AND THE DUKES OF RICHMOND. 



and estate were originally very limited. Upon the 

 summit of the most elevated point of the park his 

 Grace erected a very ornamental building, which is 

 called " Game's Seat," after the old man, a faithful 

 servant of the family, who occupied a wooden cottage 

 upon the site. The new building was erected at a 

 great expense, the materials of the tower of Hove 

 church, near Brighton, which had fallen down, being 

 purchased and utilized for its erection. It was 

 designed in the Venetian style, and was intended 

 for an occasional summer retreat. 



It contains a fine and lofty room, which was 

 originally fitted up in a very costly and splendid 

 manner, most beautifully painted and gilt, and with 

 a carved marble chimney-piece. 



Under the portico, at the entrance to the banquet- 

 ing room, was the horoscope, or configuration of the 

 planets at the birth of the second Duke (the builder), 

 who, as previously stated, was born on the 18 th of May, 

 1701, not far from the site of this building. It is 

 evident that the Duke and his family took a great 

 interest in this conspicuous and delightful pleasure- 

 house. The prospect is superb, embracing a great 

 extent of the coast of Sussex and Hampshire, with the 

 English Channel in the foreground, and the Isle of 

 Wight in the distance. The intervening plains are 

 spread out in quite a panoramic manner, and the view 

 embraces nearly forty miles, from east to west. A 



