fon of John Earl of Oxford, wife to Robert Harcourt. Robert Harcourt, eldest fon of Sir Walter; he was the principal Adventurer with Sir Walter Raleigh, in his voyage to Guiana, and at his own expense built and fitted out three Ships for that Expedition. Over one of the Doors, Sir Philip Harcourt, eldett fon of Sir Simon, by Gogain, from a Miniature by Mrs. Beale. Over the other Door, Ann his wife, daughter of Sir William Waller, by Lady Ann Finch.-Also a Copy from Mrs. Beale, by the fame hand.

THE DRESSING-ROOM.

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Over the Chimney, a Turkish Army on its march, by Wyck; View of the Cafcade of Terni, by Ori. zonti; a Stag attacked by Dogs, by Oudry. Over one Door, Margaret, daughter of Sir John Byron, and widow of Sir William Atherton, wife to Sir Robert Harcourt, Knight of the Garter, as represented on her Tomb at Stanton-Harcourt, with the Garter and its Motto, above the Elbow of her left Arm. There are but two other fimilar inftances known of Ladies wearing the Infignia of that Order, viz. that of Conftance, daughter of John Holland E. of Huntingdon and D. of Exeter, first married to Tho. Mowbray, D. of Norfolk, and fecondly to Sir John Gray, Knight of the Garter, (temp. Hen. V.) and Earl of Tankerville, on her Tomb, (now defaced) in the Church of St. Katherine, near the Tower;-and that of Alice, daughter of Sir Thomas Chaucer, and wife to William de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, (temp. Hen. VI.) on her Tomb in the Church of Ewelm. Sir Francis Walfingham. Giles Bruges, third Lord Chandos, a prefent from the Hon. Horace Walpole: it came from Weftor (Mr. Sheldon's); the Dress is remarkable. Over the other Door, Sir Robert Harcourt, fon of Thomas and Joan, daughter of Sir Robert Francifs. Nicholas Fuller, a noted Counsellor and Champion of the Puritans; he died in prifon, 1619. Two fmall Sea Pieces; a View of the Temple of Vefta at Tivoli; ditto of the Amphitheatre

at Rome, by Gafpar Occhiali; a Cupid in Crayons, by Mifs Read; a prefent from her. An old Man's Head, ditto, by Lutterel; a Sea-port, by Tempefta of Genoa ; Ruins, with a View of Rome, by ditto; King James I. by Marc Garrard; a Woman on Horfeback, with feveral Figures and Animals, by Watteau; a Battle, y Wyck; Michael, fon of Sir Walter Harcourt: he commanded one of his brother Robert's Ships in Sir W. Raleigh's Expedition. A Nymph and Satyr, after Jordaens; Mr. Addifon in Crayons; John Sotherton, Baron of the Exchequer; Joliffe, Efq. by Peter Lely; Architecture, with Figures, by Viviani; Dogs attacking a Boar, by Oudry.

SECOND DRESSING-ROOM.

Over the Chimney, Mary, daughter of Sir Wm. Waller. William de Harcourt, Knt. son of Robert and Ifabel, who brought the Manor of Stanton into the Harcourt Family. Simon Harcourt (afterwards Vifcount and Earl), only fon of the Hon. Simon Harcourt, by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Maud, daughter of John Lord Grey, of Rotherfield, and widow of John Lord Botetort, wife to Thomas de Harcourt, Knt. fon of Sir William and Johanna, daughter of Richard Ld. Grey, of Codnon. Obt. 17th of Richard II. From her Tomb at Stanton Harcourt. Rebecca, daughter of Joliffe, Efq. wife to Sir Samuel Moyer. A Sea-port, with 'Figures-Italian. Robert Harcourt, Knight, fon of Sir John and Ann, daughter of Sir John Norris: he was Standard-bearer to King Henry VII. at the Battle of Bofworth; Knight of the Bath, 1495, and Banneret 1497From his Tomb at Stanton-Harcourt. Sir Samuel Moyer, Bart. by Riley; good. A Landscape, by Ermels; a prefent from Sir Jn. Blaquiere. Dogs, dead Game, &c. by Snyder; a Landscape-Italian; two Landscapes, by Wooton; that on the left very good. Chrift and St John, after Rubens, by one of his Scholars. Three fmall Drawings in Oil, School of Rubens. A View in Ireland, by Deane; Penelo e, F

after Angelica; a favourite Dog, by Falconet; Mary, daughter of Richard Spencer of Derbyshire, Efq. wife to Wm. Jennings, Efq. of Long Wittenham, Berks. A Head, by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Over the Door, Frederick, fecond fon of Sir Simon Harcourt.

THE FLOWER-GARDEN.

This fmall fpot contains only about an acre and a Quarter; but from the irregularity of its form, the inequality of the ground, and the difpofition of the trees, in appears of confiderable extent: the boundary is concealed by a deep plantation of Shrubs, which unites with the furrounding Foreft Trees that ftand in the Park. The Garden is laid out in patches of Flowers and clumps of Shrubs, of unequal dimenfions, and various fhapes, and a Gravel-Walk leads round. it to the different Buildings and Bufts, on which are the following Infcriptions:

At the Entrance, under the Pediment of a Doric Gate, is infcribed the following Sentence from J. J. Rouffeau (in allufion to the Flowers):

"Si l'Auteur de la Nature eft grand dans les grandes "chofes, il est très-grand dans les petites."

Fronting the Gate is a Buft of FLORA on a Therm;
Here fprings the Violet all newe,
And fresh Perwinke riche of hewe;
And Flouris yalowe, white, and rede
Such plenti grew ther ner in mede :
Full gai is all the Grounde, and queint
And poudrid, as Men had it peint,
With many a fresh and fondry Floure
That caftin up ful gode favoure.

CHAUCER.

Turning to the right a Buft of COWLEY, with the

following Infcription :

aid

When Epicurus to the World had taught,
That Pleasure was the chiefeft good,

His life he to his doctrine brought,

"And in a Garden's fhade, that fovereign good he fought.

COWLEY.

In

In a more wild and retired part of the Walk (with a high Shrubbery on either fide of it), which leads through detached Trees to the Grotto, are Bufts of Cato of Utica, and of Jean Jacques Rouffeau, with the following Infcription:

САТО.

A ce nom faint, et augufte, tout ami de la vertu
Doit mettre le front dans la pouffiere, et honorer
En filence la memoire du plus grand des hommes.
J. J. ROUSSEAU.

ROUSSEAU.

Say, is thy honeft Heart to Virtue warm!
Can Genius animate thy feeling Breast!
Approach, behold this venerable Form,
'Tis Rouffeau; let thy Bofom fpeak the reft.
BK. BOOTHBY, ESQ.

THE GROTTO

Is compofed of rough Stones, intermixed with Spars and Petrifactions, to imitate a natural Cavern, and the Front partially concealed by Ivy and a variety of RockPlants: In one corner of the Grotto on a Piece of white Marble of an irregular form are inscribed these Verses, from the Comus of Milton:

Mufing Meditation most affects

The penfive fecrecy of defert Cell;
And Wifdom's felf

Oft feeks to fweet retired Solitude,
Where with her beft nurse, Contemplation,
She plumes her Feathers, and lets grow her Wings,
That in the various Buftle of Refort

Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair'd.

Proceeding through a continuation of the fame Shrubbery (which appears to grow on rocky ground) after having paffed the Buft of Locke, you look over the widest part of the Garden, and fee the Dome

of the Church above the Trees in the oppofite Boun

dary.

LOCK E.

Who made the whole internal World his own, And fhew'd confefs'd to Reafon's purged Eye, That Nature's firft beft Gift was Liberty. (The first line is from Thompson; part of the second, and the whole of the third, from Mafon).

THE TEMPLE OF FLORA.

The defign taken from a Doric Portico at Athens: in the centre of the back Wall is a Medallion of Flora, from the Antique, in white Marble, and under it this Infcription from Ariofto:

Vaghi bofchetti di foavi Allori,

Di Palme, e d'ameniffime Mortelle,
Cedri, et Aranci, c'havean frutti e fiori,
Contesti in varie forme e tutte belle,
Facean riparo a i fervidi calori

Di giorni eftivi con lor fpeffe ombrelle:
E tra quei rami con ficuri voli,

Cantando fe ne giano i Roffignoli.

A Buft of FAUNUS on one fide of the Temple.
Faunus would oft, as Horace fings,

Delighted with his rural feats,

Forfake Arcadia's groves and fprings,

For foft Lueretile's retreats.

'Twas Beauty charm'd, what wonder then,

Enamour'd of a fairer scene,

The changeful God fhould change again,

And here for ever fix his reign?

WM. WHITEHEAD, ESQ.

A Buft of PAN on the other fide.

Here univerfal Pan,

Knit with the Graces, and the Hours in Dance,

Leads on th' eternal Spring.

MILTON.

BUST