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merited inspection was the Chapel. A truly noble building, with 
beautiful frescos, painted windows and sculptured reredos, it 
gives sufficient accommodation for the teaching staff and 550 boys 
in the College. In 1848 it was consecrated, being built from 
Blore’s designs, and contains a great Western window as a 
memorial of Bishop Cotton, of Calcutta, the second Head Master. 
Marlborough College was only opened in 1843, and has 
gained a high place among the great Public Schools of the country. 
The round of the new Jubilee buildings, classrooms, concert hall, 
library, and museum, was afterwards made, two old Marlburians 
in the company revisiting the old ‘‘cubicula” of their college days, 
and as time was progressing, a return was made to the welcome 
lunch at the Ailesbury Arms. At ha f-past two the party 
separated into two parties, 14 proceeding in brakes to drive 
through the best parts of Savernake Forest, nine pedestrians 
setting forth for a six mile walk through the same woodland track 
by the “King Oak” and the Ailesbury Monument to Savernake 
Station. This beautiful Forest is the only one belonging to a 
subject in the Kingdom. Sixteen miles in circumference, it 
contains a beech avenue four miles long, which is unequalled else- 
_ where, and large herds of red and fallow deer. The picturesque 
_ beauty of this sylvan tract and the magnificent scenery of the 
_ beechen glades and aged oaks must be seen to be thoroughly 
appreciated. The mansion of the Marquis of Ailesbury, 
commenced in 1781 and completed by the third Marquis who 
died in 1886 takes the place of the former Savernake Lodge 
destroyed by fire, a hunting seat of the Seymour family. The 
whole property was originally vested in the Crown, but on the 
death of Henry III. in 1272, it formed part of the dowry of 
Queen Eleanor, and afterwards was held by several Queens and 
Royal favourites until the Seymours became the owners temp. 
Edward VI. By marriage it passed with an heiress to the Bruces 
in 1676, descendants as Earls of Elgin of King Robert de Bruce, 
of Scotland, 1306-29. An heiress again in 1746 carried the 
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