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several meanders, circles, semi-circles, windings, and 

 intricate turnings, the walks or intervals whereof are 

 all grass-plots. This Maze, as it is now ordered, adds 

 very much to the worth of the Upper Level. The 

 Wilderness (a work of vast expence to the maker 

 thereof) consists of many young trees, woods, and 

 sprays of good growth and height, cut and formed into 

 several ovals, squares, and angles, very well ordered ; 

 in most of the angular points whereof, as also in the 

 centre of every oval, stands one Lime tree or Elm. 

 All the alleys of this Wilderness, being in number 

 eighteen, are of a gravelled earth very well ordered 

 and maintained ; the whole work being compiled with 

 such order and decency, as that it is not one of the 

 least of the ornaments of the said Manor or Mansion 

 House." 

 The ban- A simple garden-house was placed at the west end 



queting 



house. of the turfed terrace. Opposite stood a much more 

 elaborate construction. " One fair banqueting house, 

 most of wood ; the model thereof containing a fair 

 round in the middle of four angles, covered with blue 

 slate, and ridged and guttered with lead, wainscoted 

 round from the bottom to the roof, varnished with 

 green within and without, benched in the angles, hav- 

 ing sixteen windows or covers of the same wainscot 

 to open or shut at pleasure, having also sixteen half 

 rounds of glass to enlighten the room when those 



