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Gardeners Chronicle, 
SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1887. 
HAGLEY HALL. 
mons | "T HERE we was à park of 300 acres here as early 
gn of Edward II., but the original 
iletons was at Frankley, 
son and successor lived in splendour during the 
reign of Edward IV. The latter, dying in 1508, 
ture by the opposite party, the family removed 
to Hagley. antique and half-timbered 
house stood at one time in the old park near the 
site of the present capacious mansion. This old 
the new one built 
by Sir Thomas Lyttleton above-mentioned, who 
also enlarged the park, which now rises gradu- 
ally to higher levels from the house towards an 
ridge of the Clent Hills, a mile or more distan 
You may traverse this steep, long mile by a pat Е 
1 past Milton's seat bene ath a Sycamore 
commanding a wid pe, and bearing an 
inscription beginning— 
“These are thy glorious works, parent of good, 
Almighty!" . 
inscribed with 
Hard by is “The He rmitage," 
Penseroso, 
tender and touching verses from Il 
these among the rest— 
* And may at last my weary ag 
Find out the anii GUN 
Still climbing you presently pass that very 
goer architectural device called by Wal- 
pole “ e built by Millar.” Imme- 
diately " pésodd i is the лау of the park and а 
gate, and from that spot a short upward slope of 
Four stones of the last century, called Druidical, 
but planted here by the first Lord Lyttleton, 
