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came to be adopted by the family. General Lambert, the 

 great Cromwellian leader, was of this ancient family. The 

 new mansion and grounds were next visited ; the former was 

 built by the late Sir C. M. L. Monck, Bart. It is a building 

 of the most substantial character, has a solid appearance, and 

 is of the purest Grecian architecture. The entrance hall was 

 only viewed ; and perhaps the description uttered by one of 

 our members, well qualified to judge, conveys best the im- 

 pression made upon the company at the time — "Chaste, 

 severe, but cold." 



A pleasant walk through the grounds, fernery, and quarry, 

 from which the stones were obtained for the new mansion, 

 and which has been converted into a rockery and wilderness 

 of the most fascinating kind, where the Allosorus crispus and 

 Anchusa sempervirens were growing in friendship with the 

 exotic palm, brought the party to their carriages. After ex- 

 amining some of the best specimens of the Auracaria imbri- 

 cata and other exotic trees that are to be seen in the county, 

 the party resumed their seats and drove to the quaint little 

 village of Harnham, situated on an abrupt rock of freestone 

 slate. It was formerly, in the time of Henry V., occupied by 

 a fortalice, of which there are now no remains. Old trees 

 and recent walks and shrubberies skirt the foot of the rock, 

 and ivy and fumitory hang upon its sides ; Allium oleraceum 

 also grows abundantly on the ledges. The party were kindly 

 received by the proprietor, who shewed us the garden, which 

 contains the tomb of the celebrated beauty, Madam Katherine 

 Babington. It is hewn out of the solid rock, on the side of 

 which is cut the following inscription : — 



" Here lyeth the body of Madam Babington, who was laid in 

 this sepulchre on the 9th September, 1670." 



" My time is past, as you may see, 

 I viewed the dead as you do me ; 

 Or long you'll be as low as I, 

 And some will look on thee." 



This Madam Babington was a daughter of Sir A. Hazelrig, 



