. Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county. F 2 68 OLD BUCKHURST. The original drawing is in a volume at Sir JohnSoanes Museum, whose Curator (Mr. W. L. Spiers) hasmost kindly provided a careful tracing of this, as alsothe information about Thorpe. Unfortunately somewords beneath the plan have been partially cut seem to refer to a slope. This plan had apparently long lain in the collection of Ithe Earl of Warwick, forgotten, when it was noticed byH. Walpole, who alluded to it as an immense pile supplement to his From this
. Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county. F 2 68 OLD BUCKHURST. The original drawing is in a volume at Sir JohnSoanes Museum, whose Curator (Mr. W. L. Spiers) hasmost kindly provided a careful tracing of this, as alsothe information about Thorpe. Unfortunately somewords beneath the plan have been partially cut seem to refer to a slope. This plan had apparently long lain in the collection of Ithe Earl of Warwick, forgotten, when it was noticed byH. Walpole, who alluded to it as an immense pile supplement to his From this others assumedthat it represented the mansion as it once had existed. Amsinck repeated this in his Tunbridge Wells, so didHorsfield in his History of Sussex, and it is again assumedin the Pictorial History of England, by Gr. L. Craik and!C. Macfarlane, that Lord Buckhurst founded the housein 1560. Others considered that it was completed in1568, or 1576, and that it was of vast size. In thislatter work, published 1839, by Charles Knight, is anengraving of the plan. The Rev. C. N. Sutto
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