268 Kingston House, Bradford. 
remarkable in the instance before us, gave occasion to Lord Bacon’s 
observation, that “such houses are sometimes so full of glass that 
one cannot tell where to become, to be out of the way of the sun 
or the cold.” 
One of the terraces with open balustrades of stone, the orchard 
and the garden, are all that remain out of doors. The offices, gate- 
houses and every other appendage that it may have had of suitable 
character, as fountains and bowling green, &c., have disappeared. 
Over the chimney piece of a panelled room upstairs, (being the 
third of the plates above referred to) are still to be seen two shields 
carved in oak, each bearing the following quarterings. 
1. Hatt. Sable. 3 poleaxes argent. (This coat with the crest of Hall, 
‘“‘an arm embowed in armour, proper, garnished or, holding a 
