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PLACE COUNTY A SEAT OF 



Sarsden Oxfordshire J. Langston, Esq., M. P. 



Scarrisbrick Lancashire T. Scarrisbrick Eccleston, Esq. 



Sheffield Place Sussex Right Honourable Lord Sheffield. 



Shardeloes Buckinghamshire Wilham Drake, Esq., M. P. 



Stoke Park Herefordshire Honourable E. Foley, M. P. 



Stoke Pogies Berkshire John Penn, Esq. 



Stoneaston Somersetshire Hippesley Coxe, Esq., M. P. 



St. John's Isle of Wight Edward Simeon, Esq. 



Stapleton Gloucestershire Dr. Lovell, M. D. 



Stratton Park Hampshire Sir Francis Baring, Bart, M. P. 



Streatham Villa Surry Robert Brown, Esq. 



Sufton Court Herefordshire James Hereford, Esq. 



Sundridge Park Kent Claude Scott, Esq., M. P. 



Suttons Essex Charles Smith, Esq., M. P. 



Taplow Buckinghamshire J. Fryer, Esq. 



Tendring Suffolk jSir William Rowley, Bart. 



Thoresby Nottinghamshire Lord Viscount Newark. 



Valleyfield Perthshire Sir Robert Preston, Bart., M. P. 



Wall Hall Hertfordshire G. W. Thellusson, Esq., M. P. 



West Wycombe Buckinghamshire Sir J. Dashwood King, Bart. 



Wentworth House. . . . Yorkshire Earl Wentworth Fitzwilliam. 



Welbeck Nottinghamshire His Grace the Duke of Portland. 



Whitton Park Middlesex Samuel Prime, Esq. 



Wimpole Cambridgeshire Earl Hardwicke. 



Woodley Berkshire Right Honourable H. Addington, M. P. 



Wycombe Buckinghamshire Right Honourable Lord Carrington. 



'^ On the summit of another building, viz. a sawmill in 

 the park, was a figure of a man in a brown coat and a broad- 

 brimmed hat, representing the great Penn, of Pennsylvania, 

 which being much larger than the natural proportion of a man, 

 yet having the appearance of a man upon the roof of the 

 building, diminished the size of every other object by which it 

 was surrounded. It has since been removed, and is now in the 

 possession of Mr. Penn, at Stoke Pogies, where, placed in a 

 room, it seems a colossal figure. Another instance of false scale 

 at this place was the diminutive building with a spire at the 

 end of the park, vv^hich, perhaps, when the neighbouring trees 

 were small, might have been placed there with a view of ex- 

 tending the perspective. This artifice may be allowable in cer- 

 tain cases and to a certain degree, yet a cathedral in miniature 

 must in itself be absurd ; and when we know that it was only 

 the residence of a shoemaker, and actually dedicated to St. 

 Crispin, it becomes truly ridiculous. 



I have drawn these examples of defects from West Wy- 

 combe, because they are obvious to every passenger on a very 



