Names of Persons who contributed to the Defence of the Country. 31 



styles. But the general character of the first house having 1 been 

 adopted for the second, it may have been more fully developed under 

 Robert Smithson's superintendence. 



As to " John de Padua," whether a John Padovani of Verona, 

 of Venice, or of Milan, there is among the Longleat papers not the 

 slightest reference to his having either designed, or having been 

 consulted as the work went on, or of his having received any money 

 for services, either for the first, or the second house at Longleat. 



In the great research that is now going on among public and 

 private historical documents something may yet be discovered to 

 establish his claim, but the records at Longleat itself are silent. 



%\t Uattws of % IJoHIitg, dftttrg, anh otjws 

 in % Cottntg of Wilis, to|o rontnktefr to 



J. E. Jackson. 



(Contributed by Mr. Walter Monet, F.S.A.) 



March. 



John Thistlethwayte [? Winterslow] the 8 of March £25 



Sir Walter Hungerford [Farley Castle] the 10 of March 50 



Edward Hungerford the same day 25 



Edward Horton [? of Iford, Bradford] the same day 50 



John Longe, Sen. [Wraxall] the 14 of March 25 



Boger Blagden [? Blackden, of Kings wood] the same day 25 



Edward Longe [? Monkton] the 15 of March 25 

 John Trusloe [? Hampworth, of Avebury afterwards] the 16 



of March 25 



« King's Lib., Brit. Mus., 194, a. 22. 



