HARTWELL 7 



Hartwell, for seven years the home of Louis XVI 1 1, 

 and his Court after their escape from France under 

 the first Napoleon. If this central part of Bucks is 

 historical, so is the northern part, as it contains the 

 town of Buckinoham, which afives its name to the 

 county ; but it appears that it never attained to the 

 dignity of the county town, Aylesbury from time 

 immemorial had always that honour. Near to the 

 town is Stowe, the seat for generations of the 

 Grenvilles, Dukes of Buckingham (and now the 

 residence of the Due d'Orleans and other members 

 of the royal family of France), with Whaddon 

 Chase, a noted stronghold of the ancient Britons 

 when Julius Caesar invaded the country 55 b.c. 

 Yet in the south it is equally to be noticed, contain- 

 ing as it does the historic College of Eton, founded 

 by King Henry III. 



The county here is bounded by the River 

 Thames — full as it is of history, with ' Danesfield,' 

 near Great Marlow, where are the remains of a 

 very perfect Danish camp. Nor must the village 

 of Penn be forgotten — the home of the Penns — who 

 founded Pennsylvania, in the United States of 

 America. In this county poetry is nobly represented 

 — by the residence of John Milton, who wrote 

 ' Paradise Lost,' at Chalfont St. Giles ; Hall 

 Barn, the home of the courtly Waller in the reign 

 of Charles II., now the residence of Sir Edward 

 Lawson, Bart. ; Gray, with his elegy of the country 

 churchyard, at Stoke Poges ; Cowper, of Olney ; 

 and it is confidently believed that glorious Will 



