his death, took another husband, Nicholas Lord Vaux, and had two sons. These assumed the name of Knollys and title of Banbury, but were never summoned to Parliament, nor has the title been acknowledged; though it be still borne by the descendants.

Charles I. (whole length) by Vandyke, with this motto-Laudesque manebunt.

Thomas Earl of Suffolk, a very fine half length; lord treasurer and chancellor of Cambridge, son of Thomas fourth Duke of Norfolk. A variety of circumstances render his character remarkable; he was a volunteer in the memorable engagement with the Spanish Armada, and the subsequent expedition against Cadiz, where he distinguished himself by his courage and intrepidity. He suppressed the Earl of Essex's insurrection; attended Lord Monteagle in discovering the gunpowder plot; and built Audley-End, near Saffron-Walden, which, magnificent as it still appears, forms but a small part of the original stately structure, (according to Winstanley's Rare Views' of it.) He had the misfortune to be the father of the abandoned Frances Countess of Somerset, the divorced wife of Robert Earl of Essex; and the want of principle, to deserve dismissal from his

office of lord-treasurer, and to incur the fine of thirty thousand pounds, for accepting bribes, and embezzling the king's property. Obiit 1626.

Craven Howard, grandson of Thomas Earl of Berkshire, and father of Henry Bowes fourth Earl of Suffolk.

Elizabeth Countess of Northumberland, (whole length) wife of Algernon tenth Earl of Northumberland, and daughter of Theophilus Earl of Suffolk. Obiit 1705, æt. 97.

From hence we pass into a room which may be called the royal bed-chamber, from the circumstance of King James I. having slept in the old bed which still remains there.

Here we find,

Admiral Drake, (whole length;) one of the most distinguished characters in the reign of Elizabeth, whose annals are filled with the glorious atchievements of our naval commanders. No one amongst them, however, appears more eminently conspicuous than this gallant admiral. He first encompassed the globe; in 1587 he destroyed one hundred vessels in Cadiz harbour, and took a rich East-India galleon, by which the English gained so much insight into the trade of that part of the world, as to occasion the establishment of what has since proved

such a source of wealth to this country-the East-India Company. Obiit 1596.

Sir Jerome Bowes, whole length, six feet two inches high. A character well suited to the temper of Elizabeth, by whom he was appointed ambassador to Russia, 1583; where he appears to have had recourse to arts for the maintenance of his mistress's dignity, which would not have disgraced even a modern courtier. On his arrival in the capital, he was met by a cavalcade of the principal officers of state, who expected that he would have alighted whilst they remained on horseback; but this sacrifice of his monarch's dignity he avoided with considerable dexterity. On his introduction to the Emperor, he was placed a few paces from him, and ordered to send his credentials; this he refused, and was proceeding to deliver them into his Majesty's own hands, when the chancellor stept forward to receive them; but the gallant knight significantly told him, that the queen, his mistress, had not directed any letters for him, and immediately advanced to the throne. He soon afterwards experienced insults from the Emperor himself, who loudly reviled the queen; which was so boldly resented by her representative, that he received orders on the spot,

instantly to quit the Imperial presence. But the monarch soon repented his temerity; and sent to assure Sir Jerome," that he wished he "had an hundred such faithful servants in his "own dominions; and further to convince him "of his respect for the English sovereign, he would, on his return home, send a greater "man with him than had ever before quitted "his dominions, with fine presents." This Prince, however, dying before the departure of our embassy, Bowes effected his escape from the Russian territories with no small degree of danger, bringing with him a machlis, which is a species of elk, the first ever seen in England, and the Russian carriage, called a sled, which was drawn by fallow deer, of extraordinary swiftness.

Elizabeth Countess of Exeter, daughter of Sir William Drury, and mother of Anne Countess of Stamford, (whole length.)

George Booth last Earl of Warrington, father of Mary Countess of Stamford, who was mother to the present Earl. Obiit 1758.

An old portrait of a man in a black spotted dress. Ann. Dom. 1591, aged 57.

In the alterations made in the house, due respect has been paid to a fine specimen of

Inigo's architecture-the great gallery; an apartment which extends the whole length of the front; the cieling of which still remains untouched, and may be justly considered as a wonder of art.

Séveral little villages enliven the road between Malmsbury and Badminton, a ride of eight miles; but none of them convey the ideas of rural happiness to the mind so forcibly as this place. Every thing here bespeaks the munificence of his Grace of Beaufort, whose mansion adjoins the village; and evinces the good effects which arise from the residence of a nobleman on his estate, who has ability and inclination to contribute to the comfort of the lower orders in his neighbourhood. Fortunate, indeed, would it be for the country, were this practice more general. Were the lord, by a judicious expenditure of his rents on the spot whence they are derived, and by his residence amongst his peasantry, to animate industry, encourage exertion, assist desert, and diffuse felicity; instead of consuming them in the metropolis in ostentatious folly, or ruinous vice; were the great, landholders once more to feel that interest which their forefathers

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