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DESCRIPTION OF THE CASTLE.

EXTERIOR. Styles of Architecture. INTERIOR. Guard Room
and Gallery Architecture, armour, and painted glass

189-197

REGENT'S GALLERY. Works of art, tapestry, paintings, and

sculpture-Names and lives of Artists-Coypel, Nollekens,

Wyatt, Ceracchi, Reynolds, Luca Penni, West, Kauffman,

Hoppner, Kneller, Breughel, Le Nain, Gainsborough, Marlow,

Lely, Mortimer-Wellington chair
198-213

PICTURE GALLERY. Chairs from the Borghese Palace-Pictures,
names, and lives of Artists-Reynolds, Teniers, Bronzino,
Gerard Douw, Claude, Gaspar Poussin, Crespi, Van der Hey-
den, Parmegiano, Carlo Dolce, Dekker, Schalken, Berghem,
Netscher, Caracci, Guido Reni, Murillo, Van de Velde,
Jansen, Manfredi, Rubens, Wynants, Ruysdael, Van Dyck,
Poelenburg, Mireveldt, Holbein, Hals, Nefs, Bassano, Paolo
Veronese, Correggio, Ostade, Durer, Van Uden, Ribera, Rem-
brandt, Albano, Caravaggio, Mola, Weeninx, Van der Werff,
Bourdon, Monamy, Jan Stein, Wouvermann, Baroccio, Cuyp,
Giordano, Andrea del Sarto, Heusch, Van Tol, Van der Neer,
Pynaker, Borgognone, Schidone, Walker, Elzheimer

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CHINESE ROOMS. Character of the decorations
ELIZABETH SALOON. Gorgeous style of the decorations-Statue
of the late Duchess-Painted ceiling, cabinets, portraits of the
Duke and Duchess by Sanders-Casket-Miniatures in enamel,
oil, and water colours, by Liotard, Cooper, Zincke, Petitot,
Cosway, Hoskins, Oliver, &c.

300-313

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STAUNTON TOWER. A portion of the Castle of considerable tra-
ditional antiquity-An attempt to ascertain the date of its
erection

Pictures by Stubbs, Cladenberg, &c.

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STEWARD'S ROOM. Solidity of the architecture of this portion

of the Castle

327

PLATE PANTRY, KITCHEN, ALE CELLARS, AND LAMP ROOMS
328-334

THE DEMESNE. Critical remarks on the former style of garden
decorations-Evelyn, Bacon, Milton, Addison, Pope-Artist
gardeners, Bridgeman, Kent, Wright, Brown, Sir W. Cham-
bers, Price, Repton-Character of the Belvoir scenery-Duke's
walk, flower gardens, statues, wilderness, the dairy, garden
gate, &c.-Stables, Inn, site of Priory
335-349

MAUSOLEUM. Site and architectural character-Sculptured re-

presentation of the Duchess

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GENEALOGICAL

TABLE OF THE NOBLE AND DISTINGUISHED FAMILY OF MANNERS,

DUKE OF RUTLAND, &c.

CORRECTED FROM THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENT, PRESERVED AT BELVOIR CASTLE.

TITLES.

MANNERS, DUKE OF RUTLAND, MARQUIS OF GRANBY, EARL OF RUTLAND, AND BARON MANNERS, OF HADDON.

ARMS.

Or, two bars Azure, a chief quarterly of the second and Gules; the first and fourth charged with two fleurs-de-lis of the first; and the second and third with a Lion of England.

CREST.

On a chapeau Gules, turned up Ermine, a Peacock in pride Proper.

SUPPORTERS.

Two Unicorns Argent, armed, crined, tufted and unguled, Or.

MOTTO.

"Pour y Parvenir." SEATS.

Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire; Haddon Hall, Derbyshire, &c.

Sir ROBERT MANNERS, Lord of the manor of Ethale, co. Northumberland.

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Sir Robert Manners, of Ethale, co. Northumberland, knt.=Philippa, dau. of Sir Bartholomew Montbouchier, knt.

Sir Robert Manners, of Ethale, co. Northumberland, knt. Hawise, dau. of Robert de Muschamp, Baron Muschamp.

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HISTORY

OF

BELVOIR CASTLE.

FIRST PERIOD, A.D. 1066-1247.

ROBERT DE TODENI. Arms, Gules, an eagle displayed within a bordure, argent.

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THE noble position of Belvoir Castle would lead the observer to expect, that its site must always have been an object of great interest to the successive dynasties of people, who in their turn were lords of the country. Considerable research has not indeed brought to light any proofs, that the ancient British availed themselves of its importance, either for a civil, or a military purpose. That it was, however, a warlike station from the earliest period, can be little doubted. Its obvious advantages as a commanding post of observation, could not have been overlooked by the most uncivilised people; especially when consisting, as the ancient British did, of numerous tribes, to whom war formed a sort of daily pastime.

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