Esq. It is of stone, and consists of a main body facing the north, and a wing extending northward from the western extremity of it; the former built between the years 1562 and 1568, by Sir William More, Knt. the latter added by his son, Sir George More. In the centre is a hall, 42 feet long, and above 25 broad; and in the wing a gallery on the first floor, whose dimensions are about 121 feet by 18. Facing the wing is a garden wall, of equal length with it, and with corresponding projections and doors, but the latter are now filled up. Among the pictures at Loseley, the most remarkable are those of Queen Anne Boleyn (painted by Holbein); Sir Thomas More, the celebrated lord chancellor; Sir William More, with a long white beard, and his lady; and Sir More Molyneux, his lady, and their eleven children, in one large piece in the hall. On the stairs leading to the gallery, is a large allegorical picture, representing at one end the effects of an honourable and virtuous life; at the other of vice and debauchery. At the bottom, in the centre, is a chariot drawn by two oxen; the driver is an old man holding a crutch; one figure is standing upright in the chariot, with Death at his back; a motto, Respice finem; with other inscriptions applicable to the subjects represented. In the gallery are portraits of James I. and his queen (whole lengths), and a small three quarters of Edward VI., date, 1549.

This mansion has a singularly antique and venerable appearance it is spacious, but, according to Aubrey, was formerly much more extensive. It has been honoured on more than one occasion with a royal visit; and in the gallery are two gilt needle-work chairs, with cushions, worked by Queen Elizabeth, who frequently came here. A neat chapel was fitted up at Loseley by the late Mr. Strode, who some years since occupied the mansion.

On one side of the road leading from Guildford to Stoke church (Stoke adjoining the town to the west

and south) is a neat building, with a turret and clock, bearing on a stone in front, marked with a woolpack, an inscription which purports that, "This hospital was given and established in the year 1796, by William and Henry Parson." These gentlemen were drapers in Guildford, and endowed this asylum for six widows (who must be sixty years of age, chosen out of Stoke or the adjoining parish of Worplesdon) with 37007. in the 3 per cent. consolidated annuities.

At STOKE is the house and park formed out of various new acquisitions by the late William Aldersey, Esq.; and Stoughton Place was a mansion formerly delightfully situated in the middle of the manor of Stoughton, in this parish. The name and title of the Stoughtons becoming extinct on the death of Sir Laurence Stoughton, Bart., without issue, in 1691-2, the estate was dispersed and the house pulled down: the site of it, now a ploughed field of about six acres, where parts of the ancient moats are yet visible, is still called Stoughton gardens.

Stoke church, consisting of a nave, chancel, and north aisle, is a plain building of the ordinary stone of the country. The nave is about forty-three feet in length; the chancel, which is handsomely wainscoted, thirty-two: the former is separated from the north aisle by two fluted columns of oak. At the west end is an embattled tower of large hewn stone, with flints intermixed, and furnished with three bells, on each of which is the inscription, in old English characters:

Bryan Eldridge made mee. 1620.

At the east end of the north aisle is Stoughton's chapel, built almost entirely of flints, and separated from the chancel by two Gothic arches. The handsome organ in the nave is the gift of the late William Aldersey, Esq., to whom a monument is erected against the north wall, executed by Flaxman, which represents a woman stand

ing, her arms reclined on an urn, her face resting on and hidden by them; with the inscription following:

"This monument was erected by Harriet Aldersey, in grateful remembrance of the most affectionate of husbands, William Aldersey, Esq., of Stoke Park, a place formed by his taste, enlivened by his cheerfulness, made happy by his bounty, and better by his example. He departed this life the 30th of May, 1800, aged 64 years.

"More would you have? go ask the poor he fed,

"Whose was the hand that rais'd their drooping head?
"Ask of the few whose path is strew'd with flowers,
"Who made the happy still have happier hours?
"Whose voice, like his, could charm all care away?
"Whose look so tender, or whose smile so gay?

"Go ask of all—and learn from ev'ry tear,

"The Good how honour'd, and the Kind how dear!

Woodbridge House, in Stoke, is the property of John Creuze, Esq., high sheriff of the county in the year 1788.

Quitting Guildford for Ripley, a road to the left leads to SEND, a parish of which Ripley itself is a chapelry. Here, on the banks of the Wey, formerly stood Newark Priory, of which a part of the church only is now remaining. The stones of the other buildings have been found useful for mending the roads, and the whole would, in all probability, have been demolished, but for the taste of Sir Richard Onslow, father of Earl Onslow, the present proprietor, whose interposition preserved this remnant of the pile erected by our religious ancestors. The foundation of Newark Priory is ascribed to Ruald de Calva, and Beatrix de Sandes, his wife, who, in the reign of Richard I., reared the edifice for Black or Regular Canons of the order of St. Augustine. At the dissolution, the site of this monastery, with its possessions, were granted by Henry VIII. to Sir Anthony Brown, whose descendant, Lord Montacute, in 1711,

sold the estate to Sir Richard Onslow, above-mentioned.

Near the church is Send Grove, a very pleasant seat, built by the late Lieutenant-general William Evelyn. It became, by marriage, as it continues, the residence of Mr. Sergeant Onslow.

RIPLEY, five miles and three quarters from Guildford, and nearly twenty-four from London, is a village in a single street, pleasantly situated on the side of Ripley Green, at the west end of which is the chapel, a small building, consisting of a nave and chancel. It has been said by some, that Ripley was the birthplace of Sir George Ripley, a famous alchymist, and Carmelite friar, of the fifteenth century; but this has been disputed by Bishop Tanner, who informs us that he was a native of Lincolnshire, and by Bishop Gibson, who, in his additions to Camden, says he was of Ripley in Yorkshire.

Proceeding to Cobham, Ockham Park, in the parish of the same name, lies to the right: it is the seat of Lord King, by whose ancestor, Sir Peter King, created Baron King of Ockham, it was purchased of the Sutton family in 1711. Many improvements, in the modern style, have been here recently made.

The celebrated philosopher, William Ockham, who flourished in the fourteenth century, was a native of this place. At one period he held, but at a future time renounced, the dogmas of the famous Duns Scotus. He travelled to the court of the Emperor Lewis of Bavaria ; supported by whom, he boldly asserted the independence of all upon the pope in regard to temporals; and this with such effect, that his holiness, whose censure he had formerly incurred by pleading for the poverty of the clergy, absolved him from excommunication, and gave him the title of the Invincible Doctor. He died in 1330, and was interred at Munich, in Bavaria.

Approaching COBHAM, on the right is Hatchford, the seat of Miss Saltonstall; and Pointers, that of Thomas

Page, Esq., lord of the manor. We cross the Mole at the foot of Pain's Hill, the river here dividing the parish of Cobham from that of Walton on Thames.

Cobham Park, late the seat of Harvey Christian Combe, Esq. who purchased it of Lord Carhampton, situated on the south side of the parish, was formerly called Downe Place, from a family who lived here for successive generations. The church is a plain neat building of chalk-stone, with a tower at the west end (over which is a spire covered with oak shingles), in which are five bells and a clock. Sir Humphrey Lynde, the learned author of Via Tuta, was a native of this place.

ESHER, three miles and a half from Cobham, and sixteen from London, is a village chiefly remarkable for its contiguity to Claremont, for too short a period the residence of the late lamented Princess Charlotte of Wales.

Sir John Vanburgh, famed for a peculiar style of architecture, here first erected a low brick house, without the advantage of a prospect, which he designed for his own residence. Thomas Holles Pelham, Earl of Clare, and afterwards Duke of Newcastle, bought it of Sir John; added a magnificent room for the entertainment of large companies, when he was in administration, increased the grounds by farther purchases, and adorned the park with plantations under the direction of Kent*. On a mount in the park, he erected a building in the shape of a castle;

Horace Walpole, speaking of the mode introduced by Kent in landscape-gardening, says, "that his ideas were rarely great, was owing to the novelty of his art. The features in his landscapes were seldom majestic; he aimed at immediate effect. A small lake edged by a winding bank, with scattered trees that led to a seat at the end of the pond, was common at Claremont, and other of his designs. At Esher, "Where Kent and Nature strove for Pelham's love,"

the prospects more than aided the painter's genius; they marked out the points where his art was necessary or not, but thence left his judgment in full possession of all its glory."