AND TEE DUKES OF EICHMOND. 15 



This model " Cliarlton Hunt " being established at 

 so early a date, and its history being rather remark- 

 able, I hope to recur to the theme in a later chapter. 



Not only was his Grace a mighty hunter, but a 

 skilled forester and horticulturist, ornamenting his 

 park and private grounds, and making them historic. 

 In the High Wood — an enclosed space of about forty 

 acres adjoining the house — he formed a mound, upon 

 which he erected a highly ornamental building, which 

 he called " The Temple of Minerva," in which he 

 placed a stone, bearing upon it an inscription which 

 runs : — 



NEPTUNO ET MINERVA TEMPLUM 



PRO SALVTE DOMVS DIVINE 



EX AVCTORITATE IMP TI CLAVD 



ET COGIDYBNI REGIS MAGNI BRITANORVM. 



COLLEGIVM FABRORVM ET QUI IN EO 



A. S. SVNT D. S. D. DONANTE AREAM 



PVDENTE PVDEXTINI FILIO. 



Which being freely translated may be read as 

 follows : — 



The Temple of Neptune and Minerva, erected for 

 the health of the Imperial Family, by the authority of 

 King Cogidubnus, the Lieutenant of Tiberius Claudius 

 Augustus in Britain. 



The company of artificers, with those who were 

 ambitious of the honour of supplying materials, defrayed 

 the expenses — Pudens, the son of Pudentinus, gave the 

 ground. 



