EW is^about fix miles from London, and is pleafantly fituated-on the Thames, oppofite to Old Brentford, ancLtias a chapel of eafe ereded on a piece of ground given for that purpofe by the late Queen Anne, at the expence of feveral of the nobility and gentry in the neighbourhood. Here Mr. Molineux, Secretary to his late Majefly when Prince of Wales, had a very fine feat on the green, the gardens of which are faid to produce the belt fruit in England. This houfe belonged to the late Prince of Wales, his Majefiy’s father ; and here Queen Caroline purchafed Lady Eyre’s feat for the Duke of Cumberland, and Sir Thomas Abney’s for the Princeffes Amelia and Caroline.

By an ad pafled in 1758, a bridge was built over the Thames oppofite to Kew-green, confiding of eleven arches. The two piers, and their dependent arches on each fide next the fhore, are built of brick and ftone j and the intermediate arches, which are feven in number, are entirely of wood. The center arch is fifty feet wide, and the road over the bridge thirty feet broad.

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naments, principally the works of Verrio, a Neapolitan; fo that upon the whole, for magnificence, beauty, and convenience, this caftle may vie with any in Europe.

The caftle confifts pf two fquare courts, with a tower between them, called the three wards. The inner fquare is the higher ward, the tower the middle ward, and the outfide fquare the lower ward. In the middle of the inner fquare is an equeftrian flatue of Charles II. erected in 168c, by Tobias Reftal, a grateful domeftic fervant, who had long enjoyed that prince’s favour. The terrace on the outfide is faced with free-ftone, which fome affirm is the fined in the world. From this terrace the profpeft is perfectly enchanting and pi&urefque all over the neighbouring country. If the weather would permit, here Queen Elizabeth ufually walked an hour before dinner. On the park fide of this fquare, towards the north, are the royal apartments, and thofe of the officers of the houfehold ; the reft of the fquare is taken up by the lodgings of the officers of the crown. You enter the royal apartments through apaflage fupported by pillars, the niches being filled with antique bufts, Sec. From hence there is a flight of flairs leading to the royal apartments on the left; and to the right, is a paflage through a fmall court, up another ftaircafe, to St. George’s Hall. The domes of thefe ftaircafes are elegantly painted, and from each of them is a paflage of communication to the guard-rooms, which are curioufly ornamented with various fpecies of arms, artfully difpofed. The paintings, tapeftry, hangings, and carvings, are exceedingly grand and beautiful throughout, and well deferve the particular attention of the curious vifitor.

In clefcending from the inner to the outer court, we pafs the round tower, wherein the governor or conftable of the caftle refides, which is built in the form of an amphitheatre, very lofty. On the weft part of the leads, a ftandard is erected as often as the court or conftable refide in the caftle. From thefe leads, fuch profpedts appear as beggar gll defcription. On the north fide of the lower court is the chapel of the order of the Garter, which is paved with marble, and extremely well painted with fcripture hiftories. The altar-piece reprefents the Laft Supper, and on the ceiling is Chrift’s Afcenfion. The carved works in this chapel are amazingly beautiful, and it may be faid to be the neateft and fineft chapel in the kingdom.

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Between the caftle and the little palace, in which Queen Anne took fuch delight, is the entrance into the little park, which, though fo called, is not lefs than three miles in circumference. The walks are finely fhaded, it is well flocked with deer, and has an elegant lodge for the keeper. From hence a paflage carries us into the great park, which is upwards of fourteen miles in circumference, and is replete with all manner of game.

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iENDHILL-COURT, in the parifh of Blechingley, Surry, is the capital manfion, or manor-houfe, of the manor of Pend hill. Part of it is as ancient as the reign of Henry the Sixth. It formerly belonged to the Holmons, afterwards to the Sylyards, and at prefent is the property of George Scullard, Efq; who has greatly repaired the houfe, and improved the adjacent grounds, which are well wooded and watered, and afford many delightful and pi&urefque fcenes.

The town of Blechingley fends two members to Parliament, though it has no market. It has, however, two fairs; one on June 22, and the other on November 2, for horfes, bullocks, and toys. The bailiff, who returns the members is chofen annually at the lord of the manor’s court. It hands on a hill, and has a fine profpedt as far as the fouth downs in Suffex. It is twenty miles eaft of Guildford, and twenty-one fouth-by-weft of London. Almoft the whole of this town, and the land for feveral miles round it, is the foie property of Sir Robert Clayton.

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ITT' MBER-COURT is fituated in a delightful country, about a mile from Hampton-Court. The Right Hon.

Arthur Onflow, Efq; Speaker of the Houfe of Commons, refided many years in this manfion, and his fon, Lord Cranley, is the prefent poffeflor of it.

This commodious building is compofed principally of brick, but the front has lately been covered with plaifter, to give it the appearance of ftone: this was doubtlefs intended as an improvement, but many are of opinion, it had a more pleafmg effedf before the alteration. Lord Cranley has lately extended and improved his park, by the addition of feveral fields. The lawn before his houfe was fo full of trees towards the centre, as to refemble a wood; but the number of them is now confiderably lefifened.

The houfe is elegantly furnifhed, and his Lordfhip has a very handfome library.

To the honour of this nation, a penfion of. three thoufand pounds was granted by the unanimous concurrence of both Houfes of Parliament, to the Right Hon. Arthur Onflow, Efq; as a reward for his eminent fervices ; and after his death, the fame annuity to be continued to his fon, George Onflow, Efq; now Lord Cranley.

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T\7 OTT NGHAM-CASTLE is of fo great antiquity, that the time of its firft eredlion could never be traced. JL    ear^eft account we read of it is, that there was a tower here, which the Danes ohftinately defended

againft King Alfred and his brother Athelred. Upon the fame fituation William the Conqueror, or, as others with greater probability maintain, William Peverel, his natural fon, built another caftle, which was afterwards repaired, or rather rebuilt, by King Edward the Fourth, who added fine apartments to it, which King Richard the Third, his brother, Dill farther enlarged, whereby it became in time very confiderable, and fo ftrong, that nothing could reduce it but famine. It is certain it has not undergone the ordinary fate of other fortified places, to be often taken and retaken, for it was never ftormed.

Once, indeed, it was taken by furprize, in the Barons wars, by Robert Earl of Ferrers, who alfo plundered the town, or city, as it was then called.

In this caftle is a place called Mortimer’s Hole₂ where Roger Mortimer, Earl of March (Mr. Camden fays), was hid under ground, and from whence he was taken and hanged for treafon.

This report has fome foundation in hiflory ; but it is fo obfcured by vulgar tradition, that it led Mr. Camden firft into fome miftakes in his narration, and afterwards into a difbelief of it. Mortimer, with the Queen, the bi-fhop of Lincoln, and others, being poffeffed of the caftle, could have no reafon to hide himfelf under ground ; but it was by this private paftage, which goes by fteps through the rock up#to the Keep, that Sir William Montacute,

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with others, found means, in the dead of the night, to feize him, and fending him up to the Tower, he was there beheaded.

The caftle was granted by King James the Firft to Francis Earl of Rutland, and King Charles the Firft made it remarkable by erecting there his royal ftandard in 1642 ; but he foon quitted it, and the pailiament kept poflef-lion of it till the end of the war, when it was ordered to be demolifhed. Some parts of it, however, were (landing at the Reftoration, when George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, whofe mother was the foie heir of the aforefaid Earl of Rutland, fold it to William Cavendifh, Marquis of Newcaftle. He, in 1674, cleared the foundations of the old tower, a fmall part excepted, and founded the noble ftrudture which is now Handing,, and devolved to the houfe of Pelham. The late Duke of Newcaftle beautified it, and wainfcotted the rooms with cedar, and had laid out a plan for the fineft gardens in all that part of England, being to contain no lefs than ftxty acres; but the defign is changed, and the intended gardens are made a park.

The caftle is built on a high perpendicular rock, and feems to have been modelled after fome of the draughts of Inigo Jones. There are many good pictures in it, and it commands an extenfive profpedt. The fouth fide of the rock is altogether inacceflible, vaft fubterraneous grottos are cut underneath, and a winding flaircafe, quite to the

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OTVHIS houfe is fkuated at the entrance of Charleton from Blackheath: it was built by Sir Edward Newton, JL who had this manor granted him by King James the Firft. It is a long pile of building, partly in the Gothic tafte, having four turrets on the top. It has a fpacious court-yard in the front, at the entrance of which are two large Gothic piers to the gates, and in a line on the outfide of the wall is a long row of cyprefs-trees, which are fome of the oldefl: in England. On the back of the houfe are large gardens, laid out with great tafie ; and behind thefe is a fmall park, which joins to Woolwich Common. This houfe was fome years ago the feat of Sir William Langham, Bart, and afterwards of Lord Caftlecomer, as alfo of that truly worthy nobleman the late Earl of Egmont, whofe unbounded generofity*, extenfive learning, and univerfal benevolence, gained him the admiration of all who had the honour of knowing him. This manfion is at prefent occupied by Sir Thomas Wilfon, Bart.

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fTpHIS elegant villa is fituated in a delightful fpot on the banks of the Thames, near which there is a horfe JL ferry. Among the great variety of feats which decorate the margin of the Thames, that of Sir Thomas Heath-cote has no inconfiderable claim to our attention. The artift, in the engraving annexed, has pointed out its beauties in a more terms,

lifhed with feveral elegant villas belonging to the nobility and gentry.

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A further Description of NOTTINGHAM-CASTLE.

HE Caftle is the greateft ornament of the town; it is feated at the weft end of it, and is inacceffible any other way than from the town. From the outer lodge there is a gradual afcent for a confiderable diftance, $nd then feveral noble flights of fteps leading up to it, with a coach-way gradually winding to the top of the

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rock. The building is of ftone, and extremely magnificent. The principal front is of ruftic, adorned with columns and pilaflers of the Corinthian order. In the centre is an equeftrian ftatueof the Marquis of Newcaftle, placed in a niche; under which two flights of fteps, adorned with handfome baluftrades, lead up to the principal entrance. Round this noble ftrudture is a confiderable fpace paved with flag hones, and fecured by a wall capped with ftone, to prevent any danger from the precipice, which furrounds a confiderable part of the building. On every fide is an unbounded view of the country : to the eaft you fee the whole town over the tops of the houfes, with the fields, woods, and enclofures, as far as the eye can reach. On another fide, the meadows appear for twelve or fourteen miles, like an extenfive bowling-green, with the rivers Trent and Leen running through it. You have a view of Belvoir-caftle, in Lincolnfhire, and of the villages, feats, and gardens of feveral of the nobility. The weft end affords a fine view of the park, and the diftant country.

The park confifts of very uneven ground, but has a level walk on the edge, which encompafles great part of it. From this walk you have, on one fide, a view of the country, and on the other, of a fteep defcent, with many little rifings, which diverlify the valley at the bottom, and have a very agreeable effeCt; but the trees were cut down during the civil wars, and the deer, which belonged to the late Duke of Newcaftle, have been removed. On the fouth-weft fide of this park are a range of caves, cut in a perpendicular rock, in which is hewn out a church, horfes, and a variety of apartments leading from one to another. The church refembles thofe in the rocks at Bethlehem, and other places in the Holy Land. The altar, as well as the reft, is natural rock ; the whole is plainly the work of art, and the pillars have fome diftant refemblance of the Gothic architecture : there have been paintings on fome of the walls, and there is an opening above, which feems to have anfwered the purpofe of a * fieeple, in which a bell probably hung. Great part of thefe fubterranean ftrudures, which are certainly of very great antiquity, have fallen down, and the river Leen runs through feveral of the caverns. It is probable that thefe wTere originally hewn out of the rock by the antient Britons, before the landing of the Romans, and that afterwards they became the dwellings of fome anchorites, who formed a great part of them into a chapel, which they endeavoured to make it refemble, by cutting the top into fomething like Gothic arches, and giving a Gothic air to the pillars that fupport the rock above.

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COLONEL ONSLO W’s LODGE,

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fJpHIS delightful villa is charmingly fituated near the Thames, not far from Oatlands, the feat of his Grace A the Duke of Newcaftle, near Chertfey. Near this place there is a handfome bridge over the river Thames. The town of Chertfey is principally maintained by making of mak, which is carried in barges to London. From this place the hones of King Henry the Sixth were removed by King Henry the Seventh ; and this was the retreat of the celebrated poet Cowley, where he died. It lies ten miles from Kingfton, and twenty-two from London.

In the neighbourhood of this town are feveral fine feats, particularly that of the Duke of Newcaftle, already mentioned. The park is about four miles in circumference j and the houfe, which is built in the middle of a noble terrace, commands a moft beautiful landfcape. It has an artificial Terpentine river, which, viewed from the terrace, has as fine an efTedt as if it were natural $ and a ftranger would be induced to conclude it to be the Thames.

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AGSHOT is a village five miles weft of Chobham, in the road from London to Salifbury, and is only remarkable for its affording good accommodations for travellers.

It was formerly called Holy Hull, and was the lordlhip of our kings, who had a houfe here, with a park, which was laid open after the civil wars : yet King James and King Charles I, often came to it, becaufe of its convenient filiation for hunting in the neighbourhood.

Bagfhot-heath is a barren trail of country, which appears to be capable of great improvement, from the feveral inclofures on its borders, and fome even in the centre, which yielded nothing but heath and worts, but now produces good grafs and corn ; and in fome parts are plantations of trees, which thrive very well. On the edge of this heath are feveral feats of noblemen and gentlemen, particularly one belonging to the Hon. Auguftus Keppel; of , which we have given a beautiful perfpeitive view. It has a large inclofure, the wood-walks and other plantations being at lead two miles in circumference : and the park, which runs on the other fide of the houfe, is upwards of three miles round. A few years ago, the whole trail of the country, from Egham to Farnharn, for near eighteen miles, looked very much like one of the deferts of Weftphalia: but as experience has convinced us that the foil is capable of improvement, it is much lamented that this vaft trail of country is not made both ufeful and beneficial to the Public,

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HpHE town of Shrewfbury was given by King William the Conqueror to Roger de Montgomery, who was his principal captain, kinfman, and friend, and who, about the year 1085, built a caftle upon an eminence, and for that purpofe pulled down about fifty houfes. It was built on a rock on the neck of land where the Severn runs on each fide, for that river almoft encompafles the town. It is very.ftrong, confidering the time of its eredtion, and does not appear to have received any very confiderable damage. William Fitz-Allan defended this caftle for the Emprefs Maud, againft King Stephen, who took it by aflault.

•** The Reader will find a copious account of the town of Shrewfbury in No. XX# of this work.

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ONTREAL, the Seat of Lord Amherft, is fituated near Riverhead, in the parifih of Seven-Oaks, in the county of Kent. This ftru&ure was begun in the year 1764, and completed in 1775. It is with great propriety called Montreal, as the noble pofleffor acquired great wealth and honour in that part of America which goes under the fame appellation.

The ancient feat of the family of the Amherfts is ftill exifting, and is clofe to the London road, within a mile of the fpot where the prefent elegant ftruCture is fituate. Though the building of the latter is finished, the gardens are not yet arrived to fuflicient perfection; thofe of the old manfion are therefore preferved to fupply Lord Amherft’s family with their productions.

The modern ereCtion is on a fpot which was originally a common, called Watts’s common. A court was held fome years ago at Riverhead, the place of the nativity of this valiant peer, when his Lordfhip claimed the above-mentioned common, and his claim was readily admitted by the jury : in confequence of which, he caufed it to be foon after enclofed as a paddock or park, and the noble edifice was immediately planned and proceeded on with great deliberation, till it was completed in 1775.

, It is a fuperb and elegant manfion, and commands a very beautiful and extenfive profpeCt, Its difiance from the metropolis is twenty-one miles.

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The New LODGE, built by his late Royal Highnels William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, on Shrubs Hill, Windfor Foreft.

HRUBS HILL is fituate on the fouth fide of Windfor great park, on the fummit of which the late Duke of Cumberland ere&ed the New Lodge, in a very elegant ftile, over a beautiful verdure and plantation of trees; the noble piece of water in the valley underneath, wras effected at a great expence, from a fmall dream or • current of water, which is now made a navigable river; but, indeed, the whole park is fo beautifully adorned by nature, that works of art fuffer by acomparifon: yet the Chinefe bridge, thrown over the river, and built of timbers ten feet long, diverging both ways, with done abutments, confiding of a fingle arch, one hundred and fixty-five feet wide, is, perhaps, as curious a piece of workmanfhip as any in Europe.

7 his piece of water is a great ornament to the park, and terminates in a grotto, and large cafcade or fall of water : whild the beauties of nature are thus happily aflided by art, it affords great delight and pleafure in riding by beautiful hills and vales, intermixed with fine lawns and herbage for cattle, alfo by the many agreeable habitations - of gentlemen, whofe

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The FLOWER GARDEN,

at Nuneham, in Oxfordshire^ from the Gate of Entrance to the Temple of Flora.

HIS fmall fpot contains only about an acre and quarter; but from the irregularity of its form, the inequality of the ground, and the difpofition of the trees, it appears of confiderable extent—the boundary is concealed by a deep plantation of ihrubs, which unites with the furrounding foreft trees that Hand in the park* The garden is laid out in patches of flowers and clumps of flirubs, of unequal dimensions, and various fhapes, and a gravel walk leads round it, to the different buildings and bulls, on which are the following infcrip-tions:

Fronting the Gate, a Bull of Flora on a Term.

Here fprings the violet all newe,

And frefh perwinke riche of hewe 3 And flouris yalowe white and rede,

Such plenti grew ther ner in mede:

Full gai is all the grounde, and queint,

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*Twas Beauty charm’d, what wonder then, Enamour’d of a fairer fcene,

The changeful god fhould change again, And here for ever fix his reign !

P A N.

William Whitehead, Efq.

Here univerfal Pan,

Knit with the graces, and the hours in dance, Leads on th* eternal fpring.

Milton.

The GROT „ T O.

Compofed of rough ftones, intermixed with fpars, and petrifa&ions, to imitate a natural cavern.

---Mufing meditation moft affe&s

The penfive fecrecy of defert cell,

*--——--and Wifdom’s felf

Oft feeks to fweet retired Solitude,

Where with her beft nurfe, Contemplation,

She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various buflle of refort,

Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair’d.

Milton.

APOLLO.

Per cui l’April fiorifee.

Lucido Dio,

Metastasio.

The Temple of FLORA.

Ihe defign taken from a Doric portico at Athens: in the center of the back wall is a medallion of Flora, from the

antique, in white marble.

VENUS.

VENUS.

Thee, Goddefs, thee the clouds and tempells fear, And at thy plealing prefence difappear :

For thee the land in fragrant flowers is drefs’d.

Dryden, from Lucretius.

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Further Defcription of the FLOWER GARDEN at Nuneham, from the Temple of Flora

to the Statue of Hebe.

LOCKE.

HO made the whole internal world his own,

Who Ihew’d confefs’d to Reafon’s purged eye,

That Nature’s firft bell gift, was Liberty.

(The firft line is from Thomfon; part of the fecond, and the whole of the third, from Mafon.)

The C O L O N A D E.

Above the cornice are the bulls of Cato the Cenfor, Marcus Brutus, and Demollhenes.—In the center of the back wall is a medallion of Milton, with the following line from Thomfon:

A genius, univerfal as his theme.

Beneath the medallion, on a tablet, are infcribed the following verfes;

Fair Quiet, have I found thee here,

With Innocence, thy filler dear !

Miftaken long, I fought thee then.

Your

In bufy companies of men ;

Your facred plants^ at length I know, Will only in retirement grow.

Society is all but; rude,

To this delicious folitude,

And. Marvel.

Where all. the flowers and trees do clofe, To weave the garland of repofe.

On one fide of the building is a bull of Cato of Utica ; on the other, J. J. Roufleau.

CATO,

J. J. Rousseau.

A ce noin faint, & augufte, tout ami de la vertu Doit mettre le front dans la poufliere, & honorer En filence la memoire du plus grand des hommes.

ROUSSEAU.

Say, is thy lioneft heart to virtue warm !

Can genius animate thy feeling breaft!

Approach, behold this venerable form,

Bk. Boothby, Efq.

’Tis Roufleau, let thy bofom fpeak the reft.

P R I O R.

See, friend, in fome few fleeting hours,

See yonder what a change is made !

Ah me ! the blooming pride of May,

And that of beauty are but one ;

At morn, both flourilh bright and gay,

• Prior.

Both fade at evening, pale and gone.

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The URN,

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To the memory of Frances Poole, Vifcountefs Palmerfton.

Placed on an altar encircled with cyprefles, Hands within a recefs in the fhrubbery that Surrounds the garden. The bank that rifes above it is planted with flowers, and a weeping willow, large Weymouth pines, and other greens form the back ground.

Here (hall our ling’ring footfteps oft be found,

This is Her fhrine, and confecrates the ground. . •

Here living fweets around her altar rife,

And breathe perpetual incenfe to the Ikies.

Here too the thoughtlefs and the young may tread,

Who Ihun the drearier manfions of the dead ;

May here be taught what worth the world has known.

Her wit, her fenfe, her virtues were her own;

To her peculiar—and for ever loft

To thofe who knew, and therefore lov’d her moil.

O if kind Pity fteal on Virtue’s eye,

Check not the tear, nor flop the ufeful figh;

From foft Humanity’s ingenuous flame A wifli may rife to emulate her fame,

And fome faint image of her worth reftore,

When thofe, who now lament her, are no more*

Ge. S". Harcourt, and the Hon. Eliz. Vernon, Vich and Victfs Nuneham, erected this Urn in the year 1771,

Wm. Whitehead, Efq. P. L. wrote the Verfes.

COWLEY.

,    When Epicurus to the world had taught,

That pleafure was the chiefeft good,

His life he to his doctrine brought,

Cowley.

And in a garden’s fliade, that fovereign good he fought.

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The CONSERVATORY,

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The Statue of HEB E

terminates the principal glade, and fronts the Temple of Flora : it is backed by a large clump of fhrubs, which forms a Collection of all fuch ever-greens as flourifh in the open air. On the pedeftal of the ftatue are the following verfes:

Hebe, from thy cup divine

Shed, O ! fhed, ne&areous dews,

Here o’er Nature’s living fhrine Th’ immortal drops diffufe :

Here while every bloom’s difplay’d,

Shining fair in vernal pride,,

Catch the colours ere they fade,

And check the green blood’s ebbing tide,

Till youth eternal like thine own prevail,

Wm. Whitehead, Efq.

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WEST-COMBE,

The Seat of Her Grace the Duchess Dowager of Athol, and Baroness Strange,.

HIS beautiful feat has fuch a fine fltuation as can fcarce be equalled. It Hands on an agreeable eminence,

__ which commands a variety of the moll delightful views that can be conceived. The lawn and the

pleafure grounds are laid out with tafte, and the woody approach to it gives it a very venerable park-like appearance. From the front of the houfe you are prefented with a fine bold bend of the Thames from Blackwall to Greenwich; and at high water, when there are numbers of fhips upon the river, nothing can have a more noble or grand effedt. That view terminates with part of London, Highgate, and fome other very pleafmg parts of the oppofite fhore, taking in Limehoufe church, as an enlivening part of the profpe<ft. The views towards Charlton, on the other fide of the houfe, are rich and perfectly pidturefque. Its neighbourhood to Blackheath, and the great number of elegant feats every where moft beautifully fcattered about, make Weft-Combe one of the moft delightful places in the kingdom.

NUMBER XXXVII.

ETON COLLEGE, in Buckinghamshire.

It has a provoft, feven fellows,

HIS College was founded by the unfortunate Ring Henry VI. in 1441.

JL one of whom is vice-provoft, two fchool-mafters, two conducts, an organift, and feventy icholars on the foundation, who have all lodgings in the college, and are provided with neceffaries. There are here apartments for the provoft and fellows, a large hall, a chapel, library, and fchool-houfe, where the fcholars are fitted for the univerfity, and when properly qualified, are elected on the firft Tuefday in Auguft, to be fent to Kings College,

in Cambridge ; where, after they have been {Indents three years, they claim a fellowfhip. But there not being always a vacancy at Cambridge, the fcholars remain at Eton till vacancies happen, and thefe they fill up according to Seniority. The fchool is divided into two parts, the upiper and the lower ; and each of thefe is fubdivided into three clafles. Children are admitted very young into the lower fchool; but none enter the upper fchool till they can make Latin verfes, and have fome knowledge of Greek. Befides the feventy fcholars on the foundation, there are feldom lefs than three hundred youths, the Tons of perfons of rank, for whofe education the mafiers are paid, and who board in the town, or at the matters’ houfes. Hence the matter of each fchool has four ufhers. The building has large cloifters, and the chapel is a noble pile of Gothic architecture. The prefent fchool is, however, a modern building, and the other parts of the college have been repaired and beautified at a great expence. The gardens of the college are extenfive and pleafant. There is alfo a library for the ufe of the fchool, which was greatly enriched by the collections of Dr. Waddington, bifhop of Chefter, and the lord chief juftice Reeves. The revenues of this fchool amount to about five thoufand pounds a year.

NUMBER XXXVIII. BROKEN HURST, in Hampshire.

The Seat of Edward Morant, Efq. Member for Lymington.

^ HIS elegant feat is within four miles of Lymington, and fourteen of Southampton. It is fituated in J. a fmall park, well flocked with deer, and commands a very beautiful and e£tenfive profpeCt.

The old family feat has been pulled down, and the building, which the annexed engraving reprefents, is a modern ftruCture, moft fumptuoufly furnifhed, and decorated with pictures, by feveral capital matters.

New Foreft, in which the villa above mentioned is fituate, is a large traCt of land, which William the Conqueror difpeopled for the fpace of thirty miles together. It lies on the Englifh channel, oppofite the Ifle of Wight; and has fince been appropriated by aCt of Parliament for the growth of oaks, for the ufe of*the royal navy of Great Britain.

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In the reign of Henry VIII. Sir Reginald Bray, one of the Knights of the Garter, became a liberal benefactor towards finifhing the body of this chapel, and building a middle one, which hill goes by his name, and where he lies interred. In the fame reign the Rood-Loft and Lantern were ereCted, by contribution from the Knights of the Garter. At the eaft end of the chapel Cardinal Wolfey built the Tomb-houfe, in the middle of which he defigned a noble monument for king Henry VIII. ; but dying before it was finifhed, it was demolifhed by order of the Long Parliament in 1646, and the gilt copper flatues, and other ornaments intended to adorn it, were taken away. King Charles I. intended to have enlarged this Tomb-houfe, and made it fit not only for the reception of his own body, but thofe of the kings his fuccelTors, had he not fallen in unhappy times, which afforded him only an obfcure grave in the choir of this chapel. In this chapel lie the bodies of Henry VIII. and that of his laft queen 5 as alfo thofe of Henry VI. and Edward IV. the latter of whom has a fine monument of fteel ereCted over him.

The coats of arms of the firfl Sovereign, and twenty-five Knights Companions of the Garter, are painted on the roof of the chapel ; and the various imagery fcattered every where around, are moft wonderfully finifhed, nor has length of time taken from them their delicacy and proportion. On the fouth fide of the choir is an Oratory,

where prayers are read twice a day, and at the weft end are

At the bottom of the fquare is the Library, and the fquare itfelf is furrounded by an towers. The College was founded by Edward III. for a cuftos, twelve fecular canons, thirteen priefts, four clerks, fix choirifters, and twenty-fix Alms Knights; but in the reign of Edward IV. they were incorporated under the denomination of the Dean and Canons of the free Chapel of St. George, within the Caftle of Windfor.

The Alms Knights, now called the Poor Knights of Windfor, were at firft only twenty-four ; but upon the inftitution of the Order of the Garter, they were made equal in number to the Knights; they are at prefent reduced to eighteen, who have each a yearly allowance, and a little cell round the fquare, where the church ftands ;

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In this chapel is a monument of Edward Earl of Lincoln, Lord High Admiral in the reign of Queen Elizabeth ; but the mod extraordinary piece of this kind is that of Henry Duke of Beaufort, with his effigy in white marble. The little chapel in which this monument (lands, belongs to that noble family, who are of the natural line of the ancient houfe of Lancafter. The altar-piece in this chapel, which is a fine pidure of the Lord’s Supper, was loft in the time of Oliver Cromwell, but has fince been recovered, and fet up again.

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K E N E L M ?s CHAPEL, in the County of Salop.

T. Kenelm’s chapel is fituated on the fouth-eaft fide of Clent Hill, in the parifh of Hales-Ovven, and county of Salop; though part of the chapel yard is faid to be in Stafford (hire, and is not far from Hagley-park, the feat of Lord Lyttelton, which lies on the fide of the hill.

Kenelm was the only fon of Kenulf, king of the Mercians, who died An. Dom. 819, and being then a child of about (even years of age, was murdered by the contrivance of his elder fifter Quendreda, aflifted by the young king’s guardian Afchebert, who took him into Clent-wood, under pretence of hunting, and there cut off his head, and buried him privately, that no man knew the place but himfelf, till difcovered by a widow woman’s cow, who would feed no where but befide king Kenelm’s grave; and a fcrole dropt by a white dove on the altar of St. Peter at Rome, as Pope Leo III. was celebrating Mafs, containing thefe words : In Clent kau bathe Kenel in Kine-bearn lieth under thorn heaved by reaved’. Which being (hewed to feveral people, an Englifhman there prefent interpreted it to the following effed:

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Upon which orders were Tent by the Pope to Wolfred archbifhop of Canterbury, and others, to take up the body, which was accordingly done, and carried in great ftate to the Abbey of Whitecomb, in Gloucefterfhire, of his father’s foundation, and there honourably buried. The prefent chapel is fuppofed to hand where the body wa? found, and the well, which was faid to gufh out at the time, is now dry and grown over with briars. The phapel confifls of only one aide; it is maintained by the parifh of Hales-Owen, and has divine fervice performed in it only once each Lord’s day, and is a donative of Hagley, being generally given to the redtor of that place, in conjunction with Frankley. There are very pleafant views all round this part of the country, but the roads are extremely deep and dirty near it, the place confiding only of a few farm-houfes. An annual fair for cheefe is kept here on the 28th of July, which ferves to colledt the people of Hales-Owen and neighbouring places, as pinch for pleafure and amufement as for bufinefs and profit.

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A View of the Old KITCHEN, and Ruins of the CHAPEL, at Stanton Harcourt, in Oxfordshire, Six Miles Weft from the City of Oxford.

rr^HE manor of Stanton came into the family of Harcourt by the marriage of Robert de Harcourt, Knt. with Ifabella, daughter and heir of Richard de Camville, by Milicent his wife, coufin of king Hen. I. which Millicent had a royal grant of the fame. It has now remained in the poifeffion of the Harcourts above fix hundred years, and from them aflumed the name of Stanton Harcourt.

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Great part of the ancient manfion was pulled down by the late earl, to build an elegant feat at Nuneham. Pope wrote a very whimfical and entertaining letter from hence; defcribing the fingularity of the building, and its delightful fituation. There is a large barrow in the fields adjacent, and fome ftones near it, called, the devil s coits, which are eight feet high, and feven broad near the bottom; and fuppofed to be made of fmall ftones cemented together* of which there are vafi; numbers in thefe fields.

IN THE YEAR 1718

Mr. Pope began and finiflied the fifth volume of the tranflation of Homer, in the tower over the ruined chapel, as appears by the following memorandum, written with a diamond on a piece of red ftained glafs, now in the pof-feflion of Lord Harcourt.

ALEXANDER POPE

FINISHED HERE THE

Fifth Volume of Homer.

At this place he was frequently vifited by his friend Gay, who ufed to fpend fome time at Cockthorp, a feat belonging to Lord Harcourt.

Here, too, Pope wrote his epitaph on the two lovers ftruck dead by lightning ; an event which happened in the common-field near this houfe.

NUMBER XLII.

A Defcription of VIRGIL’s GROVE, at the Leasowes. The Seat of the late WILLIAM SHENSTONE, Efq.

nPHE Leafowes is fituated in the parifh of Hales-Owen, a fmall market-town in the county of Salop, but fur--**- rounded by other counties, and thirty miles from Shrewfbury, as it is near ten to the borders of Shropfhire. Though a paternal eftate, it was never diftinguifhed for any peculiar beauties till the time of its late owner. It was referved for a perfon of his ingenuity both to difcover and improve them ; which he has done fo effectually, that it is now confidered as amongft the principal of thofe delightful fcenes which perfons of tafte, in the prelent age,

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are defirous to fee. Far from violating its natural beauties, Mr. Shenftone’s only ftudy was to give them their full effect ; and although the form in which things now appear be indeed the confequence of much thought,and labour, yet the hand of Art is no way vifible either in the fhape of ground, the difpofition of trees, or (which are here fo numerous and ftriking) the romantic fall of cafcades. I will now proceed to a more particular defcrip-tion. We defcend to a beautiful gloomy fcene, called Virgil’s GRoyE, where, on the entrance, we pafs by a fmall obelifk on the right hand, with this infcription, “ To P. Virgilius Maro, this obelifk and grove is confecrated.” Before this is a flight bench, where fome of the fame objects are feen again, but in a different point of light. It is not very eafy either to paint or defcribe this delightful grove; however, as the former has been more than once attempted, I will hope to apologize for an imperfed defcription, by the difficulty found by thofe who have aimed to {ketch it with their pencil. Be it therefore firft obferved, that the whole fcene is opaque and gloomy, confifting of a fmall deep valley or dingle, the fides of which are inclofed with irregular tufts of hazel and other underwood, and the whole overfhadowed with lofty trees, rifing out of the bottom of the dingle, through which a copious ftream makes its way through mofly banks, enamelled with primrofes, and variety of wild wood-flowers* The firft feat we approach is thus infcribed, “ To the much celebrated poet James Thomfon, this feat was placed near his favourite fprings, by W. S.’’ This feat is placed upon a fteep bank on the edge of the valley, from which the eye is here drawn down into the flat below, by the light that glimmers in front, and by the found of various cafcades, by which the winding ftream is agreeably broken. Oppofite to this feat the ground rifes again in an eafy concave to a kind of dripping fountain, where a fmall rill trickles down a rude niche of rock-work, through fern, liver-wort, and aquatic weeds ; the green area in the middle, through which the ftream winds, being as well {haped as can be imagined. After falling down thefe cafcades, it winds under a bridge of one arch, and then empties itfelf into a fmall lake which catches it a little below. This terminates the fcene upon the right; and after thefe objeds have for fome time amufed the fpedator, his eye rambles to the left, where one of the moft beautiful cafcades imaginable is feen, by way of incident, through a kind of vifta or glade, falling down a precipice over-arched with trees, and ftrikes us with furprife. It is impoflible to exprefs the pleafure which one feels on this occafion ; for though furprife alone is not excellence, it may ferve to quicken the elfed of what is beautiful.

I believe none ever beheld this grove without a thorough fenfe of fatisfadion; and were one to chufe any particular fpot of this perfedly Arcadian farm, it fhould, perhaps, be this ; although it fo well contrails both with the terrace, and with fome other fcenes, that one cannot wilh them ever to be divided.

The above Account is taken from Mr. Bell’s Life of Shenflone. END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

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