mansion and park of Woodcote were purchased by the late Lewis Tessier, Esq. to whose family they now belong.

Horton Park, which was also the property of Lord Baltimore, is the residence of James Trotter, Esq. who was high sheriff of the county in 1798.

Durdans is said by Aubrey to have been built by the Earl of Berkeley with the materials of Nousuch palace, when it was demolished by the Duchess of Cleveland, and is erroneously stated by him to have been the scene of the intrigue between Lord Grey of Werk and his wife's sister; which was not carried on at Durdans, but at another house of the Berkeleys at the west end of the town, where the workhouse now stands. This first structure, which was once inhabited by the father of his present majesty, being destroyed by fire, a new mansion was erected by Mr. Dalbiac, and is now the residence of Charles Blackman, Esq.

In the Church is interred Sir Robert, eldest son of the celebrated lawyer, Sir Edward Coke, who died in 1653, and Robert Coke, Esq. whose father was the sixth son of the Lord Chief Justice. Here are several monuments by Flaxman; among the rest one for that eminent scholar the Rev. John Parkhurst, author of a Greek and Hebrew Lexicon, who resided at Epsom, and died in 1797, in his sixty-ninth year. On the tomb-stone of one of the same family, in the church-yard, is this whimsical inscription:

Here lieth the carcase

Of honest Charles Parkhurst

Who ne're could dance or sing,

But always was true to

His Sovereign Lord the King,

Charles the First.

Ob. Dec. XX. MDCCIV. ætat LXXXVI.

Here

entrusted with the superintendence of his little seraglio. With the assistance of his Esculapius, he made some singular experiments upon his Houris; feeding such as were inclined to be fat on acid aliments alone, and those of a

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Here is an Alms-house, and also a Charity School; and on the neighbouring down is a four-mile course, where the annual races, held three days before the Whitsun-week, are numerously attended.

LETHERHEAD,

a small town, on a rising ground, on the east bank of the Mole, had anciently a market, which has long been discontinued. It consists of four streets intersecting in the centre, and containing several good mansions. From the opposite hill in the road from Guildford, the church with its lofty tower rising above the houses, and the buildings which appear interspersed in a rich wood of trees, form one of those striking views that all travellers of taste view with delight.

A large house in the South Street has been called the mansionhouse. Here Lord Chancellor Jefferyes resided, in 1688, when a daughter of his was buried at this place, as appears by the Register. It was rebuilt, about 1710, by Dr. Akehurst, a physician, and passed to General Gore, whose female heir married the late William Wade, Esq. long master of the ceremonies at Bath and Brighton. The Church-house, so called from its adjoining the church-yard, though never connected with the rectory or vicarage, is of timber frame at least as old as the reign of Elizabeth. It belonged to Philip Dacres, Esq. from whose heir it passed to the Gores. The Rectory-house, at a small distance from the south end of the town, was much improved and ornamented with plantations, by Mr. Hague, about forty years ago. It is now the residence of J. R. Whitefoord, Esq. Nearer to Mickleham is Gibbon's Grove, pleasantly situated, belonging to Mr. Boulton, and now inhabited by his son Captain Boulton.

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contrary disposition, with milk, soups, and nutritious diet. On his arrival with this retinue at Vienna, the inspector of the police begged to be informed which of the eight ladies was his wife. He returned this message, that “he was an Englishman, and wherever he was called to account about his marTinge, he immediately left that place, unless an opportunity was afforded him of boxing it out."

*Near the bridge is a small public-house, which, to judge from its appearance, may be the same in which Eleanor‹ Rumming sold the ale celebrated by Skelton, poet laureat to Henry VII. and VIII. It is of timber, with overhanging chambers, the roof still covered with Sussex slate, formerly much used in this county for that purpose when the builders had plenty of timber to support its weight.*

The Church is an ancient structure, consisting of a nave and two aisles, with a north and south transept. In the centre of the latter was Aperderley's chauntry, inclosed with neat Gothic carved open wainscoting of oak, the greater part of which still remains. The nave and aisles are of the coarse parochial architecture in use about the middle of the thirteenth century, with lancet arches, and circular or octangular pillars. This was the original church. When the priory and convent of Leeds obtained the impropriation about 1346, they rebuilt and added the tower, transept, and chancel. These are all in the style of that age, as are the windows, divided by mullions, with ornamented intersections in the heads. In the chancel, near the altar, are three arcades, consisting of subsellia and a piscina. The former are not graduated as usual, and were not intended for three priests, but for the Augustine canons of Leads, when they should make a visitation. A very general repair of the church took place at the commencement of the last century, when the interior was modernized.

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Skelton, and other courtiers, probably used this house when the king was at Nonsuch. He entitles his poem, "The Tunning of Elynor Rumming, the famous ale-wife of England;" and says that her wonning (dwelling) was "in a certain stede besyde Lederhede." The wood cut of her, given in Skelton's poems printed for J. King, 1761, 8vo. has been eagerly sought after by collectors. It has this inscription:

When Skelton wore the laurel crown,

My ale put all the ale-wives down.

Granger properly describes it as the portrait of an ill-favored old woman. Her descendants appear from the Register to have continued here more than a century later.

In this church is interred Sir James Wishart, who attained to the rank of admiral in 1708, but was dismissed the service in 1715; with a long Latin inscription by his brother, the lord provost of Edinburgh. He died in 1723, aged 74*. Here, too, are memorials for Lieutenant-General Francis Langston, who died in 1714, aged 60; Mary, wife of the Hon. Brigadier-General Thomas Pagett, who died commander in chief of the British forces at Mahon in Minorca, about two months after his wife, in 1740; and Lieutenant-General Humphrey Gore, Governor of Kinsale, and Colonel of the King's own Regiment of Dragoons, who died in 1739, in his 69th year. Here also is interred Harriet Mary Cholmondeley, granddaughter of George Earl Cholmondeley, who, in 1806, passing through Letherhead in a barouche, with her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales and Lady Sheffield, to Norbury Park, was thrown with them out of the carriage at the corner opposite the Swan Inn, and killed on the spot.

At this place is a brick bridge of fourteen arches over the Mole between eighty and one hundred yards in length, and twenty feet wide within the walls.

Not far from the town is Randalls, the seat of Sir John Coghill, Bart. which stands on the bank of the Mole in a park of sixty acres; and Thorncroft, a handsome new mansion, erected after a design of Sir Robert Taylor, by the uncle of Henry Boulton, Esq. the present proprietor. It is situated on the banks of the Mole, on a manor which has belonged to Merton College, Oxford, ever since its original foundation, and has always been the residence of gentlemen as lessees of that society.

Ashted Park, in the parish of the same name, consists of about 140 acres, inclosed with a brick wall. The church stands in the park; and close to it was situated the old mansion, to which the Earl of Arundel often resorted, and where Sir Robert Howard received the visits of King Charles II. The table at which

His portrait is among those of the admirals at Hampton Court, in which he is erroneously called Sir John Wisheart.

which he used to dine was preserved till the old house was pulled down by Richard Howard, Esq. the present owner, who has built an elegant mansion at a small distance from the former site. The stables belonging to it are magnificent.

The Downs of BANSTED are celebrated for the extensive views which their elevated situation commands on every side, for the salubrity of the air, and the excellence of the matton that is fed upon them.

Nork, the seat of Lord Arden, in this parish, was built by Christopher Buckle, Esq. who died in 1759. Bansted Park, which comprehended 160 acres of wood, has long since been disparked, though some lands still retain the name. The mansion of Great Burrough, which manor, with three others out of the seven contained in the parish, belongs to Christopher Buckle, Esq. the sixth of that name in succession, appears to be of the age of James I. The present owner has erected a smaller house

on the edge of Bansted Heath, to which he has given the name of Little Burrough, where he now resides.

There is a tradition that Great Burrough House occupies the site of a Roman fortification: but it is more probable that it may stand on that of one of the many barrows which have been scattered over the grounds and the adjacent downs. Gale, indeed, in his Commentary on Antoninus, speaks of Burrough as one of those places where garrisons were without doubt established from the time of the first Roman victories. Their road from Arundel certainly passed very near this spot in its course from Mickleham to Woodcote.

In the parish of GREAT BOOKHAM is Eastwick House, formerly the residence of the Earls of Effingham, till it was settled by Thomas, the second earl, as part of the jointure of his countess, the daughter of William Beckford, Esq. In 1801 it was sold to James Laurel, Esq. who altered the house, and covered the brick front with stucco. It is surrounded by a park of near 400 acres.

Bookham Grove was originally a small cottage fitted up for a shooting

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