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DRAYTON HOUSE, 

 NORTHAMPTON, 



THE SEAT OF ... 



Mrs. Stopford-Sackville. 



GARDENS 

 OLD-&NEW 



(-.1 I. ! we hurried a A ay 



t > I )r.i\ I. MI .111 hour 

 tvtore dinner." \\ rot.- " 



th.it inimitable posxip Horace WalpK- t.. < i, ^- Montague, 

 in July, 176?. "Oh. tlu- dear oil place! You would Iv 

 transported with it ! UK- ti.mt i- a brave, stron- castle wall. 

 embattled and loopholed for defence. Passing tin- ^reat ^.itc 

 ^'' COM: iinptu n- hut narrow mi>Jem court, hvhin.l 



which risis tlw olj manM..n. all t".M-rs anJ turrits. Tlu 

 h-iusi- is i- \ii-IU-nt, h.is .1 \.ist hall, ditto Jinm^-r.H.m. kin-\ 

 diamrvr. trunk-^allcr\- at tin- top of tlu- Ivusc. aiul M-XCII or 

 c-.^l" Jiffcrcnt jpartrm-ntx. Thi-n it is ci\i-ri-J with p>rtraits, 

 ..rammed with old china, iiirnislu-d richly, and not a ran in it 

 tinJcr forty, fifty, or a thousand years old ; hut not a hed or a 

 that has lost a tooth, or not a rey hair, v> well are they 



I Hiiinna^i-.l it fruin 

 head t'i i" 't, i-\.iiniiu-d c\ > ry 

 in^l.-d hed and enamelled 

 pair ot rvllovss. tor su.h there are; in short, I d> not rv 

 the i -Id mansion u.i- ever IvtU-r pl.-a.ed \\ith an inli.ihit.ini 

 since the days oj W.ilM d-- hrayton, e\c--pt \\ !i -:i it ;,M-I\<.| 

 its divine o!d mistress, ll one could honour lu-r more tli.in one 

 di.l Ivlore. it woiiM Ix- to N. uith w'-at religion slu- |<,- ps up 

 the old dwelling and customs; as well as o!J xvivants, who 

 \ou may r:ia^ine do ii"t lo\ e lu-r l.-ss than other |\-..p|. 

 The yarvlen is just as Sir John (iennnn hnni^lii it tioni 

 Holland; pyramidal yews, treillaws, ,U K | >qu.i lL - cradle walks, 

 with windows clipped in them." 



Walpole's description of hrayton House is as 



and it is true in e\ery particular to-Jay. Sull 



inn 





THE INNER COtkT AND COLONNADE. 



