For some years Sizergh has been the residence of D. Crewdson, Esq., in whom the old Hall has had a worthy and careful keeper, shewing its various matters of interest with a courtesy and kindness not too common among custodians of English antiquities. There is a moat in front of the house. This place was visited by the poet Gray when on his tour of the Lakes, in 1769, and its fine situation and antique appearance seem to have had a powerful impression on his mind--proved by his letters to Dr. Wharton. From the Hall two avenues diverge to the highway, one towards Kendal, and the other southward, in the direction of Levens, Milnthorpe, and Lancaster. The gardens are on the southern end of the terrace, and contain, in addition to the usual modern flowering plants, some fine old trees, clipt into the fantastic forms of other times, and also an old summer-house, fast falling to decay. Altogether the old place is a deeply interesting relic of times now happily gone by. The feudal tower--the varied and somewhat rude magnificence of the time of Elizabeth and James--the spoliating barbarism of the eighteenth century--all mingle here in curious contrast; carrying the mind rapidly through a long series of years, and exhibiting, as if in mockery, memorials of men, whose works remain, but whose hands--many of them, at least--had mingled with the dust before the arrival of periods of which even the antiquary speaks as “the past.” [Illustration: From a drawing by C. J. Richardson, F.S.A. Day & Son, Lithʳˢ. to The Queen. CHARLTON HOUSE, WILTS.] CHARLTON HOUSE, WILTSHIRE.