Another Journey I went with my mother into Oxfordshire, by Barkshire to Hungerford 16 mile, which is famous for Crawfish there being a good river and great quantityes of y^t fish and large. This is in Barkshire, thence to Lamborn w^{ch} is a woody Country 7 miles, thence to ffarington 7 mile a pretty large place but lyes very watry, and so by Radcote 5 miles, w^{ch} is much y^e same deep Countryes much on Clay; by ffarington is a fine house of S^r George Pratt’s Called Coalsell. All y^e avenues to y^e house are fine walkes of rows of trees, y^e garden lyes in a great descent below y^e house of many steps and terresses and walkes one below another, a green walke with all sorts of Dwarfe trees, fruit trees with standing apricot and flower trees, abundance of garden roome and filled with all sorts of things improved for pleasure and use. The house is new built with stone, most of y^e offices are partly under ground—Kitchin, Pantry, buttlery and good Cellers and round a Court is all y^e other offices and out houses; this is all even with y^e back yards. The Entrance of y^e house is an ascent of severall steps into a hall so lofty the rooff is three storyes, reaches to y^e floore of y^e gallery—all the walls are Cutt in hollows where statues and Heads Carved ffinely are sett, Directly fore-right Enters a large Dineing roome or great parlour, which has a door thourough into the garden y^t gives a visto through y^e house: within y^t is a drawing room, on y^e other side another roome of the same size, and backward is a little parlour all with good ffurniture, tapistry, Damaske, &c. There runs up a p^r of back Staires at each end of the house quite to y^e top to the gallery which does make convenient all y^e Chambers. The great Staires goes out of the hall on each side, spacious and handsom staires runs up and meetes on the landing place, w^{ch} is a passage that runs on both sides to each end of the house, but is made private by two doores on each side: on the top of the staires you enter in y^e midle into a dineing roome, within that a Chamber on each side with two Closets to each bigg Enough for a little bed, with Chimney’s convenient for a servant and for dressing roomes, one of which has a doore also out into that passage and soe to the back staires; this is y^e same on y^e other end, and also two roomes on y^e other side, each end of y^e hall which continues to run up even with the second story, which are all good Chambers, and one more here because the great staires goe but to y^e first story: they are all well and Genteel’ly furnisht, damaskes Chamlet and wrought beds ffashionably made up. Over this runs a gallery all through the house, and on each side severall garret roomes for servants ffurnished very neate and Genteele, in y^e middle are staires y^t Lead up to the Cupilow or large Lanthorn in the middle of the leads. Y^e house being Leaded all over and the stone Chimney’s in