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Slindon House, Sussex;

THE SEAT OF

THE EARL OF NEWBURGH.

THIS noble old Seat is delightfully and boldly situated at the upper end of a woody park, on a fine eminence which commands a glorious view of the sea, to the south of Chichester Cathedral, and other interesting objects.

The entrance is into a handsome Hall, with a gallery over one end. The decorations are principally modern: the walls stucco, and the ceiling richly wrought with flowers; over the doors are the arms of Kempe, the former possessors, and of the present family. The Library is a plain square room, in which are a few portraits; viz. of the second Lord Derwentwater, who was beheaded; his mother, Lady Mary Tudor, natural daughter of King Charles II.; various members of the family of Kempe, by Sir Peter Lely; Lord Newburgh, and his brother; and King Charles II. in his robes.

The Dining-room is plain; it measures 30 feet by 24: a very good Drawing-room adjoins it. The Chapel up-stairs is arched over, and has a rich altar, over which is a fine picture of Christ taken from the Cross, and on each side paintings of St. Peter and St. Paul; here are also all the decorations proper for mass.

The House was originally erected in the time of Elizabeth; and much attention has "been paid to the peculiar style, in the subsequent alterations and additions, chiefly made by the late Earl of Newburgh.

Slindon is distant about one mile from Arundel, and eight from Chichester. It was formerly distinguished by being one of the residences of the Archbishops of Canterbury, it having been an appendage to Pagham, granted to the see by King Cedwall, A. D. 680. Archbishop Langton died here July 9, 1228. Archbishop Winchelsey held an ordination in his chapel at Slindon, 1298. His letter to the Bishop of Bangor, 1295, is dated from Slyndon.

Section II., chap. 35, of Thorne's History of the Abbots of St. Augustin, M. S. is intituled "Tormentum de Sclyndone," and relates to a controversy between Archbishop Mepham and the Monks of St. Augustin; in which the writer describes at large the ill usage, which three persons, who went on the part of the Abbot and Convent, to summon the Archbishop to appear before Icherius, the Pope's Legate, received in the hall of his house, and after they were forced out of it, from the Archbishop's domestics.

Archbishop Courtney dates from Manerium de Slyndon, and also Archbishop Arunder, in the year 1400.

In the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Anthony Kempe obtained this seat; he was fourth son of Sir William Kempe, of Ollantigh, in Kent, whose younger brother was the famous Cardinal John Kempe, Archbishop of Canterbury, who was born in this parish 1380, and died March 22, 1454.

Barbara Kempe, daughter, and at length sole heir, of Anthony Kempe, who died in 1753, married James Bartholomew Radclyffe, Earl of Newburgh, and conveyed this estate to him; he died January 2, 1786, and lies buried in the chancel of the church at this place. He was succeeded by his son, Anthony James Radclyffe, the fourth Earl of Newburgh, a nobleman remarkable for benevolent generosity, and kind hospitality; and who died November 28, 1814, and was buried, as became his high rank, on Dec. 13, the same year, in the vault of the Kempes in Slindon church. His Lordship was the last heir male descended from Sir Francis Radclyffe, Bart., who was created Earl of Derwentwater. James, the third Earl of that title, was beheaded February 24, 1716. The ancient paternal family estates in the counties of Northumberland, Cumberland, and Durham, said to be now worth upwards of £40,000 per annum, were vested by parliament in the Trustees of Greenwich Hospital upon his attainder. The late noble Earl was possessed of several estates besides the manor of Slindon, which, together with the title, devolved to his cousin, Francis Eyre, Esq., of Hassop, Derbyshire, fifth Earl of Newburgh.

Our Drawing was made from an original view taken by Capt. Edward Jones.

THE SEAT OF

LORD DE LA ZOUCHE.

THE annexed Engraving presents a view of the Mansion in Parham Park, the seat of Lord De la Zouche. The period of its erection is the reign of Elizabeth; and although the alterations which took place about the year 1710, under Sir Cecil Bisshopp, the second Baronet of the name, were somewhat prejudicial to its ancient style, yet there are few mansions in Sussex of equal consequence. The original edifice, of rough stone, had an embattled parapet, which gave it a castellated appearance; this was, however, removed at the period above-mentioned, and some few touches of modernization introduced. The situation of Parham House is both healthy and pleasant. It is sheltered from the north-east by a park, in which are some very aged timber trees; and, from a fine terrace to the west, commands a view of the chain of the South Downs. The interior contains some noble apartments, the principal of which is the Hall, 51 feet long, 26 wide, and 24 in height, with a fine groined ceiling, containing the arms and quarterings of Queen Elizabeth, in compartments. It receives light from large bay windows, and is embellished with some curious family portraits and pictures by Snyders, &c. In the upper story is a Gallery, 158 feet in length, 19 wide, and 24 high; there is also a spacious Dining-room, being a square, with a coved roof: these two apartments likewise contain portraits.

At the period of the Domesday survey, the Manor of Perham, as it is there called, having demesne lands and a mill, was held by Robertus, of Earl Roger de Montgomeri of Arundel. It afterwards passed into the possession of the family of Tregoz, who held it until 1387, when an heiress carried it with her in marriage to Edward St. John, of Herringham. Subsequently, the property became vested in the crown. In 1550, Robert Palmer, third son of Thomas Palmer, of Angmering, was seized of it, and by his son, Sir Thomas Palmer, the present Manor-house was finished. After this, it was sold by the grandson of Sir Thomas Palmer, in 1597, to Sir Thomas Bisshopp, Knight, of Henfield, whose descendants have made it their chief residence.

Sir Thomas Bisshopp, the first Baronet, was so created in July, 1628. He had for his second wife, Jane, daughter of Sir William Weston, from whom descended Sir Cecil, the seventh Baronet, who married, in 1750, Susanna, eldest daughter of John Hedges, Esq.; and by her, who died in 1791, had Sir Cecil,, the eighth Baronet, and Lord De la Zouche.

Cecil Bisshopp, Baron De la Zouche of Harringworth, and a Baronet, D.C.L. & F.R.S., was summoned to parliament, by writ July 27th, 1815, as Baron De la Zouche, of Harringworth; the claim to which Barony had been heard before a committee of the House of Lords, between 1804 and 1808, and adjudged to be in abeyance between him and the descendants of Robert Long, Esq., as representatives of the last Baron Zouche, who died without heir male in 1625, and whose original writ of summons bears date in 1308, 2d Edward II. His Lordship was born in December, 1753, and served in five parliaments as M. P. for the borough of New Shoreham. He married in July, 1782, Harriet Anne, only child of William Southwell, of Frampton, in the county of Gloucester, Esq., uncle to Edward Lord De Clifford, and has issue two sons and three daughters.

Motto:-Pro Deo et Ecclesiá.

PORTRAITS. -Robert Palmer, the founder of Parham House-Sir Thomas Bisshopp, Knight, sitting-Another of the same, when a Baronet, in 1620, with his arms-Sir Edward Bisshopp, whole length; view of Parham House in the back ground-Lady Mary Tufton, wife of Sir Edward, whole length-William Cecil, Lord Burleigh, three quarters length-Queen Elizabeth, three quarters length, in a rich white dress-Lady Frances Cecil, wife of Nicholas, first Earl of Thanet, and daughter of Thomas, first Earl of Exeter, playing with a monkey on a table-Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, whole length, a fine portrait-Constable of Bourbon, slain at the siege of Rome, in 1527-Sir Robert Southwell, Secretary of State for Ireland; Sir Peter Lely-Lady Southwell; Sir Peter Lely-Sir Cecil Bisshopp-Charles Pagete, tempore Queen Elizabeth, very curious-Sir Walter Raleigh.

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