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monsters, casting water from one to the other, from the top to the bottome ; and above the sayd 

 portico is a great reserve of water for the grotto." 



[The gardens of Wilton were illustrated by a series of twenty-six folio copper plates, with the fol- 

 lowing title ; " Le Jardin De Wilton, construit par le tres noble et tres p. seigneur Philip Comte Pem- 

 broke et Montgomeri. Isaac de Cauxinvt." The above description is copied from one of these plates. 

 Solomon de Caus was architect and engineer to the Elector Palatine, and constructed the gardens at 

 Heidelberg in 1619. Walpole infers that Isaac and Solomon de Caus were brothers, and that they 

 erected, in conjunction with each other, " the porticos and loggias of Gorhambury, and part of Camp- 

 den house, near Kensington." (Anecdotes of Painting.) As the engravings of Wilton gardens bear 

 the name of Isaac, he had probably some share in the arrangement of the grounds, and perhaps also 

 in building the house. In Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus, vols. ii. and iii. are several views, plans, 

 and sections of Wilton House and grounds. J. B.] 



The grotto is paved with black and white marble ; the roofe is vaulted. The figures of the tritons, 

 &c. are in bas-relieve, of white marble, excellently well wrought. Here is a fine jeddeaii and night- 

 ingale pipes. Monsieur de Caus had here a contrivance, by the turning of a cock, to shew three 

 rainbowes, the secret whereof he did keep to himself; he would not let the gardener, who shewes it 

 to strangers, know how to doe it ; and so, upon his death, it is lost. The grott and pipes did cost 

 ten thousand pounds. The garden is twelve acres within the terrace of the grott. 



The kitchin garden is a very good one, and here are good ponds and a decoy. By the kitchin 

 garden is a streame which turnes a wheele that moves the engine to raise the water to the top of a 

 cisterne at the corner of the great garden, to serve the water-workes of the grotto and fountaines in 

 the garden. 



Thomas, Earle of Pembroke, told me that his sister-in-law's priest, a Frenchman, made a pretty- 

 poem or poemation on Wilton House and Garden, in Latin verse, which Mr. Berford, his Lordship's 

 Chaplain, can procure. 



THE STABLES, of Roman architecture, built by Mons. de Caus, have a noble avenu to them, a 

 square court in the middle ; and on the four sides of this court were the pictures of the best horses 

 as big as the life, painted in severall postures, by a Frenchman. Among others was the great black 

 crop-eared stone horse on which Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, was killed at the battle of 



Lutzen, two miles from Leipzig. Upon the comcing of the Scotts, in 1639, Sir Fenwyck 



and fearing their breeds of horses would be taken away by the Scotts, did sell their 



breeds of horses and mares to Pliilip (first) Earle of Pembroke. His Lordship had also Morocco 

 horses, and for race horses, besides Peacock and Delavill, he had a great many more kept at the 

 parke at Ramesbury and at Rowlinton. Then for his stagge-hunting, fox-hunting, brooke-hawking, 

 and land-hawking, what number of horses were kept to bee fitt at all seasons for it, I leave the reader 

 to guesse, besides his horses for at least halfe a dozen coaches. Mr. Chr. Wroughton guesses not 

 lesse than an hundred horses. [In the notice of William, first Earl of Pembroke, in Aubrey's 

 "Lives of Eminent Men," he says, " This present Earl (1680) has at Wilton 52 mastives and 

 30 greyhounds, some beares, and a lyon, and a matter of 60 fellowes more bestiall than they." J. B.] 



OF HIS LORDSHIP'S HOUNDS, GREYHOUNDS, AND HAWKES. His Lordship had all sorts of 

 hounds, for severall disports : sc. harbourers (great hounds) to harbour the stagges, and also small 

 bull-dogges to break the bayes of the stagge ; fox-hounds, finders, harriers, and others. His 

 Lordship had the choicest tumblers that were in England, and the same tumblers that rode behind 



