Tour in 17766 
OF (MY RPPERARY LIre. 
French, in the Nouveau Recueil de Voyages cu Nord, Se. 3 tom. 
quarto, Geneve, 1785; they were likewife reprinted at Dudliz, 
in octavo fize. ; 
In-my road, in1776, from London, I vifited Banbury, Wroxton- 
hall the feat of lord Guildford, Buckingham, Edge-biil, Charlcot 
the feat of the Lucies, Warwick and Kenelworth, and pafied 
through Coventry, Atberfton, and Tamworth to Downing. At 
Buckingham 1 narrowly efcaped a death fuited to an antiquary ; 
I vifited the old church at 8 o’clock in the morning of March 
the 26th. It fell before 6 in the afternoon, and I efcaped being 
‘buried in its ruins. 
-On July the 14th I took the route of Oulton-hall, Winnington, 
and Durham in Chefbire, vifited Manchefter, Buxton, Bakewell, 
Haddon-ball, Matlock, Nottingham, Southwell, Newark, and Lin- 
col... Near Hern-caftle 1 entered the Pazs-bas of Great Britain. 
I vifited Tarerfale and Bofton, Spalding, Crowland-abby, Stamford, 
Burleigh-houfe, Caftor and Peterborough, Whittlefea-marfo and 
Ely, Newmarket, St. Edmundjbury, the reverend Mr. Afbby at 
Barrow, Cambridge, Ware, and Waltham-abby ; pafied a day 
with Mr. Gough at Enjield, and concluded my tour in the 
capital. 
In this journey Mofes Griffith made fome of his moft beauti- 
ful drawings in the line of antiquity: of feveral of the moft 
elegant parts of the gothic archite€ture in the magnificent ca- 
thedral at Lincoln; and alfo a few of the eroffer figures in the 
Saxon remains of the weft front; and at Southwell he drew the 
-exquifite interior of the matchlefs chapter, one of the lightetft 
and moft elegant productions of the gothic chizel which we can 
-boaft of. I wifh my time would permit me to make a cata- 
logue 
