severall rows Comes up in them on each side y^e Cupilow, it shewes exact and very uniform, as is y^e whole Building. This gives you a great prospect of gardens, grounds and woods that appertaine to y^e Seate, as well as a sight of the Country at a distance. There was few pictures in the house only over doores and Chimney’s; the hall was paved with black and whyte marble and had seates round the roome cut in arches on the walls. From thence Oxfordshire we enter over the Vale of the White horse w^{ch} takes its name from a Ridge of high hills on which is Cutt out the shape off a horse in perfect proportions in broad wayes, and is seen a great distance very plaine, the hills being on Chalke look’s white and the great valley in the bottom is term’d the Manger; it extends a vast way, a rich jnclosed Country, and we pass through some part of Glocestershire at Norton where is another seat of my Brother Say’s—thence to Broughton by Banbery which is 25 mile. Broughton is an ancient Seate of y^e Lord viscount Say and Seale; its an old house moted round, and a parke and Gardens, but are much left to decay and ruine when my brother Came to it. He has two other houses in two or three Miles, Shettford a little neate house and gardens, and Newton, but that is mostly pulled down. From Broughton I went to see Edgehill where was the ffamous Battle ffought in Cromwell’s tyme—its 10 mile off, the Ridge of hills runns a great length and so high that the land beneath it appeares vastly distant, its a rich ground full of inclosures and lookes finely, tho’ fformidable to look down on it and turnes one’s head round—the wind allwayes blows w^{th} great violence there because of the Steepeness of y^e hills. The top is a flatt full of Barrows and hills that are markes of a Camp and battles. About 2 mile from Broughton is a great old house much like Broughton; its S^r Robert Dashwoods—most of the great houses there about are old built. About three mile off at Adderbery w^{ch} is a pretty neate vilage, there are two or three good houses one of S^r Thomas Cobbs and Lady Rochesters looks neate and well with good gardens.