. The Antiquarian repertory : a miscellaneous assemblage of topography, history, biography, customs, and manners ; intended to illustrate and preserve several valuable remains of old times. o sing and officiate in the chapel according to the Portu-guese fashion. She was dressed in the French mode, although she hasnmch of the Portuguese colour and make : she was not above tAventy-six years of age, and the king about forty. This garden is of great extent, since it includes a park filled Avithall sorts of deer; a mall above a thousand paces long, bordered onone side by a great canal, on Avhich ar
. The Antiquarian repertory : a miscellaneous assemblage of topography, history, biography, customs, and manners ; intended to illustrate and preserve several valuable remains of old times. o sing and officiate in the chapel according to the Portu-guese fashion. She was dressed in the French mode, although she hasnmch of the Portuguese colour and make : she was not above tAventy-six years of age, and the king about forty. This garden is of great extent, since it includes a park filled Avithall sorts of deer; a mall above a thousand paces long, bordered onone side by a great canal, on Avhich are to be seen water-fowl of allsorts, and an aviary near it, Avhere are birds of divers countries anddifferent plumage, Avhich serve to divert the king, who frequentlyvisits them. There is at the beginning of that canal, upon a pedestal,a brazen figure of a gladiator, holding his buckler Avith one hand, andAvith the other a sword : the attitude of this statue is much palace of general Monk, avIio is the kings favourite, looks intothis great garden. Moreover, there is to be seen in this suburb thej)alace wherein they dehbcrate on the atiairs Avhich regard the kingdom. It. CHAlRLES nie SJE€OKB. 77rm <ai or-itiriuiT rimtre mtfifOiiJiRoojn at by pemufsiorv. 565 It is a great building, -wbich tliey say vas formorly the ducllinoof the kings of England. Before it is a handsome area or jilace ; itsentry and facade are oinamented with many figures and otiier un-common pieces of sculpture. One next sees a large hall, like thatof the palais at Paris : round about it are tradesmens shops and thoseof some booksellers, from which a great staircase leads into two orthree large rooms, hung with tapestry, and ornamented witli very richfurniture and fine pictures. Near to this palace is the church of Westminster, which was for-merly an abbey of the order of St. Benedict; at present it serves as atemple for that town, and a mausoleum for the kings of JiUo-land.
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