Gothic ftile : tho it's dimenfions were 

 never large. The parts ftill in being of moft 

 confequence, are what is fuppofed to have 

 been the refectory, and the abbot's lodge. 

 The refectory is now turned into a parifh- 

 church, and forms a handfome aile, which 

 is worth looking into. The abbot's lodge is 

 known by the name of the palace, and was 

 fitted up by the predecefTor of the laft duke of 

 Montague, as a manfion ; tho he made little 

 addition to it. The old hall ftill remains, and 

 fome of the other apartments. What he 

 added, is ill-done; and what he endeavoured 

 to improve, is ill-managed. He did nothing 

 indeed that adorns this beautiful fcene ; many 

 things which deform it; and fome things fo 

 ftrangely abfurd, that no genius but his own, 

 could have conceived them. Inftead of in- 

 viting fome man of tafle to affift him in 

 making Beaulieu-abbey one of the moft pleafing 

 fcenes in England, which it might have been 

 made; he employed an engineer, by whole 

 help he drew a ditch around it; filled it 

 with water : threw two or three draw-bridges 

 over it ; fecured all the avenues ; and thus, 

 by a wonderful ftroke of art, converted an 

 abbey into a caftle. This atchievement was 

 performed about the time of a French war, 



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