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remains Jeave upon the eaft by Kingfland- 
green, and may: be traced here and there 
ameng the green lanes that Jead to Enfield. 
The firft object which raifed our curio- 
fity was Waltham-crofs, a memorial not 
only of Edward the firlt’s affeCtion for 
his queen, but of his intellectual relifh 
for the arts. It was about the period of 
this erection that the arts of elegance took 
a new turn, owing, perhaps, to the im- 
provements which Edward had: witnefled 
in Italy while returning from the Holy 
Land. Certain it is that he employed 
Ttalian artifts ; who feem to have commu- 
nicated to us much of that elegant tatte 
which was foon after fo conipicuoufly 
fhewn in all our Gothic churches. The 
crefs at Waltham has never received juf- 
tice from the graver: the fculpture of the 
figures round it deferves the higheft pane- 
gyric, and might fairly occupy the atten- 
tion of one or other of our beft artifts to 
advantage. Time and adventitious cir- 
cumftances have fadly corroded its origi- 
nal beauty ; and a few years will very 
probably complete its ruin. 
In Chefhunt, to the right of the road, 
we faw the flables which formerly be- 
longed to Theobalds ; they are of red 
brick, and, as a lumbering ere&tion of 
the time of James the Firft, may be called 
handfome. The evening drawing in be- 
fore we got to Hoddefdon, our obferva- 
tions for that day were at an end: but the 
next morning we left the-high-road to- 
ward Stanftead Abbot, and vifited the 
once celebrated fcene of the Rye-houfe 
Plot. 
The Rye, for fo it is termed by the in- 
habitants about it, was one of the earliet 
and mof curious brick manfions in the 
kingdom. In the’ thirty-fourth of Henry 
the Sixth, Sir Andrew Ogard and others 
obtained the royal licence, not only to im- 
park the manor, but to erect a caitle with 
battlements and leop-holes, and to have 
free warren there, and in the Vills of S:an- 
ftead, Amwell, Hoddefdon, Ware, and 
Wideford. Of this mantion, the gate- 
houfe, where the plot was to have been 
executed, in the time of Charles the Se- 
cond, is the only relic. It has a chimney 
fingularly wreathed, end in the {pandrils 
of the gate are the arms of Ogard, a mul- 
Jet with fupporters and crest. The draw- 
bridge and the moat appear ta have been 
almoft defiroyed together ; and the whole 
has been appropriated for many years to 
the reception of the poer of Stanflead Ab- 
bot. Of Sir Andrew Ogard, the builder, 
litle more is known than that, in 1427, 
Excurfion ta St. Albans. 
Spital, to Kingflaid, which its indiftin&: 
[March Ty > 
hé was an executor to the will. of John 
Duke of Bedford, Regent of France. The 
Rye, as an early inftance of the brick 
manfion, is, I believe, only exceeded in 
antiquity by the caftle of Hurftmonceaux 
in Suffex. 
Hence, we proceeded, by the brink of 
the Ware-river, to Stanftead-Thele, and 
thence, in front of Great Amwell, to 
Ware, a town filled with millers and. 
malt-houfes, and the abundance of water 
in whofe neighbourhood feems to have 
furnifhed that ufeful projeét in the days of 
James the firft, of conveying a New River 
to London. 
About half a mile from Ware, on one 
fide the road that leads to Hertford, lies 
the fource of the New River. The {pring 
it arifes from is railed round, and forms a 
bafon of about thirty yards in diameter; the 
ftream that leaves it has little rapidity of 
motion, but is greatly increafed at a fhort 
diftance by the channel that joins it from 
the Lea, and which undoubtedly furnithes 
alarge portion of its water. The place 
where it is fituated is called Amwell Par- 
va ; and weit of the {pring is a pillar with 
the following infcriptions :° 
Eafi Side. 
W€ This 
Belongs to 
New River 
Company: 
173 Feet. 
CHADWELL 
SPRING.” 
South Sides - 
§Si4g 
. Feet 
Conveyed 
49° 
Belongs to 
the {aid 
Company 
870 Feet. > o_ 
REPAIRED 
i Weed 
North Side. 
*© 629 
Feet. 
OPENED 
1608,” 
Having examined the fource of the 
New River, we went on to Hertford 5 
nigh the entrance of which flands the nur- 
fery to Chrift’s Hofpital in London: it 
contained, at the time of our vifit, 333 
boys, 1s healthily fituated, and in its ge- 
weral appearance is fomewhat like Ban-. 
crofi’s 
