Notes 



' [Launcelot Brown, landscape gardener and architect, was 

 born in 1715 at Harle-Kirk, Northumberland, England. He 

 was originally a kitchen-gardener in the employment of Lord 

 Cobham, at Stowe. His remarkable faculty for prejudging land- 

 scape effects procured him the patronage of persons of rank and 

 taste. Repton speaks of Brown as the founder of the English 

 style of landscape gardening, but the real founder was not 

 Brown, but William Kent (b. 1684; d. 1748). Brown, how- 

 ever, worked with greater genius and wider success. He real- 

 ized a large fortune, and by his amiable manners and high 

 character supported with dignity the station of a country gen- 

 tleman. He died in 1783. — N.] 



^ CATALOGUE OF RED BOOKS 



From whence the extracts in Sketches and Hints are made ; or which are mentioned 

 as containing further elucidations of the subjects introduced in this first volume. 



PLACE COUNTY A SEAT OF 



Antony House Cornwall Reginald Pole Carew, Esq., M. P. 



Babworth Nottinghamshire Honourable John Bridgman Simpson. 



Bessacre Manor Yorkshire B. D. W. Cook, Esq. 



Brandsbury Middlesex Honourable Lady Salusbury. 



Brocklesby Lincolnshire Right Honourable Lord Yarborough. 



Brookmans Herts S. R. Gaussen, Esq. 



Buckminster Leicestershire Sir William Manners, Bart. 



Castle Hill Middlesex H. Beaufoy, Esq., M. P. 



Catchfrench Cornwall F. Glanville, Esq. 



Claybury Essex James Hatch, Esq. 



Cobham Park Kent Earl Darnley. 



Courteen Hall Northamptonshire Sir William Wake, Bart. 



Crewe Hall Cheshire John Crewe, Esq., M. P. 



Culford Suffolk Marquis Cornwallis. 



Donington Leicestershire Earl Moira. 



Ferney Hall Shropshire Late Sam. Phipps, Esq. 



Finedon Northamptonshire J. English Dolben, Esq. 



Garnons Herefordshire J. G. Cotterell, Esq. [In 1838, Sir J. G. 



Cotterell, Bart.J 



Gayhurst Bucks George Wrighte, Esq. 



Glevering Suffolk Chaloner Arcedeckne, Esq. 



Hanslope Park Bucks Edward Watts, Esq. 



Hazells Hall Bedfordshire Francis Pym, Esq. 



