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The George, and High Street, Salisbury. 



II.— THE EXETER ROAD. 



WHEN the elegant and accomplished Barry Lyndon, 

 about the 17th of May, 1773, and shortly after his 

 marriage with the widow of the late Right Honourable 

 Sir Charles Lyndon, K.B., set out to visit his estates in 

 the West of England, where he had never yet set foot, 

 he and his Honoria and suite left London in three 

 chariots, each with four horses ; an outrider in livery 

 went before and bespoke lodgings from town to town : 

 the party lay in state at Andover, Ilminster and Exeter ; 

 and the fourth evening arrived in time for supper, " before 

 that antique baronial mansion of which the gate was in 



