. A new display of the beauties of England; : or A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial .. . called Abingdon,fituated in the molt agreeable manner. At Chejlcr, a fmall village near Wellingborough, are thetraces of a Roman camp, of near twenty acres, inclofed witha ftrong ftone wall. In the area of this camp there have beenfound Roman pavements, coins, bricks, and other remains ofantiquity. Guilefiorough, or Guild/borough, is a large village, fituated onan eminence, from when
. A new display of the beauties of England; : or A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial .. . called Abingdon,fituated in the molt agreeable manner. At Chejlcr, a fmall village near Wellingborough, are thetraces of a Roman camp, of near twenty acres, inclofed witha ftrong ftone wall. In the area of this camp there have beenfound Roman pavements, coins, bricks, and other remains ofantiquity. Guilefiorough, or Guild/borough, is a large village, fituated onan eminence, from whence there is an extenfive profpe<5r, j andnear it are the remains of a Roman camp. At Xeyland, another fmall village, arefome remains of aeon-vent. Bnrnxvell-caftle^ in the neighbourhood of Oundle, is a placeof great antiquity, and belonged formerly to the Abbots of Ram-fey in Huntingdonfhire ; but it has been long fmce neglected,and is now falling to decay. About fix miles fouth-weft of Northampton is Holmby-boufe,which was built by Sir Chriftopher Hatton, Lord Chancellor ofEngland in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. It is built on a fiderifing ground, from whence there is an extenfive profpedt, bu$ great. THEBEAUTIES OF ENGLAND. 61 great part of it is now fallen to decay. Charles I. was impri-ibned here upwards of three months. SEATS. Burleigh Houfe, the feat of the Earl of Exeter. This mag-nificent edifice was built by the great Lord Burleigh, Lord-high-treafurer in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. It has theappearance rather of a town than a houfe : its towers and pin-nacles look like thofe of churches, and a large fpire covered with,lead, rifes like that of a cathedral, over the clock, in the cen-ter. There is an uninterrupted profpecl: from it for near thirtymiles, over Stamford into the fens of Lincolnfhire. In the greathall there is a fine portrait of one of the Earls of Exeter, donein Italy ; and here is fo excellent a painting of Seneca bleedingto death, that Lewis XIV. i
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