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i zoo by the late earl of Bute, and now contains about 
1500 acres. The manfion was in a great measure rebuilt 
by the late earl, who employed Mr. Adam the architect. 
The principal rooms, particularly the library, drawing¬ 
room, and faloon, are on a magnificent fcale. The li¬ 
brary, which is 146 feet in length, is efteemed but little 
inferior to that of Blenheim. The collection of pictures 
is very large and valuable, chiefly of the Italian and 
Flemilh fchools. The chapel is fitted up with carving in 
wood, which was originally executed for fir Thomas Pope, 
at Tittenhanger, Herts, in 1548, and removed to Luton 
in perfeCt prefervation by fir .Robert Napier. In the ad¬ 
joining wood is a portico, a beautiful piece of brick-build¬ 
ing, defigned for a maniion intended to have been built 
by lord Wenlock, but which was never completed ; and 
in the park is a (tone tower of great antiquity. 
Silfoe, or Sivilfho, between Luton and Bedford, has 
fairs on May 12 and Sept. 20. At Pullox-Hill, near 
Silfoe, about eighty years ago a gold mine was di(covered, 
which was feized for the king by the Cociety of royal 
mine-adventurers ; but the refiners, finding what gold 
they extracted from the ore did not always anfwer the 
charge of reparation, did not go on with it. 
Sommeris is two miles north-eaft of Luton, where is 
the elegant gate-houfe of brick, now belonging to the 
park of Luton-houfe, and makes one of the beauties of 
that delightful feat. 
The river Lea, which rifes near Luton, runs fouth-eaft 
by Wheat-Ha tup fled in Hertford (hi re, then eaft through 
Hertford and Ware, and afterwards fouth, dividing Effex 
from Hertford (hire, and Effex from Middlefex, falls into 
the Thames a little below Blackwall. By this river there 
are large quantities of corn and malt brought out of Hert- 
forbfliire to London. A canal has lately been made from 
this river, which runs into the Thames near Limehoufe, 
for the paffage of barges. Britijh Diredory, vol. v. Lyfons. 
Beauties of England and Wales. 4 
LU'TON, a town of Bengal: thirteen miles north-weft 
of Kifhenagur. 
LLf'TRI, a town of Swiflerland, in the county of Vaud, 
fltuated on the north coaft of the lake of Geneva : three 
miles eaft of Laufanne. 
LUT'TENBURG, or Lu'temberg, a town of the 
duchy of Stiria, on the river Stantz : twelve miles eaft of 
Pettau, and one hundred fouth of Vienna. Lat. 46. 35. N. 
Ion. 16. 8. E. 
LUT'TENBERG (Ober), a town of Stiria: three miles 
fouth of Luttenberg. 
LUT'TER, a river of Germany, which runs into the 
Bega two miles fouth of Hervorden.—A river of Ger¬ 
many, which runs into the Lachte twelve miles north- 
eaft of Zelle.—A town of Weflphalia, in the duchy of 
Brunfwick: eleven miles north-weft of Gofslar. 
LUT'TERBERG, a town of Weflphalia, in the prin¬ 
cipality of Grubenhngen. It was formerly a county, and 
for a long time was governed by lords of its own : fifteen 
miles fouth of Gofslar. 
LUT'TERBERG. See Lauterberg, vol. xii. p. 315. 
LUT' EEREL, an ifland of North America, in Machias 
Bay, on the coaft of Maine. 
LUT'TERHAUSEN, a town of the duchy of Holftein : 
eight miles from Hamburg. 
LUT'TERINGHAUSER, a town of the duchy of 
Berg: two miles north-eaft of Lennep. 
LUT'FERLOCK, a townfhip of America, in Orl&ns 
county, Vermont: north of Craftfborough. 
LUT'TER WORTH, a market-town in Leicefterfliire, 
is fituated on the bank of the river Swift; about two miles 
from the Watling-ftreet road ; thirteen miles from Lei- 
cefter, and eighty-three from London. Leland deferibes 
this “ towne as leant half Jo bigge as Lughborrow ; but 
in it there is an hofpital of the foundation of two or three 
of the Verdounes, that were lords of auncient tyme of the 
towne.” This hofpital was founded in the reign of king 
LUT 
John, by Roife de Verdon and Nicholas her fon, for a 
prielt and fix poor men, and to keep hofpifality for poor 
men travelling that way. The parifh-church of Lutter¬ 
worth is a fpacious ftrudure, with a nave, two ailles, a 
chancel, and a tower with four turrets. The chancel, 
which is feparated from the nave by a beautiful fereen, is 
fuppofed by Burton to have been built by lord Ferrers of 
Groby, as his arms are cut on the outfide over the great 
window. By the great ftonn, in 1703, the fpire, which 
was forty-feven feet higher than the prefent turrets, was 
blown down, and, falling on the roof of the church, did 
great damage to the body, pews, &c. About the year- 
1740, the whole was repaired, a pavement of chequered 
Itone laid, and all the interior made new, except the pul¬ 
pit, which is of thick oak planks, of an hexagonal (hape, 
and has a feam of carved work in the joints ; this pulpit 
is preserved with great veneration, in memory of the dif- 
tinguifhed reformer, John Wickliffe, who was rector of 
this parilh, and died fuddenly, while hearing ntafs, Decem¬ 
ber 31ft, 1387. The chair in which he breathed his lalfc 
is alio preferved with great care; as is likewife another 
relic ufed by him, the communion-cloth of purple vel¬ 
vet trimmed with gold. His body was buried in this 
church ; but, bis dodrines having been condemned, bis 
remains were taken up and burned, by orderof the coun¬ 
cil of Sienna, in 1428, and his aflies eaft into the river. 
His portrait, by S. Fielding, hangs over the gallery at the 
weft end of the church. The font was given by Bafil earl 
of Denbigh ; the canopy or covering, which is very neat, 
and was erected in 1704, is pretended to be an exact mo¬ 
del of the old fpire. The redory, which i,s valuable, is 
in the gift of the crown. 
A meeting-houfe for diffenters was built here in 1777, 
and is numeroufly attended. Here arealfo a fchool-houie' 
and alms-houfe built by the bequeft of Mr. Edward Sher- 
rier. Among other benefadions to this town, Mr. Ri¬ 
chard Elkington, by his will dated May 29th, 1607, left 
in truft to the mayor, bailifty and burgefles, of Leicefter, 
50I. to be lent in fums of iol. each to five tradefmen of 
Lutterworth for one year at five per cent, the intereft tcx 
be diftributed among certain poor perfons. The cotton- 
manufadure is carried on hereto confiderable extent, 
and fome large buildings have been lately ereded as fac¬ 
tories and worklhops. Many hands are alfo employed in 
making ltockings. A weekly market is held on Thurs¬ 
days, granted, with an annual fair, by king Henry V. 
in the iecondyear of his reign ; three other fairs have fine* 
been obtained; the fair-days are, Feb. iS, April 2., Holy 
Thurfday, and Sept. 16. 
In the year 1789, there were in Lutterworth 360 houfes j 
which, on the average of 4! to a houfe, would make the 
number of inhabitants 1620. In the return under the 
population-ad in 1801, the number of houfes is ftated a£ 
only 277, and of inhabitants 1652. The whole hundred 
of Guthlanton, in which Lutterworth is the only market- 
town, is ftated, in the returns of 1S11, tocontain 3606 in¬ 
habited houfes, and 17,622 inhabitants. 
The whole people of Lutterworth, till within thefe fifty 
years, were obliged to grind all their malt at one particular 
mill, and their corn at another; and to bake all their 
bread in one oven ; and fo very arbitrary was the proprie¬ 
tor, that he once brought an adion againft a perfon for hav¬ 
ing a cake baked in his houfe, which was deemed town-bread , 
In thofe days of Egyptian bondage, an inhabitant of Lut¬ 
terworth durli not buy fo much as a pint of flour of a 
neighbouring miller. The people fubmitted to this op- 
preliion for a long time with painful reludance; till at 
length a patriot arofe, whofe name was Bickley, who not 
only routed his fellow-citizens to refiftance, but had fpirit 
enough to ered a mill of his own ; his example was fol¬ 
lowed by others, and feveral mills loon raifed their heads 
in defiance of the ’fquire’s mill, who immediatey com¬ 
menced adions againft all who had the preemption to 
dlfpute his right. All the inhabitants entered into a bond 
to 
