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of its former grandeur, asks a place in our sympathy 

 for its owners in their fallen fortunes, and regret 

 for its own mouldering state. 



" In a word, these are the mansions of England, 

 Ireland, Scotland, and Wales ; and such many of 

 them have stood time out of mind the Castle, the 

 Moat, the Court, the Hall, the Grange, the House, 

 the Priory, the Manor, the Park, the Abbey, the 

 Place, the Cote, the Cottage the ' ivy-mantled 

 walls ' of some, and the ' grey towers ' and ' turrets 

 high ' of others, each and all suited to their various 

 situations, and each and all characteristic of the 

 favoured country in which we have such deep cause 

 for thankfulness that our lot has been cast." 



In one sense at least the work was a national one, 

 for it gave a faithful delineation and description 

 of some of the chief architectural glories of our 

 own land, as they are the envy of other and more 

 modern countries those stately halls of our noblest 

 and most historic families, whose annals and tradi- 

 tions have been for generations so closely bound 

 up with the fortunes of the British Isles. Accom- 

 panying each plate was an account often of neces- 

 sity brief of the descents of the various families to 

 which the houses belonged, and of their own his- 

 tories, together with curious and interesting legends 

 attaching to some. Every variety of landscape 

 and building was depicted in these volumes, com- 

 mencing appropriately with the royal residence of 

 Windsor, after which followed those of many feudal 

 nobles,such as Arundel, Raby, Lumley, and Berkeley, 



