102 AUBREY'S NATURAL HISTORY OF WILTSHIRE. 



They did consist of a layer of freestone and a layer of flints, squared or headed ; two towers faced 

 the south, one the east, the other the west end. After the garrison was gonn the mote was filled 

 up, about 1650, and the high wall pulled down and one of the towers. Baynton was attainted 

 about Henry the Sixth. Afterwards the Lord Chief Justice Cheyney had it About the beginning 



of Queen Elizabeth, Vaughan of Glamorganshire bought it ; and about 1649, Sir George 



Vaughan sold it to Philip Earle of Pembroke. 



Longleate House is the most august building in the kingdome. It was built by [Edward] 

 Seymor, Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector,* tempore Edward VI., who sent for the architects out 

 of Italy. The length is 272 foot, the breadth 172 foot; measured by Mr. Moore, Clericus. It is 

 as high as the Banqueting house at Wliitehall, outwardly adorned with Dorick, lonick, and Corin- 

 thian pillars. Mr. Dankertz drew a landskip of it, which was engraved. Desire Mr. Rose to gett 

 me a print of it 



Longford House was built by the Lord Georges, after the fashion of one of the King of Swed- 

 land's palaces. The figure of it is triangular, and the roomes of state are in the round towers in 

 the angles. These round roomes are adorned with black marble Corintliian pillars, with gilded 

 capitalls and bases. 'Twas sold to the Lord Colraine about 1646. [It now belongs to the Earl of 

 Radnor. Plans, views, and accounts of this mansion, as well as of Longlcat and Charlton Houses, 

 are published in the " Architectural Antiquities," vol. ii. J. B.] 



Charlton House was built by the Earl of Suffolk, Lord High Treasurer, about the beginning of 

 Kint; James the First, when architecture was at a low ebbe. 



At Broad Chalke is one of the tunablest ring of bells in Wiltshire, which hang advantageously ; the 

 river running near the churchyard, which meliorates the sound. Here were but four bells till anno 

 1616 was added a fifth; and in anno 1659 Sir George Penruddock and I made ourselves church- 

 wardens, or else the fair church had fallen, from the niggardlinesse of the churchwardens of mean 

 condition, and then we added the sixth bell. 



The great bell at Westminster, in the Clockiar at the New Palace Yard, 36,000/i>. weight. See 

 Stow's Survey of London, de hoc. It was given by Jo. Montacute, Earle of (Salisbury, I think). 

 Part of the inscription is thus, sc. " annis ab acuto inonte Johannis." 



* [This statement is erroneous. Maiden Bradley, which is not far from Longleat, has been a seat of the noble family of Seymour 

 for many centuries, and they have an old mansion there ; but the family never possessed Longleat. The latter estate, on the 

 contrary, was granted by King Henry VIII. to Sir John Horsey, and Edward Earl of Hertford, from whom it was purchased 

 by Sir John Thynne, ancestor of its present proprietor, the Marquess of Bath. In 1576, Sir John commenced the splendid mansion 

 at Longleat, which some writers assert was designed by John of Padua. The works were regularly prosecuted during the next 

 twelve years, and completed by the two succeeding owners of the property. See Architectural Antiquities of Qreat Britain, vol. 

 ii. J.B.] 



