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Title: Picturesque views, on the River Medway, from the Nore to the vicinity of its source in Sussex : with observations on the public buildings and other works of art in its neighbourhood
Year: 1793 (1790s)
Authors: Ireland, Samuel, d. 1800 Apostool, Cornelis, 1762-1844 Thomas and John Egerton (Firm)
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Publisher: London : Published by T. and J. Egerton ...
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ain, and near them an infcriptlon,which relates to her having been entertainedin this manfion. Cobham Hall, with theouthoufes, is reported to have coft fixty thou-fand pounds. The park is large, i^ut not foextenfive as formerly; it is famed for itsftately timber trees, particularly its oaks, fomeof which are upwards of twenty feet in cir-cumference > and by their venerable appear-ance juflify the poets opinion. ** The monarch oak,** Three centuries he grows, and three he ftays Supreme in ftate, and in three more decays. In the grove in this park is a remarkablechefnut-tree, called the Four Siflers, from itsdividing itfelf into four large arms -, it isthirty-two feet in circumference. The ve- nifon ( 8i ) nifon of this park is, from the quality of theherbage on which it is fed, elleemed to befuperior in flavour to that of almoll anyother in the country. In Cobham church are feveral well fculp-tured monuments of the Cobham family,fome of them in a fuperior ilyle of execution. SECTION
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( 83 ) SECTION VII. Passing the ancient village of Wold-ham, which lies on the eaftern bank of theMedvvay, little variation of fcenery occurs,till we approach the extenfive ruins ofHalling-houfe, formerly one of the fourfplendid refidences of the Eifliops of Ro-chefter. In the reign of Edward II. Hamode Heth, the then Bifhop, and who wasconfecrated at Avignon, in 1319, expendedconfiderable fums in repairs and additions^on this once fpacious building, by erectinga hall and chapel, the remains of which areonly to be traced by fragments of ruinatedwalls. This (imple edifice and thefe humble roofs, dedicated only to God and Religion, yet L 2 remain. ( 84 ) remain. The loftier domes and marbletowers, in which hierarchy, the invention ofman, lifted its mitred front, have moulderedaway. A STONE figure, v^^e are told, about twofeet high, of Hamo, the Biihop, in hisepifcopal robes, once flood in a recefs overthe principal entrance to the houfe. Thisftatue was blown down about the year1720, but

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