146 EXCURSIONS ROUND LONDON. 



Epping forest. But what most attracted 

 their attention, in viewing this mansion, was 

 a curious piece of carving in wood, in the 

 hall, by the celebrated Gibbons, representing 

 the Stoning of St. Stephen. The park, 



O I t- * 



which is ornamented by the beautiful wind- 



A 



ings of the New Uiver, exhibits some 

 pleasing scenery. Near the house is a fine 

 clump of firs, called the ' She Bishops." 



From Bush-hill, our happy pedestrians 

 pursued their way to Enfield, where, after 

 breakfasting, they took a view of the town, 

 in which they found little remarkable, except 

 the remains of an ancient Roval Palace. 



*/ * 



Tespecting the erection of which antiquarians 

 disagree. 



One of the rooms still remains in its origi- 

 nal state, with oak pannels, and a richly-or- 

 namented ceiling. The chimney-piece is 

 supported by columns of the Ionic and 

 Corinthian order, and decorated with the 

 cognizances of the rose and portcullis, and 

 the arms of France and England quartered 



with 



