S.. Martha's Chapel near Guildford Surry.

Publisha for the Proprietors by W.Clarke, Bond Street, July 1.1808.

LOSELEY MANOR HOUSE,

SURRY.

LOSELEY is situated about two miles from Guildford on the south west: the manor, which was crown land in the time of Edward the Confessor, was held by one Osmund; it consisted of four hundred acres, and was valued at £120 present currency. After the conquest, it was given to Roger de Montgomery, earl of Arundel and Shrewsbury, who attended the conqueror in his expedition, and was one of his principal counsellors; this earl, in the latter part of his life, became a monk in the priory of Shrewsbury, which he had founded. The manor of Loseley was purchased in the twenty-fourth of Henry VIII. by Christopher More, esq. who was sheriff of Surry and Sussex; he died here in the year 1549. His eldest son, William, built the main body of the present mansion, which faces the north, and now has an extensive wing on the west; on the east is the garden wall of equal dimensions with the wing, and with corresponding projections and doors, which last are now filled up. The building is composed of the ordinary stone found in the county. In the centre is a hall forty-two feet in length, and about twenty-five in breadth, the wing contains on its first floor a gallery 121 feet long and eighteen feet wide; the prin

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cipal entrance opens into the hall; formerly it was more eastward, through a porch or vestibule, now a butler's pantry over this original entrance were placed three stone figures-on the right was Fate, holding a celestial globe, with these words: "Non Fors sed Fatum;" on the left, Fortune treading on a globe, and holding a wheel, on which was inscribed "Fortuna omnia;" in the middle was a figure with one foot on a wheel, the other on a globe, holding a book open and pointing to these words, "Non Fors sed Fatum :" over the entrance to the vesti bule was this distich

"INVIDE tangendi libi limina nulla facultas,

At libi AMICE patent janna mensa domus."

Over the door of the hall, parlour, buttery, and kitchen, are appropriate Latin inscriptions on the stairs leading to the gallery is a large allegorical picture, representing at one end the effects of a virtuous life, at the other end the consequences of a vicious course. The manor of Loseley came by marriage into the family of sir Thomas Molineaux, knt. from whom it descended, through several heirs, to Thomas More Molineaux, esq. who, dying unmarried in 1777, left the possession to his fourth sister Jane.