CORRESPONDENCE

OF

HORACE WALPOLE,

EARL OF ORFORD.

9814

NOW FIRST COLLECTED.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

1756-1764.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR RODWELL AND MARTIN, BOND-STREET;

AND COLBURN AND CO., CONDUIT-STREET.

CORRESPONDENCE

OF THE

HON. HORACE WALPOLE.

To RICHARD BENTLEY, Esq.

Wentworth-castle, August.

I ALWAYS dedicate my travels to you. My present expedition has been very amusing: sights are thick sown in the counties of York and Nottingham the former is more historic, and the great lords live at a prouder distance: in Nottinghamshire there is a very heptarchy of little kingdoms elbowing one another, and the barons of them want nothing but small armies to make inroads into one another's parks, murder deer, and massacre park-keepers.-But to come to particulars: The great road as far as Stamford is superb in any other country it would furnish medals, and immortalize any drowsy monarch in whose reign it was executed. It is continued much farther, but is more rumbling. I did not stop at Hatfield and