From Midhurst to
Petworth is 7 Miles, thro' a rough Stony Country and bad Roads. Petworth is a
small Town sought by the Traveller, on Account of a most Elegant House near it
belonging to the Earl of Egremont, which is built in the Modern Style, but the
Apartments very Noble and I think on the whole exceed any House I've seen for
the Largeness and just proportion of the Rooms, furnished in the most Superb Manner,
in one Gallery are 11 Statues, and 12 Busts, all said to come from the
Herculaneum with several others in the Hall which is very handsomely floored
with different colored Marble, but none of the Statues are perfect, either
decayed by time, or having suffered some Mutilation. The Paintings on the great
Stair Way are very fine and have a noble Effect, besides many Elegant Paintings
done by the best hands in which the several Appartments abound. The Emperor Charles
the Fifth is said to have lodged in this House when he was in England, and show
the Room he then lay in, now called the Royal Chamber. The Present Earl of
Egremont is just of Age, and was left by his Father about 18 thousand a year.
SOURCE: New York
Historical Society, Publisher, Collections of the New York Historical
Society for the Year 1883: The Kemble Papers, Vol. 1 1773-1789, pp. 14-5
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