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1v (SM volume 80)

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1v (SM volume 80)

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Downhill. Saturday July 27 1780 / Arrived late in the Evening. / Augst 2d His Lordship proposed buildg a new / Room where the present Entrance is, to the Cortile & to enter / by the North Front, thro' the Stable Yard, / the present cortile to be decorated with / a colonade - / Obj.[ection] the Expence would be considerable / to Decorate the Stable Yard, & the / fronts of the Stable buildg & also the / Cortile. / Alight from Carriage at A. pass thro' / the Archway to the Colonade, surely / too great a distance from the house, / tho' shelter'd the open colonade will / be disagreeable in bad weather. / To pass thro' two Courts & one the / Stable Yard to be avoided - the Carriages / must be clean'd in the Yard, dung &c

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