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and a rebellion ; when the duke had been 

 railing a regiment, and his ideas had taken a 

 military turn. It is said too, that he made 

 this ftrange metamorphofis under an appre- 

 henfion, left fome adventrous French privateer, 

 taking the advantage of a full-tide, might fail 

 up the river, and endeavour to carry him off. 

 Men of tafte cannot enough lament, that a 

 fituation, fo well adapted to receive the beauties 

 of art, fhould have fallen fo unhappily into 

 fuch wretched hands -, and that more money 

 had been fpent in deforming it, than might 

 have made it a fcene of uncommon beauty. 



Of the other parts of the abbey little re- 

 mains. There is a court about fixty or feventy 

 feet fquare, formerly perhaps a cloifter, which 

 is now converted into a garden. In the inner 

 walls remain feveral arches, now clofed, two 

 or three of which are of beautiful Gothic. 

 Near this court alfo Hands a fmall room, roughly 

 arched. The arches are of ftone, centering. 

 in a point at the top : but it does not eafily 

 appear for what purpofe fo fmall an apart- 

 ment was intended. The kitchen is ftill very 

 intire ; as this edifice often is among the ruins of 

 abbeys. It was a ftructure commonly of great 

 ftrength. 



But 



