The Beauties of Wiltshire Author:John Britton General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1801 Original Publisher: Published by the proprietors, ..., and sold by Vernor and Hood Subjects: Wiltshire (England) History / Ancient / General History / Europe / Great Britain Social Science / Archaeology Travel / Europe / Great Britain Notes: This is a black and ... more »white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: TO Sir RICHARD COLT HOARE, Baut. SIR, J. HE fortunate coincidence of circumstances which attends my present address, has given birth to emotions of inexpressible pleasure. To whom could topographical sketches be inscribed with more propriety than to him whose extensive travelling, and habitual partiality to the subject, have qualified him to become a judicious patron to such a work ? But this is not the only source of my pleasure : your alacrity in promoting my enquiries -- your anxious exertions towards illustrating this county -- your taste and practical knowledge in the polite arts -- all conspire to render you peculiarly entitled to the present address, and fully competent to appreciate the merits of the following pages. Affluence is too frequently accompanied by a haughty reserve, the result of pride and of ignorance. SECT. XV. Loxgleat, - -- -- Page 29 to 45 Acknowledgment to Mr. Davis -- Situation of House -- - Entrances -- Weymouth Pine -- Approach from Lodge -- Shearwater -- House began building, 1567 -- Cost of building -- Sir John Thynne the architect -- Finished by the first Lord Weymouth -- Dutch Gardening -- Architecture of house -- -Hall -- Wotton's pictures -- Picture gallery -- Library -- Characteristics of place -- . King visited it -- Some account of the Thynne family -- Improvements by the late Marquis. SECT. XVI. Warmivster, -- -- 46 to ...« less