DRAUGHTS OF THE SEATES AND PROSPECTS.
[I HAVE thought it desirable to print the concluding Chapter of
Aubrey’s work verbatim. It is merely a list of remarkable buildings and
views, which he wished to be drawn and engraved, for the illustration
of his work. The names attached to each subject are those of persons
whom he thought likely to incur the expence of the plates, for
publication; and his own name being affixed to two of them shews that
he was willing to contribute. It is impossible not to concur in his
closing observations on this subject, or to avoid an expression of
regret that he was not enabled to publish such a “glorious volume” of
engravings as would have been formed by those here enumerated.—J. B.]
MY WISH.—AN APPENDIX.
“Multorum manibus grande levatur onus.”-Ovid.
ADVICE TO THE PAINTER OR GRAVER.
1. Our Ladies Church at Salisbury; the view without, and in perspective
within: and a mappe of the city.—Bishop Ward. And of Old Sarum from
Harnham hill.(Sir Hugh Speke gave to the Monasticon Angliæ the prospect
of Salisbury Church, excellently well done by Mr. Hollar. Quaere, who
hath the plate? I doe believe, my Lady Speke.)
2. Prospect of Malmesbury Abbey; and also (3) of the Town, and (4) a
Mappe of the Town.—Mr. Wharton, &c.—Sir James Long. (Take the true
latitude and longitude of Malmesbury.)
5. And also King Athelston’s tombe. [See ante, p. 116.]
6. Prospect of the borough of Chippenham.—Duke of Somerset.
7. The Castle at Marleborough, and the prospect of the
8. Town.—D. of Somerset.
9. The Ruines of Lurgershall Castle.—Sir George Brown.
10. Bradstock Priorie.—James, Earle of Abingdon.
11. Wardour Castle.—The Lord Arundel of Wardour.
12. Lacock Abbey.—Sir Jo. Talbot.
13. Priory St. Maries, juxta Kington St. Michael.
14. Ivy Church.
15. Sturton House.—The Lord Sturton.
16. Wilton House, and (17) Garden: sc. from the House and from
Rowlingdon Parke. The garden was heretofore drawn by Mr. Solomon de
Caus, the architect, that was the surveyor of it, and engraved [ante,
p. 86]; but the plates were burnt in the Fire of London.—E. of Pembrok
18. Longleate House and Garden.—I have seen a print of the house: it
was engraved after Mr. Dankertz’ painting. Quære, Mr. Thompson, the
printseller, for it? Perhaps he hath the plates.—Lord Weymouth. (Desire
Mr. Beech, the Lord Weymouth’s steward, to enquire what is become of
the copper plate that was engraved after Mr. Dankertz’ painting of this
house; also enquire of Mr. Rose, my Lord’s surveyor, for it).
19. Longford House.—Lord Colraine. (Engraved by Thacker. Quære, my Lord
Colraine, if he hath the plate or a copie.)
20. The Duke of Beauford’s house at Amesbury.—His Grace.
21. Tocknam Parke House.—E. of Alesbury.
22. Funthill House.—Mr. Cottington.
23. Charlton House.—Earle of Barkshire.
24. Lavington House and Garden.—Earle of Abingdon.
25. Mr. Hall’s house at Bradford.—J. Hall, Esq.
26. Lidyard-Tregoze House and Scite.—Sir Walter St. John.
27. Sir John Wyld’s House at Compton Basset.—Sir Jo. Wyld.
28. Ramesbury House.—Sir Wm. Jones, Attorney-General.
HOUSES OF LESSER NOTE.
29. Edington House.——. Lewis, Esq.
30. Sir Jo. Evelyn’s House at Deane.—Earle of Kingston.
31. Dracot-Cerne House.—Sir James Long, Baronet.
32. Cosham House.——. Kent, Esq.
33. Lakham House.——. Montague, Esq.
34. Cadnam House.—Sir George Hungerford.
The Mannour House of Kington St. Michael.——. Laford.
The Mannour House at—Sir Henry Coker.
Gretenham House.—George Ayliff, Esq.
PROSPECTS.
1. From Newnton (Mr. Poole’s garden-house) is an admirable prospect.
It takes in Malmesbury, &c. and terminates with the blew hills of
Salisbury plaines. ’Tis the best in Wiltshire.—Madam Estcourt, or
Earle of Kent.
2. From Colern Tower, or Marsfield downe, eastwards; which takes in
Bradstock Priory, several steeples and parkes, and extends to Salisbury
plaine.—D. of Beauford, or Marq. of Worcester.
3. From the garret at Easton Piers, a delicate prospect.—J. Aubrey.
4. From Bradstock Priory, over the rich green tuff-taffety vale to
Cyrencester, Malmesbury, Marsfield, Colern, Mendip-hills; and Coteswold
bounds the north horizon.—Earle of Abingdon.
5. From Bowdon Lodge, a noble prospect of the north part of Wilts.—Hen.
Baynton, Esq.
6. From Spy Park, westward.—Hen. Baynton, Esq.
7. From Westbury Hill to the vale below, northward.—Lord Norris.
8. From the south downe of the farme of Broad Chalke one sees over
Vernditch, Merton, and the New Forest, to the sea; and all the Isle of
Wight, and to Portland.—J. Aubrey. (Memorandum. A quarter of a mile or
lesse from hence is Knighton Ashes, which is a sea marke, which came
into this prospect. The Needles, at the west end of the Isle of Wight,
beare from it south and by east; but try its bearings exactly.)
9. From Knoll Hill, a vast prospect every way.—The Lord Weymouth.
10. From Cricklade Tower, a lovely vernall prospect.—Sir George
Hungerford, or Sir Stephen Fox. (This prospect is over the rich green
country to Marston-Mazy, Down-Ampney, Cyrencester, Minchinghampton, and
Coteswold.)
11. From the leads of Wilton House to Salisbury, Ivy-church, &c.—Sir R.
Sawyer, Attorney-Genl.
12. The prospect that I drew from Warren, above Farleigh-castle Parke;
and take another view in the parke.—Sir Edward Hungerford. (This
prospect of Farleigh is in my book A, at the end; with Mr. Anthony
Wood.)
13. The prospect of Malmesbury from the hill above Cowbridge. This I
have drawn.
14. I have drawn the prospect of Salisbury, and so beyond to Old Sarum,
from the lime-kills at Harnham. (Memorandum. Mr. Dankertz did make a
very fine draught of Salisbury. Enquire of Mr. Thompson, the
printseller, who bought his draughts, if he hath it)—Seth Ward, Bishop
of Sarum. (Set down the latitude and longitude of Salisbury.)
15. A draft of the toft of the castle and keep of Castle Comb.—Jo.
Scroop, Esq.
16. A Mappe of Wiltshire, to be donne by Mr. [Brown?] that did
Staffordshire. (Advertisement to the surveyor of Wiltshire, as to the
mappe.—Let him make his two first stations at the south downe at Broad
Chalke, which he may enlarge two miles or more; from whence he may ken
with his bare eye to Portsmouth, all the Isle of Wight, to Portland, to
the towers and chimny’s of Shaftesbury, to Knoll-hill, to the
promontory of Roundway-down above the Devises: to St. Anne’s hill,
vulgo Tanne hill, to Martinsoll hill, to Amesbury becon-hill, to
Salisbury steeple, &c. When he comes into North Wiltshire his prospect
will not be much shorter. There he will take in Glastenbury-torre and
Gloucestershire, and Cumnor Lodge in Barkshire).
IF these views were well donn, they would make a glorious volume by
itselfe, and like enough it might take well in the world. It were an
inconsiderable expence (charge) to these persons of qualitie, and it
would remaine to posterity, when their families are gonn and their
buildings ruin’d by time or fire, as we have seen that stupendous
fabrick of Paul’s Church, not a stone left on a stone, and lives now
onely in Mr. Hollar’s Etchings in Sir William Dugdale’s History of
Paul’s. I am not displeased with this thought as a desideratum, but I
doe never expect to see it donn; so few men have the hearts to doe
publique good, to give 3, 4, or 5li. for a copper plate.
“Thus Poets like to Kings (by trust deceiv’d)
Give oftner what is heard of than receiv’d.”
SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT to the Lady Olivia Porter; “A New Yeares Gift.”
(There are noble prospects in Gloucestershire, but that concernes not
me. The city of Gloucester is one of the best views of any city in
England; so many stately towers and steeples cutting the horizon. From
Broadway-downe one beholds the vale of Evesham, and so to Malvern
hills, to Staffordshire, Monmouthshire, Warwickshire, the cities of
Gloucester and Worcester, and also Tukesbury, the city of Coventry,
and, I thinke, of Lichfield. From Kimsbury, a camp, is a very pleasant
prospect to Gloucester over the vale. From Dundery is a noble prospect
of the city of Bristow and St. Vincent’s Rocks, &c., quod NB.)
FINIS.