83 DESCRIPTION c/ STOURTON. 
Andromeda chain’d to a rock. 
King: charles and his three children. 
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The Florence boxes, placed on the marble tables, in this fa- 
loon, deferve great notice : they are fet with many curious, and 
with fome collly oriental Hones. 
In the drawing-room is a cabinet fupported by a rich frame 
or pedeftal, which I underftood was once the cafe of an organ. 
This cabinet formerly belonged to pope sextus V. The effigies 
of this pope, and the peretti family, from whom one of his 
nephews defcended, are taken from the life, and fet in the ca- 
binet in round receffes, with glaffes before them, in order to 
prefer ve them. The laft of this family was a nun, who left the 
cabinet to a convent in rome, where Mr. h**** made a pur- 
chafe of it. The whole is a great curiolity, and of high value. 
In this apartment are alfo many excellent paintings of the firft 
mailers. Within this is a finaller room, which is alfo a cabi- 
net of pictures. 
You remember in the apartment we firft entered, I believe it 
is on the well fide of the houfe, the curious piece of plate, in 
relievo, which was placed over the table at the upper end of the 
room, and ferved as a rich ornament. Over the chimney-piece 
is a good picture of the interior part of st. peter’s church at 
rome, and coloured exa&ly from it. 
I need not mention the library, which is well furnifhed, and 
a comfortable apartment : nor can I fay any thing of feveral 
other rooms which I did not vilit. Farewell. I am yours, &c. 
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