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it being planted by the hands of H. M. C. Majesty Louis 

 XVIIIth, King of France and Navarre, and of the Princes 

 of his house, in commemoration of their visit to Stowe, A. D. 

 1808. The height of the tower is 65 feet, its circumference 

 110. Within it are apartments which are inhabited, and a 

 winding staircase to the top of the edifice. Four towers 

 are placed round it. Over the door, the following inscrip- 

 tion on a marble slab, placed by the late Marquess of Buck- 

 ingham, records the event from which the building derives 

 its name. 



Quod 



Tranquillitatem Europae, 

 Jura, et bonos Mores, 

 Regia Galliae Gens, 

 In Solium Avorum redux, 

 Stabiliat, et augeat, 

 Faxit Deus Optimus Maximus ! 



Et ne obliviscatur, 

 Quod in jEdibus Grenvillianis, 

 BORBONIENSES, 

 'Virtute et Constants in Adversis 

 Illustriores, 

 Cominorari non dedignati sunt ; 



HAS QUERCUS, 



A Ludovico xviii. Francis et Navarree Rege, 

 A Carolo Philippo Regis Fratre, 

 A Ludovico Antonio Regis Nepote, 

 A Carolo Ferdinando Regis Nepote, 

 A Ludovico Philippo Duce Orleanense, 

 A Ludovico Carolo Comite Beaujoliense, 

 A Ludovico Josepho Principe Condeense, 

 A Ludovico Henrico Duce Borboniense, 

 xninio die Januarii anno mdcccviii, 

 Hie positas ; 

 Georgius Marchio de Buckingham 

 Posteris suis commendat. 



