26th. year of his reign. The Estate was purchased by the first Duke of Richmond, about the year 1720, of the family of Compton, who then held the Manor of the adjacent Parish of East Lavant.

HALNAKER, called in Domesday Halnecke, descended as did Goodwood, till the year 1587, (29th. of Elizabeth) when it was granted to Sir John Morley, of Suffolk. Sir William Morley, the last male heir, dying in 1701, was succeeded by his daughter Mary, who married in 1708, James Earl of Derby, and died in 1752, by her will bequeathing the Estate to Sir Thomas Acland, Bart. of Devonshire, her nearest relative, by whom in 1765, it was sold to Charles third Duke of Richmond, by whom it has been connected with the other entailed Estates. The House, which is seated on a commanding eminence, in an extensive Park, containing an avenue of Spanish chesnut trees of great size and beauty, and well stocked with Deer, was built in the reign of Henry VIII. It remained unoccupied after the death of the Countess of Derby, and was suffered to go to decay, and latterly it becoming unsafe to visit many portions of the delapidated ruins, the greater part have been taken down and removed. The remains of Halnaker House were almost a solitary specimen in this part of the Country of the castellated style, peculiar to the age of the Tudors. It had a gateway, flanked with small octangular towers leading into a square court, a large hall, and

several lofty and wide bay windows in various apartments, suitable to the residence of the nobility of that age. These windows were ornamented with the armorial bearings of the family of West, and their alliances. The wainscot of the hall, wrought in carved oak, in knots, scrolls, and devices, with a frequent introduction of the cognizances of the founder, exhibited a most curious instance of the progress of the art when it had reached its highest degree of perfection in England. King Edward VI. visited Halnaker July 27th. 1551.

WESTHAMPNETT comprising upwards of 1800 acres was purchased by the third Duke of Richmond. In Doomsday no separate mention is made of Westhampnett, it being attached to the manor of Halnaker. About the beginning of the seventeenth century the Estate was in the possession of Sir John Chapman, who was an active Commissioner for the Parliament in 1644, for compounding with the royalists of this district. His heir female conveyed it to Hugh Reason, Esq., by whom it was sold to Sir Hutchins Williams, Bart. He rebuilt the large manor house and made it his residence. Of his son Sir William Peere Williams it was purchased by the Duke of Richmond with great part of the property in the parish. The house having recently been much enlarged is now occupied as the Workhouse of the thirty-seven united parishes of the Westhampnett Union. The remaining portion of this estate was bought of the

family of Steele, one of whom, Thomas Steele, represented the City of Chichester for many years.

GOODWOOD HOUSE

Presents an elegant and imposing exterior. It was purchased by the first Duke of Richmond as a hunting seat and for occasional resort. The original mansion, an old gothic structure, was pulled down and that portion of the present one which forms the centre of the west wing, a plain edifice of Portland stone with a pediment in the centre, was, under the direction of Sir William Chambers, erected in its stead. It remained in this state till the year 1800, when the third Duke of Richmond, who had devoted a long life and ample fortune to the planting and improvement of the estate, commenced those extensive alterations and additions which have produced the present noble pile.

It consists of a principal front with a colonnade of two orders, a portico of six doric pillars supporting another of an equal number of ionic, of Portland stone, extending one hundred and sixty-six feet, and terminated by two circular towers with hemispherical roofs. The wings, each presenting a front of one hundred and six feet, are also terminated by similar towers. The whole of these additions are composed of squared flints, collected from

the Downs, and which possess this superiority over Portland stone, that the longer they are exposed to the atmosphere the harder and whiter they become. Mr. James Wyatt was the Architect under whose superintendance the buildings were completed. The windows of the two wings, which in fact form distinct fronts, open on extensive pleasure grounds, in which are several Cork trees remarkable for their size and beauty.

THE VESTIBULE, OR ENTRANCE HALL,

The approach to which is under the centre colonnade, is a noble apartment, thirty-eight feet in length, thirty-five in width, and eighteen feet high. It is divided at its upper end by six pillars of Guernsey Granite of a light. grey colour, each shaft being thirteen feet high, and eighteen inches in diameter, and bearing a most exquisite polish. The plinth and tori are composed of white and black marble, and the capitals, of the Corinthian order, are executed in bronze. At each end are two half columns in scagliola, intended to correspond with the granite pillars, and so accurate has been the imitation as to render the deception imperceptible to the eye. They were the workmanship of a Mr. Allcott.

The massive appearance of this superb colonnade gives an air of nobleness and grandeur, which agrees well with the extent and general character of the apart

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ment. On a corresponding scale, on either side, are two massive marble chimney pieces, elaborately finished, with small Ionic pillars, and conceived in true classic taste. At the upper end, facing the windows, is a solid marble table, supported by two eagles richly carved and gilt, on which are placed specimens of antique and curious china, as well as views of the principal elevations of Gordon Castle.*

On pedestals are antique marble busts of Claudius, Trajan, and Adrian, and the mutilated bust of an Apollo Belvidere, conveyed hither after the fire which destroyed Richmond House, at Whitehall. A small marble bust by Turnerelli, of George III., a reclining female figure also in marble, a model of a Goodwood Gold Cup, and several smaller pieces, in marble, and bronze, consisting of Victory, Jupiter, Vulcan, Venus, Dejanira, &c., are distributed on the chimney pieces, and in various other parts of the Hall.

Two rare and curious relics of the feudal times are preserved in this Hall, a pair of Curfews; so called from

* It may be well here to remark, that by the death of the late Duke of Gordon, without issue, in 1836, the princely Estates of that family devolved to the present Duke of Richmond. Alexander, fourth Duke of Gordon, by his will, entailed the Estates on the present Duke of Richmond, whose father the fourth Duke of Richmond married (1789,) Charlotte, eldest daughter of the above named Alexander Duke of Gordon, provided that his son George, fifth and last Duke of Gordon, died without issue. The Estates are situated in Aberdeenshire, Banffshire, Morayshire, and Invernessshire.