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archbishop WAKE, and archbishop HERRING. There is also among other memorials an antient Gothic tomb, supposed to be to the memory of one of the Wareham family; these had labels, in brass, which, as well other ornaments, were torn away during the Civil Wars, when one Bleese was hired, at 2s. 6d. per day, to break the painted glass in the windows.

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In Croydon church was buried thor of The Ship of Fools, &c. within a few years, been placed in the gallery. Besides the parish church, here was a chantry. At present various bodies of Dissenters have their meeting houses. The Fishmongers Company of London, founded a Free School in this town; and lately were erected barracks for the accommo dation of five troops of cavalry.

In the neighbourhood is ADDISCOMBE PLACE, a handsome seat, the residence of the earl of Liverpool. His lordship has not only beautified the house, but greatly improved the plantations. On the east front of the house is this inscrip tion in Roman capitals: "Non faciam vitio culpave minorem-I will not reduce the estate by any vice or folly of mine."

HALING HOUSE and park, were the property of Charles Howard, lord high admiral in the reign of Elizabeth, who held it by a lease from the crown, and died here in 1624. The fine grove in the park contains a great number of exotics and evergreens; a circumstance which is thus ce lebrated by the late William Whitehead, in a poem, entitled, "Answer to an Epistle from a Grove in Derbyshire to a Grove in Surrey." It belongs at present to William Parker Hamond, Esq.

In the parish is the mansion of Mrs. Elizabeth Panton,. and the villas belonging to Christopher Taddy, Esq. and lady Blunt; John Brickwood, Esq. the Hon. Mrs. Walpole, Joseph Leeds, Esq. Sir John Bridger, and Thomas Walker, Esq. About a mile from the town, in the road to Addington, is a large chalk pit, producing extraneous fossils. ADDINGTON,

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ADDINGTON, is a village, three miles to the east of Croydon, at the foot of a range of hills, to which it gives the name of Addington Common. On the brow of the hill, toward the village, is a cluster of small tumuli, about twenty-five in number, and in them have been found Roman urns, &c. In this parish is Addington Place, a handsome seat, lately the property of James Trecothick, Esq. It is held by a tenure of making his majesty a mess of pottage at his coronation. The origin of this tenure is from Tezelin, the Conqueror's cook, holding a carucate in Addington, by the service of cooking up in an earthen platter, a mess denominated Maupugernon*, in the king's kitchen, at the time of his coronation.

The present archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Sutton, in 1807, bought Addington Place, with the money which resulted from the sale of the archiepiscopal palace, at Croydon, by archbishop Cornwallis, with the addition of some delapidations in the time of archbishop Secker, which have been vested in the funds for that purpose.

It appears that the Knights Templars had a manor in this parish, which, on their disgrace, was transferred to the knights of St. John of Jerusalem. This, with another manor belonging to St. Mary Overy, at the dissolution of monasteries, passed to the family of Leigh, and ultimately to that of Trecothick.

The CHURCH, dedicated to St. Mary, is a very small structure, partly rebuilt about the reign of Edward III. It contains several memorials of the families of Leigh, Hatteclyffe, and Cole; besides a large marble urn, and an inscribed tablet to the memory of Barlow Trecothick, Esq. alderman, and lord mayor of London in 1770, and one of the members of parliament for that city; he died in 1775.

* It is supposed by Mr. Lysons, that the dish abovementioned might be the same as that called a Bardolf, more especially as the family of Bardolf were lords of this place; it was called a pottage, and consisted of almond milk, the brawn of capons, sugar and spices, chicken parboiled and chopped, &c. See p. 466, of Household Establishments, 4to. published by the Society of Antiquaries.

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The OAKS, Surry, Seat of the Earl of Derby.

Published by I Stratford 12 Withan Hill Sop 13.1800.

In the adjoining parish of SANDERSTEAD, is PURLEY, which will be rendered remarkable by the residence of John' Horne Tooke, Esq. whilst he wrote his curious work, de nominated" The Diversions of Purley."

Hence in a western direction, we come to THE OAKS, the villa of the earl of Derby, on Bansted Downs; it was built by a society of gentlemen, called the Hunters Club, to whom the land was leased by Mr. Lambert, whence it took the name of Lambert's Oaks. Mr. Simmons was the first occupier of the house, which was intended as a place of festivity in the hunting season. General Burgoyne purchased the lease, and built a dining room forty-two feet by twenty-one, with an arched roof, elegantly finished; twenty-eight small cased pillars of fine workmanship, and a concave mirror at each end. The dining table is of plain deal boards, in conformity to the style of a hunting seat. The red hall entrance is small, but elegant: it contains two landscapes, and a few other pictures. The drawing room, on the first floor, is an octagon, ornamented with a variety of small pictures. It commands a prospect of Nor wood, Shooter's Hill, many churches in London and its environs, Hampstead, Highgate, &c. The earl having acquired a fee simple in the estate from general Burgoyne, added, at the west end, a large brick building, with four towers at each corner; and there is a similar erection at the east end, which renders the structure uniform, and gives it an elegant Gothic appearance. In the pleasure grounds are a number of antient beeches. In one tree, in particular, it is said, there is a spring; because it always contains water, although the well at the house is three hundred feet deep. His lordship can accommodate his guests with upwards of fifty bed chambers. It was here that the celebrated Fete Champetre, in commemoration of the earl's marriage with his first countess, was given; whence originated a musical entertainment, called "The Maid of the 'Oaks," written by general Burgoyne.

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