The History of Longleat (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The History of LongleatThe country into which he retired was his newly purchased estate in this neighbourhood: and here towards the latter part of his life, after providing for two families, together amounting to sixteen children, he began to play with house building. A fire having furnished him with an excuse, in or about 1566 he sent for his architect, and gave the order for Longleat.But who was the architect that he sent for P I am not aware that there is any positive written evidence of any kind, to show who he was. The accounts of the building, with all items of payment, are carefully preserved, but singularly enough, no architect's name appears in them. Tradition, it is true, names the man, and as that tradition has been consistent and uniform, I see no reason why it should be doubted. But before we try to settle that point, or rather, for the very purpose of helping to settle it, it may be useful to enquire for a few moments what style of house architecture had hitherto prevailed in England, and if the new house at Longleat was totally unlike the country houses that had preceded it, how came it to be unlike P how came this novelty of style to be adopted here?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.