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person, by Hugh Hare, Baron of Coleraine, who had purchased it 
in 1641. The Pleydell-Bouveries purchased it in 1717, and the 
head of that family, the 5th Earl of Radnor, is the present 
possessor. The present building is much altered from that of 
the Gorges’ time, a former Earl of Radnor having covered in the 
triangular inner court, changed its exterior into a six-pointed star, 
but dying before he completed the plan, left it with only five 
towers. The Field Club was admitted in two parties, each of 
ten, and were shown through all the rooms of the castle, full of 
choice pictures and articles of virtu. An extraordinary steel 
chair, valued at £40,000, stands in one room. It was presented 
by the City of Augsburg to the Emperor Rudolphus II., in 1574, 
and was made by Thomas Ruker. It is covered by delicately 
worked groups of figures in relief, 130 in number, representing 
events in the history of the Roman Empire from Nebuchadnezzar’s 
dream of the colossal image, to the landing of Aineas in Italy, and 
Rudolph’s own time. The Swedes carried this chair off from 
Prague, it was brought to England in the 18th Century, and sold 
to the Bouveries. The celebrated Holbeins, formerly the glory of 
this castle and heirlooms of the Bouveries, have been dispersed 
under the auctioneer’s hammer by authorization of the High 
Court, and the proceeds form the settlement fund of the present 
Viscount Folkestone and his bride. 
Leaving this castle the cars again received the members, and 
the return journey was varied by passing over the Avon and 
through the village of Alderbury to the fragmentary remains of 
the historical palace of Clarendon, situated in the park of Sir F. 
H. Bathurst, Bart. There remains but a small portion of a flint 
wall, propped by modern buttresses, and bearing a lengthy 
inscription stating that the palace was the favourite residence of 
our kings from Henry I. to Edward III., and saw in 1164 the 
enactment under Henry II. of the famous “ Constitutions of 
Clarendon,” the forerunner of the Reformation under Henry VIII. 
Here Philip of Navarre, in 1356, did homage to Edward III., as 
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