BADMINTON, (Gloucestershire) MAGNA and PARVA, have a chapel of ease to Hawkesbury, and lie on the b. of Wilts, 3 m. to the
N.E. of Chipping-Sodbury and Wickwar, 15 from Glocester, and 85 from London. The p. is 6 m. in compass. It was the
Botelers manor and seat for near 400 Years, till one of them sold it to Somerset E. of Worcester, whose posterity have
ever since enjoyed it with the title of D's. of Beaufort. Henry the late D. made such additions to it that it is thought
one of the compleatest seats in the Km. and when K. William passed this way, he said to the D. he did not wonder that he
never came to court, since he had so stately a palace of his own to keep his court in. At Badminton Magna is a ch. s.