mory of Sir Edmund Peckham, and family. Also for the families of Bowyer, Hill, Lockey, and Way. On the left side of the great road from London to High Wycombe, &c. lies LANGLEY, otherwise called LANGLEY MARIES. It belonged to the crown in the reign of Edward I. It lately belonged to lord Masham, in 1714, of whom it was purchased by the duke of Marlborough, in 1738. The present duke sold it in 1788 to Sir Robert Bateson Harvey, bart. It is a handsome stone building, erected by the late duke of Marlborough, in the centre of a fine park, abounding with a variety of fine timber. A piece of water runs along the south front of the house, at the foot of a sloping lawn, on which are scattered some beautiful clumps of trees, and other woodland scenery. A rising ground, at the west extremity of the park, leads to an extensive inclosure, called the Black Park, entirely covered by firs, except where some roads are cut. In the centre is a fine lake. The parish of Langley consists of three districts, called Westmore Green, Horsemore Green, and Southern or Middle Green. The parochial chapel contains memorials of the family of Kederminster. The aisle, which goes by that name, was separated from the nave by a Gothic screen, executed by Coade, at the expence of Sir R. B. Harvey. At the south end of the chapel is a small library, left for public use by Sir John Kederminster, with an express injunction that no book should ever be taken out of it. IVER, is a village three miles from Uxbridge. Here was Delaford, the seat of Sir William Young, bart, which was lately pulled down; the extensive pleasure grounds being added to those of Mr. Cleves, whose seat is near the church. This parish was called Evre, and Evreham, in Domesday Book, and belonged to Robert D'Oiley, from whom it passed by marriage to Milo Crispin. After various descents it came to the crown, and was given by Edward VI. to lord Paget, in whose family it continued till 1772, when the earl of Uxbridge sold it, and it is now the property of Henry Piper Sperling, Esq. At At Shredding's Green, in this parish, is the seat of Mrs. Colborne, built by Sir John Vanbrugh, for the dowager of lord Mohun, who was killed in a duel, that was likewise fatal to his antagonist James duke of Hamilton. A considerable cotton mill has lately been erected at Iver. RICHING PARK, near Colnbrook, in Bucks, is a new seat, erected by John Sullivan, Esq. It stands on the site of Percy Lodge, the residence of Frances countess of Herty ford, afterward duchess of Somerset, (the Cleora of Mrs. Rowe, and the patroness, whom Thomson invokes in his' Spring.") "It was her practice," says Dr. Johnson, to invite, every summer, some poet into the country, to hear her verses, and assist her studies. This honour was one summer conferred on Thomson, who took more delight in carousing with lord Hertford and his friends, than assisting her ladyship's poetical operations, and therefore never received another summons." But whatever were the merits of this excellent lady's poetry, some of her letters, which have been published, evince, in the opinion of Shenstone, "a perfect rectitude of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and a truly classic ease and elegance of style." In Iver church are monuments to the memory of Sir George and Sir Edward Salter, carvers to Charles I.; of lady Mary Salter, wife of Sir George, rising from her coffin in a shroud; and of John King, killed in his own house in 1604, by his kinsman Roger Parkinson, who, in a drunken frolic, stuck a shoemaker's awl into his forehead. COLNBROOK, is a market town, eighteen miles from London, on four channels of the river Coln, over each of which it has a bridge. One part of it is in Middlesex, and the other in Buckinghamshire. Here is an antient chapel, said to have been founded by Edward III. It was removed from its old site in Langley parish in 1790, and rebuilt on the side of the road belonging to the parish of Horton. Some antiquaries have supposed this place to have been a Roman station, but their imagination is not supported by any antiquities having been found here. Colnbrook Colnbrook has several large inns, and is accounted the greatest thoroughfare in England for carriages, according to its distance from London, or, as it is called, the great Bath road. It consists principally of one street, is in three parishes, and has a market day on Tuesday, which was used for corn, but has failed some years. The town was incorporated in 1543, by the stile of a bailiff and burgesses. HORTON, a village near Colnbrook, was antiently pos sessed by the family of Windsor, and afterwards by that of Scawen. It was purchased in 1794, by Thomas Williams, Esq. M. P. whose son, Owen Williams, Esq. M. P. is the present proprietor. The great Milton, after he had left the university, resided five years at Horton with his father. The house, called the manor house, is now in the occupation of Mrs. Hugford. Here Milton's mother died, in 1637, and is buried in the chancel of the church. END OF THE FIFTH VOLUME. VOL. V. A. ADDINGTON, church and village, 310;-singular condition of the tenure of the manor, 310. also, 226, n. warren, remains of a Druidical temple at, 265. See Addiscombe place, the residence of the earl of Liverpool, 309. Alleyn, Mr. Edward, founder of Dulwich college, sketch of his life, 53. Amersham, see Agmondesham. Ascot heath, its situation, 426;-the king's races held there, ib. Ashted park, the seat of R. B. Howard, Esq. 315;-its church, ib. B. Bagshot, town of, 355;-formerly the lordship of the British monarchs, in Barclay, Mr. G. bis seat at Box-hill, 326. Barley-end house, formerly the family seat of the Duncombes, 464. Bartholomew, St. Romish legends of, 264. Lushington, Esq. 387. Battersea, or Patrick's Ea, manor of, and its various possessors, 396. Becket, Thomas, the Saint, legendary anecdotes of, 263, n. Beddington, its ancient manors; 300;-the first orange trees in England Belvidere house, Erith, the seat of lord Eardley, 143. Berkshire, south-east side of, its ancient inhabitants, 400. Betchworth castle, its antient proprietors, 333. Beult, a small river of Kent, its course, 63. Bexley, manor, history of, 148;-the church and monuments, ib. Bisham, manor, history of its descent, 431. Blackheath, description of a singular cavern discovered there, 113. Blases's well, in the manor of Bromley, anciently much frequented, 273. Bookham, the seat of Mr. Laurel, 322. Borough English, an antient custom, 329. Botleys mansion and park, description of, 363. Boulton, H. Esq, his seat near Blackheath, 322. Bowe's almshouses, Woolwich, 132. Box hill, delightful situation of, 316;its name derived from box trees Boxley hill, its fine prospects, 227;-history of the manor, and of the VOL. V. Bray Bray, village of, 433;-anecdotes of its vicar in the reigns of Henry Brightwell court, the seat of the hon. Mr. Irby, 440, Bromley, town, history of, 273;-Blases's well, 273;-the church, ib. Burnham, village and church, 440. Butler's court, formerly Gregories, near Beaconsfield, the residence of the Bysch court, near Godstone, the seat of John Manship, Esq. 338. C. Calico printing, history of its invention in Germany, 281. Camberwell, parish, village, and manors, 44 ;-the church, and its mo- Camomile hill, near Egham, 356. Canterbury, diocese of, 65. Carew, sir Francis, anecdotes of, 301, n. Caron's almshouse, Lambeth, description of, 33. Carshalton, ancient records of, 298;-its springs, the source of the river Chalfont, St. Giles's, the residence of the poet Milton, 469;-seats in the Chalk church, singular bequest to, for the repose of the donor's soul, 176. Chatham, ancient records of, 214;-the dock, 215;-ordnance wharf, Chatham chest, origin, design, and present state of, 221;-removed to Cheam, its ancient name, and descent of the manor, 294;-the seat of Chertsey, its antiquity, 359;-privilege of the Hundred to which it gives Chesham, town of, 465;-inanufactures, ib.-fairs, ib.-descent of the Chesterfield house, Blackheath, the residence of R. Hulse, Esq. 118;— Chevening, village of, 201;-description of earl Stanhope's seat, ib.-the Chiltern hills, their situation, 455, n. Chipping Wycombe, see Wycombe. Chiselhurst, anciently an appurtenance to Dartford, now the property of Clanden, Fast, or Clanden Abbatis, 352. West, or Clanden Regis, manor and advowson, 352. Clapham, village of, 287;-improved state of the common and roads, ib. Clever, parish of, 420;-St. Leonard's hill, the seat of General Harcourt, Clifton |
