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^ flea fov t|e |urt|ci: |ui)estigatioii of i\t 

 gvdjitccturd pbtovg af l^onjUat. 



By C. H. Talbot, 

 l^Mead before the Society at Warminster, July 26th, 1893.^] 



^^n^f^T must be understood that what I have undertaken to read 

 ^1^ to-night is not a paper on the architectural history of 

 Longleat, but simply a plea for the further investigation of that 

 subject. 



I shall have continually, in the course of it, to mention a name 

 that is still very fresh in our memories and which has come to be 

 intimately associated with Longleat, that of the late Canon Jackson, 

 to whose labours this Society owes so much, from whose writings I 

 have continually drawn information, and whose personal friendship 

 I shall always feel it a very great privilege to have enjoyed. 



I have long intended to make some necessary corrections of the 

 architectural notes on Longleat, which I published in the Society^s 

 Magazine, in March, 1878.* The present occasion of the Meeting 

 of the Society, at Warminster, seems to be a suitable opportunity 

 for doing so. 



It is necessary first to explain how I came to be led into statements 

 which I afterwards found to be only partly tenable. Before I ever 

 saw Longleat, I had read Canon Jackson's first paper on the subject, 

 published in the Society's Magazine in 1857,^ containing views. 



^ The paper is piinted, as read, with the omission of one passage containing a 

 suggestion which did not appear to be tenable. On visiting Longleat, next day, 

 a few Members of the Society examined the building critically, and were, I 

 think, satisfied that there is earlier and later work of the sixteenth century, which 

 is the main point for which I contended. 



■ Vol. xvii., p. 358. 

 3 Vol. iii., p. 281. 



