A neat tablet, at the east end of the church, commemorates Thomas Astle, who was long a distinguished member of the Society of Antiquaries, Keeper of the Records in the Tower, a Trustee of the British Museum, and author of Treatise "on the Origin and Progress of Writing." He died in 1802, and left a valuable collection of manuscripts. Here are also interred, Arthur Collins, Esq., known as the author of an "Historical Account of the Peers and Baronets of England;" William Curtis, author of the "Flora Londinensis," and the Rev. Joseph Gardner, author of "Views on the Rhine," and otherwise distinguished by his attachment to the arts. Bolingbroke House was a spacious edifice, said to have contained fifty rooms on a floor, of which a few only remain; among which is the favourite apartment of Lord Bolingbroke, wainscotted with cedar. A horizontal air-mill now occupies the site of this mansion, and in the gardens have been erected bullock-houses. Sherwood Lodge, near the Thames, is the residence of James Wolf, Esq. whose valuable collection of plaster-casts, from antique statues, are deposited in a gallery of Doric architecture, remarkable for the purity of its style. A wooden bridge was built over the Thames at this place, in 1771. [Sidenote: Sir E. Wynter's exploits.] [Sidenote: Bolingbroke house.] Map| Names of Places. |County.| Number of Miles From | +--+-------------------+-------+-------------+-------------+ 38|Battle[A] m.t. & pa|Sussex |Tunbridge 26|Hastings 8| 48|Battle[B] pa|Brecon |Brecon 3|Trecastle 9| +--+-------------------+-------+-------------+-------------+ |Dist.| Map| Names of Places. |Number of Miles From |Lond.|Population. +--+-------------------+---------------------+-----+-------+ 38|Battle[A] m.t. & pa|Bexhill 6| 56| 2999| 48|Battle[B] pa|Builth 15| 174| 192| +--+-------------------+--------------------+------+-------+