The garden is twelve acres within
the terrace of the grott.
The kitchin garden is a very good one, and here are good ponds and a
decoy. By the kitchin garden is a streame which turnes a wheele that
moves the engine to raise the water to the top of a cisterne at the
corner of the great garden, to serve the water-workes of the grotto
and fountaines in the garden.
Thomas, Earle of Pembroke, told me that his sister-in-law's priest, a
Frenchman, made a pretty poem or poemation on Wilton House and Garden,
in Latin verse, which Mr. Berford, his Lordship's Chaplain, can
procure.
THE STABLES, of Roman architecture, built by Mons. de Caus, have a
noble avenu to them, a square court in the middle; and on the four
sides of this court were the pictures of the best horses as big as the
life, painted in severall postures, by a Frenchman. Among others was
the great black crop-eared stone horse on which Gustavus Adolphus,
King of Sweden, was killed at the battle of Lutzen, two miles from
Leipzig. Upon the comeing of the Scotts, in 1639, Sir. .. Fenwyck
and. .. fearing their breeds of horses would be taken away by
the Scotts, did sell their breeds of horses and mares to Philip
(first) Earle of Pembroke. His Lordship had also Morocco horses, and
for race horses, besides Peacock and Delavill, he had a great many
more kept at the parke at Ramesbury and at Rowlinton. Then for his
stagge-hunting, fox-hunting, brooke-hawking, and land-hawking,
what number of horses were kept to bee fitt at all seasons for it, I
leave the reader to guesse, besides his horses for at least halfe a
dozen coaches.
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