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county. Sir Thomas Dennis, the son of Sir Robert, gave it to his eldest daughter Ann, who became the wife of Sir Henry Rolle, ancestor of the present noble proprietor. The county gaol was continued here, under the original tenure, up to the year 1518, when it was removed to Exeter; but it was not until the year 1787 that the Lord of Bicton was exonerated from the superintendence of the county gaol.

BICTON is situated in the hundred || which is now one of the first in the of East Budleigh, and about three miles from Sidmouth, in Devonshire. This manor was held in demesne by the king's door-keeper (William Portitor) at the time of taking the Doomsday survey; and he is said to have held it by the service of keeping the king's gaol for the county of Devon. It was given by King Henry I. to John Janitor, so called from the tenure by which he held this manor. In his family it continued for about three generations. It afterwards be- Bicton possesses every thing withcame the property of Ralph Balis- in itself in point of scenery; a detarius, or Le Balister (the cross-bow-lightful diversity of ground, that bearer), who occupied it in 1229. His posterity, by the name of Alabaster, were in the possession of Bicton for five generations, when it passed by successive female heirs to the families of Sacheville, or Sackville, and Copleston. Sir Robert Dennis purchased it of the Coplestons, rebuilt the old mansion, and inclosed the deer-park, Vol. V. No. XXV.

gives every variety that can be wished for to the fine woods which adorn the various levels, particularly as seen from the mansion, whence the delightful little village of Otterton, with its white church, the obelisk, and the lovely peep between the hills embracing the small wateringplace of Salterton, with the ocean, B

taken altogether, form one of the completest and sweetest scenes imagination can picture to itself, combined as it is with a fine stream of water that falls in cascades through the park; the majestic forms of the venerable trees, which for size are rarely surpassed; and the immense herd of deer that are seen bounding from hill to hill.

cross it through a grotto, which forms
a sort of barrier to the stream, suf-
fering it to escape over rough stones
into the lake beneath, which has a
pleasing effect, the whole being over-
hung with fine trees. The ground
now swells abruptly to the mansion,
which is plain but large, composed
of a bold centre, with a portico, flank-
ed with two extensive wings.
hall of entrance embraces the en-
tire depth of the building, terminat-

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case: the intercolumniations are adorned by a number of statues. To the left of the hall is the library, occupying a portion of the principal front, and containing a choice collection of books, in rich old bookcases, surmounted with various busts. Over the mantel-piece is a fine three-quarter family portrait, and a series of beautiful miniature landscapes. Recrossing the hall over against the li

The carriage-entrance is by a plain Gothic lodge, whence the drive leads by an inner lodge of a rustic charac-ed by columns and a double stairter, and over a pretty bridge that crosses the sheet of water; but there is a private entrance by a neat cottage-lodge, through a fine avenue of beech and ash, that winds round by the obelisk, which is a fine object as seen from most parts of the ground. Among the out-door embellishments, is a Hermitage that has been but recently finished by Lady Rolle: its situation is admirable, and for fitness, combined with elegance and useful-brary is a small dining-room, conness, as a summer-seat (being by the taining portraits of Lord and Lady water, and surrounded by superb Rolle, by Reynolds of Bayswater, trees), it is most perfect. with some fine whole-lengths of King A short distance from the Hermit- William and Queen Mary. Ascendage, by the water, is an extraordi-ing the staircase, the gallery or landnary rustic seat formed out of the remains of a beech-tree: a brass plate is fixed on the side, which records it to be

ing-place has a fine effect, with the immense window in the rear, spreading light around on the rich Ionic columns and pilasters, with the niches containing large bronze figures, which flank the various entrances to the

"The remains of a large beech-tree, blown down in Bicton park, A. D. M.DCCC.VI. It was under its wide-suite of state-apartments. The prinspreading branches, extending to the circumference of 309 feet, that the first encamped volunteers in England, consisting of 693 rank and file, partook of a dinner provided for them by their colonel, the Right Hon. John Lord Rolle, the 13th of October, M.DCCC.IV."

The circumference of the trunk

alone measures 28 feet.

Proceeding by the water, which assumes the character of a lake, you

cipal or centre entrance leads to the breakfast-room, on entering which, the works of art combined with nature seem striving for pre-eminence; three large circular windows laying open the park scene, rich in undulating forms and woods, with the distant sea, flanked by the Sidmouth hills to the left and wood to the This room is richly ornaright.