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
The Left hand of y^e hall Led into a great parlour w^{ch} runnes to the
End of the house, and makes the ffront, and short again into another
great parlour or dineing roome which makes y^e End ffront of the house;
this also opens into y^e staircase, it Leads on to a drawing roome,
Closet, bed Chamber, two dressing roomes, w^{ch} with y^e great
staircase makes up y^e ffront backward and the other End ffront, w^{ch}
Lookes into y^e stable yard and a garden railed in w^{th} a Large pond
or Cannall. The back ffront goes out into a garden or Court w^{th}
Gravel walks round, and a Crosse w^{ch} cuts it into 4 grassplotts where
are Brass statues, and Leads out through fine jron Carved gates as at
the ffront out into y^e highway. The right End ffront of y^e house is
into y^e Garden. Out of both of y^e great parlours and drawing roome two
Entrances at an Equal distance upon gravell walks. This garden is
gravell’d round. Y^e two middle walks run up to a double mount which
cast the garden into 3 Long grass walks w^{ch} also are very broad,
w^{th} 3 flower potts. There are two degrees of stepps to Each of these
Gravell walks, the first lands on a Gravell that turns in a 3 side
square w^{ch} shapes y^e upper mount. The Long gravell walke to y^e
right hand runns aCrosse the mount to a thicket that Enters y^e Grove
and is Lost. The other to the Left runns up the whole Length of y^e
grove up to white gates and open views into y^e parke. The two Ends of
the Little square gravel walke round the first mount terminates on the
right in same thicket or Grove, and has only for show a Carved frame as
a gate, w^{th} wood carv’d Like Cage work painted white, with an arch
Entrance in the middle for form sake, to make it Look uniforme to the
Like on y^e Left, w^{ch} Leads to a walk as Long as the Gravell up to
the wall, and is directly arbour. Like high trees, Cut up to the top and
with heads which close in an arch—in the middle is Long white seates.
There are two or three Lesser walks w^{ch} run across it to y^e right
into the Grove and Lost in the maze; to the Left to another Long walk
w^{ch} Leads to a Grotto and runs parralel w^{th} y^e gravel walke to
the top. You Enter a space paved and open arch’d round in seates like a
Court, and thence you Enter the Grotto, an arch Entirely dark but at the
Entrance it is so Large as 6 arched seates, and between carv’d stone
very fine of all sorts of flowers, ffigures, ffruites; y^e Pillars or
Peers pretty broad. this ran up to a sumerhouse at the End, w^{ch} is
grown over with greens cut smooth—windows all round. Below this is a
broad green walke w^{ch} begins at the first Garden and so continues
round w^{th} y^e wall quite to that broad Gravel walke, and is continued
by y^e wall quite Encompassing y^e maze, in w^{ch} are some slaunt cut
wayes, and it terminates in the other side of the first Garden just by a
garden railed in in which is a Large pond, square in nature of a
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