CORRESPONDENCE

OF

HORACE WALPOLE,

EARL OF ORFORD.

9814

NOW FIRST COLLECTED.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

1756-1764.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR RODWELL AND MARTIN, BOND-STREET;

AND COLBURN AND CO., CONDUIT-STREET.

CORRESPONDENCE

OF THE

HON. HORACE WALPOLE.

TO RICHARD BENTLEY, Esq.

Wentworth-castle, August.

I ALWAYS dedicate my travels to you. My present expedition has been very amusing: sights are thick sown in the counties of York and Nottingham: the former is more historic, and the great lords live at a prouder distance: in Nottinghamshire there is a very heptarchy of little kingdoms elbowing one another, and the barons of them want nothing but small armies to make inroads into one another's parks, murder deer, and massacre park-keepers. --But to come to particulars : The great road as far as Stamford is superb: in any other country it would furnish medals, and immortalize any drowsy monarch in whose reign it was executed. It is continued much farther, but is more rumbling. I did not stop at Hatfield and