A beautiful prospect is exhibited from the platform, at the entrance into the Hall. At the bottom of the avenue which leads to the house, is a fine bason of water, a salmon lock, and fisherman's cottage; and on the opposite elevated land, the view of the town of Chester, the Deanery House, and Church, compose a pleasing distance; but the more extended landscape comprehends the house of Flatts, Pelton Village, and the great Northern Road; whilst the back scene displays broken and irregular grounds, interspersed with cottages. To the left, cultivation brightens the prospect, and the winding stream of the Wear adds beauty to the picture, which, on one hand, presents the view of the town of Great Lumley, and, on the other, Walridge, with the Hermitage, and several hamlets in the vale. The distant landscape is terminated by Plawsworth, and the plantations above Newton Hall.

The great Hall measures ninety feet in length; it is ornamented with a gallery for minstrelsy; and exhibits a striking feature of ancient times, feudal performances, and old English manners. A Knight in full armour, on horseback, graces this apartment; and the walls are decorated with an arrangement of imaginary portraits in the following order: 1, Liulphus. 2, Uchtred. 3, Gulielmus. 4, Sir William de Lumley. 5, William de Lumley. 6, Sir Robert de Lumley. 7, Sir Marmaduke Lumley. 8, Sir Ralph de Lumley, the first Baron, in his robes. 9, Sir John de Lumley. 10, King Richard the Second sitting in a chair of state, Lord Lumley in his robes kneeling, above the figure R. R. II. An' D'no 1385, A° Reg. S. 11, Sir Thomas Lumley.*

12, George,

He received knighthood as a reward for his military prowess, and was employed by government in several momentous negociations: in the 28th, 29th, and 31st, of Henry the Sixth, he was guarantee for the King of England in the Scottish treatics; in the 33d year of the same reign, he was made governor of Scarborough Castle for life; a most distinguished trust; and was entrusted in many other appointments of government. It appears that he was equally a favorite with King Edward the Fourth; for in the first year of that reign he obtained a reversal of his grandfather's attainder; had summons to parliament for the remainder of his life; and was employed in various confidential matters by his Sovereign, particularly in the negociations with King James of Scotland, touching his marriage. Hutchinson's Durham, II. 403

George, Lord Lumley. 13, Sir Thomas Lumley, who married Elizabeth, natural daughter of Edward the Fourth. 14, John de Lumley. 15, Richard de Lumley. 16, George Lumley., 17, Elizabeth, daughter of John Lord Darcy of Chiche, and second wife of Sir John Lumley, who was restored in blood the first of Edward, and had the ancient barony restored. Her father, George Lord Lumley, had been attainted in the reign of Henry the Eighth, for joining the northern rebels in what they denominated The Pilgrimage of Grace.

The Great Dining-Room, in the south-west tower, is elegantly stuccoed, and has a vaulted roof. The view from the windows, commanding the adjacent meadows, the banks of the Wear, the canal formed by the curvature of the stream, and from another part of the room, the avenue prospect, with Chester and other objects, are delightful.

In the Little Dining-Room are several fine portraits, particularly SIR JOHN LORD LUMLEY, 1563, a three-quarter piece. Two other portraits of this nobleman are in the Music-Room; one dated 1588, the other 1591. Sir John Lord Lumley was in high estimation at Court, with small alloy, during the contrarily-disposed reigns of Edward the Sixth, Mary the First, and Elizabeth. By Edward, he was restored in blood, as above related. In 1553 he was created a Knight of the Bath, and, with his lady, attended Mary at her coronation; he was one of the noblemen who introduced the first Russian Ambassadors to Court; and was in employ during the early part of the reign of Queen Elizabeth; but being suspected of some intrigue concerning the Queen of Scots, he, and his father-in-law, the Earl of Arundel, with whom he was a great favorite, were arrested. Afterwards regaining the royal favor, he was again admitted into confidence, and was one of the Lords Commissioners on the trial of the unhappy Queen in whose cause he had suffered; and, to the surprize of his hearers, delivered his opinion, that the sentence was justly pronounced. He was one also who condemned Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. But, notwithstanding Lord Lumley's expressions against the unfortunate Mary, her son, King James, bestowed on him many marks of royal condescension

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condescension and favor. Camden affirms, "that he had so great a veneration for the memory of his ancestors, that he caused monuments to be erected for them in the collegiate Church of Chester-in-the-Street, in order, as they succeeded one another, from Liulphus down to his own time, which he had either picked out of the demolished monasteries, or made new." This Nobleman had collected an extensive library, with the assistance of the celebrated antiquary, Humphrey Lhuyd. The books were afterwards purchased by James the First, and form, according to Granger, a very valuable part of the British Museum.

In this room is also a portrait of JOANNA FITZ-ALAN, first wife of John, Lord Lumley, and daughter of Henry, Earl of Arundel. She is clothed in a black dress, gracefully ornamented with strings of jewels. Iler learning was uncommon; she translated the Iphigenia of Euripides into English, and some of the orations of Isocrates into Latin: the MSS. of the latter in her own writing, are preserved in the Royal Library at Westminster. She was interred in the chancel of the church at Cheam, in Surrey.

In the Music-Room is a fine full-length of THOMAS RATCLIFF, Earl of Sussex, arrayed in white armour, and gold brocade breeches: in his right hand is a staff, his left is resting upon a sword: near him, on a table, is placed his helmet, with an enormous plume. This Nobleman seems to have been a favorite both with Mary and Elizabeth; and was, in both reigns, Lord-Deputy of Ireland. By Mary he was also appointed President of the North; and in that capacity, he suppressed the rebellion of the Earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland. In the reign of Elizabeth, he was the spirited rival of Leicester, but his death determined the contention.

ROBERT, EARL OF SALISBURY, Minister in the last years of Elizabeth, and first of James the First. He is dressed in black, with the George suspended from his neck by a green ribband. Above his head is the motto, Sero sed serio; and on a table, a letter directed to him by all his titles.

In the Drawing-Room is a fine three-quarter length, on wood, of ANDREW DORIA; with the inscription Pater patriæ. He is

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portrayed in black, with a cap on his head, a long beard, and round his neck, a collar of the Order of the Fleece, pendant; a truncheon in his hand, and a dagger in his girdle. Doria was of an ancient Genoese family," and appears literally to have been a warrior by profession, having been equally engaged for and against Francis the First, and Charles the Fifth, to both of whom he successively proved of service and injury. He nobly refused the sovereignty of his own country, and preferred to have his name recorded as its deliverer, by repressing the conspiracy of Lewis de Fiesco. He died at Genoa 1560, at. 94."

SIR ANTHONY BROWNE, Master of Horse to Henry the Third, and one of the executors to his will. This is a very curi ous half length. He is portrayed with a bushy beard, a bonnet, and the insignia of the Order of the Garter.

SIR GEORGE SAVILLE, affianced to the Lumleys by the marriage of his sister Barbara with Richard late Lord Scarborough, whose second son inherits the Saville estates, and bears the fa mily name.

LADY SYDNEY; Holbein. This lady was daughter to Secre tary Walsingham, and wife to Robert, Earl of Essex.

HENRY HOWARD, Earl of Surry, half length. This accomplished nobleman was among the numerous victims who fell by the tyranny of Henry the Eighth. The suspicion of the Monarch was excited by his having quartered the arms of Edward the Confessor with his own; and the crime imputed to his charge from that simple act, was aspiring to the throne: for this he was condemned, and beheaded, in the year 1546.

ROBERT DUDLEY, Earl of Leicester; three-quarter length, dated 1587. He is arrayed in a very splendid dress, ornamented with a profusion of point-lace, according to the fashion of the times: round his neck is the collar of the Order of the Garter.

HENRY FITZ-ALAN, the last Earl of Arundel of that name. This nobleman greatly distinguished himself by his valor in the reign of Henry the Eighth, when he ran with his squadron close under the walls of Boulogne, and quickly occasioned its surrender. Attached to the Princess Mary by the ties of religion, he was VOL. V. MARCH. particularly

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particularly instrumental in fixing her upon the throne, and was afterwards appointed Steward of the Household; an office which he retained under Elizabeth; but finding that Leicester had supplanted him in the Queen's favor, he retired to France. On his return from that country, he introduced the use of coaches into England. He died in the year 1579.

Various other portraits are scattered through different apartments; but the "curious old picture of Chaucer," mentioned by Dr. Stukeley, in his Iter Boreale, as being preserved in this Castle, is not now to be found.*

Between one and two miles north-eastward from Lumley Castle, in an elevated situation on the north bank of the Wear, stands LAMBTON HALL, formerly called Harraton Hall, the residence of Lady Anne Lambton, who occupies it in right of her eldest son, a minor. This estate was anciently the seat of the D'Arcys, who conveyed it to the Hedworths, the last male line of which family died in the year 1688, leaving two daughters coheiresses; one of whom married Ralph Lambton, Esq. a younger branch of the Lambtons, of Lambton Hall, on the opposite side of the Wear: the other married Sir William Williamson, Bart. of Monk-Wearmouth: but her moiety was purchased by William Lambton, Esq. in 1714; and the whole estate has from that period remained in the family. The late William Henry Lambton, who died of a consumption at Pisa, in Italy, in the year 1796, was one of the most estimable of human beings; and though snatched from the world at the early age of thirty-two, had displayed so many illustrious qualities, that his memory will be cherished as long as virtue continues to be respected. The Hall is a modern building, erected by Bononi, but displays considerable incongruities both in its design and execution. The Library is a well

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The following anecdote is related by Mr. Pennant. First, in one of his progresses, was entertained in this Castle, William James, Bishop of Durham, a relation of the house, in order to give his Majesty an idea of the importance of the family, wearied him with a long detail of their ancestry, to a period even beyond belief::-" O, mon," said the King, gang na farther; let me digest the knawledge I ha gained; for, by my saul, I did na ken Adam's name was Lumley."