3H 



GARDENS OLD AND NEW. 





FROM THE ALCOVE. 



moreover, it may be surmised that Arley Hall, which 

 had breasted the blasts of 300 years, sweeping across 

 the open country that surrounds it, had fallen some- 

 what into decay. Sir Peter, the fourth baronet, was 

 loath to destroy it, so, in or about 1758, he encased 

 it with brick, and otherwise altered it to his mind, 

 and, proud of his long descent and glorying in 



numbering the grandsires of his grandsires, placed 

 upon it the Virgilian line, " Stat fortuna domus, et avi 

 numerantur avorum." The stone upon which he thus 

 alluded to the prosperity of his house was discovered 

 during the building of the present edifice. The 

 patient and ponderous Ormerod. diligent describer of 

 the shire, thus speaks of what he saw of Arley early 



FROM 7 UK HALL DOOR. 



