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Farnley Hall, Yorkshire;

THE SEAT OF

WALTER FAWKES, ESQ.

THIS elegant Mansion is situated about a mile north-east from the town of Otley. It stands on a lofty brow, commanding a noble view of the vale of Wharfe, and the windings of the river, with the wooded ridge of Cheven in front. The township of Farnley has been distinguished, from the earliest periods on record, by the residence of its lords, who bore the name of De Farneley. Falcasius de Farneley, temp. Hen. III., had a son, who adopting the patronymic, filius Falcasii, or, in his own dialect, Fawkes, i.e. son of Fawkes, transmitted that appellation to his posterity. "John Fawkes, of Farnley," a lineal descendant of the above Falcasius, was steward of the Forest of Knaresborough, in the 10th of Henry VII., as appears from a pedigree preserved in the College of Arms. The property of Farnley remained in the possession of the Fawkes family until 1786, when Francis Fawkes, Esq., who died on the 17th of July in that year, having no issue male, left the bulk of his estate to Walter Ramsden Beaumont Hawksworth, Esq., of Hawksworth, in the same county, upon the condition of his assuming the surname and arms of Fawkes, which he accordingly did.

The modern Mansion was erected by the gentleman to whom the estate had been bequeathed, before mentioned: the architect employed was John Carr, Esq., of York. It was built in front of the old house, also shewn in our view, to which it is attached, and which, as appears from an inscription over a door connecting the two edifices, was erected in the reign of Elizabeth. The apartments are spacious, the Dining-room was pictorially decorated by the celebrated Le Brun; the Drawing-room and Library contain some valuable pictures, of which the following are the principal.

1. A whole length of the Duchess of Aremberg— Vandyck.

2. A Magdalen-Guido.

3. A Madonna-Carlo Dolci.

4. Portrait of Lord Cottington-Cornelius Jansen.

5. A Flower Piece-Rachel Ruisch.

6. Poultry-Hondekoeter.

7. Dead Game-Wieninx.

8. Cattle-Adrian Vandervelde.

9. Susannah and the Elders-Guercino.

10. A Landscape-Both.

11. A Gale of Wind-Backhuysen.

12. Portrait of Remus, a celebrated racerStubbs.

13. A small Landscape-Cuyp.

14. Portrait of Lady Hamilton.

Some of Mr. Turner's paintings are also at Farnley Hall; his View of Dort, his Gale of Wind, called the Red-cap; two Sea-pieces, one a Calm, the other a Fresh Gale; and a large View of the Chateau de Chillon, on the Lake of Geneva. The Breakfast-room is fitted up with old oak chests, &c. and in a magnificent cabinet are preserved many curious memorials of the troubles in the seventeenth century. Among these are several official documents, one of them a specimen of the instruments, called by the court party Benevolences, to which the ill-advised Charles I. resorted, for the purpose of obtaining money by forced loans, without the consent of parliament; it is addressed to Thomas Fawkes, Esq., of Farnley Hall, A.D. 1626. The others are military commissions, bearing the signatures of Cromwell and Fairfax. There is also the hat and sword of Cromwell; the swords which belonged to Generals Lambert and Fairfax; and the old chair, and orderly drum, of the latter.

Mr. Fawkes was elected one of the representatives in parliament for the county of York in 1806. He is well known as a patron of British art, and has most liberally gratified the public by the exhibition of his matchless collection of drawings in water colours, for two successive seasons, at his town residence in Grosvenor Place.

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Hornby Castle, Yorkshire;

THE SEAT OF

HIS GRACE, GEORGE WILLIAM FREDERICK OSBORNE,

DUKE OF LEEDS, &c.

THE noble family of Osborne have derived this ancient Castle and estate, as well as the honour of Baron Conyers, by lineal descent. It is situated in the North Riding of the County, in the Wapentake of Hang East, at the distance of two miles from Leeming Lane, a noted Roman Via leading from Richmond to Barnard's Castle. Camden thus notices it in his Britannia, "The Swale, after a long course, flows pretty near Hornby, a Castle of the family of St. Quintin, which afterwards came to the Conyers, and after pleasant pastures and country villages to Bedale, which lays on another little river." The Swale rises in Westmoreland, near Kirkby Stephen, and takes its course south-east through the Swale Dale, an exceedingly fertile valley, and after winding northward to Richmond, it falls into the Ure at Borough-bridge. Hornby Castle stands on an eminence commanding an extensive view over the charming vale in which the town of Bedale is situated, and likewise over great part of that rich tract of country between Leeming Lane and the Western Moorlands, consisting of a long range of mountains, the lower eminences of which, form a grand contrast to the fertile plains in the immediate neighbourhood of the Castle, and assist materially towards diversifying the pleasing prospect. The noble edifice still retains an appearance of strength, together with a considerable portion of its baronial magnificence. Its plan is irregular, although nearly square in its general outline, having four fronts facing the cardinal points, each of which affords an abundant display of architectural grandeur. In its dimensions the Castle is large, and conveys a vivid idea of the vast importance of its possessors from the earliest time. A massive and lofty square Tower, at the south-east angle, is the principal feature; this is surmounted by a turret terminating in a cupola and vane. The line of buildings on the East Front is broken by a circular tower in the centre, and at the extremity is another Tower, which is square, and of large size. In our South-east View, this Front is seen to the greatest advantage, it approaches nearer to regularity than the others. On the south side is an arched entrance, and near the middle a bay or projection. The Grounds on this Front, and on the West, slope beautifully to the river winding at the base of the eminence on which the Castle is built, over which is a modern bridge. The buildings rise only to the height of two stories, except in the Towers, which are more elevated, and the whole is embattled. The Chambers are very numerous, and the principal Rooms spacious and elegantly furnished. The Castle contains an Inner Court or Quadrangle, shewn in our second view. In the centre of the East side is a rich doorway, in the florid style, between ornamented buttresses; above it is the full coat, with the supporters of its former possessors. On the North is also a very handsome doorway, bearing an inscription. The North-east Tower rises above the general line of battlements in the view.

The family of St. Quintin were possessors of this Castle previous to the reign of Henry IV., and bore for arms, Or, a chevron gules, a chief vaire. Margaret St. Quintin, the daughter and heiress of Sir Anthony St. Quintin, Knt., married Sir John Conyers, Knt., son of Robert Conyers, Esq., of Sockburne, in the county of Durham, who obtained, by that marriage, the Estate of Hornby. His son, Sir Christopher Conyers, who married the heiress of the House of Rylston, made this Castle his chief residence. His eldest son, Sir John Conyers, Knt., in 1448, was made Sheriff of Yorkshire, and Governor of the Castle of York. In the civil wars between the Houses of York and Lancaster, when it was almost impossible for a gentleman of any rank to remain neutral, he joined Richard, Duke of York, against the King and the Lancastrians. His Lady was Margery, one of the two daughters and co-heirs of Sir Philip Darcy, Knt., son and heir to John, Lord Darcy, by whom he had issue Sir John Conyers, Knight Banneret, who, in 1465, and again in 1473, was a commissioner to treat of peace with the Scots on the part of King Edward IV. He was created a Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, by King Richard III., and died in 1489. His wife was Alice, daughter

and co-heir to William Nevil, Lord Fauconberg, afterwards created Earl of Kent, by whom he left a son, William, who, in 1507, the 22d of Henry VII., bore the title of Lord Conyers, and the first year of the reign of Henry VIII. had summons to Parliament as Baron Conyers of Hornby. The arms of this nobleman Azure, a maunch or.

He served in several expeditions into Scotland, and had a considerable share in the honour of the glorious victory obtained at Flodden Field. He died in 1524, leaving issue by his Lady, Anne, daughter of Ralph Nevil, Earl of Westmoreland, Christopher, Lord Conyers, who, together with other Lords, subscribed the Declaration sent to Pope Clement VII., in which it was represented, that in case his Holiness did not comply with King Henry, in his divorce from Queen Catharine, his Supremacy could not long be owned. His Lordship departed this life in 1538, leaving John, Lord Conyers, his son and heir, who, in 1551, was Warden of the West Marches towards Scotland, and Governor of Carlisle Castle. His wife was Maud, daughter of Henry Clifford, first Earl of Cumberland, K. G. His Lordship died in 1556, leaving three daughters, his heirs, of whom no issue remaineth, except from Elizabeth, who married Thomas, Lord Darcy, and left a son and heir, Sir Conyers Darcy, Knt., who became possessed of the estates of the Lords Conyers, together with this Castle, long their chief seat and residence. He obtained from his Majesty Charles I. a restoration of the title of Lord Darcy, which dignity had become extinct upon the death of John, Lord Darcy, of Aston, in 1635, and was summoned to Parliament accordingly in 1651. His Lordship married Dorothy, daughter of Sir Henry Bellasys, by whom he had Conyers Darcy, who, in 1682, was raised by King Charles II. to the dignity of an Earl, by the title of Earl of Holderness, and married Grace, the daughter and heir of Thomas Rokeby, Esq., of Skyres, in Yorkshire. He died in 1689, and was succeeded by his only son, Conyers, who, in consideration of his loyalty, had been summoned to Parliament as Lord Conyers, in 1680, during his father's lifetime, and then took precedence amongst the Barons of the realm, according to the ancient title. The Earl died in 1692, and is buried in Westminster Abbey. He was succeeded by Robert, his grandson; John, his eldest son and heir, dying in his lifetime.

Robert, Earl of Holderness, upon the accession of King George I., was constituted Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire. He married Frederica, eldest of the two daughters and co-heirs of the Duke of Schombergh, and died at Bath in 1721, leaving a son, Robert, who succeeded as fourth Earl of Holderness. He was appointed Governor to the Prince of Wales and Duke of York, and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, and likewise, in 1751, one of His Majesty's principal Secretaries of State. He died in 1778, leaving an only daughter, Amelia, married to Francis Godolphin, Marquis of Carmarthen, the eldest son of the Duke of Leeds, who succeeded his father in the Dukedom in 1789. After occupying the honourable office of Secretary of State for the Foreign Department, his Grace retired into private life, being possessed of a noble estate. Dramatic literature was a favourite object of his pursuit, and few were more conversant than his Grace with this department of English literature. Francis, Duke of Leeds, died at his house in St. James's Square, London, in 1799, and was succeeded in his honours by his eldest son the present Duke, who, on the demise. of his mother in 1784, became Lord Conyers. His Grace married Lady Charlotte, daughter of the late Marquis Townshend. He is Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire; Governor of the Islands of Scilly; Ranger of Richmond Forest, and Constable of Middleham Castle. His Grace is a Baronet, by creation, 13th July, 1620; Baron Osborne, of Kiveton, in Yorkshire, and Viscount Latimer, 15th August, 1673, being lineally descended from Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of John Nevil, Lord Latimer, in the reign of Elizabeth. His Grace is also Viscount of Dumblane, in Scotland, 19th July, 1675; Earl of Danby, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, 27th June, 1674; Marquis of Carmarthen, 20th April, 1689; and Duke of Leeds, in Yorkshire, 4th May, 1694. Arms, Quarterly, Ermine and Azure, a Cross, or.

The outlines of these Views were made from original Drawings by BUCKLER, in the possession of James P. Ord, Esq., of Langton Hall, Leicestershire.

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