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as far as Lord Scarbroughs ground goes, and to continue the 

 Water and Dress the Valley up by the Present Farm House 

 untill it comes to the seperation fixed for the Boundary of 

 the New Farm. N : B : The Paths in the Wood are included 

 in this Discription and every thing but the Buildings. The 

 said Lancelot Brown does Promise for himself His Heirs 

 Executors and Administrators to perform or cause to be 

 Performed in the Best manner in His or Their Power 

 between the Date hereof and December one Thousand Seven 

 Hundred and Seventy Seven, the above written five Articles. 

 For the Due Performance of the above written five Articles 

 The Earl of Scarbrough does Promise for himself His Heirs 

 Administrators and Executors to Pay or cause to be Paid at 

 the underwritten Times of Payment Two Thousand Seven 

 Hundred Pounds of Lawfull money of England, and three 

 Hundred Pounds in consideration of and for the Plans and 

 trouble Brown has had for his Lordship at Sandbeck, previous 

 to this Agreement. Lord Scarbrough to find Rough Timber, 

 four able Horses, carts, and Harness for them, wheelbarrows 

 and Planks, as also Trees and Shrubbs. 

 The Times of Payment in 



June, 1775 800 



Feb. 1776 400 



June, D. 400 



Feb. 1777 600 



On Finishing the work 800 



3000 



(Signed) Scarbrough. 



Lancelot Brown. 



The melancholy spectacle presented by some of the stately 

 houses surrounded by the stiff and unreal " natural land- 

 scape " substituted by Brown for the carefully designed and 

 well-kept old gardens, is thus described by Knight * : 



* " The Landscape," A didactic poem in III Books, addressed to Sir Uvedale 

 Price by R. P. Knight, 2nd Ed., 1795. 



