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 DESCRIPTION 
 
 HOUSE Vid GARDENS 
 
 Of the Moft Noble and PuifTant Prince, 
 
 George Grenville Nugent Temple, 
 Marquis of BUCKINGHAM, 
 
 Earl T E M P L E, 
 Vlfcount and Baron C O B H A M, 
 
 Knight Companion of the Moft Noble Order of the Garter, 
 
 One of ti'.e four Tellers of his Majefty's Exchequer, 
 
 Lord Lieutenant and Cuftos Rotulorum of the County of 
 Buckingham, 
 
 Colonel of the Militia for the faid County ; 
 
 One of his Majefty's Moft Honourable Privy Council, 
 
 And Lord Lieutenant General, and General Governor of the 
 Kingdom of Ireland. 
 
 A NEW EDITION, 
 
 IVith all the Alterations and Improvements that have been 
 made therein^ to the prefent Time, 
 
 Embelliftied with a General Plan of the Gardens, and alf« 
 a feparate Plan of the House, and of each Building, 
 \\ ith Perfpedive Views of the fame. 
 
 Where Order in Variety we fee, 
 
 And where, iho' all Things differ, all agree,—. 
 
 Nature fliall join you, Time fhall make ic grow, 
 
 A Work to wonder at,— perhaps a Stowe. Popk. 
 
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 BUCKINGHAM, 
 Printed and Sold by B. S E E L E Y, 
 
 Sold alfo by G. G. J. and J. Robinsov, Pater-nofter Row, LONDOH j 
 and T. Hodskimson, at the New Inn at Stowk« 
 
 1788* 
 
T O 
 
 The Most Noble 
 
 The Marquis of Buckingham : 
 
 THIS 
 
 DESCRIPTION 
 
 Of his LORDSHIP'S 
 
 HOUSE and GARDENS 
 
 A T 
 
 S T O W E, 
 
 Is moji humbly. Dedicated, 
 
 By his Lordship's 
 
 Obliged and mofl: obedient 
 
 humble Servant, 
 
 B. Seeley. 
 
A List of the Prints, 
 
 Drawn in Perfpedlve by B. Seiley. 
 
 The Corinthian Arch. 
 
 One of the Pavillions at the 
 
 Entrance. 
 The Shepherd's Cove. 
 An artificial Piece of Ruins. 
 The Temple dedicated to Venus. 
 One of the Lodges. 
 One of the Pavillions at the 
 
 Entrance to the Park. 
 The Gate-way to the Park, 
 The Temple of Bacchus. 
 Nelfon's Seat. 
 The South and North Fronts 
 
 of the Houfe. 
 Dido's Cave. 
 Thf Rotundo. 
 
 }^^"S^P^°^gf."' Ion Columns. 
 Queen Caroline, J 
 
 A Gate-way, by Kent. 
 
 A Doric Arch. 
 
 A Ruin. 
 
 The Temple of Ancient Virtue. 
 
 The Shell Bridge. 
 
 The Temple of Britilh Wor- 
 thies, 
 
 A Gate-way, by Leoni. 
 
 The Cold Bath. 
 
 The Grotto. 
 
 The Temple of Concord and 
 Vidory. 
 
 Capt. Grenville's Monument. 
 
 The Ladies Temple. 
 
 The Fane of Paftoral Poetry. 
 
 The CaftJe. 
 
 An Obeliik to the Memory of 
 General Wolfe. 
 
 Lord Cobham's Pillar. 
 
 The Gothic Temple. 
 
 Th.e Palladian Bridge. 
 
 The Temple of h'riendftiip. 
 
 The Pebble Alcove. 
 
 Congrevc's Monument. 
 
 An Eqjjes IRIAN Statue of 
 George I, 
 
 A General Plan of the Gardens, 
 
 Alfo a Plan of the Houfe and Offices, and Plans of the 
 Buildings in the Gardens. 
 
 Tlie Defcrlption of the Houfe and Gardens, Price «- 
 Ditto — with the Plan of the Gardens -^ -^ — 
 Ditto— with the Plan of the"Gardens, and View of 1 
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To the late Earl TEMPLE, 
 
 On Gardening. 
 
 BY commerce, Albion, and by arms refin'd. 
 Sought for the charms of Art and Nature join'd ; 
 Along the banks of her own Thames ihe ftray'd. 
 Where the gay fifters of the waters play'd ; 
 In many a loft meander wildly rov'd. 
 And grac'd the meadows which their flream improv'd. 
 
 She mark'd romantic W indfor's warlike pride. 
 To Learning's peaceful feat fo near ally'd ; 
 Where Temple's bofom early figh'd for praife. 
 Struck with th' infpiring fame of ancient days ; 
 She came where lilver Thames and Ifis bright. 
 Their friendly treafures in one flream unite : 
 Where princes, prelates, fir'd with patriot views^ 
 By gen'rous gifts invited ev'ry mufe ; 
 Where ev'ry mufe her grateful tribute brought. 
 And Virtue pradtis'd what found Learning taught ; 
 At length her longing eyes and hallow'd feet 
 Reach'd verdant Stowe's magnificent retreat, 
 Where fame and truth had promis'd, fhe fhould find 
 Scenes to improve and pleafe her curious mind ; 
 Each ftep invention, elegance difplay'd, 
 Such, as when Churchill vi'oes the Aonian maid. 
 And joins in eafy graceful negligence, 
 Th' harmonious powers of verfe, with flerling fenfe ; 
 Such, as when Pouffin's or Albano's hand. 
 On glowing canvafs the rich landfcape plann'd. 
 
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 And clafTic genius ftrove, by mimic art, 
 Thro' the admiring eye to reach the heart. 
 
 Amidrt the wonjlers of each ftriking icene. 
 High on the fummit of a Hoping green 
 A folemn Temple, in proportion true. 
 Magnificently fimple, courts the view ; 
 Concord and ViElory with pride proclaim 
 This maniion facred to Britannia's fame, 
 Whofe form * majcftic from all hands receives 
 The various prodiicT: ev'ry region gives, 
 Pleas'd at her feet their choiceft gifts to lay. 
 And homage to her power fuperiour pay ; 
 The fculptur'd walls her glories pad declare. 
 In proud memorials f of fuccefsful war ; 
 No faflious facrifice to France and Spain 
 Thefe confecrated trophies can profane ; 
 For Public :|: Liberty her awful feat 
 Here fixing, here protects her laft retreat ; 
 Where to the great and good in every fliade. 
 The fragrant tribute of juft praife is paid ; 
 Where the prime beauties, form'd by nature's hand 
 Throughout her works in every diftant land, 
 Tranfplanted, flourifli in their native eafe. 
 And, as by magic charm collefted, pi eafe 
 Here the fair queen of this heroic ifle. 
 Imperial Albion, with a gracious fmile 
 Confefs'd, fhe lovely nature faw, at laft. 
 Unite with art, and both improve by tafte, 
 
 • The Alto Relievo in the Pediment. 
 \ The Medallions of the Viftoiies. 
 
 X The Statue of Public Liberty placed in the middle niche of the 
 Temple. 
 
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DESCRIPTION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 GARDENS. 
 
 IN the road from London to Stcive are the towns 
 of Uxhridge, Chalfont, Amerpam, Great Mifenden, 
 IVendover, Jyle/hury, WinJhiVy and BuckinghajTiy 
 which laft is dillant from London 57, from Oxford 25 
 miles. — Here are three principal inns, the Cobham 
 Arms, the White Hart, and the George ; a ftrait gra- 
 vel road, of two miles in length, leads from Bucking- 
 ham to a large Corinthian Arch or Gate-way, 60 feet 
 high, and 60 feet wide, decorated on each fide with a 
 large Milliary column, from whence appears the gar- 
 den front of his Lordlliip's houfe, proudly flanding on 
 the fummit of a verdant hill, and encompaffed by the 
 garden and park.— —From this arch, by the New Inn, 
 you defcend to the garden entrance ; but the road to the 
 Houfe leads through the arch, in which are dwelling- 
 rooms for the keeper, and is beautifully diverfified with 
 hill, valley, lawn, river, and a perpetual change of 
 Icene arifing from the numerous buildings intermixed 
 with wood, and " bofomed high in tufted trees," 
 which flrike the eye with a mofl pidurefciue and ever 
 varying magnificence. 
 
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 At the fouth entrance of the Garden? are two Pavll- 
 lions fiipported by Doric pillars, originally defigned by 
 Keni, and altered by Signer Borra, Architect to the 
 King of Sardinia. 
 
 Here you have a view, very flriking at f.rfl entrance, 
 of the Houfe, crowning the brow of the oppofite hill, 
 and rifing from the woods which bound the two extre- 
 mities of it ; and of the two rivers on the right-hand 
 meeting in one ftream, which run into a kind of bay. 
 The beautiful dilpofition of the lawns, trees, and 
 buildings it a di (lance, gives a kind of earneft of what 
 our expe6^ation is raifed to. 
 
 Turning to the left-hand you defcend to 
 
 Artificial Ruln<;, of a Temple of two 
 River-Gods, 
 
 covered with evergreens, and adorned with the Statues 
 of Fauns, Satyrs, and River-Gods ; a beautiful Calcade 
 of three flieets of water falls from a River above into 
 the Lake. 
 
 The Shepherd's Cove, 
 
 Defigned by Kent, and executed in rough 
 un-hcwit ftone, 
 
 IS feated on a rifing wood, on the banks of the Lake ; 
 on the vv-alls of it is engraved the following monumen- 
 tal infcription ; 
 
 To the memory 
 
 of 
 
 SiaNoR FiDo, 
 
 %n Italian of good extradllon ; 
 
 who came into ETtgland^ 
 
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 TI?e Te/z^yj^e ^fc^Ifcr/ted t/^> Tcru/^'. 
 
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 not to bite us, like niofl of his countrymen, 
 
 but to gain an honeft livelihood.^ 
 
 He hunted not after Fame, 
 
 yet acquired it ; 
 
 regardlefs of the praife of his friends, 
 
 but moft fenfible to their love. 
 
 Tho' he liv'd amongft the great, 
 
 he neither iearn'd nor flatter'd any vice. 
 
 He was no bigot, 
 
 tho' he doubted of none of the 39 articles : 
 
 And, if to follow nature, 
 
 and to refpedl the laws of fociety, 
 
 be phil(;fophy, 
 
 he was a perfedV philofopher; 
 
 a faithful friend, 
 
 an agreeable companion, 
 
 a loving hufband, 
 
 diftinguifli'd by a numerous offspring, 
 
 all which he liv'd to fee take good courfcs. 
 
 In his old age he retir'd 
 
 to the houfe of a Clergyman in the country, 
 
 where he finifhed his earthly race. 
 
 And died an honour and an example to the whole fpecies. 
 
 Reader, 
 
 This ftone is guiltlefs of flattery, 
 
 for he to whom it is infcrib'd 
 
 was not a Man, 
 
 but a 
 Greyhound. 
 
 The Temple dedicated to Venus, 
 
 is a fquare building conne£led by circular arcades to s 
 
 pavillion at each extremity j the ironts of thefe pavil- 
 
 B lions 
 
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 lions are rufticated : — the centre is marked by a large 
 circular recefs in which the door is placed ; it is deco- 
 rated with Ionic columns, and over the entrance is this 
 infcription : 
 
 Veneri Hortensi. 
 The infide is adorned with paintings, by Mr. Sclater, 
 taken from Spenfer's Fairy Queen. — The lady is ihe 
 fail Hellinore, who having lett a difagreeable hufband, 
 and wandering in the woods, was m^t by the polite Tet 
 of gentry flie is dancing with : fhe hkcs their manner 
 of life, and refolves to enjoy it with them. Her old 
 fpoufe Malbecco is inconfolable for his lofs ; he wanders 
 many days in fearch of her, and at length finds her 
 (you fee him at a diftance peeping from behind a tree) 
 revelling with a beaftly herd of fatyrs. When the 
 evening comes on, he follows the conjpany to their 
 retirement-, takes a commodious ftand, and to his great 
 torment fees every thing that pafies among them. After 
 they were all laid afleep, he creeps gently to his lady, 
 and you fee him in the other painting offering to be re- 
 conciled to her again, if flie w ill return back >vith him. 
 But Hellinore threatens to awake the Satyrs, and get 
 him feverely handled if he does not immediately leave 
 her. Upon which the poor ufelefs old man is obliged 
 to riy, and foon after runs diftradled. — See Book III. of 
 the Fairy ^ueen, Canto lo. The pannel in the cieling 
 is adorned w ith a naked Venus. Upon the frize is the 
 following motto from Catullus : 
 
 Nunc amet qui nondum amavit ; 
 Siuique amavity 7iunc amet. 
 
 Let him love now, vvho never lov'd before : 
 Lei him who alwa}s lov'd, now love the more. 
 
 This bmlding was defigned and executed by Kmt, 
 

 The Gale-wav to the Park. 
 
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 The late Queen's Statue 
 
 is eretfled on four lonlCx columns. — On the pledeftal is 
 this inlcri])tIon : 
 
 Dl V^ CAROLINiE, 
 To the Divine Caroline. 
 
 Two Pavillions, 
 Defigned by Fanbrugh, and altered by Borra. 
 
 One of them is made nfeof as a dwe'ling-houfe; the 
 
 other Hands in the garden. From hence there is a 
 
 noble view of a Bridge, with a fine ferpentine river. 
 
 Upon the brow of the oppofite hill is the Gate-way 
 through which the London and Oxford road leads into 
 the Park to the Houfe, — The Gate-way was defigned 
 by Kent, but it has been altered and extended by Signer 
 Faldre. — The entrance is ftrikingly magnificent, 
 
 Back'd by the Temple Wood, there is 
 
 The Temple of Bacchus, 
 
 a ftncco'd building of Sir yohn Vanhrugh's defign, (he 
 infide adorned with the revels of Bacchus, painted by 
 
 HoUikins. T his building commands a view crofs the 
 
 Lake, and a beautiful profpe6t over the country. 
 
 Nelson's Seat, 
 
 With a Doric portico. 
 
 In it. are the following infcriptions defcribing the 
 Paintings, 
 
 On the Right-hand. 
 Ultra Eupliratem t^ Tigrim 
 ^ ufque ad oceanum proj^agatd diiione 
 
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 Orhis terrarum imperium Roma adfignat cptimusprincepsy 
 
 Cui fupr advolat ViSforia, 
 
 laurigerum ferturn. hinc inde 
 
 utraque manu extendens^ 
 
 comitantibui Pietate iz) Ahundantia. 
 
 In arcii Conjiantini, 
 
 Having extencjed his power beyond the Euphrates and Tigris^ 
 
 as lar as the Ocean, 
 
 this moft potent Prince 
 
 afligns the Empire of the World to Rome: 
 
 over whom Viftory flies, 
 
 waving a laurel crown, 
 
 accompanied with Piety and Plenty, 
 
 Upon Conjiantinis Arch, 
 
 On the Left. 
 
 Pcji olitum L. Vert, 
 
 in imperh cum Marco confortis, 
 
 Roma 
 
 integram orhis terrarum 
 
 Potijlakm ci l^ in eo contulit. 
 
 In Capitolio, 
 
 After the death of Lucius VeriiSy 
 
 Partner in the Empire with Marcus, 
 
 Rome 
 
 conferr'd on him 
 
 the Empire of the World. 
 
 In the Capitol, 
 
 Oppofite the North front of the Houfe, is 
 The Equejlrian Statue of King George I. 
 
 la Armour, with this infcription : 
 
 In 
 
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 In medio mi hi Cajar erit, 
 
 Et viridi in campo Jignum de mar more ponam. 
 
 CoBHAM. 
 
 Imperial Ca/ar''s Statue 1 will place, 
 Full in the centre on the verdant gral's. 
 
 To this Front there is an Tonic portico, two circular 
 corridores with 28 Ionic columns on a fide, walls orna- 
 mented with niches and pilafters, four Gate-ways into 
 the courts, two by Signer Valdre, two by Kent, and 
 two into the Gardens by Leoni, 
 
 Oppofite the South Front is a grand parterre, w^here 
 you have a diftant view of many beautiful objedls in the 
 garden, and a fine profpedl over the country. 
 
 On the right-hand of this parterre, is her Ladyfhip's 
 Menagerie, en the left, a Shrubbery. 
 
 The Statue of his late Majefly, 
 
 creeled on a Corinthian pillar, with this infcription : 
 
 Crevere Vires, Famaque l^ Impert 
 Porrc5ia Majcjlas ad ortum 
 Solis ah He/per io Cuhili 
 Cujiode rerum Caefare 
 
 Georgio Augusto. 
 
 Under the care of drfar^s fcepter'd hand. 
 
 With firength and fame increas'd, this favour'd land 
 
 The majefty of her vaft Empire fpread. 
 
 From the Sun rifing to his Weftern bed. 
 
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 On her Royal Highnefs the Princefs Amelia's 
 Arrival at St owe. 
 
 By the late Countefs TEMPLE, 
 
 Apollo * and his tuneful maids, 
 Who range their lov'd Aonian glades, 
 Forfook the Heliconian fpring, 
 To hail the Daughter of a King. 
 Fond Eccho fhew'd them where to try 
 The fweeteft powers of melody. 
 Clofe by the imaje of her fire, 
 Apollo touch'd the founding lyre. 
 I faw the awful flatue f fmile, 
 / The guardian of this happy ifle, 
 
 When regal ftate with freedom ftrove, 
 
 Which mod fliould gain the others love ! 
 
 Mild he furvey'd the pleafmg fcene, 
 
 And thus addrefs'd his much lov'd Queen, 
 
 Whofe fculptur'd % form majeftic ftood. 
 
 The glory of the neighb'ring wood ; 
 
 ** Soft partner of my happieft days, 
 
 " Grac'd with a grateful people's praife, 
 
 ** The joyful hour approaches near, 
 
 " Which brings our fav'rite Daughter here ; 
 
 " She will revere the haliow'd ground, 
 
 " Where Ancient § Virtue's dome is found, 
 
 " And view the fhrine with heart-felt pride, 
 
 " Where Englilh worthies ftill prefide ; 
 
 • The Statue of Apollo and the Muses. 
 \ The Statue of King George II. 
 J The Statue of Qu^een Caroline. 
 § The Temple of Ancient Virtue. 
 
 *' Where 
 
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 " Where every virtue ftands confeft, 
 ** Juft emblem of her gen'rous breaft ; 
 *' Nor will her recolledion fail, 
 ** In Vidl'ry's (| confecrated vale, 
 " To glory in the Brunfwick name; 
 " For there the trophies 4- of my fame 
 •* Remain unfullied yet." — The reft 
 A figh and rifing tear fupprefs'd. 
 
 Apollo footh'd the mournful King ; 
 He tun'd to joy the golden ftring ; 
 Then fung of royal Emily, 
 When light'ning darts from either eye. 
 And Ipirit in her meaning face 
 Adds dignity and fenfe to grace ; 
 Or, when compaflion melt's her mind. 
 In tendernefs to human kind. 
 And her rich bounty copious flows, 
 In ftrearas, as various as their woes ; 
 Or, when amidft the circling great. 
 She graceful moves in royal flate, 
 Difpenfing round, with judgment true, 
 Honour to all where honour's due : 
 Or, when Hie condefcends to ftand 
 The firfl in friendfliip's fpotlefs band. 
 Preferring to the Courtier's art 
 Truth and fimplicity of heart ! 
 In air th' enchanting mufic floats, 
 The Zephyrs catch the varied notes, 
 
 11 The Temple of Cokcoxd and Victory. 
 4- Medallions of the Viftoiies gained in ihe War of 1 75 j, placed round 
 the Temple. 
 
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 And bear to heav'n th' enraptur'd lays, 
 Fraught with Amelia's flowing praife. 
 
 The Mother heard ih' applauding choir. 
 Her breaft extatic tranfports fire ; 
 As on the day her martial fon, 
 CuIIcdcn's glorious triumph won : 
 When lo ! upon the flow'ry green 
 Her darling Emily is feen ; 
 What hand can paint the glowing cheek. 
 The beating heart, the looks that fpeak ? 
 What but Apollo's lyre exprefs 
 The full, maternal tendernefs. 
 
 Thus, flu/h'd with pride and ardent love, 
 Latona views her twins from Jove; 
 Confcious, flie on the Delian earth 
 To two Divinities gave birth. 
 
 Dido's Gave, 
 With thefe infcriptions : 
 
 On the Outside. 
 
 Hanc SpeJuncam a Johanne Vanhrugh, Eguitey dejlgnaiam 
 illius memorise facram ejfe voluit Cohham, 
 
 This Cave defigned by Sir John Vanhrugh, is confe- 
 crated to his memory by Cohham. 
 
 In the Inside. 
 
 Speluncam Dido, dux \^ Trojanus eandem 
 Veveniunt—— Virg. 
 
 Repairing to the fame dark cave are feen 
 The Trojan hero, and the Tyrian Queen. 
 
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 is raifed upon I.)nic pillars, and is ornamenfed with a 
 liatu^ of Bacchus. T he building by Sir yohn 
 Vanhrugh, altered by Borra. 
 
 From hence you pais into the parterre, where on the 
 right-hand, you have the profped of the Corinthian 
 Arch, (mentioned before,) and on the left, the Houle. 
 ——In the adjoining wood, 
 
 A Doric Arch, 
 
 flanding on an eminence, accompanied with the ftatues 
 of Apollo and the nine Muses, forms an entrance 
 into a very pleafing fcene. 
 
 On the back front of the Attic is infcribed 
 
 AMELIJE SOPHI.^ AUG. 
 
 To her Royal Highnefs the Princefs Amelia Sophia. 
 
 Through the Arch is feen the Palladian Bridge, and 
 a Caftle on the oppofite hill, which form a delightful 
 perfpedfive. 
 
 On the infide front of the Attic there is a medallion 
 of her Royal Highnefs, with this exergue from Horace, 
 
 colenda femper i^ culta ! 
 Othou worthy of every honour, and ever honoured ! 
 
 Verses prefented to her Royal Highnefs at 
 her firfl: Entrance in 176S. 
 
 See the bright God, adorn'd with all his rays. 
 From heav'n defcends to fing Amelia's praife; 
 Their golden lyres he bids the fifters bring, 
 Join the glad long, and ftrike the founding firing ; 
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 The deep ton'd chord obeys his Ikilful hand, 
 And all is harmony where you command. 
 
 Under an old ehn, not far didant, the HeUconiaii 
 fpriPj^ is icen to rife, over which hangs a flatue ol 
 Narcissus. 
 
 A Ruin. 
 
 The Temple of Ancient Virtue, 
 
 is a rotundo of the Ionic order hy Mr. KefU ; on the 
 outlide, over each door, is this motto : 
 
 r,/'fc^ Viriuti. 
 
 To Ancient Virtue. 
 
 And in four niches within, flandiog at full length, 
 
 are the ftaiues of Lysurgus, Sortitcs, Horner^ and 
 
 Epaminondas : Under which are the lollovving infcrip^ 
 
 tions : 
 
 Under Lycurgus. 
 
 ^li fummo cum coii/ilio, invciitis kglhuiy 
 
 Omnerngue contra corruptclam munitis cptime. 
 
 Pater Patriae 
 
 Lihertaiem jirmijimam 
 
 Et meres fan^ijimos, 
 
 Expulfd cum diviliis avaritid, luxurid, lihidiiie, 
 
 in muJta facula 
 
 Civihus fuis iijiituit. 
 
 Who having planned, with confummate wifdom, a 
 fyllem of laws firmly fecured againft every encroach- 
 ment of corruption, and having by the expulfion of 
 riches, banifhed luxury, avarice, and intemperance, 
 efiabliilied in the ftate for many ages, perfect liberty 
 
 and inviolable purity of manners. The Father of 
 
 his Country. 
 
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 Under Socrates. 
 
 ^.'/ corruptijfima in civitate Innoccns, 
 
 JJonoium hoitator, iniici cv.'.tor DEI, 
 
 Al> iniitill otio, ts" vanis dif^utaiiohil'us. 
 
 Ad off.cia vita', b" jkicfatis comwodj, 
 
 rhitoforhiam avocavit, 
 
 Hominu in japientijfimus. 
 
 Who innocent in tne midft of a moft corrupted 
 people, the enconrager of the good, a worfliipper of 
 the one God, from iilclefs fj)ecuIarions and vain dif])utcs 
 reftored Philofophy to the duiies of life, and the benefit 
 of fociety. — 1 he wiiefl: of men. 
 
 IJnd^r Homer. 
 
 ^i poetarum primus, idem l^ maximux, 
 . Firtuiis praco, ^ immortalitatis largitor, 
 
 Divino carmine 
 Ad pulchrc addendum, t5> paiiendum fcriiler. 
 
 Omnibus notus gentihusy omnes incitat. 
 
 The firft and greateft of Poets, the herald of virtue, 
 the giver of immortality; who by his divine genius, 
 known to all nations, incites all, nobly to dare, and 
 to fuffer firmly. 
 
 Under E p a m i n o n d a s. 
 
 Cujus a virtutc, prudcntid, vcrecundia, 
 
 TJiehanorum rcfpuhlica 
 
 Lihcrtatem Jimul ^ imperium, 
 
 Difciplinam hcllicam, civilem i^ domef/icam 
 
 Accepit ; 
 
 Eoque amijjoy perdidit. 
 
 C2, By 
 
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 By vvhofe valour, prndence, nioderty, the Theban 
 commonvveakh gained liberty and empire, military 
 difcipline, civil and domeftic policy ; all which, by 
 lofing him, flie loft. 
 
 Over one door. 
 
 Charum e[fe civem^ bene de rcpuIHc^ merer i, laudart^ 
 ccli, diligr't ghriofum eji : metui veio, b" in odio ejfe^ 
 invidhjumy detcfiahile, imhcillum, caducum. 
 
 To be dear to our country, to deferve well of the 
 public, to be honoured, reverenced, loved, is glor;on« ; 
 but to be dreaded and hated, is odicus, deteftable, 
 weak, ruinous. 
 
 Over the other. 
 
 yuftitiam cole ^ pi et at em, qme cum Jit magna in 
 farentilus ^ propiriquis, turn in patrid maxima eji. Ea 
 vita via eJi in ccelum, ^ in kunc ccctum coram, qui jam 
 vixerunt. 
 
 Cultivate juftlce and benevolence, which in an eml- 
 rent manner is due to relations and to friends, but in 
 the higheft degree to our country ; this path leads to 
 the manfions ofthe blefTed, and to thUJJcmhIy of thofe 
 who are now no more. 
 
 From the doors of this Temple, and from the perif- 
 tilium, the views are charming : From one door yon 
 fee the ftatue of the late Qiieen, and theCaftle, land- 
 ing at the end of a line in the Park three miles long: 
 From the other door you fee the Temple of Britilh 
 Worthies, and the Falladian Bridge at a diftance ; as 
 -;ilfo 
 
 Capt- 
 
[ ^' ] 
 
 Captain Grenville's Monument, 
 
 being a N.ival column erected by the late Lord Cob- 
 ham in honour of Captain Grenville. upon the 
 top of which Heroic Poetry, holds in her hand a fcroll 
 wiih 
 
 Non mfi grandia Canto, 
 
 Heroic deeds alone my theme. 
 
 Upon the plinth and on the piedeftal are the follow- 
 ing infcriptions : 
 
 Plgnum Jaude viriim mnfj. vctat mor'i. 
 
 The mufe forbids heroic v\^orth to die. 
 
 Sororis jxiee Filio, 
 
 Thomse Grenville, 
 
 ^ii navis Prafe^us regicpf 
 
 Ducente clajjem Britannicam Gcorgio Anfon, 
 
 Dum contra Gallos fortijjinie pugnarct^ 
 
 Dilacerata navis ingcnti fragmine, 
 
 Femore graviter percujfoy 
 
 Perire, dixit moribundus, omniofatius ejfe^ 
 
 ^am inertia reum in judiciofjli ; 
 
 Columnam han: r^Jiratam 
 
 Laudans ^ mcerens poj'uit 
 
 Cohham. 
 
 Infigne virtutis, eheu ! rarijjima 
 
 Exemplum hahes ; 
 
 Ex quo difcaif 
 
 ^id virum prafe^fura militari ornatum 
 
 Deccat, 
 
 M DCC XLVII. 
 
 To 
 
[ 2^ ] 
 
 To his Nephew, 
 
 Thomas Grenvillej 
 
 Who 
 
 Captain of a fliip of war. 
 
 In the Uridlh fleer, 
 
 Commanded by Admiral Anfon, 
 
 In an engagement with the French, 
 
 Being woi:nded mortally in the thigh, 
 
 By a fragment of his fhatter'd fiiip, 
 
 Exj)iring laid, 
 
 ** How much better is it thus to die, 
 
 '* Than to ftand arraigned 
 
 *' Before a Com-t martial." 
 
 This Naval column 
 
 was erected 
 
 By Richard Vifcount Cob ham. 
 
 As a monument of his applaule and grief, 
 
 1747. 
 
 From this animating example, < 
 
 Learn, 
 
 When honour'd with comjiiand, 
 
 What becomes 
 
 An Officer. 
 
 Ye weeping niiifes, graces, virtues tell, 
 If fince your ail accomplifii'd Sidney fell, 
 You, or afflided Britain e'er deplor'd 
 A lofs, like that thefe plaintive lays record ; 
 Such fpotlefs honour, fuch ingenuous truth. 
 Such ripen'd wifdom in the bloom of youth ! 
 So mild, fo gentle, fo compos'd a mind. 
 To fuch heroic warmth and courage join'd ! 
 
 He 
 
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 He too, like Sidney, niirs'd In learning's arms, 
 For nobler war forlbbk her peaceful charms ; 
 Like him, pofTels'd of every plcanng art, 
 T he fecret wifli of every virgin's heart ; 
 Like him, cut off in youthful glory's pride. 
 He, unrepining for his country dy'd, 
 
 George Ld. Lyttelton, 
 
 From this column, you have a moft beautiful view 
 of the portico of the rioufe, feen obliquely, of the 
 Britifli Worthies, of the Temple of Ancient Virtue, 
 and of the Elyfian fields ; the frefhnels of the verdure 
 -and of the foliage, the building?, and the water, all 
 unite to make this fcene one of the gayeft and m.oli 
 chearful in the Garden. 
 
 Here you crofs the ferpentine river, over the ruins of 
 A Stone Bridge^ by Kent, 
 
 which brings you to 
 
 The Temple of Britlfh Worthies, by Kent; 
 
 a building cut into niches, wherein are placed the 
 following bullos : 
 
 Alexander Pope, 
 
 Who uniting the corredlnefs of Judgment to the fire of genius, 
 
 by the melody and power of his numbers, 
 
 gave fvveetnefs to fenfe, and grace to philofoph5^ 
 
 He employ'd the pointed brilliancy of wit to chaftife the vices, 
 
 and the eloquence of poetry to exalt the virtues of human nature ; 
 
 and being without a rival in his own age, 
 
 imitated and tranflated, with a fpirit equal to the originals, 
 
 the beft Poets of antiquity. 
 
 Sir 
 
[ 24 ] 
 
 Sir Thomas Gresham, 
 
 Who, by the honourable profeflion of a merchant, 
 having enriched himfelf and his country, lor carrying 
 on the commerce of the world, built the Royal 
 Exchange, 
 
 Ignatius Jones, 
 
 Who, to adorn his country, introduced and rivalled 
 the Greek and Roman Architedlure. 
 
 John Milton, 
 
 Whofe fublime and unbounded genius equall'd a fub- 
 je6l that carried him beyond the hmiis of the world. 
 
 William Shakespeare, 
 
 Whofe excellent genius opened to him the whole heart 
 of man, all the mines of fancy, all the (lores of nature; 
 and gave him power, beyond all other writers, to 
 move, aftonifh, and delight mankind. 
 
 John Locke, 
 
 Who, befl of all philofophers, underftood the powers 
 of the human mind, the nature, end, and bounds of 
 civil government; and \\iih equal fagacity, refuted 
 the flavifh fyflem of ufurped authority over the rights, 
 the confciences, or the reafon of mankind. 
 
 Sir Isaac Newton, 
 
 Whom the God of nature made to comprehend hi« 
 works. 
 
 Sir 
 
[ 2^ ] 
 
 Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, 
 
 Who, by the (iiength and light of fuperiour geniii?, 
 rejedling vain fpeculation aiid fallacious theory, tnug'it 
 to piirfue truth, and improve philol^jphy by the certain 
 method of experiment. 
 
 In the niche of a Pyramid is placed a Mercury, 
 with thcfe words fubfcribed : 
 
 .—-Campos diicit ad ElyfiO':. 
 Leads to the Elylian Fields. 
 
 And below this figure is fixed a fq'uare of black 
 marble with the following lines : 
 
 Hic maims oh patriam pugnando vulnera pajfi, 
 ^lique pii vates, thacho digna locuti, 
 Inveiitas ant qui vitam excoUiere per artes, 
 ^iiquc fui memorcs alios fecere merendo. 
 
 Here are the bands, who for their country bled. 
 And bards, whofe pure and facred verfe is read ; 
 Thofe who, by arts invented, life improv'd. 
 And by their merits, made their mem'ries lov'd. 
 
 King Alfred, 
 
 The miidell, jufteil, mofl beneficent of kings ; who 
 drove out the Danes, fecured the feas, proteded 
 learning, efiablifhed juries, crufhed corruption, guard- 
 ed liberty, and was the four.dcr of the Engli/h con- 
 Hitution. 
 
 Edward, Prince of Wales, 
 
 The terror of Europe, the delight of England ; who 
 
 preferved unaltered, in the height of glory and fortune, 
 
 his natural gentle'nefs and modtfty, 
 
 D Qiieen 
 
[ 26 ] 
 
 Queen Elizablth, 
 
 Who confounded the projefts, and deftroyed the p6wer 
 that threatened to opprefs the liberties of Europe; 
 ihxyok off the yoke of Ecclefiallical tyranny ; reftored 
 religion from the corruptions of Popery ; and by a wife, 
 a moderate, and a popular government, gave wealth, 
 fecuriiy, and relj)c6l to England. 
 
 King William III, 
 
 Who, by his virtue and conflancy, having faved his 
 country from a foreign mafter, by a bold and generous 
 enterprize, preferved the liberty and religion of Great- 
 Britain. 
 
 Sir Walter Raleigh, 
 
 A valiant foldier, and an able flatefman ; who endea- 
 vouring to roufe the fpirit ot his mafter, for the honour 
 of his country, againft the ambition of Spain, fell a 
 facrifice to the influence of that court, whofe arms he 
 had vanquiftied, and whofe defigns he oppofed. 
 
 Sir Francis Drake, 
 
 Who, through many perils, was the firft of Britons 
 that ventured to fail round the globe ; and carried into 
 unknown feas and nations the knov/Iedge and glory of 
 the Englifh name. 
 
 John Hampden, 
 
 Who, with great fpirit and confummate abilitie?, 
 began a noble oppofition to an arbitrary court, iu 
 defence of the liberties of his country ; fupported them 
 
 in parliament, and died for them in the field. 
 
 Sir 
 
[ -1 ] 
 
 Sir John Barnard, 
 
 Who diftinguiihed himfelf in Parliament by an adlive 
 and firm oj)porition to the pernicious and iniquitous 
 pradice of (tock-jobbing: at the fame time exerting 
 his utmoll abilities to encreafe the ftrength of his coun- 
 try, by reducing the interelt of the national debt ; 
 which he propofed to the Houfe of Commons in the 
 year 1737, and with the affiliance of Government, 
 canied into effed, in the year 1750, on terms of 
 equal jiidice to Particulars and io the State ; notw ith- 
 lianding all the impediments which Private interefl 
 could oppofe to Public fpirit. 
 
 From hence we return by the Stone Bridge to a 
 flream, terminated by feveral fmall iflands ; upon one 
 of them is a Monument to the memory of Captain 
 Cook : The piedeftal of it fuppcrts a Terrellial 
 Globe, upon which are delineated the /Equatorial, 
 Tropical, and other lines, together with the following 
 infcription : 
 
 Te maris ^ terra nunurogue careniis arena 
 Mentor em. 
 
 'Twas thine to track the Ocean's endlefs round. 
 Each diflant fhore, and earth's extremeft bound, 
 
 ■ In the die of the piedeftal is a medallion of Captain 
 Cook in marble, and under it in a tablet, 
 
 JACOBO COOK, MDCCLXXVIII. 
 
 From hence we pafs by the fame ftream to an old 
 tree, where 
 
 Da The 
 
[ 28 ] 
 
 The Grotto 
 
 opens upon us. The trees which ftretch acrofs the 
 water, together with thofe which back it, and others 
 which hang over the cavern, form a fcene fingularly 
 perfetit in its kind. The front of it is compofed of the 
 roiigheft llones, with no other decoration than that of 
 fome few fpars and broken flints ; from the lower 
 cavern the water flows, and from the opening above 
 this a fmall ftream drops int<i the river. The infide k 
 finiflied with a variety of Iheils, fpars, foflils, petrifac- 
 tions, and broken glafs, which refle61 the ravs of light. 
 At the upper fend is a circular recefs in which are two 
 bafons of white marble ; In the upper is placed a fine 
 marble Hatue of Venus rifmg from her bath, and 
 from this the water falls into the lower bafon, from 
 whence it is conveyed under the flour to the front, 
 where it falls into the river. 
 
 A tal)ler of white marble contains the following 
 lines from Milton : 
 
 Goddefs of the filver wave, 
 To thy thick embower'd cave. 
 To arched walk-', and twilight groves. 
 And fliadows brown, which Sylvan loves 
 When the fun begins to fling 
 His flaring beams, me Goddefs bring. 
 
 The Temple of Concord and Viaory, 
 
 is a large beautiful Building in the Antique tafle, deco- 
 rated with 28 fluted columns of the Ionic order, and 
 one of the principal ornaments in the Garden,, — It was 
 €)rio^inally defigued by Kent, from the meafurements 
 
 (which 
 
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 (which it nearly follows) of the Maifcn fiance at 
 Nifmes, but it was untinii'hed, particularly in the inter- 
 rial decorations, till the year 1763, when it was com- 
 pleted under the orders of Signor Bcrra, and dcdicatecj 
 by the late Lord 1 eimple to Concord and Virion, as 
 a monument of the glories of the War, terminated by 
 the Peace ot FontainehkaU. 
 
 It has fix llatues on the top, as big as life, and the 
 front pediment is adv)rned with apiece of Alt-relief, by 
 Mr. S:kc:rnakcr, reprefenting the four quarters of the 
 world bringing their various produdls to Britannia. — In 
 Jhe Irize of the portico is this infcription : 
 
 Concordi^e & ViEforia, 
 To Concord and Vidory. 
 
 In the Anti-Temple are two Medallions defcribing 
 
 Concordia Feeder atorum : Concordia Civium : 
 Concord of the Allies : National Concord. 
 
 Over the door this infcription from Valerius Maximus ; 
 
 ^0 tempore falus eorum in ultimas angiijiias dcduHa 
 nullum amhitioni locum relinquchat. 
 
 The times with fuch alarming dangers fraught. 
 Left not a hope for any fadious thought. 
 
 In a niche of the Temple is placed the ftatue of Li- 
 lertas Puhlica, Public Liberty ; over which, in a tablet 
 from the fame author, 
 
 Candidas autem animis vohiptatem prahuerint in con^ 
 Jpicuo pofita gua cuique magnifca merito contigeriint. 
 
[ 3° ] 
 
 A fvveet fenfation touches ev'ry brenft 
 Of candour's gen'rous lertiment pollell. 
 When public Services with honour due. 
 Are gratcfuily mark'd out to public view. 
 
 On the walls are fourteen medallions to reprefent the 
 taking of Qiiebec, Martinico, tl):. Louilbourg, Gaude- 
 loupe, l^c. Montreal, Pondicherry, ts'c. naval viftory 
 off Belleifle, naval vidory off Lagos, Crevelt and Min- 
 den, Felinghaufen, Goree and Senegal, Crwvn Point, 
 Niagara and Fort du Q^iefne, Havannah and Manilla, 
 Beau Sejour, Cherburgh and BelleiHe — executed from 
 feveral of the Medals. 
 
 Here is a large and delightful vale adorned with va- 
 rious ftatues and grovips, intermixed with clumps of 
 trees beautifully difpofed. 
 
 From this Portico you fee in a diagonal line, 
 
 An Obellfk 
 
 in the Park, above an hundred feet high, 
 Infcribed to Major General Woi.fe. 
 
 Ojiendunt terris hunc tanium Fata - 
 
 The Fates but ihew him to the v\ orld. 
 
 1759. 
 
 This Obelifk (lands upon a hill in the approach from 
 'Kortham^tonjjyirey which is very magnificent : At the 
 entrance from the Duke of Grafton's forert, are two 
 Lodges, from whence a very broad line, of three miles 
 in length, condu6\ing you through w^oods, is termina- 
 ted by the Temple of Concord and Vidory. — In the 
 
 other 
 
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 Other diagonal line from the Temple, ftands a lofty 
 fluted column, eie61;ed to the memory of the late Lord 
 
 Vilcount CoBHAM. 
 
 A gravel path now leads by the ftatue of Hercules 
 and Jnti;cus, fkirting the valley, to the circle of the 
 Dancing Faun, furrounded with the flatues of Shep- 
 herds and ShcpherdefTes, 
 
 *' And every Shepherd tells his tale 
 " Under a hawthorn in the dale." 
 
 Winding through a wood, not far diftant, rife 
 
 The Fane and Statue of Paftoral Poetry, 
 
 Holding in her hand a Scroll with thefe words : 
 
 PaJIorum Carmina Canto. 
 
 I tune the Shepherd's lay. 
 
 The Fane is adorned with Terms, he. Here a moft 
 pleafing foreft-fcene prefents itfelf, formed by extenfive 
 lawns of the park, bounded with old oaks : You next 
 crofs over the valley, and foon come to 
 
 Lord Cobham's Pillar. 
 
 One hundred and fifteen feet high. 
 
 Round the bafe of the column is written: 
 
 L. Luculli fummi Viri Virtutcm quis? At quam 
 multi Fillarum magnificeniiam imitati funt P 
 
 Tully's Offices. 
 
 Who hath imitated the virtues of L, Lucullus, a truly 
 
 great man ? but how many the example, in magnifi-' 
 
 Gently adorning their Country-feats ? 
 
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[ 3^ ] 
 
 On the Piedeftal are the following infcriptio'nj : 
 On one Side. 
 
 To prcferve the memory of her hnfband, 
 
 Anne Vifcountefs Cobham 
 
 Caiiled this Pillar to be erected 
 
 111 the year 1747. 
 
 On the opposite Side. 
 
 ^latcjius nobis dencgatur diu vivere^ 
 relinquamus aliqiiid, 
 
 quo 710S vixijfe tcJlemuT. 
 
 Tnafmuch as the portion of life allotted to us is fhort, 
 
 let us leave fomething behind us, 
 
 to flievv that we have lived. 
 
 A circular ftair-cafe leads up to the top, which com- 
 mands a view over great part ot the counties of Buck- 
 ingham, Oxford, Northampton, and Bedford. 
 
 The Ladies Temple, 
 
 is built upon groin arches^ with Venetian windows, 
 and two niches in each front decorated with vafes ; a 
 great flight of fteps leads up to a Corinthian Portico, 
 and from thence to a room, fupported by Scaiola co- 
 lumns, the walls of which are adorned with the fol- 
 lowing paintings by Mr. Sclater. 
 
 On one fide are Ladies employiiig themfelves in nee- 
 dle and fliell-work. — On the oppofite fide are Ladies 
 diverting themfelves with painting and mufic. — The 
 foffite or cieJing from the Temple ot the fun and moon 
 at Rorne^ 
 
 The 
 
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 The Gothic Temple, 
 
 IS a large biiilJIng of yellow ftone, 70 i'eet Iiigh, iipoii 
 a rifing ground, adorned in the Gothic ftile with carved 
 work, and a very fine colledion of old painted glafs, 
 confining of facred fubje6ls, and of great variety of 
 armorial bearings ; fume -of which are very finely 
 executed. The difpofition within is very beautiful : 
 you enter a circular room, the dome of which is orna- 
 mented with the defcents and inter-marriages of the 
 Temple family, in a regular feries of armorial bearings, 
 from the Saxon Earls of Leicejicr to the late Lord 
 Vifcount Cohham^ and to his filter and heirefs Hejtcr, 
 Countefs Temple. On the fecond ftory is a gallery : 
 the tower affords a very extenfive view round the 
 country. 
 
 In a recefs, near this temple, are placed fome very 
 good Itatues, by K^Jbrack^ of the feven Saxon Deities, 
 who gave names to the days of the week : — the inscrip- 
 tions upon them are in that language. The Houfe and 
 the portico of the temple of Concord and Vidlory have 
 a beautiful effedl from the temple. 
 
 The Pajladian Bridge. 
 
 The roof is fupported by Ionic pillars, and the whole 
 is finiflied after the beautiful Bridge at WiJton. 
 
 From hence you pafs into the great terras-walk, 
 which is 3000 feet long. 
 
 The Temple of Friendfhip, 
 
 is a large ftru6lure of the Tufcan order : on the outfide 
 is this motto : 
 
 Amicitiee S — ^——Sacred to Friendfbip, 
 M DCC XXXIX, 
 
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 The infdc is furnl/hed withBufts of the late Vifcoiint 
 Cchham and his trieiid:<, viz, Fiedcick I'rince of 
 IValei ; the Earls of CheJfcrfJd, IViJimoreiand, and 
 Aiarchmont ; the Lords Cohhaniy Goivcr^ and Ba- 
 ihioji ; Richard Gienvi/le, late KslvI Tca.ple ; Hiiliam 
 titt, late Earl of Chatham ; and George Lyttelton, 
 late Lord Lyttelton. 'I he roof is painted, 
 
 Th- Pebble Alcove, 
 
 is a little Grot nearly adorned whh pebbles; Lord 
 Cohham's arms are ciirionfly wrought upon the back 
 wall with the fame materials. 
 
 CoNGREV£*s M ,nument, by Kent. 
 
 The embelliflimcnfs round it are defigned to exprefs 
 the Poet's genius in the dramatic way; upon the top 
 fits a monkey viewing himlelf in a mirror, with this 
 inlcrjption : 
 
 Vita' imitafio, 
 
 ConfiCtudinis p.cuium, 
 
 Comadia. 
 
 Comedy is the imitatic-n of life, and the mirror of 
 faihion. 
 
 The Poet's effigies lies in a carelefs pofture on one 
 fde, and on the other is placed this epitaph : 
 
 Ingenio 
 
 Jcri, fa.etOs expoJito, 
 
 Morihufque 
 
 UrhaniSy canddis, facillim's, 
 
 GULIELMI CoNGREVE, 
 
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 ^alccunquc dcf.dcrii fui 
 
 Solamen JJniul ac 
 
 Monumcr.tum 
 
 Po/uit C o B K A M. 
 
 To the fprlghtly, entertaining, elegant 
 
 W it, 
 
 and the poliflied, candid, eafy 
 
 Manners, 
 
 Of W I L L I A M C O N G R E V E, 
 
 This, 
 
 in fome fort a confolation, 
 
 and a memorial of his affeftionate regret, 
 
 was erefied by 
 
 COEHAM. 
 
 N. B. The Gardens contain between three and four 
 hundred Acres. 
 
 K z E X p L A- 
 
Explanation of the PLANS. 
 
 Fig. I. The Temple of Concord and Vi(flory. 
 
 Fig. 2. The Gothic Temple. 
 
 Fig. 3. The Ladies Temple. 
 
 Fig. 4. Toe Temple of Friendftiip. 
 
 Fig. 5. The Temple of Ancient Virtue. 
 
 Fig. 6. The Temple dedicated to \'enus. 
 
 Fig. 7. The llotundo. 
 
 Fig 8. The Temple of Bacchus. 
 
 Fig. 9. The Fdne of Falloral Poetry. 
 
 Fig. 10. Late an Egyptian Pyramid. 
 
 Fig. II. One of the Pavillions at the Entrance to the Garden; 
 
 Fig. 12. One of the Pavillions at the Entrance to the Park. 
 
 Fig. 13. Dido's Cave. 
 
 Fig. 14. The Temple of Britifli Worthies, 
 
 Fig. 15. The Shepherd's Cove. 
 
 Fig. 16. Nelfon's Seat. 
 
 Fig. 17. The Grotto. 
 
 Fig. 18. The Cold Bath. 
 
 Fig. ig. The Palladian Bridge. 
 
 Fig. 20. The Shell Bridge, by the fame Scale. 
 
 Fig. 21. The New Bridge loading to the Lodges. 
 
 Note, Where there is but one Scale in a Plate, it is appli- 
 cable to all the Plans in tliat Plate. 
 
 The Scales are of Feet. 
 
 The Capital Letters in the Defcription of the House, ?s 
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 OF T tl E 
 
 HOUSE. 
 
 Great night of 31 ftcps adorned with two lions 
 on tl e piedeftals, taken from thofe in the 
 Garden Veiiibule of the Villa Medici at Ro7ne, 
 leads up to the Portico or Loggia. In the femicircles 
 over the Ionic entablature of the Centre building are 
 two medallions reprefenting the four feafons ; — there 
 are likewife three other medallions, in the iame por- 
 tion, on each pavillion, viz. Venus and Adonis, and 
 two facrifices ; — over the centre of the eaft pavillion, 
 the ftatues of Peace and Plenty ; over the weft, thofe 
 of Religion and Liberty ; betwixt the ftatues, in a 
 pannel, at the top of the weft pavillion is the following; 
 Latin inlcription : 
 
 Richardus Comes Temple F, 
 
 By Richard Earl Te m p l e. 
 
 \ At the East end. 
 
 yinno Salutis I'J'JS. 
 
 In the Year of Grace 1775. 
 
 A. The 
 
[ 3S ] 
 
 A. The Loggia, 
 
 is formed by fix Corinthian columns Jxnd two pllafters, 
 3 feet 7 inches diameter ; — over the great door and 
 niches is a Ba(s-relief, rcprefeniing a facrifice to Bac- 
 clui?, which fills the whole fj)ace from pilaftcr to 
 pilailer : In the Loggia are placed four female cololFal 
 fifrures. 
 
 In the inter-columniations on the fides arc two fine 
 groupes of the Labours of HcrLtdcs, viz. 
 
 1. Hercules ^r\d yint a us. 
 
 2. Hercules and Cacus. 
 
 In the reccfies are two very fine antiqi:e fitting 
 Itatues, viz. a CyhelCy and a Juno, in white marble. 
 
 The cieling is divided into three comj^artnients taken 
 from the defigns of Palmyra. 
 
 Through a very rich door-cafe carved in flone, from 
 the fame defigns, we enter 
 
 B. The Saloon. 
 
 An oval lighted by a central opening in a dome : The 
 cieling is divided into compartments which diminifii 
 towards the centre, each Compartment containing 
 pannels richly decorated. 'I he oval light is ornamented 
 with fcroll work, and circular paiinels ; at each end 
 of it are female figures terminating in the fame fcroH 
 work, and fupporting the arms of the late Earl Temple, 
 and the prefent Marquis of Buckingham, 
 
 The cornice is of tViC Doric order, and is adorned 
 with inafks of BadJiantcs and Satyrs ; above i'^an Attic 
 fupporting a moft magnificent Alto-relievo, confining 
 of above 300 figures, defigned and executed by Signor 
 Valdre. They are difpofed fo as to fill the whole circle, 
 
 and 
 
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 and compofe a Triumph and a Sacrifice : many of 
 thtm are colleded fiom the pil'ars of Trajan^ and of 
 Jliitoniiic, from the arches of Severus, Titus, and Con- 
 Jlaiitine^ and from others of the noblelt monuments of 
 the Ruman grandeur ; they are in general near four 
 feet hi^h, and are blended with various trophies fpoils, 
 and animals; over the Loggia door is the Temple to 
 wnich the pr ;cefliun lead'? ; over the Hall door is the 
 Triumphil arch from which it proceeds. The cornice 
 is ilippoitrd by i6 columns executed in Scaiola, repre- 
 fenting Sicilian Jafper, by ^l^nox Domini co Bartoli, and 
 iini/hed wiih a luftre I'uperirjur to the finefl marbles: 
 the bafes'a^d capitals of them are white. 
 
 In the walls are fixteen compartments or pannels 
 filled up wiih trophies in thevicheft and boldeft relievo, 
 and below them are the four doors, and twelve niches : 
 in eight of them are white marble antique figures, 
 fome of them of the fmeft Greek or Roman fculpture, 
 z'iz. 
 
 Meleager^ 
 
 very fine. 
 
 Diana. 
 
 
 Augujiiis, 
 
 ditto. 
 
 Venus. 
 
 
 A Miife, 
 
 ditto. 
 
 Ant i lions, 
 
 very fine. 
 
 Agrippina. 
 
 
 Hygeia. 
 
 
 In the others are candelabra, fix feet high, executed 
 with the utmofl tafte, and richly bronzed and gilt. 
 
 From the foffite hang, by chains of gilt bronze, 
 fixteen mofl magnificent glafs lights, decorated with 
 fefloons of cut chryftal, and containing lamps. 
 
 The pavement is of the finefl marble from Ma/fa 
 
 Carrara in fquares of tour feet, and in the centre is a 
 
 ftove, in the form of an altar, which completely heats 
 
 lihis immenle fpace in winter, 
 
 C. The 
 
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 C. The Hall. 
 
 Defigned and painted by Kent. 
 
 The cieling is finely adorned vvith the feven planets } 
 the ruling one, that of Mars^ in the likenefs of King 
 IVilUam, prefents a fword to the late Field Mardial Vif- 
 count Cohhaniy in allufion to that Prince having given 
 him a Regiment at his firft entrance into the army. 
 
 Over the chimney is an Alto-relievo, by Banksy of 
 CharaSfacus before the thrcne of Claudius. 
 
 Oppofite to it is another, of Durius's tent, by a 
 French Artift. 
 
 Upon a piedeflal Is a fine antique figure, of Paris 
 holding out the a[)ple, in white marble. 
 
 Upon two other pieueftals, of white marble, are two 
 very fine antique vafes ; the one is decorated with young 
 Bacchanals and foliages, the other is divided into com- 
 partments containing figures of Bacchantes. The 
 mouldings are very rich, and the decoration of one of 
 them, in which four ferpents form the handles, is very 
 bold and curious. 
 
 Round the walls are eight antique marble bufts, and 
 at the ends are placed, upon piedeftals, four tranfparent 
 alabafterurns, made to contain lamps. At the foot of 
 the ftatue is an ancient Tomb or Sarcophagus. 
 
 D. North Portico, 
 
 formed by four Ionic columns, 2 feet io| inches 
 diameter, and two pilafters. 
 
 On one fide of the Hall, 
 
 A Dreffing-room hung with yellow damafk, and 
 with Crayon Pidures, by the late Mrs. Grenville^ 
 
 mother 
 
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 iiiother to Lord Buckingham ; together with portraits 
 of her, of the Conntefk of Tliomond, her aunt ; and of 
 the lall Earl of Thor:o;:dy her brother. In the Bed- 
 chamber hung- with the fame is Cymon and Iphigenia, by 
 Gucrcino ; and in thg other Drelling-room are portraits 
 of Mrs. Grenvi/le, when young; of Lady Catherine 
 IFyndham, her mother ; of the late Earl of Egremontj 
 her brother ; and the Countefs Dowager of Jylesf or d. 
 
 On the other fide of the Hall 
 
 are two DrefTmg-rooms and a Bed-chamber hung with 
 red Cafoy and pl6lures : viz. in the firft Dreffing room, 
 the rape of Helen, and the return of Chryfc'is, by Pri- 
 maticcio ; a female figure fleeping, by Andrea Sciavone i 
 and other pi6lures. In the Bed-chamber, Honourable 
 Henry Grenville, over the chimney ; a landfcape, by 
 Horizonti ; King and Qi^ieen of Bohemia ; Henry, Prince 
 of Wales f Orpheus znd figures, by Giacamo Bafan. In 
 the other Drel?ing-room, a Vertumnus and Pomona, by 
 Tintoretto ; Orodes and Crajfus, by G. FouJ/in ; and 
 Venus with Vulcan, by Primaticcio, 
 
 Over thefe two Apartments are two others, one 
 hung with green damafk, the other with tapeftry of 
 the four elements ; each Apartment confifting of a 
 bed-chamber and two dreffing-rooms, 
 
 E.E. Circular Corrldores, 
 
 each formed by 27 Ionic columns 2 feet diameter, and 
 one pilafter, into which there are doors from the pre- 
 ceding apartments. 
 
 F The 
 
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 The grand Stair-cafe, 
 Ornamented with iron work. 
 
 Three Cieling-pieces painted by Sclatir, viz. 
 
 1. yujiice and Peace. 
 
 2. Fame and FiSfory. 
 
 3. Plenty and Corijiancy. 
 
 'i he walls are adorned with warlike pieces. 
 
 A Billiard Room, 
 
 the walls ornamented with medallions. — Leading into 
 2 palfage decorated with buli?, which forms a degage- 
 nient to all the principal rooms. 
 
 Second and third pair of flairs, a number of Bed- 
 chambers, and two DrelTing- rooms to ieveral of the 
 Bed-chambers. 
 
 F. The Chapel, 
 
 wainfcoted with cedar, with a gallery of the fame, 
 hung with crimfon velvet, under which are feats for 
 the fervants. 
 
 Over the communion-table is a copy of the Holy 
 Lamb, by Rubens, in the JVilton colledion ; and over 
 that is the King's arms finely car^'ed and ornamented. 
 
 Above the cedar wainfcot are the following pain- 
 tings at full length : 
 
 Mofes and Aaron. 
 
 Tvvoofthe Apoftles, St. Peter, and St. Paul, 
 
 The four Evangelifts. 
 
 There are three other paintings, viz, 
 
 1. The Afcenfion, 
 
 2. The Baptifm. 
 
 3. The Salutation of the Virgin Mary, 
 
 The 
 
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 The deling is the fame as at the Chapel Royal at St, 
 yawci's, and the cedar wainlcot enriched with elegant 
 carvings, by Gihlons. 
 
 A Veflibule, fupported by columns, leads to 
 
 G. The Library. 
 
 1 1. His Lordfhlp's private DrefTing-Rcoiii. 
 
 I. Her Ladyfliip's Bed-Chamber. 
 The Bed and Curtains of white damafk. 
 
 K. Her Ladyfliip's DreiTing Room, 
 
 hung with white Iiiih damafk, chairs and curtains of 
 the fame. 
 
 Over the chimney is 
 
 A portrait of the Earl JSugcnt, by Gain/borough ; 
 oppofite to it is 
 
 A portrait of INIrs. Siddons, in the charader of the 
 Tragic mufe, fupported by the Genii of Pity, and of 
 Horror, painted by Lady Buckingham : the original de- 
 fign by Sir Jopua Reynolds. — On a pannel in the frame 
 of it is this inibription : 
 
 Oh ! for a mufe of fire that would afcend 
 The brighteft heaven of invention. 
 
 Shakefpeare's Henry V. 
 
 The room is decorated with variety of crayons, and 
 of drawings, by hzdy Biickifigham ; and with feveral 
 views of Rome in water colours, and other drawings. 
 
 Over the chimney, and in two oval frames near it 
 are great variety of miniatures, amongft which are the 
 following ; 
 
 Fz The 
 
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 1 he Proteiflor Duke of Somerfet. 
 
 The Lord /dmiral Thomas Seymour, his hrother, — the 
 only picture of hirn now extant. — Thej'e ar$ both ur;- 
 douhted oiiginah. 
 
 Qiiteii Catherine Parr, 
 
 Q_ieen Anne Bulhyn, 
 
 Heniy VJI. 
 
 Charles I. 
 
 Her Ruyal Highnefs the Princefs Amelia, 
 
 1 he late Princels oi If ales, 
 
 Charles X-I. of Sweden. 
 
 The great Eledor of Brandenhiirgh. 
 
 The Elecflrefs, his wife. 
 
 Sarah, Ducheis of Marlborough. 
 
 Elizabeth, Dutchefs of Aiontagu, 
 
 Madame de Maintetion, by Petitof, 
 
 Sir IViiliam Temple. 
 
 Right Honourable James Craggs, 
 
 yamcs Craggs, his father, 
 
 Archbifliop Sheldon. 
 
 Together with many family miniatures, 
 A Pier Giafs. 
 
 L. The Grenville Room. 
 
 The chairs and curtains of green damafK, the walls 
 hung with Portraits of the Temple and Grenville families, 
 viz. 
 
 Peter Temple, anno 1560, who purchafcd Stcxvc, 
 yohn Temple, his fon. 
 
 Elizabeth, heirefs of the Spencers of Everion, his 
 wife. 
 
 Sir 
 
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 Sir Thomas Temple, Bart. 
 
 I'ljicr Sandys, his wife, who from four fons, and 
 nine daughters, lived to fee above 700 deicendants 
 from herfelf. Fide Fuller's Worthies. 
 
 Sir Peter Temple, his eldeft fon, by Cornelius Janjcn. 
 
 ^\t Thomas Temple, Knight, his fecond fon. 
 
 Dorothy Leigh, his wife, by Cornelius janfen, 
 
 Martha Tmplc, Lady Penijion, 1 D;n'ghters of 
 
 Elizabeth Tmplc, Lndy Gihbs, J Sir Thomas, 
 
 Sir Richard Temple, father to Lord Cohham, 
 
 JUary Knapp, his wife. 
 
 Lord VKcGunt Cohham, by Vanloo. 
 
 Anne HaJfey, Vifcountels Cohham, his wife. 
 
 George Doddington, uncle to Lord Cohharn. 
 
 Right Honourable George Doddington, his fon. 
 
 Alary, fifler to Lord Cohham, married Dr. Wejl, and 
 fecondly, Sir J. Langham, 
 
 Chrijiian, third daughter, married Sir T. Lyttldon. 
 
 Penelope, fourth daughter, married R. Berenger Efq ; 
 
 Richard Grenville Efq ; born 1527, 
 
 Mary Giffard, his wife. 
 
 Richard Grenville ¥.^(1; born 1586. 
 
 Frances Saunders, his wife. 
 
 Sufanna Grenville, 1627. 
 
 Edivard Grenville, by Cornelius Janferi, 1622. 
 
 Richard Grenville, 1671. 
 
 Richard Grenville, by Sir Godfrey Kneller. 
 
 Penelope, his fifter, married Sir J. Conway. 
 Bejier Temple, his wife, fucceeded her brother as 
 Vifcountefs and Baronefs Cohham, and was created 
 Countefs Temple. 
 
 Richard, Earl Temple. 
 
 Anne^ Countefs Temple, his wife. 
 
 Right 
 
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 Right Honourable George Grenvillc, fecond fun, fa- 
 ther to Lord Buckingham. 
 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William IVyndham, his 
 wife, by Hudjcn. 
 
 Right Honourable James Grenville, third fon. • 
 
 Captain Thomas Grenvil/c, killed May 3d, 1747 ; 
 Captain of the Defiance, 64. guns : youngeft fon. ' 
 
 Lady Hejier Grenvilie, by Hoare, married to 
 
 IVilUam Earl of Chatham, by Hoare. 
 
 A'l. The Billiard Room, 
 
 hung with tapeflry from drav\ings of Tciiicrs. 
 
 A portrait of Oliver Cromii-sll, by old Richardj'on ; the 
 boy who is tying his fcarf is Sir Fctcr Temple, of Stanton 
 Bury, Com. Bucks. 
 
 A portrait of Colonel Stanyan, by Dolj'on, 
 
 Cofmo in. Duke of Tiifcany. 
 
 Over the chimney is a very fine picture, by Vandyke, 
 of the Marquis de Fieuvillc, EmbafTador to Charles I. 
 from France, and afterwards attainted by Cardinal 
 Rich lieu. 
 
 A table oiGiallo AnticOy over which is a pier glafs. 
 
 A chimney piece of Scaiola, executed at Rome. 
 
 N. A Dining Room, 
 
 ornamented with marble bufts of the Roman Emperors 
 and EmprelTes, 
 
 The paintings are : 
 
 Over the chimney, Chrijf rifing from the tomb, by 
 Tintoretto. 
 
 At one end is Rembrandt's wife, in the charafler of 
 Minerva^ painted by him. — At the other end is 
 
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 A pl(5l:ure faid to be of Samfoyi in the prifon 2t Gaza, 
 by Rembrandt: — The King of FniJJia has one of the 
 fame in his colledion, fo called ; but it is an Itaiian 
 Story. 
 
 Four converfation pieces, by Francefco Cippo. 
 
 A battle-piece, by Bourgognione. 
 
 A view of the Tiber above Rome^ hand unknown. 
 
 Two tables of oriental aiabafter. 
 
 Two marble cifterns. 
 
 On a marble table is a Sarcophagus found on the road 
 to Tivoll, and brought from Rome by Lord Buckingham : 
 It is a cheft of marble about 3 feet long by 20 inches 
 high ; the covering to it is a mattrafs upon v^hich lies 
 a fnake, and a human figure of very capital vvorkman- 
 fliip is reclining within the folds of it. — At one end is 
 the following infcription : 
 
 D. M. Antcnia PacuviofiUa fecit fihi et Erennio Jilio 
 fuo piijimo, Imperatoris Trajani Cafaris Augvjii Ger- 
 manici fervo dij'penfatori Montaniano, 
 
 O. A Drawing Room, 
 
 hung with four fine pieces of Tapeflry, as follow : 
 
 1. A Dutch fifhery, from Teniers. 
 
 2. A Dutch wake, from Teniers. 
 
 3. A reprefentation of a farm. 
 
 4. A landfcape. 
 
 A head oiSt. Peter in Mofaic, over the chimney. 
 
 Two tables of marble of Sienna, 
 
 Two pier glalTes. 
 
 Three bufis, one over each door, 
 
 P. A 
 
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 p. A Mufic Room, 
 
 Decorated at each end with the fineft Scaiola columns, 
 executed by S\p^or BartoU, after the Sienna niaible: 
 the capitals are richly gilt, as are the mouldings, and 
 the ornaments in relief throughout this room. The 
 walls are divided into pannels, \\ithin which is a pro- 
 fufion of paintings in Arabefque and other fui^jecis : — 
 the general idea is taken from the Loggia of Raphael at 
 Rome, but the decoration is varied with great tafle in 
 the defign and execution. — The figures, the foliage, 
 the birds, and architedure in thefe paintings are all 
 iiniflied w ith the greatcft attention to nature, and to 
 the harmony of colouring. 
 
 At one end is a recefs decorated in the fame beautiful 
 manner, but the pllal^ers which fupport it are painted 
 on a gold ground, in a f^ile perfedly new ; the fame 
 ground and decoration ornament the friezes of the 
 doors, and the pannels of the fhutters. Within this 
 niche is a ftatue oi Apollo richly gilt, and placed upon 
 a Piedeflal, which contains an Organ ; the niche is 
 crowned with fefloons of laurel and a lyre, all richly 
 carved and gilt in variegated gold. The doors are 
 divided into pannels, the ground of which is pink ; the 
 paintings within them are in Chiaro Scuro, and are 'all 
 varied with the utmofi tafte. 
 
 The cieling is from a defign of RapJiacPs, it is divided 
 into compartments, fome of which are painted in 
 Chiaro Scuro upon pink grounds, but the principal are 
 painted in colours: that in the centre reprefents the 
 Dance of the Hoj/rj, the Seafons, and Jurora round the 
 Sun, which forms the centre ; the figure o( Night wrapt 
 in her mantle retires under a cloud. The two oblong 
 
 compart- 
 
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 compartments reprefent, the one a Bacchanal pro- 
 ceiTion, the >other the revels of Sardanapalus. — From 
 the centre hangs a glafs luftre, and four girandoles in 
 the corners are fupported by candelabra mcft elegantly 
 carved and gilt. 
 
 T he defign, decoration, and execution of this room 
 is the work of Signor Faldre, and does the greateft 
 credit to his genius and his pencil. 
 
 The chimney-piece is Roman ; the pannels are of the 
 Rojh Aniico with ornaments in Or Mouhi ; a girandole 
 ibnds upon it. The tables are of the fineft Verde An- 
 tico: they were executed at Rome: — the frames are 
 decorated in a fingular llile, being inlaid with the fame 
 marble ; — the tablets, upon which the figures in 
 Or Akulu are placed, are of tranfparent oriental 
 alabafter. 
 
 Q^ The State Drawing-Room, 
 
 hung with orange coloured damafk. 
 
 A portrait of the King, by Ramfey. 
 RachaeVs Tent, by Gerard Dciv, over the chimney. 
 Vide Genesis, chap, xxxiv. 
 
 Hagar and Ifhmael^ by Fietro de Cortona, 
 
 Rembrandt's Head, when young, i Both by 
 
 Rembrandt's Father. J Rembrandt, 
 
 The Prodigal Son, by Guercino. 
 
 Mofes burying the Eg\'ptian, by Toujjin. 
 
 A headofO/cf X)c/y572, by himfelf. 
 
 A whole length ot St, CatherinCy by Albert Durcf* 
 
 A ditto of St. Batbara, by Albert Durcr. 
 
 Two landfcapes, by Poujjin. 
 
 The marriag-s of Cana^ by Bajfan. 
 
 Q The 
 
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 The burial oiChriJ, by Bajfan. 
 
 David playing on the harp, by Lojlman, 
 
 A fine landlcape, by Tcnien. 
 
 A Knight of the Bath, by Vandyke. 
 
 A portrait of RuUns's wife, Helena Forman,* by 
 Rulens. 
 
 Two pidures of Figure? and Cattle, hy BaJJan. 
 
 A landfcape, by Vaul Brill. 
 
 Holy Family, by R.uhens. 
 
 A moft capital pidiire of a Tcnuj, by Titian, brought 
 from thecolle6Uon of Gavin Hamilton, at Roive. 
 
 A Pid^ure compofed and painted by Lady Lucking- 
 ham. — The fubjedl is taken from Mr. H. IVallok's 
 Castle of Otranto, and defcribes the death of 
 Matilda at the tomb oi'^-iltJionfo, having been ftabhed 
 through millake by her father Manfred, Sovereign of 
 Otranto, 
 
 An Italian chimney-piece, in the centre of which is 
 an antique tablet of Oriental Aiabafter, reprefenting 
 heads of Bacchanals, and the emblems of the facrifice 
 to Bacchus ; in the frieze are oval compartments of 
 white marble with fauns gazing in a fountain : The 
 pilafters are of Porphyry together with part of the 
 entablature ; the remainder is of the fineft white 
 marble. — Upon it is placed a very valuable vafe of the 
 tranfparent oriental aiabafter. 
 
 Two fine pier-glafTes, and tables under them formed 
 from a column found in the ruins of the Temp'e of 
 Apollo, in the Ifle of Delos. 
 
 A magnificent luftre of glafs hangs from the 
 deling. 
 
 R. The 
 
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 R. The State Gallery. 
 
 Two marble chimney-pieces of Sienna, 6:c. by INIr. 
 Love I. 
 
 The cieling ornamented with paintings and gilding, 
 by Sclatcr. 
 
 Two tine marble tables of N-:ro Antico, with two large 
 pier g la lies. 
 
 The walls are adorned with curious pieces of tapcHry, 
 viz. 
 
 1. The Triun-.ph of Grrj. 
 
 2. The Triiiiviph of Hacchus, 
 
 3. The Triumph ofrenus. 
 
 4. The Triumph of Mdtrj. 
 
 5. 1 he Triumph of D/di«a. 
 The piers adorned Vv ith trophies. 
 
 The upper parts of the chimney-pieces vare adorned 
 with gilding and carving. 
 
 1. A Goddefs conducling Learning to Truth. 
 
 2. Reprefenting Merairy condudling tragic and 
 comic Poetry to the hill of Parnafus. 
 
 Pour emblematical paintings in Clare-Obfcure. 
 
 The chairs, fettees, and window-curtains of blue 
 filk damafk. 
 
 Upon the tables and chimneys are fome fine Bronze 
 llatues of Hercules, Flora, Venus, and fome fmaller 
 Bronzes. 
 
 S. The State DrcfTing-Room, 
 
 hung with Tapeftry, worked by a fubfcription of Lord 
 
 Cohham, and other Officers ferving under the Duke of 
 
 Marlborough ; it reprefents the fundions of the 
 
 Cavalry. 
 
 G2 A 
 
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 A Tahle of Gialh AiiticOy on it an antique vafe with 
 the dance ot the t\\elve Hours upon it in Alto-relievo. 
 
 A chert inlaid with mother ot pearl. 
 
 The chimney-piece by Mr. Lovel. 
 
 The chairs and window-curtains of blue damafk. 
 
 A fine portrait of the late Field Marlhal Vifcount 
 Cchham, by Sir Godfrey Knelkr, 
 
 Over the doors two capital pictures of a Burgomarter 
 and his wife, hy Fan-horji, and a head unknown, by 
 Cornelius Janfen. 
 
 T. The State Bed-Chamber. 
 
 The bed and cieling, by Sigiior Borra. — The chairs, 
 window-curtains, and hangings of crimfon damafk. — 
 The pillars of the Corinthian order, the whole finely 
 carved and gi't. 
 
 A Madonna from the School of Ruhens. 
 
 A whole length of the Queen, over the chimney. 
 
 A very curious chimney-piece of v\ hite marble, de- 
 igned by Signor Borra, and executed by Mr. Lovel. 
 
 Two Ci'pidsy with branches for candles in their 
 hands, by Mr. Lovel, 
 
 The cieling ornamented with the Infignia of the 
 Garter. 
 
 A pier glifs and Alufaic table binder it. 
 
 Two Japan cabinets in the recefles. 
 
 V. The State Clofet, 
 hung with Crimfon damafk. 
 
 Over the couch is a pitfiiure of the prefent King of 
 Denmark, by Angelica ; on each fide of which are 
 fruits, by Smitk of Chichefier, 
 
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 A Saint Francis, by Corregio. 
 A battle, by Vandcr Mcukn. 
 Offering of the Magi, by Faxd Veromfe. 
 A Flcmifl: converfation piece, by Georgio Metzu, 
 A Boy and Woman by candie-light, by Schalchen. 
 Two portraits, of Lord Treafi:rer Burleigh, and of 
 Francis, the fecond Earl of Bedford. 
 
 Opposite the Couch. 
 
 A very valuable picftiire of the millrefs to Francis 
 the firll oi France, known by the name of La Belle 
 Ferroniere, by Lccnardi da Vinci, 
 
 Eruption of Mount Vefuvius, by the Chevalier 
 Vclaire. 
 
 Two portrriits, of Edward VI, and Queen Mary* 
 
 A Flemip farm yard, by Mieris. 
 
 Holy Family, St. James, and St. Catherine, by 
 Tintoretto. 
 
 Infide of a Church, by Van Nief. 
 
 Cattle and figures, by Berghem, 
 
 Flemifli view, by G. Bott. 
 
 A Toilet, and two Japan cabinets. 
 
 W. The Chinefe Clofet, 
 
 vvainfcoted with Japan and other ornaments, Prefents 
 from the late Prince and Princefs oi Wales ; the furni- 
 ture white fatin, with Indian embroidery, and painted 
 mullin canopy. — Here is a colleftion of fhells, fpars, 
 birds, fillagree, and other curiofities, together with a 
 great quantity of the moft valuable China. 
 
 A Paffage, 
 
 ornamented with Marble Bufts, 
 
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 A Grand Stair-Cafe, 
 
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 aJonied with paintings of the four Seafjns. 
 
 The cielin^ reprefents the rifing fu-.i, Fhahiis in his 
 Car. 
 
 The length of the line tli rough the Iloufc 450 ir^et, 
 the Otlices 450 feet; lb the whole extent is 900 feet. 
 
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