Through England on a side saddle in the time of William and MaryFiennes, Celia
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Through England on a side saddle in the time of William and Mary
Fiennes, Celia
England -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
_A FURTHER DESCRIPTION OF EPSOME HAMPTON COURT AND WINDSOR_
Epsom is 15 miles from London, there are great curiosityes in cut hedges
and trees almost before all doores. They have trees in rows which they
cut up smooth and about 3 or 4 yards up, they Lay frames of wood in
manner of a pent house, so plat the branches on it and cuts it smooth,
they leave the stem of the tree to run up and then cut it clear to the
top w^{ch} they cut in round heads. There are severall good houses in or
about Epsham—S^r Rob^t Howard’s w^{ch} I have described, M^r Wessell’s
now M^r Scawen’s. There is Lord Baltimores in Woodcut Green Encompass’d
w^{th} a wall at the Entrance—a breast wall with pallisadoes. Large
courts one within the other and a back way to y^e stables where is a
pretty horse pond. The house is old but Low, tho’ Large,—run over much
ground. In ffront 6 windows and in the top just in the middle 12
Chimneys in a row, being 3 and 3 below Joyning back to back and 3 and 3
above; the others Looke into a Court w^{ch} is built round. As I drove
by the side saw broad Chimneys on the End, and at due distance on the
side on both Ends y^e sides of a Court, w^{ch} is terminated in a
building on w^{ch} is a Lead w^{th} railes and Barristers.
That house which is now Lord Guilfords at another side of Epsham, Lookes
nobly in a fine parke pailed round. Severall rows of trees in the front
of all sorts—Lofty, and some cut Piramidy, some suger-Loafe or rather
Like a mushrom-top. The front has 6 Large windows and the doore w^{ch}
is glass, as many on the next story. You Enter by a Large Court w^{ch}
is on y^e Left side—Stable court; to the right into y^e Gardens, fore
right you Enter a broad tarass railed in and Paved with stone, you enter
a noble Lofty hall, plaine but neate, painted white. On y^e right is a
Little parlour, the lesser hall hung w^{th} armes, a butler’s office,
with bedchambers and Closets, thence goes y^e Kitchen, schullery,
bakeing room and Laundry into a Court of all y^e offices and the stable
yard. Out of y^e Little parlour goes into a pretty Chappel which has a
balcony closet looking into it for the Lord and Lady.
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