394 Some Account of the " Fyne," Hants. 



Gray and Horace Walpole, built the " theatric " staircase in the 

 Grecian style, which leads to the Library, where are portraits of 

 Chalouer Chute and his wife. Lady Daere, daughter of Lord North. 

 Here is a print of the Great Seal of England in Chalouer Chute^s 

 time, consisting- of a map of England and Ireland, in which " The 

 Vine " is marked, probably as a compliment to Mr. Chute. 



Next the Library come the Tapestry Rooms ; and then the Upper 

 Long Gallery, with carved oak panels, representing the crests 

 or devices of the leading men of Henry the Eighth's reign, such as 

 Archbishop Warham, Cardinal Wolsey, Bishop Tunstall, Bishop 

 Fox, and many Tudor emblems. The Lower Gallery (formerly an 

 orangery), like the upper one, contains marble statues and interesting 

 pictures. The Drawing Rooms contain many reminiscences of Horace 

 Walpole and Gray, a collection of china, and a Florentine cabinet, 

 brought over by Horace Walpole. 



In the Lining Room are sometimes shown a Basingstoke Race 

 Cup, won by Edward Chute, son of the Speaker, in 1688, and a 

 silver cup, given to Chalouer Chute for his able and courageous 

 defence of the bishops at the commencement of the Civil War. 



The Billiard Room has handsome linen panelling, and some good 

 portraits, especially one of " Winifred the Nun of Cufande," about 

 I70O, and the Cufande pedigree hangs near it, which commemorates 

 the intermarriage of the grand-daughter of the Countess of Salisbury 

 and niece of Cardinal Pole with a member of the family of Cufande, 

 whose estates now form part of the Vyne estate. This pedigree 

 was shown at Burlington House in 1882, and is of great interest to 

 antiquaries. 



The ante-chapel has good sacred pictures and stained glass, in- 

 cluding some relics of a window formerly put up in the Holy Ghost 

 Chanel at Basingstoke, by Lord Sandes, who added to it the chapel 

 of the Holy Trinity about the same time as he built the Vyne. 

 The Chapel contains windows which are much admired, the subjects 

 being sacred, and in the lower lights Henry VII., with his Q.ueen,and 

 his daughter Margaret, with their several patron saints. Here are 

 some curious tiles and elaborate oak carving, especially the frieze. 

 In " Dolman's Domestic Architecture " the chapel and the upper 



