VIEWS OF Ziit ^rats OF NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN, IN Cnglanfc, Wales, ^cotlanti, AND frelanti. BY J. P. NEALE. SECOND SERIES. Vol. V. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY SHERWOOD, GILBERT, AND PIPER, Paternoster-Row. 1829. GUNNELL AND SHEARMAN, SALISBURY SQUARE. THE J. PAUL GETTY CENTER LIBRARY TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE GEORGE BYNG, WLitttovmt Corrinatxm, BARON BYNG OF SOUTHILL, IN THE COUNTY OF BEDFORD, VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE,. D. C. L., F. R. S., &c. &c. THE ELEVENTH VOLUME OF VIEWS OF THE »eats of J&ihlemm anU (gentlemen, IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, IS, WITH HIS LORDSHIP'S PERMISSION, AND FEELINGS OF GRATITUDE, MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY JOHN PRESTON NEALE. SECOND SERIES. CONTENTS OF THE FIFTH VOLUME, CONTAINING SIXTY ENGRAVINGS. ENGLAND. NAME. COUNTY. POSSESSOR. HERSTMONCEAUX, Title Sussex CHICKSAND PRIORY Bedfordshire SIR JOHN OSBORN. SOUTHILL PARK WILLIAM HENRY WHTTBREAD, ESQ. M.P. OF BRIDGEWATER. ASHRIDGE, PI. I Buckinghamshire COUNTESS DITTO, PI. II DITTO. DITTO, PI. Ill DITTO. DITTO, PI. IV DITTO TAPLOW COURT VISCOUNT KIRKWALL. BELMONT HOUSE Cheshire JOSEPH LEGH, ESQ. CHOLMONDELEY CASTLE MARQUIS CHOLMONDELEY. COMBERMERE ABBEY LORD VISCOUNT COMBERMERE. DODDINGTON HALL SIR JOHN DELVES BROUGHTON, ESQ. HOOTON HALL SIR THOMAS S. MASSEY STANLEY. MARBURY HALL JOHN SMITH-BARRY, ESQ. NORTON PRIORY SIR RICHARD BROOKE, BART. POYNTON LADY VERNON. SOMERFORD HALL CHA. WATKIN JOHN SHAKERLEY, ESQ. TABLEY HALL LORD DE TABLEY. TOFT HALL RALPH LEYCESTER, ESQ., M. P. VALE ROYAL LORD DELAMERE. BROCKETT HALL Hertfordshire VISCOUNT MELBOURNE. THE HOO LORD DACRE. KING'S WALDEN WILLIAM HALE, ESQ. OFFLEY PLACE REVEREND LYNCH BURROUGHS. BARHAM COURT Kent LORD BARHAM. LINTON PARK .., EARL CORNWALLIS. SUNRIDGE PARK SAMUEL SCOTT, ESQ., M. P. GOPSALL Leicestershire EARL HOWE. CHISWICK HOUSE Middlesex DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE. DITTO DITTO. NAME. COUNTY. POSSESSOR. LILFORD HALL NorthamptonshireLORT) LILFORD. MIDDLETON PARK Oxfordshire EARL OF JERSEY. EATON Shropshire RICHARD WILLIAMS, ESQ. HALSWELL Somersetshire CHA. KEMEYS KEMEYS TYNTE, ESQ., M.P. HATCH COURT THOMAS CLIFTON, ESQ. WESTON HALL Staffordshire EARL OF BRADFORD. BLITHFIELD LORD BAGOT. DALE PARK Sussex JOHN SMITH, ESQ., M. P. RICHMOND. GOODWOOD , . DUKE OF MICHELGROVE DUKE OF NORFOLK. MEREVALE Warwickshire DUGDALE STRAFFORD DUGDALE, ESQ., M.P. WARWICK CASTLE EARL OF WARWICK. ESHTON HALL Yorkshire MATTHEW WILSON, ESQ. RIPLEY CASTLE SIR WILLIAM AMCOTTS INGILBY, BART., M. P. WALES. ACTON HALL Denbighshire SIR FOSTER CUNLIFFE, BART. CHIRK CASTLE MRS. CHARLOTTE MYDDLETON BID- DULPH. WYNNSTAY SIR WATKIN WILLIAMS WYNNE, BART., M. P. ERTHIG SIMON YORKE, ESQ. DOWNING Flintshire DAVID PENNANT, ESQ. BART. HAWARDEN • • • SIR STEPHEN RICHARD GLYNNE, LLANERCHYDOL Montgomeryshire DAVID PUGH, ESQ. POWIS CASTLE LORD CLIVE. DITTO DITTO. SCOTLAND. CAMIS ESKAN Dunbartonshire JAMES DENNISTOUR, ESQ. ABBOTSFORD Roxburghshire SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART. GLASSERTON Wigtonshire STAIR HATHORN STEWART, ESQ. IRELAND. CASTLE COOLE Fermanagh EARL OF BELMORE. BISHOP'S COURT Kildare LORD PONSONBY. CASTLETOWN EDWARD CONOLLY, ESQ. EMO Queens County EARL OF PORTARLINGTON. ; Chtcfcsano ^riorp, Beofortjgfttre THE SEAT OF SIR JOHN OSBORN, BARONET. About the year 1150, Pain de Beaucharap and Roese his wife, relict of JefFery de Mandeville, founder of Walden Abbey, established a Priory at Chicksand for Nuns and Canons of the Order of St. Gilbert of Sempringham ; which in 1538 was dissolved, and in the following year a grant was made of its site to Richard Snow. Towards the close of Queen Elizabeth's reign, it was purchased of the Snow family by Sir John Osborn, Knight, ancestor of the present proprietor. At this time the Mansion is the residence of Thomas Potter Macqueen, Esq., the county member. The Priory, which is in the Hundred of Clifton, about a mile from Shefford, remains extra-parochial, and exhibits, as will be seen in the annexed Plate, much of a monastic appearance. The principal or car- riage front has on the ground-floor seven trefoil-headed windows, with labels ; in the centre is a porch with pinnacles richly ornamented ; the second story has the same number of windows, with a small oriel, the other front shewn in our View is of the same character ; this portion of the building is stuccoed. The offices which abut against the man- sion are brick with stone dressings. The whole is surmounted with a heavy-looking and high roof. The extreme ends of the principal fronts are strengthened by buttresses with a pinnacled summit. About the middle of the seventeenth century, the south and east fronts were either rebuilt or altered under the superintendance of Ware, a celebrated architect in his day, but the more recent restorations were made by the late Mr. James Wyatt, 1814. The predecessor of the present owner, the late General Sir George Osborn, filled the windows with stained glass in the antique style, and deposited in the contiguous cloisters various curiosities, containing, amongst other things, some sepulchral remains, dug up near the Priory. The hall, chapel, and some of the adjoining do- mestic offices have stone roofs, vaulted and groined. The quadrangle within the cloisters measures sixty-four feet by fifty-one feet six inches. Sir John Osborn, the present and fifth Baronet, Colonel of the Bed- fordshire Militia, was born in the year 1772, and married, in 1809, Frede- rica Augusta, daughter of the late Sir Charles Danvers, Baronet, by whom he has issue five sons and two daughters. Sir John succeeded to the title upon the death of his father, the late General Sir George Osborn, in June, 1818. This family has for centuries held important trusts under different British monarchs. During the civil wars of King Charles's reign, the Osborns were distinguished Royalists, and some of the family blood was spilt in that monarch's cause. Sir John, the first Baronet, died in 1698, at the age of 83, and was succeeded by his only son of the same name, who was twice married. He had for successor, in 1720, ———————————— J — — ——— —————— —— CHICKS AND PRIORY, BEDFORDSHIRE. his grandson, Sir Danvers, third Baronet. Sir Danvers married, in 1740, Mary, daughter of George, Earl of Halifax, by whom he had two sons, the elder of whom, the late Sir George Osborn, succeeded him in 1753. This gentleman was twice married. By his first wife, Elizabeth, eldest daughter and co-heiress of John Banister, Esq., to whom he was married in the year 1771, he had an only son, Sir John, the present and fifth Baronet. Motto : Quantum in rebus inane. ttst of tye pictures at (£hjcfe;sami ^riorg, THE PROPERTY OF THOMAS POTTER MACQUEEN, ESQ. Landscape Moueheron — Figures and St. Sebastian Albert Durer. Cattle by Adrian Vandervelde. Boys blowing Bubbles Eglon Vander- Four Views in Venice Canaletti. neer. Virgin and Child— Corregio. Village on a River, Moonlight Ditto. Holy Family— Ludovico Cangiagi. A Landscape Tull. The Assumption Domenichino. Sir Thomas More Holbein. Triumph of David— Guido, in the style of Portrait of Prince Charles, on copper Caravaggio. original score of the white cockade Flight into Egypt— Gaspar Poussin. engraved on the reverse, Edinburgh, Holy Family—N. Poussin. (The original 1745—Old Wilkes. sketch is in the Louvre.) In this room also are the following Pic- Boys playing Blindman's Buff—Bene- tures, the property of Sir John Osborn : detto Castiglione. Portrait of Oliver Cromwell—Sir Peter Ruins near Rome Ferg. Lely. (A very valuable painting ; the View on a Canal Brueghel. features being strongly pour frayed.J In this room is also the Finding of Moses Portrait of Himself—Sir P. Lely. —P. Veronese. This Picture is the Portrait of Edward VI.—Holbein. property of Sir John Osborn, Bart. And various Family Portraits. SALOON. BILLIARD ROOM. ("Flemish School.) Flower-pieces Vanbruggen. landscape— Wynants Holy Family —Rubens. Flowers by —Figures and cat- Segers. tle by Linglebach. Portrait of Himself—Jan Stein. Stag Hunt—Rubens. (Sketch of the great Group of Children, Ruins, picture in the Orleans Gallery. &c— Vander- werff. A Magdalen—Rubens. On copper, imi- Female selling Oysters tation of Italian School. Melzu. Village and Lake Kennx Figures by S now-pi ece Mo I in aer. — Simon Haykhaert. Interior with Figures—Jan Steen. The Queen of the Portrait of a Lady Netscher. Village— Tenters, on wood. (The Picture in Col- Party at a Window Tenburgh. the Stafford lection is on copper, same size.) Portrait of Charles I.— Vandyke. (Sketch Interior of a rustic Stable— for the Portrait at Windsor.) Philip Wou- vermans. Rabbi's Head— Dietrichy. Portraits of the Artist and his Wife— Portrait of his Father W. Mieris. A. Ostade. A Soldier carousing F. Mieris. Exterior, Boors playing Ninepins — C. Soldiers refreshing at a Village Inn. Palamedes. Dusart. Landscape Ruysdael—Figures and cat- Head of Mary Queen of Scots after her tle by Berghem. Decollation Zucchero. Dutch Coast, near Schceveling Stork. Interior of Cottage Van Tol. Cattle-piece Klomp. Cattle A. Vandervelde. Moonlight Vanderneer. Portraits of the Osborn Family— Pro- Interior and perty of Sir John. Figures Zorgh. Temptation of St. Anthony Callot. LIBRARY. View of Peronne, previous to the erection of the Bergen, on theRhine Griffier. Fortifications — Vanderheyden. Wild Scenery, with Robbers, and Moon- Figures by Vandervelde. light at Sea—S. Rosa. Calm on the Coast of Holland, Boats, &c. River and Ferry Boat— Vangoyen. — Vander Capella. outhtfl $arfc, 38etiforli0|)tre ; THE SEAT OF WILLIAM HENRY WHITBREAD, ESQ., M.P. This Seat, which ranks among the first in the country, lies about two miles to the north of Shefford, and was, for a considerable period, the country residence of the Byngs. The Manor belongs to Lord Ongley, who is a descendant, in the female line, from Sir Samuel Ongley, Knight, Sheriff of the County in 1703. His Lordship has also the ma- nor of Stamfordbury, in the same parish. The mansion at Southill Park was built, from designs by Holland, by the late Mr. Whitbread, upon purchasing the estate, in the year 1795. The south front, as re- presented in our engraving, consists of a centre and two wings, each surmounted with a pediment : it has also a portico and a corridor of the Ionic order.