A series of picturesque views of seats of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland. With descriptive and historical letterpress (1880)
Morris, F. O. (Francis Orpen), 1810-1893, Fawcett, Benjamin, Lydon, A. F. (Alexander Francis) · London, Edinburgh, Dublin, William Mackenzie · leaf 213
s,and in the other rooms are a variety of articles of rarity and value. Tradition states that this was a favourite retreat of the poet Dryden, and one of thepathways, still called Drydens walk, commemorates the fact. Lord Clifford derives his descent from Richard Fitz Ponz, living in the reign of… … I COESHAM COURT, NEAR CORSHAM, WILTSHIRE. LORD METHUEN. This was anciently a royal mansion, and used to be a portion of the dowry ofthe Queens of England. As such it was at one time possessed by Henrietta Maria,the Queen of Charles the First. The name was sometimes written as it is…
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