firmest piece of brickwork in the kingdom, for the time it has been built. There is a deep mote round it, which has been kept dry for many years, and the sides planted with fruit-trees. The rooms in this house were spacious and lofty ; from one of which, the well-known comedy of the Drummer, or Haunted House, took its rise : but about twenty years ago, the whole of the inside, the timber, window frames, &c. of this noble and ancient building were taken down by the present proprietor, a, Mr. Hare, in order to build a more modern edifice, at another part of the park.
Adjoining thp park, in the Church, is the monument of the unfortunate Lord Dacre, who suffered death, at the age of twentyfour, for the murder pf Sir Nicholas Pelham's gamekeeper. - It must be remarked that the youth, was not of the number who caused his death - he suffered for association : but surely there appears much severity in the sentence. The avowed design of the party was to take a deer from Pelham's grounds--it was not to flay his servant. The -
