Reference
SJ2317
Title
Letter: (part of) from [ ] to "My Dear Lord", Dover
Date free text
22, 23 Aug [no year]
Production date
From: 1719 To: 1751
Scope and Content
"From the utmost point of South East in England I wait upon your Lordship to convince you that no distance can make me forget my Obligations. I spent a Week with my Uncle Payne at Otterden - in my Way to it from Maidston I Lay at Colonel Cage's formerly Member for Rochester... I had the entertainment of walking over 40 acres of hop garden... My Uncle received us with the civilities We expected. His scituation is on a Wood upon an eminence. From his Study, dining room and Summerhouse he commands a Noble prospect of Land and Water. ... there never wants the benign Consolation of rum Claret and untaxt Brandy etc. ... From thence we came to Eastwell (the seat of Lord Winchelsea) the Park, without dispute, the first in England, perhaps in the World.. We din'd at Ashford, a pretty Market Town where I had like to have seen Dick Warren of Jesus, but had the ill fortune to miss him [description of Dover]
Canterbury Aug 23; seat of Sir Robert Furness "Sir Robert's Seat is the glory of this Countrey. His Garden the onely one that looks a Northampton one and is measured by scores of Acres ...."
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