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chief residence, and
appointed a Royal Commission to rebuild the castle in its present form
at a cost of more than one million sterling. About 1860, Wolsey's
Chapel, now known as the Albert Memorial Chapel, was restored in
memory of the Prince Consort, and the Duchess of Kent's mausoleum
was erected. St. George's Chapel, a splendid specimen of ecclesiastical
architecture, was originally built by Edward III., and was finally
restored in 1887. The State apartments, which can be seen when the
Royal family are absent, are sumptuously furnished and contain much
beautiful tapestry and a valuable collection of pictures.
Windsor Great Park, the chief feature of which is the Long Walk, is
well stocked with deer.
[Illustration: Photochrom Co., Ltd.

WINDSOR CASTLE.]

JORDANS AND WILLIAM PENN
=How to get there.=--Train from Baker Street. Metropolitan Railway.
=Nearest Station.=--Chalfont Road (3 miles from Jordans). =Distance
from London.=--22 miles. =Average Time.=--51 minutes. (Convenient
trains, 10.27 A.M., 12.17 and 2.27 P.M.)
1st 2nd 3rd =Fares.=--Single 3s. 2d. 2s. 4d. 1s. 7d. Return 4s. 9d. 3s. 5d.
2s. 5d.
=Accommodation Obtainable.=--None at Jordans. =Alternative
Route.=--Train to Uxbridge. Great Western Railway.
Jordans, the burial-place of William Penn, the great English Quaker
and philanthropist, lies on a by-road in Buckinghamshire, leading from
Chalfont St. Peter to Beaconsfield. The place itself, though full of the
typical charm of English scenery in the home counties, does not contain
anything of particular interest, and it owes its reputation to the
associations with the wonderful man who lived and died there. Jordans
is visited by many hundreds of tourists during the summer, mainly
Americans. One of these offered to remove Penn's remains to
Philadelphia, capital of Pennsylvania, and there build a mausoleum
over them; but the offer was declined.
The road runs south-west from the village of Chalfont St. Peter, and
after a sharp curve brings the visitor to the Meeting House, a very plain
and unobtrusive structure, dating from about the end of the seventeenth
century. In the secluded burying-ground surrounded and overhung by
great trees lies William Penn. Five of his children also rest among these
quiet surroundings; and here are buried two well-known Quaker leaders,
Isaac Penington and Thomas Ellwood. At the actual time of burial there
were no gravestones, but these have since been added. Though the
house as a regular place of meeting has long fallen into disuse, there is
still an annual gathering of Quakers there in memory of the great dead.

Penn was the son of Sir William Penn, an eminent admiral, and was
born in 1644. His violent advocacy of the Quaker creeds led him into
continual trouble and several times into prison. In 1681 he obtained, in
lieu of the income left by his father, a grant from the Crown of the
territory now forming the state of Pennsylvania. Penn wished to call his
new property Sylvania, on account of the forest upon it, but the king,
Charles II., good-naturedly insisted on the prefix Penn. The great man
left his flourishing colony for the last time in 1701, and after a
troublous time in pecuniary matters, owing to the villany of an agent in
America, Penn died at Ruscombe in Berkshire in 1718.
[Illustration: H.C. Shelley.
THE JORDANS.
The burial-place of William Penn.]

KNOLE HOUSE AND SEVENOAKS
=How to get there.=--Train from Charing Cross, Cannon Street, or
London Bridge. South-Eastern and Chatham Railway. =Nearest
Station.=--Sevenoaks (Knole House is just outside Sevenoaks).
=Distance from London.=--22 miles. =Average Time.=--45 minutes.
1st 2nd 3rd =Fares.=--Single 3s. 10d. 2s. 5d. 1s. 11d. Return 6s. 8d. 4s.
10d. 3s. 10d.
=Accommodation Obtainable.=--At Sevenoaks--"Royal Crown Hotel,"
"Royal Oak Hotel," "Bligh's Private Hotel," etc.
Sevenoaks is famous for its beautiful situation near the Weald of Kent.
It possesses still some old inns, relics of coaching days. The Grammar
School was founded in 1432 by Sir William Sevenoke, who, from
being a foundling, became Lord Mayor. St. Nicholas' Church is a large
building in the Decorated and Perpendicular style, much restored.
The chief charm of Sevenoaks is Knole House, a splendid example of

the baronial dwellings that were erected after the Wars of the Roses,
when the fortress was no longer so necessary. The demesne of Knole
was purchased in the fifteenth century by Thomas Bourchier,
Archbishop of Canterbury, who rebuilt the mansion on it. It was taken
from Cranmer by the Crown and granted in 1603 to Thomas Sackville,
Baron Buckhurst, afterwards Earl of Dorset, who is now represented by
the Sackville-West family, the present owners.
The first Earl of Dorset greatly improved Knole, employing, it is said,
200 workmen constantly. The building surrounds three square courts
and occupies about 5 acres. Knole possesses an extremely valuable
collection of paintings, and the mediaeval furniture is untouched from
the time of James I. There are famous pictures by Flemish, Dutch,
Venetian,