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ftands a house called "The Devil's House," and is included in Kent.

WORMLEY BURY, the feat of Sir Abraham Hume, Bart. in the parish of Wormley, near Cheshunt.

WOTTON, a village in Surry, to the S. W. of Dorking. Here is the seat of the family of Evelyn, ever fince the reign of Elizabeth. It was the favourite retreat of that great philofopher John Evelyn, Eq. till he went to Says Court, in Deptford. It is now the feat of his great great-grandfon, Sir Frederick Evelyn, Bart.

WRAYSBURY, a village of Buckinghamshire, fituated on the Thames, oppofite Egham. In this parish is Charter Ifland, in which Magna Charta was figned. See Anker-wyke House and Runny Mead.

WROTHAM, a market-town in Kent, 241 miles from London, has a large church, in which are 16 ftalls, fuppofed to have been made for the clergy, who attended the Archbishops of Canterbury, to whom the manor formerly belonged, and who had a palace here, till Abp. Tilip, in the fourteenth century, pulled it down, and built another at Maidstone. Several pieces of antiquity have been dug up here, particularly fome military weapons.

WROTHAM PARK, in the parish of Hadley, in Middlesex, the magnificent feat of George Byng, Efq, was built by his great uncle, Admiral John Byng. The views from the house and park are very fine. The eftate probably took its name from the town of Wrotham, in Kent, where the family had been fettled upward of 200 years, before John Byng, Efq. father of George first Viscount Terrington, difpofed of the family eftate in that place.

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YORKE HOUSE, the feat of Lieut. Col. Webber, at Twickenham. It was for many years the property and fummer residence of Lord Chancellor Clarendon.

YOUNGSBURY, the feat, late of David Barclay, Esq. and now of Robert Child, Efq. near Wade's Mill, to the north of Ware.

THE END.

T. Gillet, Printer, Salisbury-fquaré,

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