{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3885", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "i;i\\nI\\nfM j", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "FAMOVS HOMES\\nOF\\nGREAT BRITAIN\\nAND\\nTMEIfV ST0I\\\\1ES\\nEDITED BY\\nA. H. MALAN\\nf\\nBELVOIR CASTLE\\nBATTLE ABBEY\\nCHARLECOTE\\nPENSHURST\\nBLENHEIM\\nWARWICK\\nCAWDOR CASTLE\\nHOLLAND HOUSE\\nCHATSWORTH\\nHARDWICK\\nALNWICK\\nLYME\\nILLUSTRATED\\nG. P. PUTNAM S SONS, New York\\nTHE PALL MALL MAGAZINE, London\\nMDCCCC\\n5SS\\nMX^\\nfcJ\\nm\\\\", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "TWO COPIES RECEIVED\\nLibrary of Cn^\\nOffJce of the\\nNOV? 7 ^^nn\\nOf eepyrlghf*\\nCopyright, 1899\\nG.J ^PUTNAM S SONS\\n48532\\nSECOND COPY,\\nUbe finlcfiei bocfier ipcess, mew Jj^orli", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "PREFACE\\nIt so materially adds to the pleasure of going over some\\nstately Residence, to know something about its history and\\ncontents beforehand (thereby saving one the humiliating after-\\nthought of having overlooked the more interesting details\\nthrough pure ignorance), that no apology is needed for the pub-\\nlication of the present work.\\nFor if the reader happens to have been inside a good many\\nBritish Castles and Halls, it will surely have been noticed that\\nthe retainers, told off to show the people round, occasionally\\nfrom force of circumstances lamentably fail as efficient cice-\\nrones partly through too facile credence of inaccurate local\\nhand-books, and partly through absorption of contradictory\\nscraps of history, bewilderingly fired at them by random visit-\\nors who have assumed quite an air of authority in reference to\\nthe objects shown.\\nThe best sources of information on Historic Houses are\\nCounty Histories, Papers in the various Antiquarian and Field-\\nClub Societies Transactions, and Private Family Memoirs. But\\nthese are not easily accessible and, supposing that they have\\nbeen got at, such a mass of printed matter much of it of the\\ndullest description has to be waded through, before any intelli-\\ngent grasp of a family s history can be gained, that few ever\\nmake the attempt.\\nThe articles that follow have not been compiled without\\npainstaking consultation of such records. In all cases they are\\nbased upon material to a large extent beyond the reach of the", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "iv ipretace\\naverage guide-book scribe whether they have emanated from\\nthe pens of members of the Houses described, or have been\\nsupervised and supplemented by an owner or some erudite\\nrelative.\\nNaturally, there will be found a difference in style and\\npoint of view also, more or less of that detachment which\\nmay be of service in handling a subject, as against over-famil-\\niarity with the theme. Blenheim, e. g., largely treats of its\\nassociations with the great Duke, as befits the gift of a nation to\\na man it delighted to honour. Charlecote evolves its story\\na good deal from its pictures. Warwick Castle shows the\\ndescriptive ability of the Chatelaine of that splendid strong-\\nhold. Battle Abbey inevitably has a Norman and monastic\\nflavour.\\nBut differ as they may in treatment, the writers have been at\\none in endeavouring to make their contributions bright, though\\nhistorical, and sufficiently diversified in points touched upon to\\nsuit the palate of the general reader. For, though those beauti-\\nful Homes invite and merit exclusive attention to their leading\\nfeatures, whether in the way of Architecture, Tapestry, Sculp-\\nture, Armour, old Paintings, Carved Wood, or Landscape Gar-\\ndening, the general reader is apt to fight very shy of a technical\\ntreatise, however seductive the subject, or noteworthy the\\nexamples.\\nMy thanks are due to those authors who have kindly re-\\nvised their respective papers since their first appearance in the\\npages of the Pall Mall Maga:(ine; and, whatever faults there may\\nbe in the volume, as a whole, it will be found, it is hoped, at\\nleast free from the more flagrant defects of pedantry, twaddle,\\nand gush.\\nA. H. Malan.\\nThe Sanctuary,\\nAltarnon, Cornwall, June, i8pp", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS\\nBelvoir Castle A. H. Malan i\\nSituated near Grantham in Lincolnshire, and is the seat of the Dukes\\nof Rutland. It was built by Robert de Todenci, a Norman, and\\noriginally belonged to Lord Ros. On the death of Edward, Lord\\nRos, on the 13th of October, 1508, it passed to his sister, Eleanor,\\nwho was married to Sir Robert Manners, one of the ancestors of\\nthe present Duke of Rutland. The house was rebuilt in 1555 by\\nHenry Manners, the second Earl of Rutland. As regards the Rut-\\nland family, it may be mentioned that Elizabeth, the daughter of\\nEdward Manners, the third Earl, married the great Lord Burleigh.\\nKatherine, the daughter of Francis, the sixth Earl, married the first\\nDuke of Buckingham, who was assassinated by Felton. The second\\ntitle of the Dukes of Rutland, The Marquis of Granby, is im-\\nmortalised by Dickens.\\nBlenheim The Duke of Marlborough 33\\nSituated at Woodstock in Oxfordshire, and is the home of the Dukes\\nof Marlborough. The history of the first Duke is the history of Eng-\\nland during the latter part of the seventeenth and beginning of the\\neighteenth centuries. The manor of Woodstock was granted to him\\nby Queen Anne, at the desire of Parliament, in recognition of the\\nvictory of Blenheim, and, by the Queen s orders, the mansion itself\\nwas erected. Blenheim is the most splendid residence in the world\\nowned by a private individual, and there are not many royal palaces\\nin Europe which can vie with it in magnificence.\\nHard wick Hall A. H. Malan 77\\nOne of the seats of the Dukes of Devonshire. Situated in Derby-\\nshire about eight or ten miles south-east of Chesterfield, near the\\nborder of Nottinghamshire. It is a beautiful example of a stately,\\nlate Tudor home, and contains countless treasures of the past.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "VI\\nContents\\nCharlecote Richard Davey 109\\nThe home of the Lucys. Situated in Warwickshire, near Stratford-\\nupon-Avon, in the heart of Shakespeare s country. A tradition\\nexists among the Lucy family, handed down from generation to\\ngeneration, that Shakespeare was prosecuted by Sir Thomas Lucy,\\nin 1592, for stealing buck out of his park at Charlecote.\\nHolland House The Hon. Caroline Roche 137\\nSituated at Kensington, in the West End of London, and is the town\\nresidence of the Earls of Ilchester. An absolutely unique house.\\nA beautiful Elizabethan building, standing amidst lovely gardens\\nand woods, almost in the heart of the greatest city in the world,\\na treasure house of works of art during a hundred years the resort\\nof all the great literary men England produced, Holland House\\nremains an ideal city home without rival.\\nCawdor Castle Viscount Emlyn 167\\nSituated in the County of Nairn, Scotland. It is the seat of the\\nEarls of Cawdor.\\nAll hail, Macbeth Hail to thee,\\nThane of Cawdor\\nA most interesting old Scottish fortress-dwelling in the midst of\\nlovely scenery and full of historic interest.\\nBattle Abbey The Duchess of Cleveland 197\\nSituated at Battle in Sussex. It is the home of the Dukes of Cleve-\\nland. The mansion is built in the grounds of the Benedictine Abbey,\\nwhich was founded by William the Conqueror after the battle of\\nHastings. The site of the battle of Hastings is immediately below\\nthe windows of the Abbey. The Duchess of Cleveland, who has\\ncontributed the article, is the mother of the Earl of Rosebery.\\nChatsworth A. H. Malan 231\\nSituated in Derbyshire, and is one of the seats of the Duke of Devon-\\nshire. The building of Chatsworth was commenced in the reign of\\nQueen Mary by Sir William Cavendish, who was the husband of\\nthe famous Bess of Hardwick. A huge, stately palace, with cele-\\nbrated gardens, designed by Sir Joseph Paxton.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "Contents\\nVll\\nPAGE\\nLyme The Dowager Lady Newton 263\\nSituated in the County of Cheshire. A stately Palladian house in\\nan immense parl and the home of the Leghs of Lyme, a family who\\ncan trace unbroken descent for a thousand years. Mr. Legh of Lyme\\nis now Lord Newton.\\nPenshurst Lady de L Isle and Dudley 295\\nSituated near Tunbridge in Kent. It is the home of the Barons de\\nL Isle and Dudley, to which family belonged the famous Sir Philip\\nSidney, the celebrated Algernon Sidney, and Dorothy, Countess of\\nSunderland, the Sacharissa of Waller. Penshurst is one of the\\nmost beautiful old houses imaginable, and a perfect example of an\\nEnglish feudal dwelling.\\nWarwick Castle The Countess of Warwick 327\\nSituated in the County of Warwick, and is the home of the Earls\\nof Warwick. Warwick Castle is one of the great historic houses\\nof the world, and is a veritable treasure-house of precious things.\\nParts of the castle are of almost unknown antiquity.\\nAlnwick Castle A. H. Malan 367\\nSituated in Northumberland, and is the home of the Percys, Dukes\\nof Northumberland. The Barony of Alnwick was purchased by\\nHenry de Percy in 1309 from the then Bishop of Durham. The\\nfamous Hotspur was a son of the fourth Earl Percy of Alnwick\\n(see Chevy Chace). A grand example of a feudal castle.\\nCopyright 1899 by William Waldorf Astor.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "ILLUSTRATIONS\\nAlnwick Castle, South Front\\nFrontispiece\\nBelvoir Castle\\nFrom Photographs by A. H. Ma Ian\\nRegent s Tower and Bastion\\nThe Castle from the Duke s Walk\\nThe Marquis of Granby and his Sister\\nFrom the Painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds\\nBelvoir Castle from the Lower Lake\\nIn the Mausoleum\\nGreat Silver Punch-Bowl\\nThe Guard-Room\\nKing Henry Vlll.\\nFrom the Painting by Holbein\\nThe Picture Gallery\\nCrowning of St. Catharine\\nFrom the Painting by Rubens\\nThe Beautiful Duchess of Rutland\\nAfter Sir Joshua Reynolds\\nA Corner of the Elizabeth Saloon\\nThree Miniatures of the Beautiful Duchess\\nOld Tapestry from Haddon\\nThe Grand Corridor\\nThe Library\\nA Corner of the Duke s Garden\\nThe Spring Garden\\n3\\n4\\n5\\n7\\n8\\n9\\nII\\n12\\n15\\n17\\n19\\n20\\n21\\n23\\n25\\n27\\nir", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "X\\nmiustratlons\\nSouth-west Front of the Castle\\nBottesford Church, near Belvoir\\nMonument to the Sixth Earl of Rutland and his Family, in\\nBottesford Church\\nPAGE\\n28\\n31\\nBlenheim and its Memories\\nBlenheim Palace 35\\nRosamond s Well, Woodstock 37\\nAngle Tower 40\\nThe High Lodge, Woodstock .41\\nSir John Vanbrugh 43\\nFrom the Painting by Kneller\\nThe Saloon 45\\nSarah Jennings, Duchess of Marlborough 47\\nFrom the Painting by Kneller\\nThe Battle of Oudenard 49\\nFrom the Blenheim Tapestry\\nFacsimile of a Letter written on the Day of the Battle of Mal-\\nplaquet by the Duke to the Duchess of Marlborough 5 1\\nJohn, Duke of Marlborough =52\\nFrom the Painting by Kneller\\nThe Entrance Hall 53\\nThe Great Library 57\\nJohn, Duke of Marlborough 60\\nFrom a Print\\nSword of Honour presented to John, Duke of Marlborough,\\nand Queen s Flag for 1894 61\\nStatue of Queen Anne in the Great Library 63\\nFacsimile Letters of Mr. Pope to the Duchess of Marlborough, 65, 68\\nBust of John, Duke of Marlborough 69\\nBlenheim Palace, South Front 72\\nTomb of John, Duke of Marlborough, in Blenheim Chapel 73", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "and Spanish\\nIfllustratioriB xi\\nHard wick\\nFrom Photographs by A. H. Malan\\nPAGE\\nHardwick Hall, showing Initials on Parapet\\nRuins of Old Hardwick Hall\\nEntrance Hall\\nTapestry representing the Prodigal Son\\nWedding\\nChimneypiece in Dining-Room\\nDoll s Tea Service and Grand Falconer s Badge in Oak\\nThe Drawing-Room, showing Arms of the Countess of\\nShrewsbury\\nJudgment of Solomon\\nSacrifice of Isaac\\nMary, Queen of Scots\\nPortion of Bed-Curtains worked by Mary, Queen of Scots\\nView of the Long Gallery\\nView of the Long Gallery\\nThe Queen s End of the Long Gallery, with Portrait of\\nQueen Elizabeth\\nThe Presence Chamber, showing Arms of Queen Elizabeth\\nover the Fireplace between pages loo and loi\\nThe Duke s End of the Long Gallery, with Portrait of First\\n79\\n8i\\n8}\\n85\\n86\\n86\\n87\\n89\\n90\\n91\\n93\\n95\\n97\\n99\\nDuke in Centre and\\nThe Library\\nArabella Stuart as a Child\\nThe Green Room\\nArabella Stuart, xt.\\nBeautiful Duchess on the Left\\nlOI\\n10}\\n104\\n105\\n107\\nCharlecote\\nCharlecote from the River Avon\\nThe Hall\\n113\\n115", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "xu\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0flllustratlone\\nThe Entrance Gate, said to have been designed by John of\\nPadua 117\\nTomb of Sir Thomas and Lady Lucy, in Charlecote Church 119\\nThe Garden Front 121\\nThe Drawing-Room 123\\nEntrance to Gardens 125\\nIn the Gardens 127\\nCharlecote Church 129\\nThe Library 131\\nCharlecote from the Front 133\\nHolland House\\nHolland House, South Side 139\\nHolland House, North Front .141\\nHolland House, from the North-west 143\\nIn the Gardens 145\\nThe Sir Joshua Reynolds Room 147\\nThe Breakfast Room 149\\nAddison s Room, so called because Joseph Addison died in\\nthis Room isi\\nThe Library 153\\nThe West Front, from the Dutch Garden .154\\nThe Gilt Room 155\\nLady Ilchester s Sitting-Room, containing Relics of Napoleon, 1 57\\nElizabeth Vassall, Lady Holland .158\\nFrom the Painting by G. Fagan\\nElizabeth Vassall, Lady Holland 1^9\\nFrom the Painting by Gaujfrier, A.D. 7795\\nLady Sarah Lenox, Charles James Fox, and Lady Susan\\nStrangeways 160\\nPainted at Holland House by Sir Joshua Reynolds\\nThe Green Lane 161\\nLouis Philippe s Walk, in the Gardens 163", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "miustratione\\nXlll\\nCawdor Castle\\nCawdor Castle 169\\nFro7n a Drawing by R. IV. Billings\\nFacsimileof Charter granted by King Alexander II., A. D. 1236, 171\\nFrom the Booh of Caivdor\\nThe Dungeon, showing Hawthorn Tree and Treasure Chest, 173\\nFrom a Photograph by Valentine, Dundee\\nThe Drawbridge 175\\nFrom a Photograph by Valentine, Dundee\\nKing Duncan s Room 177\\nFrom a Photograph by Valentine, Dundee\\nAncient Handbell, formerly in the Chapel .178\\nChimneypiece in the Dining-Room 179\\nFrom a Photograph by Valentine, Dundee\\nThe Dining-Room 181\\nFrom a Photograph by Valentine, Dundee\\nLady Henrietta s Needle, in Achniem Burn, Cawdor Woods, 183\\nFrom a Photograph by Valentine, Dundee\\nAt the Hermitage 185\\nFrom a Photograph by Valentine, Dundee\\nDrynachan 187\\nCawdor Castle, from the Burn .189\\nFrom a Photograph by Wilson, Aberdeen\\nGateway from the Middle to the Lower Court .190\\nThe Drawing-Room 191\\nFrom a Photograph by Wilson, Aberdeen\\nCuriously Carved Chimneypiece in the Blue Room .193\\nCawdor, from the Garden .194\\nBattle Abbey\\nThe Gateway 199\\nThe Entrance to Battle Abbey, showing Roof of Great Hall 201\\nGarden Front, showing Remains of the Cloisters .213", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "XIV\\nmiustratione\\nThe Drawing-Room\\n219\\nThe Crypt\\n223\\nChatsworth\\nFrom Photographs by A. H. Ma Ian\\nChatsworth, from the Park\\n233\\nMary s Bower\\n235\\nThe Oak Parlour\\n237\\nEntrance Gateway\\n239\\nGeorgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and Child (Lady Carlisle),\\n241\\nAfter Sir Joshua Reynolds\\nThe Chapel\\n243\\nGeorgiana, Duchess of Devonshire\\n245\\nLady Elizabeth Foster\\n246\\nCarved Chimneypiece, State Dining-Room\\n247\\nA Ceiling in One of the State Rooms\\n249\\nRending the Tomb\\n250\\nPortrait of First Duke of Devonshire\\n251\\nLord Pembroke and Sister\\n254\\nAfter Van Dyck\\nBeer Butts in the Cellar\\n255\\nWellington Rock\\n256\\nViews of the Temple Cascade\\n257\\n259\\nChatsworth, West Front\\n261\\nLyme\\nFrom Original Drawings by the Dowager Lady Newton\\nLyme, North Front 265\\nThe Italian Garden 267\\nThe South Front 269\\nThe Terrace 271", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "IfUustrationa\\nXV\\nThe Lantern 273\\nThe Drawing-Room 275\\nThe Drawing-Room, with the Picture-Panel open, showing\\nthe Entrance Hall 277\\nThe Hall, with Picture-Panel open 279\\nThe Stag Parlour 281\\nThe Long Gallery, showing Chimneypiece with the Arms of\\nQueen Elizabeth 285\\nA Corner of the Saloon 287\\nGloves of King Charles 1 288\\nLyme Cage, an Ancient Landmark 289\\nA Lyme Mastiff 290\\nAfter the Painting by J. T. Nettleship\\nIn the Court 291\\nPenshurst and its Memories\\nPenshurst, from the Gardens\\n297\\nThe Great Hall, showing Ancient Central Hearth\\n299\\nQueen Elizabeth s Room\\n301\\nThe Picture Gallery\\n303\\nSir Philip Sidney\\n304\\nAfter Zucchero\\nA Corner in the China Closet\\n305\\nOld Clock in Dining-Room\\n307\\nLady Dorothy Sidney- Sacharissa\\n309\\nAfter Van Dyck\\nOld Spinet\\n311\\nThe Ballroom\\n313\\nThe Vestibule\\n315\\nThe Corridor\\n317\\nThe Panel Room, showing Algernon Sidney s Boots\\n319\\nSword of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester\\n321", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "xvi miustraUons\\nPAGE\\nDiana s Bath .323\\nSun-Dial in the Garden 325\\nIn the Gardens 326\\nWarwick Castle\\nWarwick Castle 329\\nGuy s Tower 331\\nWarwick Castle from the River Avon -333\\nThe Gateway -335\\nThe Great Hall -337\\nA Corner of the Hall 341\\nGuy s Porridge-Pot 345\\nOliver Cromwell s Helmet -347\\nQueen Elizabeth s Violin 349\\nQueen Elizabeth s Saddle 351\\nIn the Armoury -353\\nThe Servants Hall 357\\nLady Warwick s Boudoir 359\\nA Corner in Lady Warwick s Room 363\\nAlnwick Castle\\nFrom Photographs hy A. H. Malan\\nThe Keep, from Barniside\\nThe Keep\\nPrudhoe Tower, Chapel, etc.\\nThe Barbican\\nDraw- Well and Norman Arch in Keep Court\\nThe Ravine Tower, from the Battlements\\nThe Library\\nThe Drawing-Room\\n369\\n371\\n373\\n375\\n377\\n379\\n381\\n383", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "miuatrations\\nXVll\\nThe Dining-Room\\nRaffael s Madonna Del Garofani\\nCanaletto s View of the East Front of the Castle\\nThe Castle, from the Dairy Ground\\nGarret on Battlements of Keep\\nA View in the Dairy Ground\\n385\\n387\\n389\\n390\\n391\\n393", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "i", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "Belvoir Castle", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "f", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "REGENT S TOWER AND BASTION\\nBELVOIR CASTLE\\nBY A. H. MALAN\\nWHETHER considered as a subject in itself, or as a\\nstandpoint for surveying the surrounding country,\\nBelvoir eminently deserves its title Fair View.\\nShould you approach from Grantham, it will not be visible until\\nquite near Woolsthorpe but if you alight at Sedgebrook station,\\nit will be seen at once, rising up in the distance beyond some\\nintervening miles of level ground. The Castle is most pictur-\\nesquely perched aloft, standing out clearly defined against the\\nsky, except when a smoky haze, generated it may be amid the\\nworks of Nottingham, descends without warning upon it. From\\nthe terrace, looking fenwards, about thirty miles towards and be-\\nyond Newark, and also towards Lincoln, are included in the field.\\nAs a countryman descriptively remarked: There s a grarncl", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "Belvoir Castle\\nview from yon hill you can see far off and a long way too\\nIn fact, when the cresset blazed forth from one of Belvoir s tur-\\nrets at the Diamond\\nJubilee, if the night\\nwere clear, any an-\\nswering signals on\\nthe Cathedral were\\nvery likely visible,\\nsince the towers\\nthereof are plainly\\nseen by daylight.\\nFrom Norman\\ntimes, at any rate,\\nBelvoir has been a\\nstronghold, the Con-\\nqueror s standard-\\nbearer, Todeni, hav-\\ning erected a fortress\\nthere. After an era\\nof some Albinis, this\\npassed to the De Ros\\nfamily, by whom it was held until Thomas, Lord Ros, a Lancas-\\ntrian, was attainted in 1461, when it was given by Edward IV. to\\nLord Hastings. Given, but not enjoyed For up rose a friend\\nof the late owner, and withstood the intruder. Whereupon\\nHastings came along with a large force, and with a bitterness\\nof rage scarcely intelligible, so injured the fabric that the Castle\\nfell to ruin. The lead was ripped off, roofs left to rot, soil be-\\ntween the walls grew elders and so ended the original building.\\nTwenty years later, the estate was reconveyed to Edmund,\\nthe next Lord Ros, at whose death the barony and estates fell\\ninto abeyance among his sisters the succession being eventually\\nTHE CASTLE FROM THE DUKE S WALK", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "Belpoir dastle\\ndetermined in favour of the eldest sister, who had married Sir\\nRobert Manners of Ethale.\\nThen Thomas, Lord Ros, created Earl of Rutland, 1526, ad-\\ndressed himself to rebuild-\\ning the Castle, the work\\nbeing completed, 1555, by\\nhis heir, the second Earl\\nwhose younger brother, by\\nthe way, might probably\\nhave married Dorothy Ver-\\nnon of Haddon without\\nany romantic elopement\\nif elopement there were\\nsince it was a good enough\\nmatch on both sides.\\nThe new Castle en-\\njoyed a period of unevent-\\nful history until 1642, when it became the main object of attack\\nof Sir Gervase Lucas and other malignants, through the then\\nEarl of Rutland attaching himself to the Parliamentary cause.\\nSir Gervase took it and held it for the King, making raids with\\nother vile villains and cormorants, as their opponents called\\nthem, and being in turn raided himself. Charles 1. slept there,\\nAugust 5, 1645, and proceeded to Banbury but the convoy\\nwhich conducted him was on its return set upon and routed by\\nGeneral Pointz, who, forthwith besieging the Castle, met with\\nstubborn resistance for four months. At the end of that period,\\nhowever, a party, of whom the Earl of Rutland was one, was\\nsent down from London to negotiate a surrender the knowledge\\nthat the besieged had provisions for some months, while the\\nbesiegers mortarpiece had exhausted all her grenades, and no\\nadditional shells were forthcoming, as purposed, from Reading,\\nTHE MARQUIS OF QRANBY AND HIS SISTER\\nSIR J. REYNOLDS", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "6 Belvoir (Tastle\\nthrough the ways being impassable, prompting an offer of\\nmore generous terms than could well be looked for. The offer\\nwas accepted the garrison marched out, colours flying, drums\\nbeating, matches lighted to be immediately replaced by some\\nParliamentary troops. These being ordered, 1648, to quit Bel-\\nvoir, the Castle was then restored to its rightful owner but the\\nfollowing year the Commons ordered it to be demolished, and\\nthat the Earl should receive fifteen hundred pounds by way of\\ncompensation, with which the Earl of Rutland was content.\\nIt may have saved him presently taking down weakened walls\\nanyhow, he resided at Haddon till 1653, when he rebuilt Belvoir,\\nand added gardens.\\nA model of the building he erected is still to be seen,\\nfashioned in wood, to scale, it represents a plain square two-\\nstoreyed block with a central court a causeway leading up to\\nthe principal entrance, which was set back some distance from the\\noutside walls. Two paintings also of the same building hang in\\nthe corridor of the family wing, showing the road winding round\\nthe knoll like a corkscrew, and the Belvoir hounds in the fore-\\nground, apparently in the act of hunting some deer, while the\\nreal object of their pursuit is a fox, in the middle distance,\\nflitting between the foliage of the trees like a flushed woodcock.\\nThe building of which we speak continued until 1801, when\\nthe fifth Duke began replacing it by an edifice on a far grander\\nscale. In 18 16, however, when the work was almost completed,\\na deplorable fire consumed the north-east and north-west fronts,\\nand was only stayed from further ravages by a doorway in the\\ncentre of the long gallery being hastily bricked up. The de-\\nstruction of pictures on that occasion was immense no less than\\nnineteen Sir Joshuas perished, among them being the huge can-\\nvas, twelve feet by eighteen feet, of The Nativity, painted in\\nThe tenth Earl was created Duke.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "8\\nBelvoir Castle\\n1780 as the central piece for the window in New College, and\\npurchased by the Duke of Rutland for twelve hundred guineas.\\nThe following year the work was recommenced and that\\npiety which led the builder to have inscribed on the central\\ntower, NISI DOMINVS ^DIFI-\\nCAVERIT DOMVM, etC, will,\\nwe may well believe, ever\\nsafeguard this castellated\\npile, even as the same\\ninscription, in English, safe-\\nguarded Smeaton s Eddy-\\nstone lighthouse.\\nThough the need has\\npassed, the idea of a strong-\\nhold has been admirably\\npreserved. Here are can-\\nnons, a present from the\\nRegent, ultima ratio reg-\\num, as they attest, mount-\\ned upon the bastion, to\\ncommand the only road\\nthere is but one entrance to\\nafford admittance, with the\\nexception of a small door,\\nwith a porter at hand it is\\nimpossible to walk round the Castle, unless you get the two\\ntowers on the terrace unlocked or, if you should enter the\\nsubterranean passage from the outworks to the cellars, there\\nyou find another cannon at the end, all ready to rake the tunnel.\\nAs to the architecture, it is bold, massive, and of most noble\\npretensions. The north-east and north-west fronts, designed by\\nSir John Thoroton, were built after the fire the south-east and\\nIN THE MAUSOLEUM", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "Belvoir Castle\\nGREAT SILVER PUNCH-BOWL\\nsouth-west fronts, designed by Wyatt, before it. Much of the\\nexterior is in the Norman style the Chapel is Perpendicular\\nsome of the corridors, etc., have details borrowed from Lincoln\\nCathedral. Passing through the Decorated porch, and passage\\nlined with flint-locks, the Guard-room, then entered, is typical\\nof the general style\\nof the landings and\\ngalleries groined\\nroof, with bosses at\\nintersection of ribs\\npillars studded with\\nball-flower low\\ntwo-centred arches.\\nOver the fireplace\\nare pictures of James\\nI., Charles 1., Mary\\nII., rescued from the fire at the expense of their frames. Two\\nglazed recesses contain some of the effects of the Marquis of\\nGranby, who distinguished himself in the Seven Years War at\\nMinden and Kirchdenkern afterwards becoming Commander-\\nin-Chief, and lending his title to many an inn, like the one at\\nDorking, whose hostess old Weller married, in Pickwick.\\nThe basement being given up to kitchens, steward s rooms,\\nand the accompanying adjuncts of a large house, we may pass\\nover them, and make for another vaulted chamber at the oppos-\\nite end. Situated at the foot of the Staunton Tower, and now\\nused as a wine-cellar, this is interesting as being the oldest bit\\nprobably original Norman masonry. There are suggestive hints\\nthat the present floor is not the bottom of all things, the ribs\\nending prematurely, and seeming to pass down farther. The\\nkeystone has been a bone of contention among antiquarians\\npossibly the visible disc is a later insertion the centre letter ap-", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "lo Belvoir Castle\\npears to be a Longobardic M, but the designs round the border,\\nlike fleurs-de-lys, certainly look rather archaic.\\nReturning to the main staircase, and ascending to the Guard-\\nroom Gallery, we may make our way, after a look at two old\\ninlaid corselets on the parapet, to the Chapel. It is the height of\\nthis and the next storey say forty feet. It contains The Holy\\nFamily, by Murillo, as the altar-piece the Bible, in two vol-\\numes (dated 1680), on pedestals in niches and, displayed against\\nthe wall opposite the south-west windows, are three large bright\\nstrips of tapestry, (of Mortlake manufacture, from Raphael s car-\\ntoons,) curtailed in size, it is said, to fit the space, and arranged\\nin proper sequence according to the suggestions of the Empress\\nFrederick. Here prayers are said daily by the chaplain.\\nBeyond the Chapel is the family wing, opening on to a\\nterrace facing south, and communicating, through the detached\\ncorner tower, with another terrace below a delectable spot this\\nlatter, where magnolias and banksias sun themselves against the\\nbatter of the rampart. But the view from the upper terrace is\\nvery beautifully sylvan. To the right, the eye traverses a long\\nwooded ridge, capped here and there with conifers immediately\\nbeneath are some royal trees with plenty of room to grow in\\nin front, more woodland, sloping down to lakes backed by Black-\\nberry Hill to the left, the pleasant village of Woolsthorpe,\\nwith its church.\\nPassing back to the Guard-room Gallery, and up to the Earls\\nGallery (on the principal storey), where are hung portraits of\\nthe eight Earls, and of George Villiers (Felton s victim), who\\nmarried Catharine, daughter of the sixth Earl of Rutland, let the\\ntlrst room entered be the Picture Gallery. Built for the purpose,\\nwith a top light above the coving and frieze, there are happily\\nneither reflections from windows, nor streaks of sunshine, nor\\nother hindrances to reposeful contemplation. After breakfast is", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "II", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "12\\nBelvoir Castle\\nthe best time to come here and if armed with the catalogue,\\nand Mr. Redford s comments so much to the point and re-\\nclining in one of the six elaborately carved chairs from the Bor-\\nghese Palace at Rome, there is every reason why a delightful and\\nmost instructive morning should be spent. The place of honour\\n^.-.a:-^...: is given to Holbein s\\nHenry VIII., very\\nhighly finished, and full\\nof richest detail the\\nbest of all existing full-\\nlength portraits of this\\nmonarch. It is flanked\\nby two Gainsboroughs;\\nand opposite is Sir\\nJoshua s Marquis of\\nGranby and his Sister,\\nafterwards Lady Eliza-\\nbeth Norman. Near\\nthe latter is that feast\\nof good things, Teniers\\nProverbs the easi-\\nest of the twenty-four\\nproverbs to be deciph-\\nered being the follow-\\ning Much Cry and Little Wool a man shearing his pig;\\nMore Ways than One a cow having tumbled into a well,\\ninstead of pulling her out her owner throws in gravel to raise\\nher; a method of procedure hardly applicable to bogs Labour\\nin Vain two women winding tlax in opposite directions from\\none spindle Those Born to be Hanged will never be\\nDrowned \u00e2\u0080\u0094a man falls into a river, and his friend consolingly\\npoints to the gallows. Opposite the door we entered is a\\nKING HENRY VIII.\\nHOLBEIN", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "THE PICTURE GALLERY BELVOIR CASTLE\\n13", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "14\\n15eIvolr Castle\\nhuge canvas, Crowning of St. Catharine, (Rubens) a richly\\ndressed female, probably the second wife of Rubens, Helena\\nForman. Then there are the\\nSacraments, by Poussin, six\\nin number, secured by Sir\\nJoshua for Belvoir, to the\\nannoyance of the authori-\\nties at Rome several let-\\nters from Sir Joshua being\\nextant relating to this ac-\\nquisition, which cost three\\nthousand pounds. The\\nBaptism of Christ was\\na gift of George the Fourth\\nto the fourth Duke. The\\nm/55/ sacrament is Pen-\\nance. Space forbids men-\\ntion of more pictures; all are\\ngems, there is absolutely no rubbish and the light is so exactly\\nwhat it should be that there is no difficulty with the camera\\na rather unusual experience.\\nLet us proceed next to the Dining-room. Besides large\\nportraits of the Marquis of Granby, and the fourth Duke in Lord-\\nLieutenant robes (both by Sir Joshua), and tall semicircular-\\nheaded recesses filled with plate-glass, and extending from ceiling\\nto sideboard, there is a table apparently covered with a white\\ncloth, fresh from the press, the folds scarcely smoothed out.\\nYou would hardly guess, unless you touched it, that the table-\\ntop is of solid marble, so truthfully has it been carved by M.\\nWyatt. It sometimes supports a silver punch-bowl, chased,\\noval-impaled, peacock-handled, dated ibSi a truly extensive\\npiece of plate, weighing 1979 oz. 10 dwt. But, just as Holbein s\\nCROWNING OF ST. CATHARINE\\nRUBENS", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "Belvoir Castle\\n15\\nHenry VIII. is not so valuable as the tiny Birdcage of\\nGerard Douw, below it, so the market value of this bowl, capa-\\nble of holding fifty-two gal-\\nlons, is very far exceeded\\nby that of a small basin\\n(1581) and its attendant\\nvase, seen in another part\\nof the house. Placed here\\nagainst the wall, between\\ntwo windows, the punch\\ncistern stands in its own\\nlight which of course does\\nnot at all signify, as arti-\\nficial light is much more\\nsuitable for splicing the\\nmain-brace. But one can\\nimagine it set (for contrast)\\non a black oak table, under\\nthe beech in the garden,\\nwest of the Regent s Tower,\\nat a garden-party. There\\nit would indeed be a strik-\\ning, beautiful object and\\nuseful withal, since it might dispense lemonade to the assem-\\nblage, or even refreshing draughts of claret-cup a beverage\\nscarcely potent enough, surely, to wound even the most sus-\\nceptible temperance principles.\\nOpposite the Dining-room is the threshold of the Elizabeth\\nSaloon, possessing a Verrio-like ceiling, satin panels on walls,\\nLouis Quatorze decorations, furniture from a chateau of Madame\\nde Maintenon. Here are two pictures (Sanders), hinged on\\neasels, of the fifth Duke, in Coronation robes, and his Duchess\\nTHE BEAUTIFUL DUCHESS OF RUTLAND\\nAFTER SIR J. REYNOLDS", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "1 6 ISelvoir Castle\\nseveral panels of valuable miniatures, arranged in chronological\\norder by Lady Granby, and recently catalogued by Lady Victoria\\nManners the gold key of the Staunton Tower an emblem of\\nfeudal tenure, by the presentation of which to the Sovereign,\\nwhen visiting the Castle, Staunton of Staunton holds his lands\\nin the Vale. A sumptuous apartment this, for full-dress parade,\\nafter dinner the antithesis to it being a plain little room off the\\nGuard-room, much affected by men, not only when the parade\\nis over, but at other times as well. In the den in question the\\nmost conspicuous picture is a painting of a rather celebrated\\nspecimen of the Belvoir hounds, in the extremely stiff but natural\\nattitude which that particular hound assumed when brought out\\nto be shown off. The description of the celebrity is as follows:\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\ngambler, by weather-gauge GRATITUDE.\\nMeasurement in inches:\\nHeight, 23 full length, from extreme end of shoulder to\\ndo. of quarter, 27^ elbow to ground, 12 arm, 8^ below knee,\\n^l girth, 31; across quarter, 7; round thigh below stifle, 9^;\\nneck extended, 10; head, ic^.\\nFrom the Saloon we enter the Grand Corridor, part of which\\nis also the Ball-room the soft oak floor contrasting very favour-\\nably with the perilously polished boards of the Picture Gallery,\\nall too redolent of turpentine and beeswax. This corridor is one\\nhundred and twenty feet long, in the spandrils between the\\nbays, at either end of the Ball-room portion, are the arms of Man-\\nners and Howard, in glass and stone. The couches are draped\\nin golden satin and among the array of life-size portraits one\\nof the Beautiful Duchess arrests the eye. in all probability\\nSir Joshua took great pains with this picture, out of compliment\\nStaunton Hall is a ciiarniinn; old house, a few miles from Belvoir.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "A CORNER OF THE ELIZABETH SALOON, BELVOIR CASTLE\\n17", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "I", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "Bel voir Castle 19\\nto his patron but the face is not so lovely as one of the same\\nsubject in No. 8 panel of the Saloon. The panel must needs\\nbe specified, as, amongst the miniatures, there are no less than\\nten portraits of this Duchess. She was Mary Isabella, daughter\\nTHREE MINIATURES OF THE BEAUTIFUL DUCHESS\\nof the fourth Duke of Beaufort and, as wife of the Lord-\\nLieutenant of Ireland, kept a grand Court at Dublin. There\\nis a quaint water-colour in the Billiard-room, in which she is\\nseen driving in a high-seated cabriolet from Dunleary to Dublin\\n{circa 1785), while the country people fly out of her way before\\nthe six white ponies.\\nTo save space, we must pass over the Chinese suite, entered\\nfrom this point, with their japanned door panels of Chinese work,\\nfurniture bedecked with silk flowers on a yellow ground, Chinese\\nsilk on such walls as are not covered with Chinese paper but\\nwe must notice, just beyond the Ball-room, a piece of arras from\\nHaddon, with the old shield of England in the centre a beau-\\ntiful piece of work, colouring subdued and toned down by age.\\nThe device looks at the first glance like the Rutland shield, but\\nit has one fleur-de-lys and one lion too many the first Earl\\nbeing permitted to assume part of the Royal arms, owing to\\nhis descent from the sister of Edward IV. And this may per-\\nhaps account for the local belief that the Royal standard can\\nbe flown from the Castle when Royalty is not present at", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "20\\n:\u00c2\u00a9eIvoir Castle\\nany rate the Rutland chars^e on a flag might easily be mis-\\ntaken for the Royal arms, whether there is any truth in the\\ntradition or not.\\nA passage conducts us westward to an ante-room, on the\\nshelves of which\\nare the Chronicles of\\nthe Hounds of Bel-\\nvoir, duly recorded\\nby the owners, from\\n1800 to the present\\nand this ante -room\\nadjoins the Library.\\nThe Library and\\nits smaller neighbour\\nbeyond together\\ncontain about seven\\nthousand volumes,\\ninclusive of a Brevia-\\nry, and a Roman mis-\\nsal Bocha s Falles of\\nPrvnces in luglvsch,\\ntemp. Richard HI.; a\\nvast store of works\\non Divinity, and\\nsome rare editions of\\nthe Classics. Over the mantelpiece is a portrait (by Sir Francis\\nGrant) of the fifth, the good Duke, the builder of the Castle:\\nand on a window-sill is a reproduction of one of Lady Granby s\\ndrawings, making it most desirable that more of her work were\\ndisplayed, since, besides her well-known genius for portraiture\\nand sculpture, she so evidently had the talent (or is it knack\\nof drawing a pretty face.\\nOLD TAPESTRY, FROM HADDON", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "21\\nJL", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "2 2 3Be!\\\\ oir (Tastle\\nFolding doors admit to tlie small Library, amongst the pic-\\ntures of which is one of Lord Robert Manners, the naval hero,\\nyoungest son of the famous Marquis a captain under Rodney,\\nand commander of the Resolution in several actions, before that\\nfinal one, off Dominica, when he was mortally wounded in\\nbreaking the French line. Here are to be found those manu-\\nscripts and letters of which a considerable number were dis-\\ncovered, stored away in common boxes, in an attic over the\\nstables. That was a grand find. The boxes may have come\\nfrom Haddon, or have been hurriedly placed here at the tire.\\nWhen lighted upon, no small share of their contents, ranging\\nfrom 1440 to 1787, had formed material for rats nests but\\nsufficient remained, when weeded and sorted, to till thirty-six\\nvolumes. One of the most noteworthy letters, signed by War-\\nwick, contains a request from the King-maker that Henry Vernon\\nwould bring all the men he could to assist him against Edward.\\nBut this the owner of Haddon failed to do, on which account\\nhis estates were subsequently not confiscated, and are there-\\nfore at present in possession of the Duke of Rutland, as they\\nprobably otherwise would not have been. In a glazed case\\nwe observe sundry charters, one of which (between 11 89 and\\n1199), translated, runs thus:\\nJohn, Earl of Moreton, to his Justices, SherilTs, bailiffs, minis-\\nters, and all his faithful people, sends greeting. Know you that\\n1 have granted and given licence to Richard de Vernon to fortify\\nhis mansion of Haddon with a wall raised twelve feet high,\\nwithout battlements and 1 forbid that any one should there-\\nafter disturb the said wall.\\nWarwick.\\nWitnessed by Robert de Mara\\nat Clipeston.\\nBut the place to see charters (and the Todeni seal for the matter", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "24 Belvoir Caetle\\nof that) is the Muniment-room, where there are some thousands\\nall in a muddle, till recently arranged by Mr. Carrington.\\nCrossing the Earls Gallery, we proceed into the Grand Gal-\\nlery, one hundred and thirty-one feet long, eighteen feet wide,\\nbut expanding to thirty-six feet in the central bay. It was fitted\\nup for the Regent in 1814, and named after him. It contains\\neight hangings of Gobelin tapestry, with high-coloured and\\nminutely detailed scenes of the adventures of Dom Quichotte,\\nsurrounded by wide borders of armour, flowers, and fruit a\\nseries of busts by Nollekins portraits, by Hoppner, of the Duke\\nand Duchess the latter unfinished one of Lady Tyrconnel\\n(Reynolds), sister to the fourth Duke, in white satin, she was\\ndivorced by Act of Parliament, and married the same year, 1777,\\nthe son of Lord Newark the wife of the famous Marquis, and\\nthe Duchess of Somerset (both by W. Hogarth) the Duchess\\nof Buckingham, wife of George Villiers (Vandyck) and some\\nintensely blue old Sevres on the chimneypieces.\\nThis being the most imperial room of all, let us content\\nourselves with its splendour and spaciousness, and omit the\\nRoyal rooms, just as we omitted the Wellington suite below.\\nGaining the entrance once more, and passing out, we shall\\nbe but following the course of almost all visitors if we go down\\ninto the Duke s Garden. Just now (early May) the beds are\\nablaze with tulips, aubrietias, and polyanthuses, and the borders\\nfragrant with great patches of double Neapolitan violets, screened\\nfrom the midday sun by branches overhead. Beyond the narrow\\nplateau on which is this garden the ground falls rapidly, to form\\na grassy dell that loses itself in the foliage of the opposite hill\\nrunning down to meet it. The Duke s Walk skirts this dell\\nand a little way farther on we leave the walk for a few minutes,\\nto turn up and reach the Mausoleum, completely hidden in trees,\\nat the top of the hill. At the altar end of the mortuary chapel", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "25", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "26 tSelvolr dastle\\nis a marble effigy of the late Duchess, consort of the fifth Duke,\\nabout to ascend to the clouds to meet four expectant children\\nwho predeceased her. The effect is more striking through the\\nfigures in the apse being lit from above with a golden radiance\\nfrom coloured glass, as contrasted with the comparative gloom\\nof the rest of the chapel. Gifted in many directions, Belvoir\\nowes much of its interior arrangements to the architectural ability\\nof her Grace and besides this, she wrought her family lasting\\ngood in the way of planting. To her are due those spreading\\nPortugal laurels and other shrubs, so lavishly distributed through-\\nout the grounds, especially along the drive up from Knipton.\\nThe general distribution of sheltering cover makes the at-\\ntachment of the birds to one particular quarter the more sur-\\nprising but so it is. While it would be hard to find any corner\\nof the demesne where some blackbirds and thrushes are not\\nperforming solos or duets, in the avenue leading from the dairy\\nto the gardens the performances morning and evening are those\\nof massed bands, knowing no interval, a local predilection which\\nappears contagious since the summer (1897) in which this\\narticle was written, several nightingales not common visitors,\\nusually were said to have turned up in the same avenue as\\nsoon as the native songsters were busy with their first broods,\\nand so, for the time, silent. Happily all birds are given a chance\\nfor existence. Even owls and hawks are not ruthlessly shot and\\ntrapped and yet, observe, the game-book shows no diminishing\\ntotals from such regard to the claims of the Belvoir avi-fauna.\\nRegaining our path the family walk after morning service\\non Sundays it threads its way between forest trees, and one\\nor two spreading standard yews, such as can be matched 1\\nknow not where, and presently reaches a natural amphitheatre,\\nthe Spring Garden. Cedars, oaks, ribbon-bedding, rockwork,\\ncamellias, robust bamboos, and hybrid rhododendrons, make a", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "27", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "28\\n3BcIvoir Caatle\\ncombination of greenery and landscape gardening pleasant to\\nbehold, showing there is shelter from all quarters except the\\nsouth, and that frosts are never severe. Farther on perhaps you\\nquit the path and descend to Frog Hollow a peaceful scene\\nof firs, rhododendrons, and ponds, with a backing of Granby\\nwoods. Wild duck\\nwould now be nest-\\ning, if the ubiquit-\\nous foxes allowed\\nthem as it is, it is\\nhere, rather than in\\nthe lakes, that the\\nfew are accounted\\ntor in winter. Or\\nyou may, if you\\nchoose, pursue the\\npath, and go on\\nwinding around to the opposite side of the ridge, and so back\\nto the starting-place having traversed three miles of admirably\\nengineered walk, on the level, under the shelter of trees the\\nwhole way. For not only are the state rooms in the Castle\\nshown on all week-days except Christmas Day and Good Friday,\\nbut the grounds and gardens (except the kitchen garden) are\\nthroughout open to visitors all the year round.\\nAbout four miles from the Castle is Bottesford Church, with\\nmany a monument from the old Priory whose site was near\\nthe Belvoir Inn. The road to Bottesford runs past green tlelds\\nhedged by stake and bound fences, difficult to negotiate on\\nhorseback, and over the Grantham Canal some of the best\\npartridge-driving ground in all the estate.\\nThe wide, long chancel of the church proves to be almost\\nfilled up with monuments, of which two at least must be alluded\\nSOUTH-WEST FRONT OF CASTLE", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "29", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "30 Belpoir dastle\\nto. One of these is a simple little figure of marble, eighteen\\ninches high, in armour and mantle, with shield on left arm it\\nhas been thought to represent the founder, Todeni, but is more\\nplausibly assigned to the third Albini, who died 1236. The other\\nis an elaborate altar-tomb against the south wall, commemorat-\\ning Francis, the sixth Earl, his two wives, and three children.\\nThe long inscription records the Earl s exploits and brilliant re-\\nceptions at foreign Courts, and then proceeds: In 1608 he\\nmarried the Lady Cecilia Hungerfd by whom he had\\ntwo sonnes, both of which dyed in their infancy by wicked\\nPractise and Sorcerye. The story is to be found set out at\\nlength in a pamphlet printed in 16 16, relating the wonderful\\ndiscoverie of the witchcrafts of Margaret and Philippa Flower.\\nIt appears that Margaret, a servant at the Castle, on being for\\nsufficient reason dismissed, harboured a grudge against her late\\nemployers. Her mother, Joan, was a monstrous malicious\\nwoman, full of oathes and curses and imprecations irreligious.\\nNot content with witching cattle (though Philippa plumed her-\\nself on having witched her lover), these three worthies were\\nconsidered to have cast an evil eye on the Earl s children, Fran-\\ncis and Henry, because they sickened very strangely and after\\nawhile died. Some thought this was only to be expected, as\\nthe Flowers admitted having a cat called Rutterkin That the\\ntrio were in some way connected with the death of the infants\\nseems beyond doubt for after the demise of the woman Joan,\\nwho conveniently choked herself, the daughters were brought to\\ntrial, and made such confession as justified Sir Henry Hobart in\\ncondemning them to death. But they were not arraigned until\\nfive years after the crime was committed and two years after the\\npublication of the pamphlet which seems to show that trial for\\nwitchcraft was not a matter to be taken in hand lightly or unad-\\nvisedly, but came well within the sphere of the law s delays.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "fvV\\nMONUMENT TO THE SIXTH EARL OF RUTLAND AND HIS FAMILY\\nIN BOTTESFORD CHURCH\\n31", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "Blenbeim anb its flBemoties\\n33", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "BLENHEIM PALACE\\nBLENHEIM AND ITS MEMORIES\\nBY THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH\\nT\\nHERE is perhaps no one thing, which the most Polite part of\\nmankind have more tmiver sally agreed in, than the valine\\nthey have ever set upon the Remains of distant Times. Nor\\namongst the severall kinds of those Antiquitys are there any so\\nm,uch regarded as those of Buildings some for their magnificence\\nor curious Workmanship and others, as they move more lively and\\npleasing Reflections (than History without their aid can do) on\\nthe Persons who have Inhabited them on the remarkable things\\nwhich have been transacted in them, or the extraordinary occasions\\nof erecting them. As I believe it cannot be doubted, but if Travel-\\nlers many ages hence shall be shewn the very House in which so\\n35", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "o\\n6 Blenbeim anb its flDemories\\nGrt jt a Man Dwelt, as thcv will then read the Duke of Marl-\\nborough in Story and that they shall be told, it was not only his\\nfavourite habitation, but was erected for him by the bounty of the\\nQjieen and with the approbation of the People, as a monument of the\\nGreatest Services and Honours, that any subject had ever done his\\nCountry: I believe, tho they may not find Art enough in the Builder,\\nto make them admire the Beauty of the Fabrick, they will find won-\\nder enough in the Story, to make em pleased with the sight of it.\\n7 hope I may be forgiven, if I make some faint application\\nof what I say of Blenheim, to the small Remain of Ancient IVood-\\nstock manor.\\nWith these grandiose words Sir John Vanbrugh, the architect\\nof Blenheim Palace, prefaced his plea that the ancient manor-\\nhouse of Woodstock might be saved from destruction, for the\\nadmiration of posterity. Unfortunately, the Duchess of Marl-\\nborough at once, as we shall see, suspected him of an ulterior\\nmotive, and the house was levelled to the ground. But, though\\nnot a stone of the building remains to aid the imagination, there\\nstill lingers something of the medieval spirit among the oaks\\nand bracken beyond the lake. Here one can at once realise what\\nthe royal demesne was a part of the great forest of Wychwood\\nextending far over the surrounding country, a fastness of royal\\nauthority secure against troublesome Constitutionalists, where,\\nregardless of all law but his sovereign pleasure, the King might\\npursue the chase of the tall red deer. Still earlier in Saxon\\ntimes royal favour gave the town of Woodstock a certain im-\\nportance. Ethelred held a witan here, and there is a pleasing\\ntradition (not more improbable, possibly, than that other tra-\\ndition which ascribes the foundation of the neighbouring Uni-\\nversity of Oxford to him) that Alfred wrote his translation of\\nBoethius in the cono^enial solitude of the forest. And then it\\nJ", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "ROSAMOND S WELL, WOODSTOCK\\n37\\nb_^", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "Blenbeim anb its fIDemorles 39\\nwas at Woodstock that Henry 11. met fair Rosamond there is\\nstill a well to mark her bower. Again, serious historians will\\nremember that it was at a council held here that the King and\\nBecket first found themselves in serious disagreement touching\\nthe troublesome matter of the collection of Danegeld. In\\nshort, the name continually recurs in history, until with changed\\ntimes the hunting-lodge would no longer contain the Court.\\nThus Charles 1. preferred to establish himself at Oxford, when\\nhe abandoned London to the Parliament. One other personage\\nmust not be forgotten. In the High Lodge, as it is called, the\\nnotorious Earl of Rochester spent the last years of his life as\\nRanger of the forest and there the worthy Bishop Burnet assisted\\nat his deathbed repentance, to his great edification, as, in all\\nseriousness, he would have the world believe. Not long after-\\nwards the history of the ancient manor comes abruptly to an\\nend. For it was this place, with all its associations of medi-\\naeval royalty, that the nation chose as the most fitting it could\\nbestow on the General whom it delighted to honour. And now,\\nas one stands on the bridge over the lake, the causeway leads\\non the one hand to the triumphal monument set in the midst\\nof lines of elms ranged literally in order of battle (for they were\\nplanted in exactly the same positions as those occupied by the\\nbatallions on the field of Blenheim) on the other to the im-\\nposing pile of the Palace itself The very name of the place\\nwas changed, to be the more suggestive of the great victory\\nnear the village on the Danube the railway station, built the\\nother day, unwittingly points the moral, with its double title\\nof Blenheim and Woodstock.\\nThe architecture of the house itself clearly indicates the taste\\nand training of its builder. Vanbrugh shared the enthusiasm of\\nthe day for classical work, as understood and developed, whether\\nwell or ill, by the Italians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centu-", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "40\\n3BIenbeim ant) its fiDemories\\nries but with characteristic disregard of law, he thought to com-\\nbine classical severity with the fancifulness natural in a northerner\\nand a playwright. Thus, while the general scheme of the south\\nfront, for instance, is\\ndistinctly severe, the\\nmassive towers at its\\nends are surmounted\\nby fantastic masses\\nof open stone-work,\\nmost quaintly fin-\\nished off with\\narrangements of can-\\nnon-balls and coro-\\nnets. Throughout\\nhe repeatedly made\\nuse of classical mem-\\nbers with strange\\ndisregard to their\\nstructural intention.\\nSilvester, the French\\nartist employed to\\nmake designs for the\\ndecoration of the sa-\\nloon, sniffed contemptuously at Vanbrugh s Gothic tendencies.\\nJe ne saurois approuver ce double rang de niches cela sent la\\nfagade des eglises Gothiques. And then with savage delight\\nhe announced his discovery that much of the design was merely\\nan unintelligent imitation of the Palazzo Farnese at Florence.\\nCertainly, in spite of Vanbrugh s attempts to achieve at once\\ndignity and lightness, the probable impression made by the\\nbuilding on the casual observer is, that it is ponderous without\\nbeing stately, and irregular without being tasteful. But the final\\nANGLE TOWER", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "41", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "42 Blenbeim ant) its flDemories\\nfeeling of anyone whose fate it is to study it at leisure will\\nassuredly be one of respect, even of enthusiasm, for the ability\\nof Vanbrugh. It takes time to realise the boldness of the general\\ndesign and the solidity of the masonry. In many parts there are\\nabout as many feet of solid stone as a modern architect would\\nput inches of lath and plaster. The negative qualities of integrity\\nand thoroughness are rare enough in work of the present day,\\nnow that the architect has delegated to the contractor the exe-\\ncution of his design. The interior proportions of the rooms are\\ngenerally admirable, and so perfectly was the work carried out\\nthat it is possible to look through the keyholes of ten doors,\\nand see daylight at the end, over three hundred feet off. It\\nis noticeable, further, that the whole was designed by a single\\nman, there being no subsequent additions, as there are, for in-\\nstance, at Chatsworth and Wentworth. Vanbrugh is responsible\\nfor good and bad qualities alike. One would imagine a priori\\nthat he had everything in his favour unlimited money and a\\nfree hand. Far from this being the case, the stupendous work\\nwas accomplished under difficulties greater than any long-suffer-\\ning architect ever had to contend with.\\nThe beginning of the building was most auspicious, in\\nlyo the year after Blenheim, Queen Anne, in accordance with\\nan address of the Commons, granted Marlborough the royal\\nestate of which Woodstock was the centre, with moneys to\\nbuild a suitable house. The nation was anxious to show its\\ngratitude to the General under whom English troops had won\\ntheir first considerable victory on foreign soil since Agincourt\\nthe Queen was for doing all in her power for her dear Mrs.\\nFreeman Marlborough saw in the scheme a dignified and le-\\ngitimate method of perpetuating his fame and so Vanbrugh\\nwas commissioned to build a house which should be worthy\\nof all three. The work was at once begun on the existing scale.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "Blenbelm anb its fIDemoriee\\n43\\nDifficulties sprang up when the Duchess began to lose, by her\\nabuse of it, the power which she had always possessed over\\nthe Queen when, too, it was seen that the architect s estimate\\nbore no sort of relation to the actual cost. Vanbrugh was often\\nin the greatest straits\\nfor money, and wrote\\npiteously to the\\nDuchess and the\\nLord Treasurer Go-\\ndolphin without the\\nslightest effect.\\nThings naturally\\ngrew worse when\\nboth the Duke and\\nDuchess were dis-\\nmissed from all their\\nposts, in 171 1 and\\nat last, in 1721, the\\ndisputes culminated\\nin a law-suit success-\\nfully brought against\\nthe Duke by the\\nworkmen for arrears\\nof pay, the defendant s contention being that the Treasury was\\nliable for the whole expense. The Duchess vented her dis-\\npleasure on the unfortunate architect, whom she never credited\\nwith doing anything right. She carefully kept his letters, and\\nmade spiteful endorsements on them for the benefit of her\\ncounsel at the trial.\\nWe have already alluded to the question of the old manor-\\nhouse, and to the Duchess s refusal to credit Vanbrugh with a\\ndisinterested wish for its preservation. Her idea may be seen\\nSIR JOHN VANBRUGH\\nFROM A PICTURE BY KNELLER", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "44 Blenbeim ant) its flDemories\\nfrom the following extract from a letter from Vanbrugh to\\nGodolphin. After demanding ;^6ooo more out of course,\\nhe writes\\nI much fear the effects of so quick a sentance as has hap-\\npened to pass upon the remains of the manour I have, how-\\never, taken a goode deal of it downe but before tis gone too\\nfar, I will desire your Lordship will give yourself the trouble\\nof looking upon a picture I have made of it and I hope\\nit won t be possible, that the pains 1 take in this particular shou d\\nbe thought to proceed from a desire of providing myself an agree-\\nable lodging. 1 do assure your Lordship that I have acted in\\nthis whole business upon a more generous principle, and am\\nmuch discouraged to find 1 can be suspected of so poor a con-\\ntrivance for so worthless a thing.\\nThis is the Duchess s comment All that Sir John says\\nin this letter is false the manner house has cost near three\\nthousand pound, and was orderd to be pulld down, and the\\nmaterialls made use of for things that were necessary to be don\\nthe picture he drew to prevent this was false, my Ld. Treasurer\\nwent to blenheim to see the truth, all he had represented of\\nit was false and it was orderd to be pulld down. One very\\npiteous letter is simply endorsed Instead of complying with\\nhim I stopt the works in 1710 till the crown should decree\\nmoney for them.\\nAgain, Vanbrugh innocently suggested the addition of a\\ngreenhouse on the west side, which was not to interfere with\\nthe view from the gallery, and would be the most pleasant sit-\\nting-room in the house\u00e2\u0080\u0094 for that, indeed, is what 1 take it to\\nbe, and not a magazine for a parcell of foolish plants. The\\nDuchess did not approve: This green-house 1 thank God I\\nprevented being built nothing I think can be more mad than\\nthe proposal nor a falser description of the prospects.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "45", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "46 Blenbeim ant) its flDemories\\nNo details of expenditure in wages or materials were too\\nsmall to engage her attention. Vanbrugh had once to complain\\nthat, in consequence of the wet weather, the men refused to\\nto cart stone from the quarry to the palace at the price he was\\nauthorised to offer. A device of his, when the Duchess wanted\\nhim to omit some detail, was to suggest that she ought not to\\nallow herself to be outdone by Lord Carlisle, who had approved\\na similar detail in the building of Castle Howard. Again, he\\nreminded the Duke that he had shown a model of the projected\\nplan to the Queen and Prince and that, so far from making\\nany exceptions, the Queen entirely approved of it, was partic-\\nularly pleased with the magnificent part, and expressed a great\\ndesire to have it finished soon, and that that ought to have\\ngreat weight with the Treasury. One thing a thing which\\nnowadays is hardly noticed Vanbrugh did which the Duchess\\nwas persuaded against herself to approve of. In the two piers\\nof the bridge below the level of the causeway he constructed\\nno less than thirty-three rooms, intended to be a cool retreat\\nin the hot weather. This appealed to the eighteenth century\\nas highly romantic. The Duchess wrote Four houses are to\\nbe at each corner of the bridge but that which makes it so\\nmuch prettier than London Bridge is that you may sit in six\\nrooms, and look out at window into the high arch, while the\\ncoaches are driving over your head. Some of the rooms must\\nnow be almost under water, for originally there was only a small\\nstream running through the park. Hence Pope s epigram\\nThe minnows, as through this vast arch they pass,\\nCry, How like whales we look Thanks to Your Grace.\\nThe making of the lake as well as of the gardens was the work\\nof Capability Brown. They have drowned the epigram,\\nsaid Dr. Johnson, when he saw the park in 1776.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "Blenbeim an^ its HDemories\\n47\\nWhile Sarah was perpetually involving herself in quarrels\\nwith her architect, the Duke was indirectly furthering the\\nprogress of the building by a succession of victories abroad.\\nWithout taking an active part, he was yet much interested in\\nthe house, always looking forward to the time when he should\\nlive there in peace\\nwith his wife. When\\non a campaign he\\nwrote to her nearly\\nevery other day, and\\nin almost every let-\\nter there is a personal\\ntouch, showing his\\never-present love for\\nher, his keen anxiety\\nto keep her love, and\\nto win her approval\\nof anything he did.\\nThe following is\\ncharacteristic, in the\\nmiddle of a severe\\nfrost he wrote M do\\nfrom my soull wish\\nthere were not one\\nunhappy creatur in the world, for I have no mallice, nor, indeed,\\nany great ambition but that of being at quiet with you. On\\nMay 4, 1706: 1 shal make the whole campagne in this coun-\\ntry, and consequently not such a one as will please mee but,\\nas I infinetly vallu your estime, for without that you can t love\\nme, let me say for myself that there is some merit in doing rather\\nwhat is good for the publick than in prefering our private satis-\\nfaction and interest, for my being here in a condition of doing\\nSARAH JENNINGS, DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH\\nFROM A PICTURE BY KNELLER", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "48 Blenbeim ant) its fIDemories\\nnothing that shal make a noise has made me able to send ten\\nthousand men to Italie/ Again, after Ramillies I own to\\nyou the pains I now take I do it very chearfully, believing that\\nthis campagne, if the blessing of God continue with us, will\\ngo a great waye towardes the having a happy long peace.\\nThese letters are particularly interesting, as they do not bear out\\nthe decided view expressed by historians, that Marlborough did\\nhis best to prolong the war for his own advantage while Lord\\nPoulett expressed in words the virulence of a section of his con-\\ntemporaries, when he insinuated that he had fought unnecessary\\nbattles in order to be able to sell the commissions of the killed.\\nHowever, if we consider that the sentiments of his letters are\\ngenuine (and the reader will probably recognise the stamp of\\nsincerity), and if we admit that consideration for his material\\ninterests prevented him from taking steps which he might have\\ntaken to bring the war to an end, we may fairly conclude that his\\nsense of duty overcame his inclination. The letters are none the\\nless genuine in that they betray a certain want of sympathy be-\\ntween husband and wife. For, though his attachment to his wife\\nwas the strongest trait in his character, Marlborough was never\\nso sure of her reading him aright as to leave the obvious unsaid.\\nWitness the nervous words written on the evening of Malplaquet.\\nOn page 51, at the end of a letter itself written with the\\ngreatest calmness before the battle, is a facsimile of this most\\ninteresting postscript. The unusual shakiness of the handwriting\\ntells its own story.\\nHis love-letters written to Sarah Jennings before his mar-\\nriage are curious examples of his blunt directness of thought.\\nHe made no attempt to give a pretty turn to his compliments,\\nbut simply indulged in clumsy eulogy of her charms in default\\nof adequate words to express his feelings. We may, perhaps,\\nquote the following out of many, without indiscretion", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "THE BATTLE OF OUDENARD\\nFROM THE BLENHEIM TAPESTRY\\n49", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "Blenbeim ant) its flDemories 51\\nMy soLill, I goe with the heaviest hart that ever man did,\\nfor by all that is good I love you with all my hart and soull,\\nand I am shore that as long r: 1 live you shall have noe just\\nreason to believe the contrary. If you are unkind I love soe\\n^^n^srr /L^^^^Cy r^f^Cr .w^^^^^^\\n/^/ffZ^\\nFACSIMILE OF A LETTER WRITTEN ON THE DAY OF THE BATTLE OF MALPLAQUET\\nBY THE DUKE TO THE DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH\\nwell I cannot live, for you are my life, my soull, my all that 1\\nhold dear in this world, therfore do not make so ungratfull a\\nreturn as not to writt if you have charety you will not only\\nwritt but you will writt kindly, for tis on you that depends\\nthe quiett of my soull. Had 1 fitteing words to expresse my\\nlove it would not then be in your power to refuse what 1 beg", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "52\\nISIenbelm anb its flDemones\\nwith tears in my eyes, that you will ever love me as I will by\\nheavens doe you.\\nMiss Jennings answered this ill-spelt effusion as follows\\nIt is amusing to notice how her indignation, proved insincere\\nby the fact of her writing at all, changes in the middle to a\\nnaive confession of weakness.\\nn\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a04\\nCm\\ni ;^M*^*\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\\n1 ..i^^^^^l\\n1\\nk\\nM.--\\n/I .r\\nJ\\nV\\nl\\n^iC J\\nA\\nW\\n^1\\nM\\n^Hh\\n1\\nJOHN, DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH\\nFROM A PiCTURE BY KNELLER\\nAs for seeing you I am resolved 1 never will in private\\nnor in publick if I could help it, and as for the last 1 fear it\\nwill be some time before I can order it so as to be out of your\\nway of seeing me but surely you must confess that you have\\nbeen the falsest creature upon earth to me. 1 must own that\\nI believe I shall suffer a great deal of trouble, but I will bear it,\\nand give God thanks tho too late I see my error.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "53", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "Blenbelm anb ita fIDemoriea 55\\nIn this way Sarah answered the affectionate utterances of\\nher lover. She adopted an imperious tone to everybody to\\nno one more so than to Queen Anne and it was her arrogant\\nmismanagement of affairs that more than anything cost Marl-\\nborough his position. For he always relied implicitly on the\\nmaintenance by his wife and Godolphin of their ascendency over\\nthe Queen. From want of appreciation of the radical changes\\nmade by the Revolution of 1688, he refused to sacrifice his in-\\ndependence by attaching himself to a party and if the force\\nof circumstances led him rather to identify himself with the\\nWhigs, he did so without abandoning the theory, shared with\\nWilliam 111. and Anne, that government should be carried on\\nby the fittest men, independently of parties. And thus there\\ncould be no confidence between him and the Whigs, and when\\nthe support of the Queen failed him he had nothing to fall back\\non. But his public career is too well known to need further\\ncomment here. Of his character, too, various writers have at\\nlast been found to form a fair judgment, without prejudice on\\neither side so that it is now as unnecessary to point out the\\nfallacies of Macaulay as to temper the panegyrics of Coxe.\\nI will only say that we must think his failure to excite sym-\\npathy was largely due to the facts that he never courted\\ncheap popularity that he had no popular vices, which in the\\ncases of many men have been found to lean toward the side\\nof success while his avarice was of all vices the most cer-\\ntain to excite indignation. He does not seem to have been\\nvery anxious to achieve distinction in domestic politics. Still\\nhe had some influence in George l. s reign, and, if he had no\\ntrue friends, he received many letters like the following, from\\nmen who had lost more than influence men who had been\\nhis opponents in their day, but who now cringed to him to\\nexercise in their favour what he had left of that power of which", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "56 Blenbeim anb Mb flDemories\\nthey themselves had done their best to rob him. Thus abjectly\\nStair pleaded for Bolingbroke, writing from Paris in 1716\\nYour Grace will see what 1 have writ to Mr. Secretary\\nStanhope upon y^ subject of Lord Bolingbroke you 11 see\\ny^ conditions he putt, these which he thinks necessary to pre-\\nserve his reputation with his friends but these reserves don t\\nreguard your Grace, he orders mee to tell you, and he will have\\nno reserve of any kind with you, and he will tell you all he\\nknows, he will depend upon your protection, and be entirely\\ngoverned by your advice. In my humble opinion his\\nintentions are very sincere to doe y^ King and his Country all\\ny^ service he can to make amends for y^ false steps he has\\nmade.\\nThe main interest of Marlborough s later life centred in Blen-\\nheim. The Duchess had done the lion s share of the work of\\nsuperintendence it remained for him to arrange the many works\\nof art he had bought and had been given during the war. There\\nstill exists an account of the prices he paid for tapestries made\\nin Brussels, most of which are now on the walls of the house.\\nOver the south front was placed a bust of Louis XIV., a trophy\\ntaken from the gates of Tournay. Underneath it is this line:\\nEuropae hsec vindex geneo decora alta Britanno.\\nA similar idea occurs in a letter of 1707. For myself, Marl-\\nborough wrote to his wife, 1 cou d have agreed with you in\\nwishing the house had been lesser, so that it might have been\\nsooner finished but, as it will be a monument of the Queen s\\nfavour, and aprobation of my services, to Posterity, I can t dis-\\naprove of the modell. That was what Blenheim Palace implied\\nto him it was to be a splendid memorial of his services for all\\ntime, characteristic in its cold solidity of a man who could aflbrd\\nto despise the popularity of the moment.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "THE GREAT LIBRARY, BLENHEIM PALACE\\n57", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "Blenbeim ant) Its flDemories 59\\nThe Duchess of Marlborough survived her husband by\\ntwenty-two years, and played no small part in society as a\\ngreat lady. Within a year of her husband s death the Duke\\nof Somerset proposed marriage to her. Her dignified refusal\\nhas often been quoted, though generally inaccurately and so 1\\nwill quote again from the copy made by herself with her usual\\ncare when she wrote anything of importance\\nI am confident that there is very few women, (if any)\\nthat would not bee extreamly pleased with what your Grace\\nproposes to me but 1 am resolved never to change my con-\\ndition, and, if I know anything of myself, I would not marry\\nthe Emperor of the world, tho I were but thirty years old.\\nNevertheless, Somerset was true to his profession that every\\naction of his life should give the strongest proofs of his devotion.\\nSarah always found him a willing agent in her numerous pur-\\nchases of property and in her legal troubles. She on her side\\nproved herself most generous, when, in despair of winning her\\nconsent, he found a wife elsewhere. This is her letter to him\\n1 am sure your Grace will bee troubled with a great num-\\nber of congratulations upon a match which all the world must\\nthink so valuable as what you have made is. You cannot forget\\nwhat I have said to your Grace upon this subject, nor how much\\nI esteemed and admired the behaviour of all my Lord Notting-\\nham s family that 1 have had the honour to know. I will not\\ntherefore trouble you with the repetition of my thoughts upon\\nthat but 1 beg leave to say that I beleive the Dutches of Somer-\\nset and your Grace will bee as hapy as tis possible to be in this\\nworld, and to assure you that no person that ever you honoured\\nwith your friendship wished you both a long continuence of it\\nwith more sincerity than 1 do, who am, my Lord, your Grace s\\nmost faithfull and most obliged humble servant,\\nS. Marlborough.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "6o\\nBlenbeim an its flDemories\\nTo Somerset, too, as to other friends, she looked for sym-\\npathy in the ill-treatment she imagined herself to have suffered\\nat the hands of the Queen. The celebrated letters from Mrs.\\nMorley to Mrs. Freeman were circulated for inspection with due\\ndirections scribbled\\non the back for read-\\ning between the\\nlines. In these the\\nQueen certainly is\\nseen in a most ridicu-\\nlous light. As late as\\n1707 she ended a let-\\nter with the words\\nI have ever had a\\nmost sincere and ten-\\nder kindness for my\\ndear Mrs. Freeman,\\nsoe I will preserve it\\nto my grave and,\\noh, beleeve me, you\\nwill never find in all\\ny^ search of Love a\\nhart like your poor,\\nunfortunat, faithful Morlys. Somerset, indeed, gratified the\\nDuchess by an outburst of chivalrous indignation at the sequel\\nbut it may be doubted if she found anyone else to accept her\\npoint of view. Her chief occupation was to attend to the com-\\npletion of Blenheim, and the working up of the lawsuits which\\nit entailed. To such matters a great lady of those days had\\nboth the ability and will to attend. There is a series of letters\\nextant from Lord Harcourt and Lord Macclesfield which give a\\ncurious proof of the faculty she had of attaching persons of\\nJOHN, DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH\\nFROM A PRINT", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "Blenbeim an^ Ue flDemoriea\\n6i\\nimportance to her interests by judiciously bestovv^ing on them\\na bucl from the park, or by showing concern about their own\\ntroubles. She was fond of the society of literary men, and kept\\nmany of their letters, which now recall for us\\nthose Georgian days,\\nWhose style still breathed a faint and fine perfume\\nOf old-world courtliness and old-world bloom.\\nLord Chesterfield proposed to her too late, she regrets\\nfor the hand of her\\ngranddaughter, the\\nbeautiful Lady Diana\\nSpencer. I am\\nsensible, he wrote,\\nhow unworthy\\nthey (himself and\\nfortune) are of her,\\nand howsmall a\\nchance I have of their\\nbeing accepted, since\\nI can only hope for it\\nfrom an error in both\\nyour Grace s judg-\\nment and hers.\\nAddison dedicated to\\nher his play of Rosa-\\nmond, his manuscript\\nof which is still at\\nBlenheim. Prior was\\nalways ready to\\ngrovel, if there was a prospect of anything to be gained. She\\nA yearly tribute of a French flag is due from the owner of Blenheim to the Sovereign.\\nEd. p. M. M.\\nSWORD OF HONOUR PRESENTED TO JOHN, DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH,\\nAND QUEEN S FLAG FOR 1894", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "62 Blenbeim anb its flOemortes\\nappreciated the rising genius of Pitt, and rewarded his hatred\\nof Walpole by a legacy of ^10,000.\\nHere is a characteristic early letter of Steele s found among\\nher papers\\nLand-guard Fort, Mjj i^rd, 1702.\\nMadam,\\nYou owe the Happinesse of not hearing my impertinence\\nthese last posts to my being so ill that I could not bear the sit-\\nting so long at a Table as to write. Yet have 1 been forced to\\ncreep up cursed Bleak Batteries at midnight, the wind being fair\\nfor french Privatiers, and not for any of our ships to come and\\nI-\\nGuard the road afore this Fort, so that I am obliged to visit my\\nsentries at all hours, they are so raw and ignorant. 1 believe\\nyou laugh at my giving you any account of myself, and tis\\ninsignificant to you my Good or 111, tho it depends wholly on\\nyou however 1 am here so utterly left to my own thoughts\\nthat my passion gives me double torture, and had 1 but the\\nleast grounds of hope of Mercy in another World I would end\\nmy cares by throwing myself on my sword.\\nRichard Steele.\\nThe letters from Pope are more curious. Readers will re-\\nmember his vindictive lines on the Duchess, as Atossa\\nAtossa, cursed with every granted prayer,\\nChildless with all her children, wants an heir\\nTo heirs unknown descends the augmented store,\\nOr wanders, heaven-directed, to the poor.\\nYet, as the following extracts will show, it flattered his\\nvanity to be allowed to dance attendance on her in his life-\\ntime", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "STATUE OF QUEEN ANNE IN THE GREAT LIBRARY, BLENHEIM PALACE\\n63", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "Blenbelm ant) its flDemories 65\\nSaturday.\\nMadam,\\nYour letter is too Good for me to answer, but not to\\nacknowledge. I confine myself to one particular of it. 1 don t\\nwonder some say you are mad, you act so contrary to the rest\\nof the world and it was the Madman s argument for his own\\ny^y^(e^r^Tl-^\\n^^ry*^ ^c^^^^ f(J-z^\\nco^wt^ Ai n-^ ^Iru^i^\\ndy-r^\\nOT^-^t^\\nI\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nTUjofj^ U^rO^ /^y^ y^^^^ ;C^ ^y\\nH^ ufiif 9ua^ :^Ji^ /^^j^", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "66 Blenbelm an Its flOemories\\nOm\\nVc/v^ itAMy ijh^ J /Ser^ Ocm^ U?t^ i^^^^ j^.^^ (j^^\\n/^^^jKl^\\n^^i- i^ u^n^\\nr^\\nMR. POPE TO THE DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH\\nbeing sober, that the Majority prevailed, and had locked up the\\nfew that were so. Horace (the first of that name who was\\nno fooP) has settled this matter, and writ a whole Discourse\\nto show, that All folks are mad (even Poets and Kings not ex-\\ncepted) he only begs one Favor, That the Greater Madmen\\nshould spare the lesser. Would those whom your Grace has\\ncause to complain of, and those whom we all have cause to\\ncomplain of, but do so, not only you and 1 but the whole\\nnation might be saved.\\nAn allusion to Horace Walpole, whom Sarah hated.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "Blenbeim ant) its fIDemorles 67\\nYour present of a Buck is indeed a proper one for an Ind-\\nian one of the true Species of Indians, who seeks not for gold\\nand silver, but only for Necessaries. But I must add to my\\nshame I am one of that sort who at his heart loves Bawbles\\nbetter, and throws away his gold and silver for shells and glit-\\ntering stones, as you will find I have done when you see (for\\nyou must see) my Grotto. What then does your Grace think\\nof bringing me back in your Coach about five and supping there,\\nnow the moonlight favours your return, by which means you\\nwill be tired of what you now are pleased to call good com-\\npany, and I happy for six or seven hours together In short\\nI will put myself into your power to bring, send, or expell me\\nback, as you please. I am most faithfully,\\nMadam,\\nY Grace s most obliged humble servant,\\nA. Pope.\\nThe friend of Lord Marchmont is yours already, and cleared\\nof all prepossessions so that you can make no fresh conquest\\nof him, as you did of me.\\nIn another letter he reproaches her for her unkindness\\nBut to use me thus to have won me with some difficulty,\\nto have bow d down all my Pride and reduced me to take that\\nat your hands w^^ I never took at any other and as soon as\\nyou have done this, to slight your conquest, and cast me away\\nwith the common Lumber of Friends in this Town, what a\\ngirl you are\\nAgain in 1743 from Bath I hear you live, and I hope\\nwith all ys Spirit with which you make life supportable, both\\nto yourself and those about you. You will neither live nor die\\nlike W n, who wanted the heart to pity either his Country\\nor his servants, had equally no sense of the Publick or Private", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "68 Blenbeim anb its flDemoriee\\nobligations. God help him (if he will) that helped nobody\\nMuch less had he learnt the trick some people have contrived,\\nof making legacies in his lifetime. The Scripture has a fine ex-\\npression upon Charity He that gives to the needy, lends to\\nthe Lord and one may say of Friendship, He that gives to the\\nWorthy has a mortgage upon merit, the best of all worldly\\nsecurity.\\ni^^\\nScUC J*^9 ^.n^j\\n7\\nO/m^\\n^f/^rv^r ^Vsa-^c. Zi^tJC ^^TTf^ !^s-cO v y\\n%yr^ ^ir tc^^^fr. my Lr^^^e^tr^^y /L^r^ C^t^.^\\nJXA^ 9v r f com. a*\u00c2\u00ab ^i- t Uf^^^ ^c^s^ 7?^^ -wt^\\nA \u00c2\u00a3u^ nj) C ^i^ y$i^ y^ 4/9tL^^ ;^L*^ ^^c^\\n^J u^ ^M^, /1 W^", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "BUST OF JOHN, DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH\\n69", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "3BIenbeim anb its fiDemoriee 71\\nAaj}iuiy ry oolUv /tym^^ Xm^?^ 2 ni^t^. ioirt^ ^fiz^\\n^1?^ c^ 91/0^ h f7^ jifCk^ a^ /e^ 5^ vJ A. kr^^^^AT\\nJ/^cCi J -f^ ^Uu^i^ ZC^ hr^r7 i^yyi^^OA^- ^ru^Ai^\\n%c^ fX Lv-Cy^ LyyZ^ 4\u00c2\u00a3,\\nMR. POPE TO THE DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "72\\nBlenbeim ant) its flDemorieg\\nProbably the Duchess was too* clever to be deceived by\\nPope s cunning, by being addressed as Doctress in Divinity,\\nand being told of Your Grace s ghostly Father, Socrates. At\\nany rate. Pope had his revenge, and helped to perpetuate the\\npopular opinion of a woman at whose pettiness it is as easy\\nto laugh as it is difficult to find a parallel to her ability.\\nChanges of fashion and of taste have left their mark on\\nBlenheim and, as the old oaks recall the joyousness of the\\nBLENHEIM PALACE. SOUTH FRONT\\nMiddle Ages, and the elms and cedars have a certain air of\\neighteenth-century stateliness, so perhaps the orchids, with their\\nexotic delicacy, may be held typical of the decadent present.\\nFrom the house many treasures, once part of its adornment,\\nare now missed and while books, pictures, and gems have\\ndisappeared, modern ideas of comfort have suggested the in-\\nsertion of electric lights and telephones. To regret the treasures\\nof the past is a commonplace it would seem fitter to make the\\nbest of the advantages of the present. Our past, as Mr. Lau-\\nrence puts it, is an extension of the present, or it is no true", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "73", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "Blenbeim ant) its flDemories 75\\npast. To write history is to travel in the past, to see the face\\nof it, not merely the kings and dates and battles, which are,\\nat best, pegs on which to hang true knowledge.\\nAnd so in this excursion we have tried to look at the more\\nintimate side of men and women whose public actions are the\\nskeleton of history. 1 cannot help thinking that much which\\nis the essence of the times is to be read in the stones of Blen-\\nheim and in the letters of its builders. This must be my apol-\\nogy for lingering over certain people of importance in their day,\\nand of interest perhaps in our own.\\nNote. Many of the letters which are quoted in this article have now been made public for the\\nfirst time.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "Ibatbwick\\n77", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "HARDWICK HALL, SHOWING INITIALS ON PARAPETS\\nHARDWICK\\nBY A. H. MALAN\\nSO different are first impressions that, whereas of all the\\nplaces he had seen since his return from Dr. Wharton s,\\nthe poet Gray affirmed Hardwick pleased him most,\\nHorace Walpole, on the contrary, declared himself pleased with\\nnothing whatever about the place except one group of old oaks\\nstanding over a lake. Consequently it is hard to say how\\nthe exterior of the Hall would affect another. But when, after\\nwalking in a dense mist through an apparently interminable park,\\nthe writer suddenly, and without suspicion of its proximity,\\nfound himself in front of it, it seemed to him as if some gigantic\\nhotel of very dignified appearance had gone astray, from Brighton\\nor elsewhere, and taken up its abode where it had no business\\n79", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "8o IbarbwicF?\\nto be. It looked such a tremendous affair looming up through\\nthe fog Not that it is out of proportion as between its parts\\nbut as if the whole thing had been placed bodily in a forcing-\\nhouse, and while the walls and windows had expanded in all\\ndirections, they had more especially shot upwards. Individuality\\nin the builder was more conspicuous than beauty in the building\\nthe idea presumably being that the house should outstrip all\\ncompetitors, if not in area, at least in altitude the letters E. S.\\nset up above the tower parapets proudly against the sky defy-\\ning the countryside to show initials as celebrated or as elevated.\\nWhile as for the poor ruins of the older house just across the\\nway, these have been dwarfed, by comparison, into dimensions\\nalmost ridiculous and yet that was, in its day, a goodly build-\\ning enough, containing, says Bishop Kennet, thirty lodging\\nrooms, besides lower rooms for business, and being probably\\nfar more comfortable and homelike than ever was its pretentious\\nsuccessor, even in its palmiest days, under the regime of the great\\nand famous some would say, notorious Countess.\\nFor to this personage writers in general have not been over-\\nkind. The character of Bess of Hardwick is given very much\\nin this style: abundant in wealth and honour, yet unable to\\nsecure a single friend ambitious and overbearing proud,\\ntreacherous, and unfeeling while one of her own sex, with\\nfeminine discrimination, polishes her off in these incisive terms\\ndaring, masculine, forbidding, and selfish a description at\\nleast a little strange considering that the subject of such strictures\\nis all the while included in the list of eminent Englishwomen\\nDoubtless there is some truth in this verdict of posterity. Yet\\nit must be borne in mind that the Shrewsbury papers of the\\nperiod have always been accessible, while the Cavendish papers\\nhave not these latter being either non-existent, or else lying in\\nsome as yet undiscovered receptacle. Also that, from the fact", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "Si", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "82 1bar^wicll\\nof his being Garter King under Gilbert Talbot as Earl Marshal,\\nCamden would be likely to give a biassed view of Lady Shrews-\\nbury s character, and to lean to his patron s side while Lodge\\nalso can hardly be considered free from a similar prejudice.\\nPossessed, as she was, of no beauty, so far as her portraits\\nindicate (though early portraits do not always err on the side\\nof attractiveness), it will be allowed that this great lady must\\nhave been a woman of surprising fascination, for one rich man\\nafter another to lay his substance at her feet if only he might\\nhave the supreme felicity of calling her his own. And yet,\\nthough living in an unscrupulous age, and being by no means\\nunknown at Court, it seems she was quite content to reserve\\nthat fascination exclusively for her several lords, since no breath\\nof scandal ever ventured to assail her name. Putting aside her\\nfirst marriage with Mr. Barlow at best a mere preliminary canter\\nin double harness, if so much she afterwards undoubtedly proved\\na devoted wife to her next husband (Sir William Cavendish),\\nstudying her and his children s interests to the end of her days.\\nAnd when, after his death, she wedded St. Loe, who was much\\nher senior, the motive on her part in all probability was, that\\nthose growing-up sons of hers might be better looked after, the\\neldest of whom was already giving her cause for considerable\\nuneasiness. St. Loe was deeply attached to his own sweet\\nBess and when George Talbot took his place, he in turn was\\nat first so highly delighted with his treasure that of all earthly\\njoys that had happened to him, he thanked Providence chiefest\\nfor her.\\nLater on, we all know, he wrote nasty letters about his lady\\nto Walsingham, declaring himself ashamed to think of his choice\\nof a creature with so divelish a disposition and to the Queen,\\nwhining that it were no reason that his wife should rule him,\\nand make him the wife and her the husband, almost as if he had", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "83", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "84 Ibarbwicft\\nbeen reading Knox s First blast of the Tnunpet against the\\nMonstrous Regimen for IV omen and also to Leicester, saying,\\nI would not have my son [Gilbert] have so hard a construction\\nof me that 1 would have him hate his wife [Mary Cavendish],\\nthough I do deteste her mother. But for that there was a cause\\nLady Shrewsbury had not been best pleased with her lord s\\nphilandering after a woman with a past (who was not only good-\\nlooking, but her junior by twenty years), albeit she was Royne\\nde Scosse et Douairiere de France and the Earl residing with\\nhis charge chiefly at Sheffield Castle, while the Countess was\\nmore often at Chatsworth and Hardwick, the latter did not so\\nmuch consider the honour arising out of his custodianship as\\nrecognise the amount he was out of pocket by the transaction\\nto say nothing of his neglecting, by force of circumstances, or\\nworse still, by choice, his more immediate ties. Accordingly,\\nupon the Queen inquiring of her how their charge fared, she at\\nonce unburdened her mind in somewhat jealous terms. And it is\\nin the lady s favour that Elizabeth took her part in the ensuing\\nquarrel, peremptorily commanding Earl George to make peace\\nwith his wife after which a sort of armed neutrality was main-\\ntained between the pair, until in 1590, without more ado, the Earl\\nremoved himself from the scene, leaving his consort once more\\na widow.\\nIt is just possible that she contemplated yet another matri-\\nmonial venture. But on the whole she seems to have thought\\nbetter of it, and to have devoted her remaining years to land\\nbuying, land improving, iron mining, lead mining and building\\nin which hobbies she continued to be engaged until, in i5o8, her\\nlast illness overtaking her, she was compelled to cease all opera-\\ntions having, however, the satisfaction of feeling she had built\\nfive mansions Worksop, Bolsover, Oldcotes, Chatsworth, Hard-\\nwick and well feathered the nests of all her children and that", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "TAPESTRY REPRESENTING THE PRODIGAL SON AND SPANISH WEDDING\\nON THE LANDING, HARDWICK HALL\\n85", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "86\\n1bar \\\\\u00c2\u00bbich\\nafter her demise her remains would be duly embalmed, and\\ninterred in All Saints Derby, in which church she had already\\nthought fit to erect\\nher shrine, above\\nall places where she\\nhad been verie\\nbountifullie blessed\\nwith liberall pos-\\nsessions. And had\\nher ladyship then\\nforeseen how her\\ncharacter was des-\\ntined to be criticised\\nafterwards, and\\nCHIMNEYPIECE IN DINING-ROOM\\nhow,\\na m n g\\nthe\\nmany hard things to be written of her, it would be asserted that\\nto amass wealth and aggrandise her family she had apparently\\nsacrificed every prin-\\nciple of honour and\\naffection, she could\\nperhaps have afforded\\nto regard all such as-\\npersions with philo-\\nsophic complacency,\\nseeing that, in the\\nmatter of comment,\\nthe Archbishop of\\nYork was at all events\\nto get a good start, when preaching her funeral sermon, illus-\\ntrating her numerous graces from Solomon s description of a\\nvirtuous woman,\\nHardwick was built more particularly with the object of\\nDOLL S TEA SERVICE; AND GRAND FALCONER S BADGE IN OAK", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "THE DRAWING ROOM, HARDWICK HALL, SHOWING ARMS OF THE\\nCOUNTESS OF SHREWSBURY\\n87", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "88 Ibarbwicl?\\nreceiving Queen Elizabeth. It was habitable, though not finished,\\nabout 1590: the old Hall was lived in for nearly another hundred\\nyears. The spacious chambers, wide staircases, and unusually\\nlarge windows are at the opposite extreme from the fortress-like\\narchitecture of a previous era. Passing in under the colonnade of\\nthe west front, the entrance hall shows a transition state between\\nthe more ancient dining hall and the modern vestibule. Here\\nis the wainscoting in dark oak, the minstrels gallery, the long\\ntable and benches, and the buttery hatch and thus far it is a\\ndining hall but the passage at the far end, opposite the entrance,\\nleading right and left to other parts of the house, must have\\nrendered it too cold and draughty for the prolonged enjoyment\\nof dinner, and made it more fitted for the simpler purpose of\\ningress and egress. On one of the huge frames, essaying to\\nbreak it up into cosiness, in work handed down as that of Mary\\nStuart, the great Countess is depicted as Faith on another,\\nwhich has gone to Bolton Abbey, she appeared in the much\\nmore befitting character of the Queen of Sheba. Against the\\neast wall is a statue of the Queen of Scots by Westmacott senior,\\nwhich was ordered for Mary s bower at Chatsworth, but which,\\nwhen completed, was thought too good to serve as a medium for\\ndisplaying the initials of the multitude, and accordingly was\\nplaced here. The shield is from a cast, moulded on a carving at\\nHolyrood, the adoption of which, with the following inscription,\\nwas among the accusations brought against Mary by Elizabeth:\\nThe armes of Mary Quene Dolphines of France,\\nThe noblest Lady in earth till advance\\nOff Scotland Quene, of England also,\\nOff Ireland als God hath proved so.\\nOn the walls hang helmets and stands of arms worn in the Civil\\nWar in the King s cause and re-used in the service of the Prince", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "IbarbwicI?\\n89\\nof Orange, when the fourth Earl, afterwards known as the long-\\narmed Duke, took the field with a regiment of his retainers, etc.,\\noccupied the town of Nottingham, and practically placed the\\nMidlands at the disposal of William and carefully preserved,\\nalso, is the chair on which the Earl sat at the preliminary con-\\nference with a few neighbours when seeking shelter in the\\nCock and Pyot, on Whittington Moor. Ascending the north\\nstaircase, you arrive at the Oratory\u00e2\u0080\u0094 little more than a recess on\\nJUDGMENT OF SOLOMON\\nthe landing capable of holding perhaps a dozen people, but\\ncontaining some almost perished fifteenth-century high-festival\\nwork. Next comes the Dining-room, with its floor of concrete\\nspread upon oak boarding a feature characteristic of the house\\nand district, and an excellent precaution against fire and the\\ndated (1597), mottoed chimneypiece. To the right of this\\npargeting is a charming head of the beautiful Duchess a work\\nwhich, never pretending to be a Gainsborough, but content to\\nbe a Downman, escaped the vicissitudes which befel the more\\ncelebrated picture.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "90\\n1barC)wick\\nThence, through the minstrels gallery, into the Drawing-\\nroom, where is seen another ponderous mantelpiece, on which\\nis emblazoned the assertion that, noble as is the stag by nature,\\nhis nobility is necessarily increased by supporting the arms of\\nthe Countess; the assertion being: Sangmne, cornii, corde, oculo,\\npede, cerviis, et aure, nobilis, at claro pondere iwbilior. Almost\\nevery one must be pleased with the panel head of Mary Stuart\\nin all the bloom of her youth and beauty and most noteworthy\\nSACRIFICE OF ISAAC\\nare the two large samplers executed by her hands (doubtless her\\nmaids did their share), representing the Judgment of Solomon\\nand the Sacrifice of Isaac in the latter of which, besides\\nAbraham s young men, duly attired in Tudor fmery, may be\\nobserved Lady Shrewsbury herself anachronously turning aside\\nher head from the impending tragedy. This is genuine old\\nneedlework, in excellent preservation, and happily unmanipulated\\nby modern restorers as is also some part of certain bed-hangings\\nelsewhere, with oft-recurring M. S. in the execution of these\\nand other pieces the Queen of Scots beguiled many a weary hour", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "1bart)wicft\\n91\\nat Chatsworth and Buxton and Sheffield, as she wroughte with\\nher nydill, brooding over the papists plots for her escape, or\\ncompounding tirades about Bess s intrigues and jealousies for the\\nedification of Mauvissiere and her enemies. And, being un-\\nmanipulated, these\\nrelics retain all their\\ninterest, which can-\\nnot be said for the\\nordinary run of work\\nof that date for such\\ntoo often proves to\\nhave been trans-\\nferred and when\\ntransferring begins,\\nthe originality large-\\nly vanishes. The\\nbest bits of the old\\ndevices are cut out,\\nplumped down on a\\ngorgeous brand-new\\nvelvet ground, rear-\\nranged and added to\\naccording to taste,\\nand bound round with satin stitch and here you have what is\\ncalled so-and-so s work whereas all the while, of the original\\nmaterial there may be little else but the cut-out canvas ground,\\nwith a few dilapidated threads of tent stitch attempting here and\\nthere in vain to hide its nakedness. Not that transferring is\\nunknown here for abundant evidence may be seen of it in the\\ncanopy of the Presence-chamber and the chairs, and in some\\nhexagonal medallions, all bearing Lady Shrewsbury s initials, and\\naccompanied by those curious Latin mottoes for which she pos-\\nMARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "92 ibar^wlcft\\nsessed a mania Eg. Spanish chestnut Nequicquam sapit, quid\\nsibi non sapit Botrychium Omnia pecunice obediunt Plantago\\nExtra publicam viam ne deflectes.\\nOmitting sundry rooms, furnished much like old rooms\\nelsewhere, we pass out on to the grand staircase, built of\\nwide, low, stone steps, eminently suited for slow and dignified\\nprogression, and so up to the next landing, where there is some\\nold and excellent tapestry. The sixth Duke (known as the\\nKing of the Peak who did much for Chatsworth, did a good\\ndeal, on a smaller scale, for Hardwick. He brought tapestry\\nhere in profusion from the lumber-rooms of Chatsworth, and\\nwith it not only replaced tattered remnants throughout the\\nhouse, but also filled up the dreary whitewash of the vacant\\nplaces. Ambassador to the Russian Court at the accession of\\nthe Emperor Nicholas, and afterwards his warm friend, the\\nDevonshire manner became a current phrase to denote the\\nhighest display of gorgeous magnificence. The tapestry in-\\ncludes a Spanish wedding and a portrayal of the prodigal son\\nin the act of kneeling before his parents, who are adorned in\\nsixteenth-century fashion while a still earlier piece, with cos-\\ntumes of the time of Henry VIII. unfortunately for photography,\\nbut wisely for the retention of the colouring is suspended in\\nthe worst possible light. But why specify one pictured hang-\\ning more than another, when the whole house is so brim-full of\\nan unrivalled store from the looms of Paris, Brussels, Mortlake,\\netc., that connoisseurs would justly say that the glory of Hard-\\nwick is its tapestry Those, however, who are not connoisseurs\\nmay rather feel that to them the glory of Hardwick is its Long\\nGallery.\\nThis is on the second floor, and extends the whole length\\nof the building, except the space occupied by the end towers\\none hundred and sixty-six feet long, twenty-six feet broad, but", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "Ibarbwlclft\\n93\\nwidening out near either extremity another fifteen feet into bays,\\nit is surely as noble a specimen of its date as any gallery in\\nexistence. Carpeted throughout with rush matting^a material\\nin use at the first fitting up of the house the floor is clothed\\nwithout being darkened, and the flood of light from the eighteen\\ntwenty-feet-high windows is thrown upwards till shadows seem\\nPORTION OF BED-CURTAINS WORKED BY MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS\\nnon-existent. Here, again, the most precious tapestry (fifteenth\\ncentury arras some of the finest pieces in the kingdom, show-\\ning the highest efforts of the tapiser s art) is between the\\nwindows, almost hidden by pictures but on the opposite side\\nis a series of no small value, which, in combined width, so\\nexactly fills the wall as to its length that the gallery seems de-\\nsigned to take it, sufficient height being given to the pieces by\\nthe addition of a wide border, on which appear the shield of\\nHardwick and the Crest of Cavendish, but not the arms of Talbot.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "94\\nIbarbwlcft\\nThis stupendous apartment is entered at either end also\\nnear the centre by a short cut from the Library. And when\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nthe white sheet-blinds happening to be all drawn you sit in\\nthe toned-down, diffused light, opera-glass and Lady L s\\nexhaustive catalogue in hand, surveying the likenesses of de-\\nparted worthies and when, with noiseless movement, all un-\\nobserved, some person has passed in and appears in the middle\\ndistance, backgrounded by a portrait, it gives a creepy sensation\\nhighly suggestive of spirit-photography.\\nMeditating thus, one cannot help marvelling at the good-\\nnature of the Duke in throwing open such a place to the public.\\nOn an Easter Monday no less than a hundred and fifty good\\npeople have been known to swoop down in one batch. Preceded\\nby one housemaid as shepherdess, and followed by another as\\nwhipper-in to stragglers, they parade the rooms and just think\\nwhat an appreciable amount of dust must be deposited from the\\nthree hundred boots of such a battalion The traffic, of course,\\nis not often as heavy as this, though it is often infinitely heavier\\nat Chatsworth but still few days pass without sundry parties\\npresenting themselves for admission between the hours of eleven\\nand four, during which the house is open. And in truth they\\nhave enough to repay them in the Gallery alone\\nIf they care for pictures of celebrities, here is Queen Eliza-\\nbeth at one end, in an outrageous costume, all snakes and lizards.\\nAt the other, the first Duke in all the bedeckment of Louis\\nQuatorze dress; the finest gentleman of his time: bonorum\\nprincipum fidelis siLbditiis, inimicus et invisus tyrannis, accord-\\ning to his epitaph at Derby. In the patent of his dukedom are\\nthese words: The King and Queen could do no less for one\\nwho deserved the best of them one who, in a corrupt age,\\nretained the manners of the ancients, and never suffered himself\\nto be moved either by the insinuations or threats of a deceitful", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "95", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "96 IbarDwich\\nCourt. His wife also (Lady Mary Butler) was distinguished\\nby the blamelessness of her conduct in the dissolute Court of\\nCharles II. The Duke entertained at Chatsworth Marshal Tal-\\nlard (taken prisoner by the Duke of Marlborough, 1704), who.\\non departing, made that pretty speech: My Lord Duke, when\\n1 compute the time of my captivity in England, 1 shall leave out\\nthe days of my enjoyment at Chatsworth. There are three\\nportraits of Georgiana Spencer but the head of Mrs. Cosway s\\nfigure of Diana was pronounced by the sixth Duke to be more\\nlike his mother than almost any other portrait of her. There are\\nalso the successive heads of the family with their wands of office\\nas Lord Steward or Lord Chamberlain Sir Thomas Cavendish\\n(the friend and colleague of Sir R. Grenville), who was so suc-\\ncessful against the Spaniards in his own vessel, and returned to\\nLondon river in triumph his mariners and soldiers clothed in\\nsilk, his sails of damask and gold Christian Bruce, the second\\nEarl s Countess, who had all the good qualities of Bess of\\nHardwick without her faults, and, being possessed of a mag-\\nnificent and independent spirit, yet thoroughly feminine withal,\\nwas altogether a noble creature Lady Elizabeth Percy, who,\\nas to matrimony, beat the great Countess easily in point of time\\nhaving united herself to three husbands before she was seven-\\nteen one of the few authentic portraits of Mary Stuart one\\nof James 1. as a boy probably sent to his mother in her cap-\\ntivity and a bewildering series of various other portraits as well.\\nOr, if they do not care for pictures of this description, then\\nvisitors can inspect an old spinet with a curious movement\\nconnected with its pedals the State chair of Lady Shrewsbury,\\nin which she received seated in pomp, like Scotia s captive\\nQueen a doll s silver tea-service, and a host of pretty things\\nbesides.\\nAnd yet, how few comparatively, take an intelligent interest", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "97", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "98 Ibarbwick\\nin anything At least, so it seemed during many odd hours\\non different days spent by the writer in one of the bays photo-\\ngraphing some of the early portraits. The comportment of all\\ncomers was simply admirable The men with bared heads,\\ntheir sisters and cousins speaking with bated breath all seemed\\noverawed by their surroundings, or else as much on their best\\nbehaviour as if they expected some exalted personage to pop\\nout upon them unawares but they rarely asked any question\\nof their guides, who were full enough of information on the\\nwhole, strange to say, correct. One group especially actually\\ncontrived to pass right through the Gallery without uttering a\\nsingle word until they reached the Queen s end, when, observ-\\ning their own forms in a Venetian mirror, an individual found\\nvoice to exclaim in evident delight, Why, here we can see\\nourselves just showing that the ruling vice of vanity (it was\\na man was not to be suppressed even by the magnificence\\nof Hardwick Hall\\nOf the oldest portraits here, there is one of George Talbot\\nin which he looks far too grave to do much philandering, and\\nas if the forty troopers to be maintained out of his )o weekly\\npay engaged his thoughts a good deal more than the charms\\nof the lady he was told off to guard a clever, striking one of\\nHobbes, that strange man the friend of Cowley and Seldon\\nwhose one favourite book was Euclid, and, who, while affecting\\nthe true democratic contempt for all things Royal, to the last\\nkept himself a friend at Court, not at all objecting to make\\nuse of those ill instruments to do himself good also one of\\nSir William Cavendish it was his elder brother, George, by the\\nway, who was Gentleman Usher to Cardinal Wolsey and the\\nauthor of his Life two of Bess, taken at intervals a very ordi-\\nnary-looking dame, with a slim figure whose pearls obviously\\nwent to her daughter Mary, and after that vanished perhaps", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "THE QUEEN S END OF LONG GALLERY, WITH PORTRAIT OF QUEEN\\nELIZABETH, HARDWICK HALL\\n99", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "loo 1bart)wlck\\ndisposed of to provide the necessary sum of ;^2o,ooo for the\\nescape of that lady s niece from Barnet. The Countess Mary was\\na very formidable female indeed an aggravated edition of her\\nmother. It was she who called her neighbour, Sir John Stan-\\nhope, a vile caitiff, wishing him all the evils on earth, and, for\\nthe matter of that, under the earth as well and who flatly re-\\nfused to be cross-questioned by the Council as to- her cognisance\\nof her niece s engagement with William Seymour, demanding\\nthe more open proceedings of a law-court. Masterful, over-\\nbearing, and masculine, she was a sort of Tudoresque new\\nwoman and that is perhaps the reason why her husband,\\nEarl Gilbert, looks altogether such a poor creature.\\nAll these pictures are duly named in their frames but of\\ncourse it is not always wise to trust to titles. For, even as\\none has seen in a museum a full-sized otter mislabelled in largest\\nletters The British Dormouse, and the rare spotted eagle\\ndubbed The Common Buzzard, so replicas of the same pic-\\nture have at one place and another professed to represent totally\\ndifferent people. Hence, in spite of their being labelled The\\nEarl and Countess of Shrewsbury, two figures looked, in their\\nelevated position, as if they might well be other persons and\\nwhen that picture had been taken down and scrutinised, it\\nseemed evident that, the man being neither George nor Gilbert\\nTalbot (though the lady was clearly a Cavendish), and the\\nstyle being generally in keeping with the Darnley type, the\\npair were in all probability Charles Stuart and Elizabeth Cav-\\nendish, the parents of Arabella.\\nImmediately behind the Gallery is the Presence-chamber,\\nwith the arms of Elizabeth surmounting the fireplace the story\\nof Ulysses depicted on the walls in very precious Brussels and\\nforest-work above representing the Court of Diana and a boar-\\nhunt. This chamber must have looked more furnished when", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "THE PRESENCE CHAMBER HARDWICK HALL", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "SHOWING ARMS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH OVER THE FIREPLACE", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "THE DUKE S END OF LONG GALLERY, WITH PORTRAIT OF FIRST DUKE IN\\nCENTRE AND BEAUTIFUL DUCHESS ON THE LEFT, HARDWICK HALL\\nlOI", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "I02 Ibarbwicft\\nthe ostrich-plumed state bed, with its velvet and gold thread\\ndrapery, stood in the then screened-off alcove. At present it\\nlooks gaunt and dreary, as though the buildress had waited to\\nwelcome her Queen, and, waiting in vain, had left it unfinished.\\nHere is the eglantine table, removed from the older house its\\nmotto is\\nThe redolent smell of the aeglentyne\\nWe stagges exault to the deveyne\\nand this motto was also over the drawing-room chimneypiece\\nin the earlier building. A piece of furniture this as instructive\\nas ancient, showing illustrations of such contemporary instru-\\nments as the cittern, guittara, lute and rebech its top lifts off\\nconveniently for photography, but the inlaid designs are so much\\nof one hue that they do not show to advantage in the camera.\\nThe Countess is believed to have been indebted to Elizabeth\\nfor the alabaster entablature bearing the Royal monogram in\\nthe adjoining apartment, where there is also another wonder-\\nful table mounted on chimeras this room being the Library,\\nthrough which you pass, as also the Green Room, on your way\\nto Mary Stuart s chamber. Here are to be found the before-\\nmentioned bed-hangings, and also an oak door, window and\\ntympanum, brought from the old house the inscription on the\\ntympanum is Marie Stewart, par le grace de Dieu, Royne de\\nScosse, Douairiere de France. Crest a lion. Motto In my\\nDefens. It is certain that the Queen of Scots never entered\\nthis house. But she no doubt entered the older one for there\\nis a picture at Welbeck of her on which is the inscription,\\nPainted during her imprisonment at Hardwick besides, the\\nCountess removed her best furniture, etc., including those me-\\nmorials of the Queen which she desired to preserve.\\nBut of the effects of that other unfortunate being who did\\nspend many years in this house there is, curiously enough, not", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "THE LIBRARY, HARDWICK HALL\\n103", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "I04\\nIbarbwick\\na trace remaining except two portraits. One of these is in the\\nDrawing-room, the well-known portrait of Arabella holding a\\ndoll, in Mary Stuart costume, taken when she was twenty-\\nthree months old, and probably the original from which a copy\\nwas sent to the Royal\\nimp to whom she was\\nat that early age more\\nor less betrothed the\\nother being a poor\\nmonochrome in the\\nGallery, taken when\\nshe was thirteen a\\ncopy of a picture at\\nBolsover. This full-\\nlength does not give\\nmuch indication of\\nthat vivacity and\\nsprightliness, which,\\nas her letters prove,\\nshe afterwards pos-\\nsessed but it is at\\nj least less unpleasing\\nthan the later por-\\nARABELLA STUART AS A CHILD\\ntrait at Longleat\\nwhich, presuming that a faithful reproduction of it appears in\\nLodge s Illustrations, and that it was a fair likeness, would\\nseem to take some of the edge off Sir Walter Raleigh s ungal-\\nlant remark, that of all the women he had ever seen he liked\\nher the least. Arabella, as a part of her education, must have\\nworked samplers and used books, written exercises, and had a\\nbed of her own but where are they It almost looks as if,\\npiqued at the failure of her schemes, the Countess had destroyed", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "105", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "io6\\nIbar^wicft\\neverything reminding her of her grandchild, when, in 1601, she\\ninserted a codicil in her will disinheriting her sweet jewel.\\nThis is a date which does certainly tax the indulgence of the\\ncritic, since two years later she seems to have been glad enough\\nto make Arabella useful. That was when Arabella was in high\\nfavour at Court, and was asked at a Royal christening what\\nboon she would like upon which, being before instructed of\\nher grandmother, she replied, A barony, your Majesty, for\\nuncle William. The request was granted, and Lady Shrews-\\nbury had the gratification of seeing her favourite son made Baron\\nCavendish of Hardwick but the codicil was never revoked.\\nAs for the Countess s conduct in this matter, just as her\\nsentiments to Mary Stuart underwent a change at the birth of\\nArabella, so it happened with her sentiments to Arabella at the\\naccession of James. Three years before that event she sent New\\nYear s presents from herself and her jewel to the Queen;\\nwhile three years earlier still we find an entry Geven the\\nfirste of January unto my La. Arbella to her new yeare s gyfte,\\nxx/. This entry is in one of those household account-books\\nof the home steward, every page of which was countersigned\\nand attested in the bold, legible hand of Lady Shrewsbury\\nand, it may be remarked, it is a pity the several items were\\nnot in her writing also, as there would doubtless have been\\nmany gems of spelling, to judge by the fact that, in one of her\\ndocuments, where she means horses she writes onus.\\nFrom Mary s room is a convenient place to mount one of\\nthe towers. The Countess used to lodge her servants in the\\nsix turrets the hooks to suspend the tapestry are still visible,\\nand all have good fireplaces. On the roof you gain a very good\\nidea of the size of the house and here would be a promenade\\nas pleasant as it is breezy if only the leads had less high and\\nfrequent ridges. To the north-west is the vale of Scarsdale", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "Ibarbwicft\\n107\\nwith the hills of the Peak beyond in the opposite direction\\nLincoln Cathedral may be seen, they say, in very clear weather.\\nBut when is the atmosphere very clear It took no little waiting\\ntill the clouds rolled by be-\\nfore one could photograph\\nthe two houses from the\\npark and it it is rather a\\nfeat to see Bolsover, five\\nmiles off. For at intervals\\nall round in the near dis-\\ntance, colliery engines ap-\\npear to be in a perpetual\\nstate of coaling up their\\ntall chimneys, peeping up\\nbetween the trees and pour-\\ning forth black volumes of\\nsmoke, looking like the\\nfunnels of hard-driven mail\\nboats producing a display\\nof carbon which would con-\\nsiderably astonish the more\\neconomical mind of, say, a\\nCornish mine captain. Fuel\\nbeing here practically cost-\\nless, the mines can of course\\nwell afford to show off their\\npowers of combustion but\\nthen the landscape has to suffer to a corresponding degree.\\nThose old oaks, amongst which in her youthful days Arabella\\nmay have taken the air, neare the house, and well attended\\non, all have black stems and leafless tops and even the hazels\\nand willows in the covers are sadly discoloured. Down among\\nARABELLA STUART. /ET. 13", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "io8 Ibarbwicl?\\nthe ponds I know a bank where the bald coot grows but,\\nbarring these and a few ducks, birds seem few and far between.\\nThe herds of fallow and red deer manage to look presentable\\nbut as for the sheep, a white one is much rarer than a black\\none elsewhere in fact, a lamb has to be very young to be\\nwhitish, and their age may be judged less by their size than\\nby the comparative duskiness of their coats. But one must not\\nexpect everything even at Hardwick and if the trees and flocks\\ndo assume a hue never intended by nature, the activity of\\nthose engines undoubtedly means royalties to some land-\\nowners, and is so far in keeping with the region that it would\\nprobably delight the eye of the prudent, amassing, calculating\\nCountess infinitely more than the unsullied beauty of a less\\nwealth-giving scene.\\nI", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "i\\nCbarlecote\\n109", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "CHARLECOTE\\nBY RICHARD DAVEY\\nHE name of Charlecote is familiar to\\nevery student of Shakespeare, and\\nit is one of his numerous shrines\\nin the neighbourhood of Stratford-upon-\\nAvon. So long as this exquisite specimen\\nof old English domestic architecture re-\\nmains, so long must it be associated v^ith one\\nof the quaintest traditions in the life of the foremost Englishman.\\nIt is fortunate that this noble old mansion is owned by\\na family who have inherited a tender affection for its every\\nstone and tree, and who have that high sense of honour that,\\ncome what may, through evil and through good fortune, no harm\\nshall come to the roof which has sheltered them through ages.\\nThere are writers who would try to deprive Charlecote of\\nits chiefest charm, and who, odious iconoclasts! would wish us\\nIII", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "112 Cbarlecote\\nto believe that Shakespeare was never dragged into the presence\\nof Sir Thomas Lucy, never charged with deer stealing, and never\\nsaved from punishment through the intercession of the Earl of\\nLeicester. 1 am one of those, however, who are sufficiently\\ncredulous to staunchly believe the story, and here I will point\\nout a fact which seems to be conclusive evidence of its veracity.\\nA traditional pride in preserving the history of their race is\\nevidently a leading characteristic in the Lucy family and the\\ntradition exists among them, handed down from generation to\\ngeneration, that Shakespeare was prosecuted by Sir Thomas\\nLucy in the year 1592 for stealing a buck out of his park at\\nCharlecote. The tradition, moreover, asserts that Sir Thomas\\nLucy was induced to stay the prosecution through the interpo-\\nsition of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, with whom he was on\\nterms of friendship, and that, in consequence of the prosecution,\\nShakespeare in a fit of spite wrote a scurrilous ballad on Sir\\nThomas and fixed it to his park gates, which so roused the ire\\nof the good knight that the youthful poet deemed it wise to\\nquit Stratford and shelter himself in London. Years afterwards\\nhe caricatured Sir Thomas in the Merry Halves of l4^indsor as\\nJustice Shallow.\\nIn the library at Charlecote has been preserved since the\\ndate of its publication, in 1619, a small volume entitled:\\nA\\nMOST PLEASANT AND Ex-\\ncellent conceited comedy,\\nof Sir John Falstaffe and the\\nmerry wives of Windsor.\\nWith the swaggering vaine of An-\\ncient Pistoll, and Corporall Nym.\\nWritten by W. SHAKESPEARE.\\nPrinted for Arthur Johnson, 1619.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "o\\na:\\nui\\nui\\nX\\nI-\\no\\ntr\\nUJ\\nI-\\no\\no\\n111\\n_1\\nIT\\nI\\no\\n3", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "114 Cbarlecote\\nThis little volume, which is a first edition, has never left the\\nlibrary shelves, and is an evidence, I think, that when it became\\nknown to the Lucys that Shakespeare had turned Sir Thomas\\ninto ridicule, the family very naturally acquired the book in order\\nto compare the character in the play with its well-known origi-\\nnal. The part of Sir Thomas as Justice Shallow, however, is\\nleft out in this copy.\\nThere is another tradition connected with Shakespeare which\\nMrs. Mary Elizabeth Lucy, in her most interesting volume on\\nCharlecote and the Lucy family, mentions with evident pride\\nand that is that, in after years Shakespeare was in friendly\\ncommunications with the Lucys. May we not therefore believe\\nthat, when he retired to Stratford-upon-Avon, and had become\\nfamous and much talked of in the neighbourhood as the owner\\nof New Place, as the prosperous Mr. Shakespeare, he may\\nhave sauntered of an afternoon through the green lanes over\\nto Charlecote, and rested himself by the hearth of his quondam\\nprosecutor, who did not die till July 7, 1600? If this be the\\ncase (and 1 believe it an undoubted fact), the great hall of Charle-\\ncote may well be described as haunted in the pleasantest manner\\nby its association with the most fertile poet that has ever lived.\\nTo return for a moment to the famous deer-stealing tradi-\\ntion, 1 cannot help thinking that some incident did really occur\\nin which Shakespeare figured as having stolen or having killed\\na deer in the park, which was an offence in those days punish-\\nable by death but this cruel law had long since fallen into dis-\\nuse, and it is not very likely that Sir Thomas would have\\nrendered himself ridiculous among his neighbours by threatening\\nto make a Star Chamber matter of the lad Shakespeare s esca-\\npade. I can readily imagine, however, that Master Shakespeare\\nwas brought into the august presence of Sir Thomas, the greatest\\npersonage in the neighbourhood, and that that gentleman made", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "5", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "ii6 Cbarlecote\\nhim feel exceedingly uncomfortable. It may have chanced, too,\\nthat the Earl of Leicester was in the house at the time, for he\\nlived in those days at the not very distant Kenilworth but 1\\nthink it more probable that the intercession for the release of\\nthe young rebel came from Jocosa or Joyce, the lady of Cbarle-\\ncote, who has left the kindliest traces of her existence imagin-\\nable. She must have been, from all accounts, a charming\\nwoman, and, her portraits assure us, also a very lovely one.\\nThe family still possess a miniature of Shakespeare s Sir\\nThomas and also a portrait of that celebrity s grandson (by Isaac\\nOliver, in oils, on copper), now in the hall in many ways a\\nremarkable picture a present from Lord Herbert of Cherbury. It\\nis kitcat in shape and admirably painted the features are exceed-\\ningly regular and aquiline, the hair and beard and moustache\\ngolden, but the eyes have a most sinister expression. Thrown\\nround the shoulders is a sort of drapery of black silk, magnifi-\\ncently embroidered in gold with an elaborate Italian pattern.\\nSir Tracey was a great friend of Lord Herbert, and travelled on\\nthe continent with him before he settled down at Charlecote.\\nIn his autobiography, Lord Herbert says he acted twice as second\\nto his friend, against two cavalliers of our nation, who were\\ngot indeed to fight with us in the field where we attended\\nthem. Lord Herbert gave Sir T. Lucy the portrait of himself by\\nOliver, as a match to the knight s own portrait by the same\\nartist. In the fine family picture by C. Janssen, in the Hall,\\nLord Herbert s friend again appears, but the expression is much\\npleasanter. He was evidently one who loved good clothes, for\\nhe is superbly dressed in black velvet and silk, and wears the\\nnattiest shoes with big white rosettes that can be well imagined\\non his extremely small feet. Sitting opposite is his wife, Alice,\\nLady Lucy, a sweet-looking young woman, whose expression\\nof combined gentleness and firmness delighted Washington Irving", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "THE ENTRANCE GATE, CHARLECOTE SAID TO HAVE BEEN DESIGNED\\nBY JOHN OF PADUA\\n117", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "ii8 (Tbarlecote\\nwhen he visited Charlecote in the early part of the century.\\nThe children have a most venerable stiffness and formality of\\ndress. A hawk is sitting on its perch in the foreground, and\\none of the children holds a bow, as if inheriting his father s love\\nof archery and sport, so indispensable to a gentleman of quality\\nin the days of good Queen Bess. But what delighted me most\\nin this picture was Alice, the baby, in her old nurse s arms, with\\nthree cherries in her tiny plump fingers, and the fine old dog\\ncrouched at Sir Tracey s feet. Spencer, the eldest son, is seen\\nbringing in a dish of peaches and Constance, the eldest daugh-\\nter, presents cherries to her mother. Margaret holds her father s\\nhand and looks into his face with an odd, grave look whilst\\nRobert and Richard are caressing a spaniel. This family picture\\nis one of the most delightful 1 have ever seen, as it gives one\\nsuch a thorough insight into the family life of bygone times.\\nBefore I describe the house, let me say a few words of the\\nillustrious old English county family that has inhabited it for so\\nmany generations.\\nThe ancient house of Lucy, which has long flourished at\\nCharlecote, in the county of Warwick, is descended from Gilbert\\nde Gaunt, son of Baldwin, Earl of Flanders, whose sister William\\nthe Conqueror married. This Gilbert de Gaunt, assisting his\\nuncle, William, Duke of Normandy, in the conquest of England,\\nhad, in reward for his services (besides other possessions), the\\nlands of one Tour, a Dane and at that time held one lord-\\nship in Berkshire, two in Oxfordshire, three in Yorkshire, six in\\nCambridgeshire, two in Buckinghamshire, one in Huntingdon-\\nshire, five in Northamptonshire, one in Rutland, one in Leices-\\ntershire, one in Warwickshire, eleven in Nottinghamshire, and\\na hundred and thirteen in Lincolnshire, of which Folkingham\\nwas one, and the head of his barony, where he seated himself.\\nHe had by his wife Alice, daughter and heiress of Robert, son", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "TOMB OF SIR THOMAS AND LADY LUCY IN CHARLECOTE CHURCH\\n119", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "I20 Cbarlecote\\nof Hugh Mountford, three sons and from the eldest son\\ndescended the Gaunts, Earls of Lincoln, which line ended\\nin daughters in the reign of King Edward 1. According to\\nDugdale s PVarwickshire, Hugh, the youngest, took to wife\\nAdelina, daughter of the Earl of Leicester, and had two sons.\\nHenry de Mountfort who succeeded at Beldesert, and Thurston,\\nsurnamed Cherlecote from the manor of Charlecote, the ancient\\npossessions of the Mellents, Earls of Leicester, which, by the\\nmarriage aforesaid of Hugh de Mountfort with Adelina, accrued\\nto Thurston, son of the said Hugh, with other large possessions\\nbelonging to the Mellents. His son, Walter, in the reign of\\nRichard I., received by letters patent from that monarch many\\nrights, immunities, and privileges connected with this manor,\\nwhich were ratified by John in his reign. From this Walter de\\nCherlecote (who was a knight) the present Lucy family descend\\nin uninterrupted line, and have dwelt at Charlecote since 1189.\\nIn 1786, there was, however, a slight interruption in this direct\\nprocession, for the Rev. John Hammond, a second cousin, took\\nthe name of Lucy by sign manual but he was of the old stock,\\nand from him descend the present owners of the beautiful old\\nEnglish home so delightfully associated with the bard of Avon.\\nThe late Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Lucy, a lady of considerable\\nliterary ability, may be described as the annalist of the family,\\nfor, in 1862, she printed, for private circulation only, an excellent\\nwork on the family into which she had married. As is the case\\nin almost every old English family, a vast quantity of old letters,\\ndocuments, and parchments are still extant, (though unfortu-\\nnately many have disappeared in the lapse of ages,) at Charle-\\ncote, which throw a curious sidelight on the manners and\\ncustoms of our ancestors. We have thus, amongst those quoted\\nby Mrs. Lucy, evidences that Queen Elizabeth knighted the Sir\\nThomas Lucy whose name is immortalised by his legendary", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "THE GARDEN FRONT, CHARLECOTE\\n121", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "122 Cbarlecote\\nassociation with Shakespeare, on the occasion of her breakfast-\\ning at Charlecote on her way to her famous visit at Kenilworth.\\nIt would also seem that Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, who\\nwas then living at Kenilworth in a splendour not much inferior\\nto royalty, sent his badge of the bear and rug to Sir Thomas,\\nrequesting him to wear it. The doughty knight of Charlecote\\npoint blank refused to do so, and styled his lordship of Kenil-\\nworth an upstart. He was a loyal and an artistic-minded\\ngentleman for, when he rebuilt the house, he caused the facade\\ntoward the garden to be designed in the shape of an E. The\\nbeautiful gateway lower down in the garden, one of the most\\nperfect specimens of the architecture of the period in England,\\nwas designed by John of Padua, who visited England in the\\nreign of Henry Vlll.\\nSir Thomas, if we may credit all the good things he says\\nof her and doubtless they did not Exceed the truth was de-\\nvoted to his wife, the Lady Joyce Lucy, who departed this\\nmortall lyfe at Cherlecote on the lo February, 1595, being then\\nof the age of threescore and three years, and was worshipfully\\nbrought to the church of Cherlecote aforesaid, and there buryed\\nin the month of March following.\\nThe Lady Lucy s burial sermon was preached by Dr. Ten-\\nnyson, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury and the fine monu-\\nment put up by her husband to her memory is of alabaster, with\\nrecumbent figures of the knight and his wife side by side and\\neffigies of their son and daughter kneeling as in prayer. It is\\nnow in the new church at Charlecote, built by Mrs. Lucy on\\nthe site of the old one, which had fallen into ruins. Never\\nwas quainter epitaph devised it is so graceful as to be worthy\\nof Shakespeare himself:\\nHere entombed lyeth the Lady Joyce Lucy, Wife of Sir\\nThomas Lucy, of Charlecote in the County of Warwick, Knight,", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "Cbarlecote\\n123\\ndaughter and heir of Thomas Acton, of Sutton in the County of\\nWorcester, Esquire, who departed out of this wretched world to\\nher Heavenly Kingdome, the tenth day of February in the yeare\\nof our Lord God,\\n1595, of her age- LX.\\nand 111. All the time\\nother Lyfe a true and\\nfaithful servant other\\ngood God never de-\\ntected in any crime\\nor vice in religion\\nmost sound in love\\nto her husband most\\nfaithfull.andtrue. in\\nfriendship most con-\\nstant. To what was\\nin trust committed to\\nher most secret in\\nwisdom excelling\\nin governing of her\\nHouse and bring up\\nof Youth in the feare\\nof God, that did con-\\nverse with her, most rare and singular a great maintainer of\\nhospitality greatly esteemed of her betters misliked of none\\nunless the envious.\\nWhen all is spoken that can be said, a Woman so fur-\\nnished and garnished with Virtue as not to be bettered, and\\nhardly to be equalled by any as she lived most virtuously,\\nso she dyed most godly. Set down by him that best did know\\nwhat hath been written to be true.\\nThomas Lucy.\\nTHE DRAWINQ-ROOM", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "124 Cbarlecote\\nAnother name great in our literature is connected with\\nCharlecote that of John Foxe the martyrologist. Forsaken\\nby his friends and accused of heresy for professing openly the\\nreformed religion, was left naked of all human assistance\\nwhen God s providence began to show itself, procuring for him\\na safe refuge in the house of the Worshipful Knight, Sir Thomas\\nLucy, of Charlecote in Warwickshire, who received him into\\nhis family as tutor, and he remained there til his pupils no longer\\nneeded instruction. John Foxe married a wife during his so-\\njourn at Charlecote, and the wedding took place in the parish\\nchurch.\\nAnother very interesting Lucy was Richard, Sheriff of War-\\nwick in 1647, and Member for the county of Warwick in 1648\\nhe was a staunch loyalist, and unto him Oliver Cromwell wrote\\nthe following letter\\nForasmuch as upon the dissolution of the late Parliament\\nit became necessary that the peace, safety and good govern-\\nment of this Common-wealth should be provided for. And in\\norder thereunto diverse persons fearing God, and of approved\\nfidelity and honesty, are by myself, with the advise of my\\nCouncil of Officers, nominated, to whom the great charge and\\ntrust of so weighty affairs is to be committed. And having as-\\nsurance of your love to and courage for God and the interest\\nof His cause and of the good People of this Common-wealth,\\n1, Oliver Cromwell, Captain Generall and Commander in Chief\\nof all the Armies and Forces raised and to be raised within this\\nCommon-wealth, Doe hereby somon and require you Richard\\nLucie, Esqr. (being one of the persons nominated), personally\\nto be and appear att the Councill Chamber commonly known\\nor called by the name of the Councill Chamber in Whitehall\\nwithin the Citie of West Minster, upon the fourth day of July\\nnext ensuing the date hereof, then and there to take upon you", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "Cbarlecote\\n125\\nthe said trust unto which you are hereby called, etc., and ap-\\npointed to serve as Member for the county of Warwick, and\\nhereof you are not to fail.\\nGiven under my hand and seale,\\nthe sixth day of June, 16^).\\nO. Cromwell.\\nThis Richard Lucy married Elizabeth, sole daughter and\\nheiress of John Urrey of Thorley in the Isle of Wight, and they\\nhad six children. There are portraits of Richard and his wife\\nin the great hall at Charlecote Richard Lucy is dressed in a\\nrich black suit, with a\\npair of buff-coloured\\ngloves. An open\\nbook lies on a table\\nbefore him the lady\\nwears the costume of\\nthe Commonwealth.\\nRichard Lucy\\ndied in 1677, and\\nwas succeeded by\\nThomas Lucy, who\\nat the time of his\\nfather s death was a\\ncaptain of a troop of\\nhorse under Aubrey\\nde Vere, Earl of Ox-\\nford. He married\\nKatherine, daughter\\nof Robert Wheatley, of Bracknel, county Berks. She, it seems,\\nwas a lady of great beauty, much addicted to play, not on the\\nharp, but at cards. She gambled away ;^500 one morning be-\\nfore her breakfast; and when her good husband died, in 1684,\\nENTRANCE TO GARDENS", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "126\\nCbarlccote\\nshe made up her mind not to remain long a widow, but being\\nvery beautiful, captivated the Duke of Northumberland, whom\\nshe married. She must have been a very greedy lady, for she\\ntook away with her the family jewels and a great deal of plate,\\nand indeed everything excepting the household goods. There\\nis an exquisite portrait of this George Fitzroy, Duke of North-\\numberland, painted on vellum by William Wissing, in Mrs.\\nLucy s boudoir.\\nThe Duchess of Northumberland died on June 3, 17 14, and\\nwas buried in the Duke of Albermarle s vault in the Chapel\\nof Henry Vll., St. Peter s, Westminster. The Duke only sur-\\nvived her two years, and was buried by her side. She left a\\nchild by her first husband, Elizabeth Lucy, who was a ward\\nin Chancery, and who lived with her cousin Davenport Lucy,\\nwho succeeded to the estates when his first cousin Captain\\nThomas Lucy died. There is a mighty quaint estimate of what\\nwas allowed for the maintenance, education and dress of the\\nsaid Elizabeth Lucy still preserved at Charlecote.\\nFrom an old account-book we obtain the following infor-\\nmation as to the annual produce of the market during the life\\nof George Lucy, who married Mary, the only daughter and\\nsole heiress of John Bohun, of Finham, county Warwick\\nFrom the year 1689 to 171 3 the produce of the market\\nvaried from the sum of /331 35. lod. to ^552 145. 9^., and then\\nto ^258 25. Sd. This account is addressed to George Lucy from\\nhis most humble servant George Guy.\\nGeorge Lucy had his portrait painted by Dahl, and he has\\na splendid wig on with fine flowing curls. He had, no doubt,\\na great variety of them, for here is a bill for a bob wig in 1718\\nOctober, 17 18.\\nColonell Lucy, for a bob wig bought of John Greenwood,\\nI, 105.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "dbarlecotc\\n127\\nColonel and Mrs. Lucy paid for tea /i 45. a pound for\\nwhat was called finest Imperial tea, and 165. a pound for finest\\ngreen tea.\\nColonel George Lucy died suddenly without leaving a will,\\nso he was succeeded by his brother William Lucy, who was\\nthe possessor of the\\nvery quaint picture of\\nCharlecote House in\\nthe seventeenth cen-\\ntury which now\\nhangs in the great\\nhall.\\nIn the eighteenth\\ncentury the Lucys\\nwent a good deal to\\nLondon, to Bath and\\nvarious other water-\\ning places, and, like\\ntheir neighbours, lost\\na good deal of the\\nquaintness of the\\nbygone days, and as-\\nsumed the fine man-\\nners which were the fashion in an age of powder and patches.\\nWhen William Lucy died, in 1723, his coach in London was\\nput into mourning, and cost with black for the servants ^^54 35.\\nMadam Lucy s coach put into mourning cost ^^22 thirty-one\\nyards of black cloth to put coach and harness in mourning, at\\n75. 3 J. a yard, i^ii 45. 9^. for colouring and varnishing the\\ncarriage and wheels and blacking the brass, \u00c2\u00a31 55. for black\\nnails for the inside and out, \u00c2\u00a32 \\\\os. for tufts and tassels and\\nglass strings and holders and check string and lace, for\\nIN THE GARDENS", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "128 Cbarlecote\\nnew stuffing the back and coach box seat, cloth and buttons,\\nand putting the coach and harness and brasses in mourning,\\n\u00c2\u00a34 8s. Then there is a bill for /81 165. 6d. for mourning for\\nservants and dependants. Mourning for Mrs. Throckmorton\\n(Lucy), \u00c2\u00a3ij 95., and a ring left her by will, ^6 and for fifty-\\ntwo mourning rings to friends, 52 guineas. Eight rooms in\\nthe house at Charlecote were hung with black, for which the\\nundertaker charged /86 but Madam Lucy, through the steward\\nMr. Gilbert, made him take 80, after which we may be thank-\\nful that we live in the nineteenth century.\\nIn the eighteenth century, too, the Lucys, like the rest of\\nEnglish men and women, develop a distinct taste for letter writ-\\ning, and Mrs. Elizabeth Lucy has selected a great number of\\nletters which display considerable literary ability, and make us\\nregret that more of them have not been published (1 can scarcely\\nsay published, for Mrs. Lucy s book was intended for the strictest\\nprivate circulation possibly one day the correspondence of the\\nLucys will receive ampler justice, at any rate it is devoutly so\\nto be hoped). Amongst others are two letters addressed to\\nJames, called the Pretender, by his son Charles one of which\\nwas written just after the battle of Pinkie. There is also a most\\ninteresting correspondence with Mrs. Hayes, a widow who lived\\nat Charlecote from the time of George Lucy s coming into pos-\\nsession till the time of her death, when she was quite an old\\nwoman, in 1772. She seems to have been an extremely clever\\nwoman, and to have managed the household affairs to admir-\\nation. She was greatly beloved and respected by all who knew\\nher, and she kept up a correspondence with Mr. Lucy which\\nwould till a volume those letters which are preserved are ex-\\ncellent reading. Out of the number 1 select the following, since\\nit gives us a glimpse of Mrs. Delany, one of the social celebrities\\nof the last century\\n1", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "Cbarlecote\\n129\\nA letter from Mrs. Hayes to Mr. Lucy when he was stay-\\ning for his health at Cheltenham.\\nCharlecote, Jt^^/^^ 215/, 1749.\\nYou are extremely good, dear Sir, to give me the pleasure\\nof hearing from you, which I always esteem a particular favour.\\n1 hope the waters\\nagree with you.\\nThe Dean of Down\\nand Mrs. Delany are\\nat Welsborne, and\\nMr. and Mrs. Dewes\\nbrought them here\\nyesterday to see the\\nHouse. They spent\\ntheir whole time in\\nwalking about only\\nthe old lady (Mrs.\\nDelany) gave us an\\nanthem upon the\\nharpsichord. She\\nreally plays and\\nsings incomparibly\\nbut as to her other\\nextraordinary quali-\\nties, I had not pene-\\ntration enough to find them out, for she is a strange, disagreeable\\nwoman. Your keeper, James, bores me to death to ask you to\\nlet him kill a buck and bring it to you, as they are now in high\\norder. 1 must now tell you a story that everybody is full of.\\nYour good friend Mrs. Anne Brawn, who was coming somewhere\\nthis way to make a visit, met Mr. Stanley of Alveston s waggon\\nCHARLECOTE CHURCH", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "I30 Cbarlecote\\nloaded with corn. She would have them turn out of the way,\\nand they would not so they tried their strength who should\\ngive way, and Mrs. Anne s coach is broke all to pieces. She\\nthen took her coachman s whip and strapped the waggoner\\nheartily, and when she got home served her coachman with\\nthe same sauce, and he is run away with his livery, and she\\nhath sent a hue and cry after him, and hath had to order a\\nnew coach. Mr. Dighton insists upon my telling you that he\\nwould have you look out for a wife at Cheltenham, for doe all\\nhe can there is no hope for you at Clopton. Adieu accept\\nall our best compliments and I am, dear Sir,\\nYours most sincerely,\\nP. Hayes.\\nMr. Lucy, writing to Mrs. Hayes from Bath in 1760, says:\\n1 am told my picture by Gainsborough is so like that people\\nwho are unacquainted with me know it from seeing me in the\\nrooms; and 1 like it so well myself that I shall sit for another.\\nAnd he did sit for another, which now hangs on the wall\\nof the library at Charlecote, and the following is one of Gains-\\nborough s receipts\\nFebruary 2 jth, 1760.\\nReceived of George Lucy, Esquire, the sum of eight guineas\\nin full, for portrait of himself. /8 85.\\nThomas Gainsborough.\\nThe replica cost exactly the same price.\\nThere is also another painting of this gentleman in a long\\nblue velvet and gold embroidered coat and waistcoat and there\\nexists, moreover, a sad-coloured suit with silver threadwork\\nwhich belonged to him. In 1755, Mr. W. Lucy bought the an-\\ncestor of those black and white spotted Spanish sheep, which\\nare still in the park among the deer.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "UJ\\nI-\\nO\\no\\nUJ\\na.\\nX\\no\\na:\\na:\\nm\\nUJ\\nI\\n1-", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "132 Cbarlecote\\nThe husband of the lady to whom we are indebted for the\\ncomplete history of the Lucy family was the late Mr. George\\nLucy, a distinguished lover and collector of the fine arts. Mary\\nElizabeth Lucy, his wife, and the authoress of the memorials\\nof the family, was the daughter of Sir John Williams, Bart., of\\nBodlewyddan, in the parish of St. Asaph, in the county of Flint.\\nShe travelled a great deal with her husband on the Continent,\\nand was present at the coronation of Queen Victoria.\\nMr. George Lucy purchased many fine works of art still\\npreserved in the house. The prices he paid for his pictures are\\ninstructive at the present moment take, for instance, the choice\\nand beautiful landscape by Both, which hangs in the drawing-\\nroom, and which he bought in 1821 from Oliver for /400, a\\nprice we should consider very high for a work by this master\\nin the present day.\\nOn the other hand, the splendid portrait of Bayard, by Se-\\nbastian del Piombo, he purchased for only /17s at the sale of\\nWatson Taylor in 1823 it is one of the noblest portraits by this\\nmaster in existence, and should be of inestimable value now.\\nAlso a portrait, by Raffaelle, of the Marquis of Mantua,\\nwhich George Lucy purchased from Mr. Buchanan in 181O for\\n^1150; this portrait once belonged to Cnarles 1.\\nIn the library is a very fine Vandyke, which is the picture\\nalluded to by Charles I. in a letter to Colonel Whateley, writ-\\nten at the time he secretly withdrew himself from Whitehall,\\nin which he says: There are three pictures which are not\\nmine. My wife s picture in blue satin, sitting in a chair, you\\nmust send to Mrs. Kirk. This lady was one of the Queens\\ndressers. This picture of Henrietta-Maria is an exquisite work,\\nbut only cost Mr. Lucy ]6 \\\\^s. Close to it hangs a very fine\\nportrait of Charles I. and over the mantelpiece in the said library\\nis a superb Zucchero of Queen Elizabeth in all her glory, wearing", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "Cbarlecote\\n133\\na dark dress gorgeously embroidered and strewn with pearls and\\nother jewels. There are several other good pictures by Vandyke\\nin the library, and a very fine collection of books, amongst them\\na Natural History splendidly bound, with the arms of Diane de\\nPoitiers on the cover. A French gentleman qui s y connait\\nassured me that this was one of the best specimens of French\\nbinding of the sixteenth century he had ever seen. This\\nCHARLECOTE FROM THE FRONT\\nlibrary throughout gives evidence of the literary taste of the\\ndistinguished family which has preserved it so well, and modern\\nworks of merit are not wanting.\\nCharlecote, as we now see it, dates mainly from the last\\nyears of Elizabeth s reign, and is a large red-brick mansion picked\\nout with white stone, in that style of architecture which is so\\neminently suited to our climate. It stands on a terrace leading\\ndown to gardens laid out with considerable taste in the some-\\nwhat stiff and formal Dutch inanner which was the fashion in\\nthe last two centuries.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "134 Cbarlecote\\nArchitectually speaking, the most beautiful part of the house\\nis the entrance gate, which, according to family tradition, was\\ndesigned by John of Padua. None of the rooms in the house\\nitself are of exceptional dimensions, excepting the hall, which\\nhas been thoroughly restored and although, no doubt, restora-\\ntion was absolutely necessary, it has of course lost much of its\\nancient aspect in the process Washington Irving, for instance,\\nwould scarcely recognise, in the white and yellow Italian mar-\\nble pavement, that broken stone now in the passage and small\\nentrance hall, and which paves the church at Charlecote that\\nso fascinated him when he visited Charlecote. The picturesque\\nbut uncomfortable state of affairs which he described has dis-\\nappeared and who knows but what the hall as it is now is\\nnot more like what it was in the days of Shakespeare for then\\nit had only been recently built than it was when the author\\nof Tales of a Traveller visited it some seventy years ago\\nMr. and Mrs. George Lucy, about forty years ago, added a\\nvery handsome dining-room and library, and made several other\\nimportant improvements but they preserved so perfectly the\\nstyle of the old mansion that it is now quite impossible to dis-\\ntinguish, externally at least, these new additions.\\nThe park, though not large, is one of the most lovely in\\nEngland. Its little nooks and glades are the same as they were\\ntwo centuries ago, and the same Avon flows at the foot of the\\nquaint terraces, and winds through the green grass, and sparkles\\nin the sunshine as brightly as when the house was first built.\\nNo more exquisitely rich woodland scenery can be imagined,\\nand more than one old gnarled oak and beech dotted about the\\npark were fine trees in the prime of life when that bejewelled\\nand befarthingaled sovereign Elizabeth and her glittering train\\ncrossed the bridge and entered the gateway one memorable\\nmorning in 1583.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "Cbarlecote 135\\nIn this park undoubtedly Shakespeare often strayed and\\nwatched the deer crossing the river, as I myself have often\\nwatched them in the summer of last year (1893). May not\\nthe graceful sight have inspired him with the beautiful lines in\\nAs you like it Surely it was in this park that he saw\\nA poor sequestered stag\\nThat from the hunter s aim had ta en a hurt\\nDid come to languish\\nand we can still see, as he saw then, the careless herd full\\nof the pasture step gaily into the water and swim across in\\nsearch of fresh fields under the lowering branches of the grand\\nold trees in the outer park which leads up to the porter s lodge\\nand the high road to Stratford-upon-Avon, two and a half\\nmiles away.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "IboUanb Ibouse\\n137\\nMIBIiiiHf", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "HOLLAND HOUSE, SOUTH SIDE\\nHOLLAND HOUSE\\nBY CAROLINE ROCHE\\nFEWER associations are attached to the private houses of\\nnotable people in London than to those of any capital\\nin Europe. Englishmen love country life, and from\\nfeudal times to the present day the sports and duties attach-\\ning to it have absorbed the wealthier classes for the greater\\npart of the year.\\nThe great nobles from time immemorial have built their\\ncastles on their estates, and hence the best monuments of archi-\\ntecture, apart from churches and public buildings, are to be found\\noutside London. The Lords of Alnwick, Raby, Hatfield, or\\nBurghley, have been content, at all events of recent years, with\\nunpretentious town mansions and until agricultural depression\\n139", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "140\\nIboUanD Ibouse\\ndispersed art collections, it is probable that nine-tenths of the\\ntreasures of England were hidden from all those who had not\\nthe entree to the great country houses. Nor is this all. Eng-\\nlishmen have no idea of society in the Continental sense. Ban-\\nquets, balls, and parties, public and private, have always formed\\nan accompaniment to the Parliamentary session but the select\\ncoteries which meet almost daily in Paris in the informal gath-\\nerings termed salons, where friendships are cemented with\\nthat mixture of grave and gay conversation in which our mer-\\ncurial neighbours excel are foreign to the English life. In its\\nrecords as well as its surroundings, Holland House stands out\\na brilliant exception in this respect. It is unique among English\\nhomes, standing as it does in its own lovely gardens, surrounded\\ntill lately by the fields of Kensington, now in the middle of a\\ndensely populated district, and within a walk of the centre of\\nLondon. It has ceased for half a century to be a country home,\\nand though it has changed hands repeatedly, its treasures re-\\nmain intact. Its architecture is characteristic its portraits and\\nbusts recall all the most interesting personages who have lived\\nin it. Every room is filled with rare objects and historical relics\\nit has neither been robbed to pay death duties, nor spoiled by\\nVandal taste. It possesses, moreover, a special interest as the\\ncentre round which revolved for nearly half a century all that\\nwas brightest and most intellectual, in an age of strength and\\ngreat achievements those whose influence so profoundly af-\\nfected the political events of the day.\\nHolland House dates from the beginning of the seventeenth\\ncentury, and came early into the possession of the Holland\\nfamily. Sir William Cope, who bought the manor in 1607, got\\nThorpe the architect of the day to build the house, which\\nThe cloisters, balconies, and ornamental work, and the centre turret on the south side, are of\\nstone, standing out upon a ground-work of red brick.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "141", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "142 Ibollant) Ibouse\\nwas finished in 1620. He left it to his daughter, wife of the\\nfirst Earl Holland, younger son of Earl Warwick. His tenure\\nof the house was cut short by his execution, a few days after\\nthat of Charles I., March 9, 1649. But during those stormy\\nyears Holland House was a Royalist centre, and the memory of\\nthat period is preserved by contemporary portraits of Charles I.\\nand Henrietta Maria.\\nOf the inmates of Holland House during the century which\\nsucceeded 1649, until the mansion passed into the hands of the\\nFox family, comparatively little is known, but among its varied\\nfortunes it was for a few months the residence of Cromwell\\nand Fairfax, for some years of Addison, and early in the eight-\\neeth century of William Penn. Its social history may be said\\nto have begun in 1749, when the first Lord Holland, second\\nson of Lord Ilchester, and father of Charles James Fox, became\\nits owner.\\nFrom this time forth for a hundred years, Holland House\\nbecame the nursery of those Whig principles, which after many\\nyears in the wilderness, achieved their final victory in the Re-\\nform Bill of 183 1 under Lord Grey. The history of Holland House\\nduring this period is almost the history of the nation. The first\\nand third Lords Holland both played a prominent part in the\\npolitics of the day. Between them came Charles James Fox,\\nwhose personal qualities miade him the idol of the age. Well\\nmight Lord Holland write of himself (so expressing his joy\\nthat he had done nothing unworthy of the friend of Fox and\\nGrey)\\nNephew of Fox, and friend of Grey,\\nEnough my meed of fame\\nIf those who deign d to observe me say\\nI injured neither name.\\nIn Elizabeth Vassall he had espoused one of the most", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "143", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "144 Ibollanb Ibouse\\nremarkable women of the century. To Lady Holland we owe\\nthe society which has rendered Holland House famous a so-\\nciety in which the eloquence of Macaulay was chastened by\\nthe caustic wit of Rogers, in which Sydney Smith exercised his\\nplayfulness on prelates and peers, as well as on the aristocratic\\nfootman who disdained the omnibus straw which adhered to his\\nevening shoes in which Lord Brougham bullied, and Sheridan\\nlaughed, and which, by its brilliancy, finally attracted to itself\\nthose elements of court and fashion which prudence and policy\\nhad kept away.\\nAt the very entrance to the house one is struck by the\\ncosmopolitan taste of the various owners.\\nThe busts in the Entrance Hall include the Duke of Cum-\\nberland, by Rysbraeck, 1754 Charles James Fox, by Nollekens\\nthe Duke of York, by Prosperi John Hookham Frere, by Chan-\\ntrey Henry Richard, third Lord Holland Napoleon, and Henri\\nQuatre. But this mixture of discord is no clue to the arrange-\\nment of the house the visitor passes through a succession of\\nrooms, each having a separate artistic interest, and forming to-\\ngether a complete historical record.\\nThus in the Breakfast-room the tapestries are after designs\\nby Francois Boucher, an artist of the eighteenth century. The\\nrepresentations are: Bacchus and the Bacchantes Apollo\\nwith the Muses Vulcan and Venus and Vulcan Present-\\ning Jupiter with the Thunderbolts.\\nThe China-room, with its choice collection of Sevres, Dres-\\nden, Berlin, and Chelsea, amongst the latter the desert service\\nwhich belonged to Dr. Johnson, is a museum in itself.\\nThe five west rooms include the Swannery, added by\\nthe present owner, and which is so called from the picture by\\nGoddard, empanelled over the mantelpiece, of the Swannery\\nat Abbotsbury Castle. In this room also hangs the Muscipula,", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "VIEW OF HOLLAND HOUSE FROM THE GARDENS\\n145", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "146\\nIboUant) Ibousc\\nby Sir Joshua Reynolds, View of Ranelagh, and Conquest\\nof Mexico, by Hogarth. The four adjoining rooms are chiefly\\nremarkable for the fine modern portraits by Watts, of Panizzi,\\nGuizot, Thiers, Lady Holland, Countess Castiglione, Jerome\\nBuonaparte, Luttrell, and many others, and the portrait of\\nCanova the sculptor.\\nThe above reception-rooms, which in any other house would\\nconstitute a sufficient number, by no means exhaust the ex-\\nceptional resources of Holland House, for there are no less than\\ntwenty-three in all.\\nThe Journal-room is filled with the portraits of Whig states-\\nmen, and colleagues of the Lords Holland, from 1780 onwards.\\nHere we find Sir Philip Francis, once believed to be the author of\\nthe Letters of Junius, of whom the following anecdote is told.\\nSir Philip and Samuel Rogers were both staying at Holland House.\\nOne evening, after dinner, they were walking together discussing\\npolitics and literature. Sir Philip grew more communicative than\\nusual, and so friendly and confidential towards Rogers, that the\\nlatter, much encouraged, ventured to say, Now, Sir Philip,\\n1 should like to ask you a question may I Sir Philip s\\nmanner and tone at once altered and, suddenly stopping, he\\nanswered in a short and abrupt way, At your peril, sir,\\nat your peril. Rogers remained silent, and, on leaving Sir\\nPhilip muttered to himself, If he is Junius, it must be Junius\\nBrutus.\\nAmongst the portraits in this room are those of Hookham\\nFrere, the man of letters the two poets, Samuel Rogers, by\\nHoppner, and Thomas Moore, by Shee Francis Horner, of\\nwhom Sydney Smith said, he had the Ten Commandments\\nwritten on his face, and that he looked so virtuous he might\\ncommit any crime, and no one would believe him guilty\\nPrincess Lieven, by Watts Earl Grey the Duke of Bedford", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "THE SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS ROOM, HOLLAND HOUSE\\n147", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "148\\nIboUant) Ibouae\\nSir James Mackintosh Talleyrand, the diplomatic wit Eliza-\\nbeth, Lady Holland, by Pagan Lord Holland, by Fabre.\\nThe Library, adapted to the tastes of a generation whose\\nmornings were free from the absorbing cares of golf and bi-\\ncycling, is a long room, lined with bookcases, and hung with\\nCordova leather. Here Lord and Lady Holland were accustomed\\nto sit, with Allen the librarian at their beck and call. Large bay\\nwindows redeem the room from the dignified darkness so char-\\nacteristic of old libraries, and give easy access to the terrace\\noverlooking the garden. Homage can here be paid to the genius\\nof Addison, whose writing-table, after belonging to Sir Thomas\\nLawrence and Samuel Rogers, the poet, was bought by Lord\\nHolland at the sale of Rogers property. May 5, 1856, and so,\\nafter the lapse of many years, it returned to its former home.\\nMacaulay, perhaps the most appreciative of Lady Holland s\\nguests, recalls to us the special charm of that venerable cham-\\nber, in which all the antique gravity of a college library was\\nso singularly blended with all that female grace and wit could\\ndevise to establish a drawing-room. He writes\\nThey will recollect, not unmoved, those shelves loaded\\nwith the varied learning of many lands and many ages; those\\nportraits in which were preserved the features of the best and\\nwisest Englishmen of two generations. They will recollect how\\nmany men who have guided the politics of Europe, who have moved\\ngreat assemblies by reason and eloquence, who have put life\\ninto bronze and canvas, or who have left to posterity things\\nso written as it shall not willingly let them die, were there\\nmixed with all that was loveliest and gayest in the society of\\nthe most splendid of capitals. They will recollect the peculiar\\ncharacter which belonged to that circle, in which every talent\\nand accomplishment, every art and science, had its place. They\\nwill remember above all the grace, and the kindness f:n more", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0OBa^^BB", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "I50 Ibollant) Ibouse\\nadmirable than grace with which the princely hospitality of\\nthe ancient mansion was dispensed.\\nGuests at Holland House, if specially privileged, are assigned\\nas a sitting-room the Inner Library, a small room well furnished\\nwith books and pictures, from which is obtained a fine view of\\nthe Dutch garden, and a glimpse of the Surrey hills beyond.\\nHere the writer or orator is inspired by portraits of the Right\\nHonourable Thomas Winnington, born 1696, died 1746, one of\\nthe greatest wits of his day, and an intimate friend of the first\\nLord Holland of Sir Robert Walpole in the heyday of his\\nfame Henry, Marquess of Lansdowne Lord John Russell, and\\nLord Macartney. There are also excellent portraits of Stephen,\\nfirst Earl of llchester Elizabeth, Countess of llchester Henry,\\nEarl Digby, by Sir Joshua Reynolds and many others.\\nAdjoining is the Library Passage, which is small and narrow,\\nbut its walls are covered with objects of interest. Over the door\\nhangs a portrait of Addison next comes Benjamin Franklin\\nLope de Vega, many of whose books are in the library Galileo,\\nthe great philosopher and Machiavelli, the man of whom Ma-\\ncaulay says, Out of his surname, they (Englishmen) have\\ncoined an epithet for a knave, and out of his Christian name a\\nsynonym for the devil. Hard by is the portrait of the great\\nWhig philosopher, Locke. This portrait, being the identical one\\ndiscarded by Christ Church, has found a resting-place here and\\nwhere could it find a more appropriate home Below hangs\\na case of firearms ornamented with silver and gold, presented\\nto Charles James Fox by Catherine, Empress of Russia, 1785,\\ntogether with a miniature portrait of nerself, and an autograph\\nletter, with indifferent spelling, telling him that she has ordered\\na bust of him, and is having it placed between that of Demos-\\nthenes and Cicero Here is preserved a sword of prudence\\nMacaulay s Essays: Lord Holland.\\n1", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "ADDISON S ROOM, HOLLAND HOUSE\\nso CALLED BECAUSE JOSEPH ADDISON DIED IN THIS ROOM\\n151", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "152 Ibollanb Ibouee\\npresented to Charles James Fox by a patriot, and with the\\nfollowing lines\\nConsider well weigh strictly right and wrong,\\nResolve not quick but once resolved be strong.\\nHere also, in an interesting medley of personages and periods,\\nare to be found a letter of Voltaire to Henry Fox, first Lord\\nHolland, with a sketch of the writer a photograph of the\\nCongress of Paris, 1856, with their signatures a portrait of\\nMadame de Sevigne a sketch of Gibbon by William Wallace\\na miniature of Robespierre endorsed on the back by C. J. Fox,\\nUn sceUrat, un Idche, et unfoiiV; Addison s last autograph and\\nhis will a miniature cast of Milton on ivory, side by side with\\nminiatures of Edmund Burke and Napoleon a portrait of George\\nSelwyn, whom George II. distinguished as that rascal George,\\nprovoking the repartee from Selwyn that rascal was an he-\\nreditary title of the Georges. On a pane of glass in one of\\nthe windows are cut the following lines by Hookham Frere,\\ndated October, 181 1:\\nMay neither fire destroy nor waste impair,\\nNor time consume thee till the twentieth heir,\\nMay taste respect thee, and may Fashion spare\\non reading which Rogers is reported to have said, 1 wonder\\nwhere he got the diamond.\\nTearing ourselves away from the passage, after a cursory\\nglance, we enter the Yellow Drawing-room, where hangs a\\nsketch of the late Lady Holland s eye by Watts, and a portrait\\nin pastel of Charles James Fox as a child, with a spaniel. Ac-\\ncording to the common fashion of a period in which no collection\\nwas complete without miniatures, Holland House is so richly", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "THE LIBRARY, HOLLAND HOUSE\\n153", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "154\\nlboUan^ Ibouee\\nendowed in this respect that a special room was devoted to them.\\nHere we find specimens of Samuel Cooper, Samuel Collins,\\nRichard Cosway, Maria Cosway, Mrs. Mee, and Andrew Plimer.\\nIn Lady llches-\\nter s Sitting-room\\nthe chief objects\\nof interest are the\\nrelics of Napole-\\non s friendship\\nwith Lady Hol-\\nland: a locket con-\\ntaining Napoleon s\\nhair, a ring, and\\nhis cross of the\\nLegion of Honour.\\nThe snuff-box,\\nnow in the British\\nMuseum, which\\nNapoleon sent\\nLady Holland,\\ncontains a slip of\\npaper with the fol-\\nlowing words:\\nTHE WEST FRONT, FROM THE DUTCH GARDEN r r- r\\nL Empereur Na-\\npoleon a Lady Holland, Umoignage de satisfaction et d estime.\\nGift of the Hero, on his dying day,\\nTo her whose pity watch d for ever nigh.\\nOh, could he see the proud, the happy ray\\nThis relic lights up in her generous eye.\\nSighing, he d feel how easy tis to pay\\nA friendship, all his kingdom could not buy.\\nThomas Moore.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "155", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "156\\nIboUanb Ibouse\\nIn the anteroom to the Gilt Room are some interesting\\npencil drawings, by Watts, of friends of the late Lord Holland,\\nwhich include amongst others Prince N. Corsini, Cardinal Sac-\\nconi. Count Bossi, Mr. Petre, Lord Walpole, Mr. Cotterell, Lady\\nNormanby, and Lady Dover.\\nThe Gilt Room was originally decorated by Francis Cleyn,\\nwhen Charles I. honoured Holland House by a visit but the\\ndecoration has since been restored by Watts, who added the\\nfigures and two mantelpieces. The room is wainscotted, sepa-\\nrated into panels by wooden basso-relievo, and divided up into\\nmedallions bordered with blue and gold. Within the borders\\nare painted alternately a silver fleur-de-lys on an azure shield,\\nand a golden cross on a shield of red. These shields are en-\\ncircled by palm leaves crossing at bottom and top, where they\\npass through an earl s coronet. The ceiling is quite modern\\nthe original one, also painted by Cleyn, having collapsed during\\nthe minority of the third Lord Holland.\\nBut the Secret Chamber, opening out of this room, is inter-\\nesting. In it the Lord Holland who was beheaded, and whose\\nghost, with his head under his arm, still walks these rooms,\\nwas confined prisoner (1649).\\nPassing through a recess, we enter the Sir Joshua Room,\\nwhich contains many of his masterpieces, including the far-\\nfamed picture of Lady Sarah Lennox, Charles James Fox,\\nand Lady Susan Strangeways, painted at Holland House\\nBaretti, Dr. Johnson s friend Miss Fox as a child Lord Gor-\\ndon Lennox Mary, Duchess of Richmond Thomas Conolly\\nMary, Lady Holland Henry, Lord Holland, of whom it is said\\nthat on receiving his picture he remarked to Sir Joshua that\\nhe thought it had been hastily executed, and asked how long\\nhe had been painting it. The artist, much offended, replied,\\nAll my life, my lord. And last, the well-known portrait", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "LADY ILCHESTER S SITTINQ-ROOM, HOLLAND HOUSE,\\nCONTAINING RELICS OF NAPOLEON\\n157", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "158\\nIboUant) Ibouse\\nof Charles James Fox, painted in 1784, when he was thirty-\\nfive.\\nAddison s Room, so called from his having died there, was\\nafterward used by Lady Holland as her dining-room. Let us\\nhover a moment\\nwith the spirit of\\nAddison round the\\ntable where were\\ngathered a succes-\\nsion of guests, re-\\nmarkable by their\\nvariety, their tal-\\nents, their high\\nstation, or their\\ndistinction in\\nvarious walks of\\nlife. Here oppos-\\nites met, and here\\nintimacies were\\nconfirmed. Lord\\nGrey and Princess\\nLieven, Sir James\\nMackintosh and\\nMadame de Stael,\\nTalleyrand and Metternich, Charles James Fox and Georgiana,\\nDuchess of Devonshire, of whose zeal for C. J. Fox in the\\nWestminster election, having bought a butcher s vote with a\\nkiss, the following epigram was circulated\\nArrayed in matchless beauty, Devon s fair\\nIn Fox s favour takes a zealous part\\nBut, oh where er the pilferer comes beware\\nShe supplicates a vote, and steals a heart.\\nELIZABETH VASSALL, LADY HOLLAND\\nBY G. FAQAN", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "ELIZABETH VASSALL, LADY HOLLAND\\nBY GAUFFRIER, A. D. 1795\\n159", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "i6o\\nIbollant) Ibouse\\nGrattan and Samuel Rogers, Junius and Hookham Frere,\\nLord Byron and Thomas Moore, Brougham and Horner, Wal-\\npole and George Selwyn, Henry Luttrell and Canova. All these\\ncombined willing-\\nly to play their\\npart in assemblies\\nat which, whoever\\nmight be present,\\nElizabeth, Lady\\nHolland was the\\nguiding spirit and\\ncentral figure.\\nHers was a most\\nimperious nature\\nand thoroughly\\nunconventional.\\nShe would, in the\\nmidst of some of\\nMacaulay s most\\ninteresting anec-\\ndotes, tap on the\\ntable with her fan\\nand say, Now,\\nMacaulay, we\\nhave had enough\\nof this, \u00e2\u0080\u0094give us\\nsomething else or to Sydney Smith, Sydney, ring the\\nbell. He answered, Oh, yes! and shall I sweep the room?\\nTo Lord Portchester her frankness even went further: 1 am\\nsorry to hear you are going to publish a poem. Can t you\\nsuppress it If her dinner table was too crowded, she in-\\nstantly gave her imperious order Luttrell make room\\nLADY SARAH LENOX, CHARLES JAMES FOX, AND LADY SUSAN\\nSTRANGEWAYS\\nPAINTED AT HOLLAND HOUSE BY SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "IboHanC) Ibouse\\ni6r\\nIt certainly must be made, he answered, for it does not\\nexist.\\nIt is with reluctance that we leave this brilliant assemblage,\\nand as we pass down the lovely old oak staircase, we can hardly\\nfail to carry away i.-.\\nsome of the mem-\\nories in which\\nHolland House is\\nso rich. Many of\\nus, in looking at\\nthe houses which\\nare being built\\nevery day, may\\nhave felt that, de-\\nspite old armour\\nand hastily col-\\nlected pictures,\\nthere is a certain\\nvoid in places\\nwhich have no\\npast and no recol-\\nlections. It is the\\nconverse to this\\nwhich attaches so\\nexceptional and\\nabiding an interest to Holland House.\\nHaving taken leave of the house one which can lay claim\\nto having had as inmates a greater number of those distinguished\\nin political and literary history than perhaps any other private\\ndwelling can boast of^we must, ere we depart, walk through\\nthe lovely gardens, in which there is much to admire. And first\\nas to the trees. The noble cedars, planted in the reign of James\\nTHE GREEN LANE", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "1 62 ibollanb Ibouee\\nI., are about seventy feet high, with a girth, at five feet, of six-\\nteen feet six. One of the horse-chestnuts is a hundred feet high\\nthe beeches and elms are about seventy feet. To reach the gar-\\ndens, we pass through the large bow window in the West Room,\\nand descending a flight of steps, we find ourselves in the Dutch\\nGarden, which is laid out in the old-fashioned style, with flower-\\nbeds surrounded with box edging and gravel walks. In the\\nsummer-time these are gay with flowers. Here we come across\\na summer-house, on either side of which is a fox cut out in box\\ntrees. This is Rogers s seat and here Lord Holland placed the\\nfollowing inscription\\nHere Rogers sat, and here for ever dwell\\nWith me those pleasures that he sings so well.\\nV. L. L. H. D. 1818.\\nHanging below this is the commentary by his old friend\\nLuttrell, the wit\\nHow happily sheltered is he who reposes\\nIn this haunt of the poet, overshadowed with roses,\\nWhile the sun is rejoicing unclouded on high,\\nAnd summer s full majesty reigns in the sky.\\nLet me in, and be seated. 1 11 try if, thus placed,\\n1 can catch but one spark of his feeling and taste,\\nCan steal a sweet note from his musical strain\\nOr a ray of his genius to kindle my brain.\\nWell, now I am fairly installed in the bower.\\nHow lovely the scene How propitious the hour\\nThe breeze is perfumed by the hawthorne it stirs,\\nAll is beauty around me but nothing occurs,\\nNot a thought, 1 protest though I m here, and alone,\\nNot a line can I hit on that Rogers would own,\\nThough my senses are ravished, my feelings in tune,\\nAnd Holland s my host, and the season is June,", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "i63", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "164\\nIbollanb Ibouse\\nThe trial is ended no garden, nor grove,\\nThough poets amid them may linger or rove,\\nNot a seat e en so hallowed as this can impart\\nThe fancy and fire that must spring from the heart\\nSo 1 rise, since the Muses continue to frown,\\nNo more of a poet than when I sat down\\nWhile Rogers, on whom they look kindly, can strike\\nTheir lyre at all times, in all places, alike.\\nHenry Luttrell, June, 1818.\\nOpposite the summer-house is a small garden devoted to\\nthe dahlia, of which the third Lady Holland was the first suc-\\ncessful importer, and which her husband commemorated in the\\nfollowing lines\\nThe dahlia you brought to our isle\\nYour praises for ever shall speak,\\nMid gardens as sweet as your smile.\\nAnd in colours as bright as your cheek.\\nIn this garden is the bronze bust of Napoleon, by Canova,\\nwith a Greek inscription from the Odyssey, translated thus\\nby Macaulay\\nFor not, be sure, within the grave\\nIs hid that prince, the wise, the brave\\nBut in an islet s narrow bound.\\nWith the great ocean roaring round,\\nThe captive of a foeman base\\nHe pines to view his native place.\\nPassing through the arches and across the old orchard, we\\ncome to the Green Lane, formerly called Nightingale Lane, which\\nis an avenue over half a mile long, carpeted with grass. It was\\nhere that the duel took place between Lord Camelford and Cap-\\ntain Best, resulting in the death of the former, in 1804. Turning", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "IboIIant) Ibouee 165\\nto the left, we pass through the avenue of limes planted by the\\nlate Lady Holland, to the wild garden, and sub-tropical ground,\\nand so back to the house, by the Louis Philippe Alley, so called\\nin remembrance of the exiled King who spent many a quiet hour\\nunder the shelter of its trees during the visit he paid to Holland\\nHouse in 1848. At the end of this alley is a cast of the statue\\nof Charles James Fox, by Westmacott, with the following in-\\nscription\\nCHARLES JAMES FOX,\\nWhom all nations unite in esteeming to have been\\nthe chief man of the people.\\nAnd so we pass through the gateway designed by Inigo\\nJones, and down the avenue of stately elms, and looking back\\nthrough the large iron gates, we bid farewell, remembering Lord\\nCarlisle s words to\\nThe pile to Addison so dear,\\nWhere Sully feasted, and where Rogers song\\nStill adds sweet music to the perfum d air\\nAnd gently leads each grace and muse along.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "Cawbor Castle\\n167\\nsfifii^siaaaBtaBa^Hii", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "CAWDOR CASTLE\\nFROM A DRAWING BY R. W. BILLINGS\\nCAWDOR CASTLE\\nBY VISCOUNT EMLYN\\nCAWDOR CASTLE is situated on the edge of the valley\\nof the river Nairn. From the lawn in front of the\\nCastle, Ben Wyvis and the hills of Caithness can be\\nseen across the Moray Firth, while to the south at the back\\nof the Castle, the great woods of Cawdor extend to the edge\\nof the moors which stretch away beyond the Findhorn.\\nThe historical interest and antiquity of the Castle must ap-\\npeal to anyone to whom the traditions of the Highlands are\\ndear, and a place may well be given it among the historic\\nhomes of Scotland.\\ni6g", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "170\\nCawt)or Castle\\nCawdor, with Glamis, lays claim to having been the scene\\nof the murder of King Duncan, and a room is shown in the\\ncentral tower as the spot where it took place.\\nThe present Castle, we know, was built in the year i4 ^4;\\nbut there was an older castle long before that date, which, if\\ntradition is right, may have been the scene of the murder. Such\\nhistory of those times as we have, though scarcely more relia-\\nble than tradition, seems to indicate that King Duncan, having\\nbeen beaten in a great battle on the south of the Findhorn by\\nhis cousin Thorfinn, the Norseman, on August 12, 1040, rested\\none night in a place called the Smith s Bothie, where he was\\ntreacherously killed by Macbeth, who thereupon went over to\\nThorfmn, with whom he subsequently divided the territory they\\nhad acquired, and became King of the Scots with a palace at\\nScone.\\nWhat is the true version of this murder, which has been\\nmade so famous by Shakespeare, will never be known. Such\\na labyrinth of fiction and fable surrounds all the history of those\\nancient times that it is now impossible to discover how or\\nwhen the family of Calder first settled in Nairnshire but neither\\ntradition nor the most ancient records point to their property\\nhaving been held by any other family, and at the end of the\\nthirteenth century a Thane of Cawdor is first mentioned in an\\nauthentic document\\nThis is Donald, who was one of the good and faithful\\nmen of the county, who at Nairn, on Wednesday the Feast of\\nSt. Lawrence, 1295, gave their oaths to the valuation of Kil-\\nravock and Ester Gedeys, the property of Hugh Rose of\\nKilravock.\\nDonald was succeeded by his son William, who received\\nfrom Robert Bruce, King of Scotland, a charter dated August\\n8, 1310, in confirmation of his hereditary thanedom. Both of\\ni", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "Caw or Ca0tle 171\\nthese documents are still kept in the charter-room at Cawdor,\\nwith many others of almost equal interest.\\nThe old writers have expended great ingenuity in devising\\nways of varying the spelling of the family name of Cawdor,\\nand in the old writs it appears in every possible form, except\\nthat in which we now spell it in the earliest documents it is\\nKaledor, then we have Caldor, Caudor, and Calder, and by a\\nif\\n^.-\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0096\u00a0r.\\nFACSIMILE OF CHARTER GRANTED BY KING ALEXANDER II., A.D. 1236\\nFROM THE BOOK OF CAWDOR\\nstroke of genius it is sometimes twisted into Caddell but,\\nhowever it is spelt, the derivation seems pretty clear Cal\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nsound, and der water an appropriate name, as two burns\\nrunning from the hills through narrow rocky ravines in the\\nwoods join their waters just above the Castle before they flow\\ntogether into the Nairn.\\nAccording to old Lachlan Shaw, the historian, the Thanes\\nas constables of the King s house resided in the Castle of", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "172 Cawbor Castle\\nNairn, and had a country seat at what is now called Old Caw-\\ndor, half a mile north from the present seat, a house on a small\\nmoat with a dry ditch and a drawbridge, the ruins of which\\nwere still visible when he wrote in 1720.\\nWilliam the sixth Thane in his youth was about the Court\\nof James II., as the King calls him, in a charter which is pre-\\nserved, his own beloved squire (dilectus familiaris scutifer\\nnoster) in later life he was appointed Crown Chamberlain\\nbeyond Spey, and seems to have been a good scholar and man\\nof business. In 1454, he received letters from the King allow-\\ning him to build his Castle of Cawdor, and to fortify it with\\nwalls, moats, and iron portcullis, and to furnish it with turrets\\nand other defensive armaments and apparatus, to appoint con-\\nstables, janitors, and jailors to the Castle, provided always that\\nthe King shall have free ingress and egress to and from the\\nCastle.\\nThane William, having obtained leave to build his Castle,\\nwas much perplexed as to the choice of a site, till he was\\nwarned in a dream to put all the treasure he had collected for\\nthe purpose in a coffer, to bind it on an ass, and build his\\ncastle wherever the ass should stop.\\nThis, says, tradition, he did and the ass, passing by two\\nhawthorn trees, stopped at the third on the edge of the burn,\\nand there lay down with his burden, and around this tree the\\nThane built his Castle.\\nTo this day there is in the lowest vault of the tower the\\ntrunk of a hawthorn tree, firm and sound, though much chipped\\nby collectors of relics, growing out of the rock and reaching to\\nthe top of the vault, and below it lies the old treasure chest,\\nsilent witnesses to the truth of the story the other two trees\\nhave now disappeared the last one as lately as the year\\n1836.\\nI", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "THE DUNGEON, CAWDOR CASTLE, SHOWING HAWTHORN TREE\\nAND TREASURE CHEST\\nFROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY VALENTINE, DUNDEE\\n173", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "174 CawDor Castle\\nThe Castle which Thane William built stands to this day\\nunaltered, though at subsequent dates various additions have\\nbeen built around it.\\nThe basement, as would appear from the thickness of its\\nwalls and the character of its masonry, must have been built\\nat some period anterior to its superstructure.\\nThe Castle consisted of a square keep forty-five feet in\\nlength by thirty-four feet in width it was surrounded by a\\nplain wall where now the other parts of the Castle stand on\\nthe south side the burn formed a natural defence, and on the\\nother three sides a dry moat made it impossible to gain en-\\ntrance except by crossing the drawbridge.\\nThis old drawbridge is now perhaps the most perfect\\nspecimen of such old entrances in existence, and is still the\\nonly means of getting into the Castle and a stranger within\\nthe last few years has been heard on a dark night expostulat-\\ning somewhat forcibly with the driver of his fly for bringing\\nhim to a bridge instead of to the door of the hospitable man-\\nsion in which he had hoped to pass the night. In the old\\ndays when the drawbridge was up and the portcullis closed,\\nthe keep must have been well-nigh impregnable.\\nThe drawbridge leads into the central courtyard, out of\\nwhich two other courts open at slightly lower levels in the\\nnorthern one of these the front door now stands, and formerly\\nthe old keep used to open directly into it and, in case any\\nunwelcome visitors should have the temerity to force their way\\nthus far into the Castle, there was arranged on the battlements\\non the top of the tower a projection directly over the door\\nfrom which molten lead, stones, and any other missiles which\\nmight come handy, could be thrown down on the heads of\\nthe intruders, and make their welcome a warm one. The\\nground floor of the tower is occupied by the dungeon, which", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "Cawt)or Castle\\n175\\nis not used now, but kept just as it was when it was first\\nbuilt round the old tree. It has a vaulted roof, and the light\\nis admitted through two little narrow slits of windows facing\\nthe drawbridge cut in the wall, which is seven feet thick.\\nAn interesting story is told about the old iron door of the\\ndungeon. Archibald Douglas, Earl of Moray, had in 1454 for-\\nfeited his estates for\\nfortifying his two cas-\\ntles, Lochindorb and\\nDarnaway, against\\nKing James 11. The\\nKing himself repaired\\nDarnaway and used it\\nas a hunting lodge,\\nthrowing large tracts\\nof country out of cul-\\ntivation that he might\\nbetter enjoy the sport\\nafforded by the valley\\nof the Findhorn but,\\nconsidering that from\\nits strength and situ-\\nation Lochindorb was\\ndangerous, he re-\\nsolved to have it de-\\nstroyed, and gave the\\nThane of Cawdor a\\ncommission for carrying out the work, agreeing to pay him\\nfor doing so the not very munificent sum of ^24.\\nLochindorb, which Edward III. made famous by his expe-\\ndition to relieve the Countess of Athol in 1336, was an old\\nRoman keep on an island in a moorland loch on the far side\\nTHE DRAWBRIDGE\\nFROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY VALENTINE, DUNDEE", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "176 Cawt)or Castle\\nof the Findhorn but despite the distance and the rough ground\\nto be traversed, one of the Calders, a Highland Samson, car-\\nried the iron door across from Lochindorb to Cawdor on his\\nback as a proof that the Castle had been destroyed.\\nA worn and narrow corkscrew staircase leads from the\\ndungeon to the three storeys above, each of which originally\\nconsisted of one main apartment with small recesses cut out\\nof the thickness of the wall to serve as sleeping-places for at-\\ntendants the middle room of these three is shown as King\\nDuncan s room, and the whitewashed walls have been adorned\\nwith charcoal sketches of scenes and characters from the Tragedy\\nof Macbeth, done by various visitors to the Castle. There was\\na fire in the room some years ago, and the old bedstead was\\nburnt, and all that remains of the original woodwork is an old\\ncharred door in one of the recesses in the wall, which is\\nstrangely burnt to the shape of a man s head and shoulders.\\nThe staircase leads out finally to the top of the tower, from\\nwhich a very fine view may be seen over the Moray Firth and\\nthe surrounding country.\\nAt old Cawdor, we learn from the records, there had been\\na chapel called St. Mary s, and Thane William included a new\\none when he built his Castle. This chapel probably stood in\\nthe south court, but was removed when alterations were made,\\nthe only relic of it which remains being an old bell of hammered\\niron clasped with nails.\\nThane William, the builder of the Castle, died in 1468, and\\nwas succeeded by his son, who bore the same name, and who\\nmarried Marion Sutherland of Dunbeat, whose father had made\\nher his residuary legatee, his quaint will running\\nI give and assign to my douchter Marion all the lave of\\nmy lands that I have undisponyt upon, and sa mony Ky auld\\nand young as I have with Aytho Fourchason or with Mackay", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "KINQ DUNCAN S ROOM, CAWDOR CASTLE\\nFROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY VALENTJNE, DUNDEE\\n177", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "178\\nCaw or Castle\\nANCIENT HANDBELL, FORMERLY IN THE CHAPEL\\nBeneuth and so mony Ky as she aught to have of William\\nPolsyni s Ky.\\nThis Thane William seems to have been very anxious to\\nbring to an end the feud with the Roses of Kilravock, who\\nwere too near neighbours of the Calders\\nto be good friends and some very old\\nodd bonds of amity betwix honor-\\nabill men of Wylyame Thane of Caldor\\nand his party on the ta part,\\nand Huchone the Ross baron e\\nof Kilrawok with Huchone the\\nRoss his sone and appeirande\\nayr on the tother part, are still\\npreserved in the charter room.\\nThese treaties, however,\\nwere of but little avail, and the\\nfeud went on till the Thane brought it to an end by arranging\\na marriage betwix his sone and ayr and Huchone the Ross\\nhis douchter. By this agreement he waste have the choice\\nof all the daughters of Kilravock for his son, who does not\\nseem to have been consulted or to have minded having his\\nwife found for him by his father.\\nTwo daughters were all the family born to John Calder\\nand Isabella Ross, and one of these died in infancy, leaving\\nMuriel sole heiress, and, when her father died in 1498, the last\\nof the direct line of the Calders.\\nNaturally, it was not long before this matrimonial prize at-\\ntracted attention and Archibald, second Earl of Argyll, married\\nher when she was only twelve years old, to his third son,\\nafterwards known as Sir John Campbell of Cawdor.\\nIn her infancy, Muriel lived with her grandfather at Kil-\\nravock, who probably was in hopes of marrying her to some near", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "CHIMNEYPIECE IN THE DINING-ROOM, CAWDOR CASTLE\\nFROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY VALENTINE, DUNDEE\\n179", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "lao (^aw^or Castle\\nrelation but Argyll was too strong for him, and he sent Camp-\\nbell of Inverliver one harvest to carry her away to Inverary. Mu-\\nriel s uncles, the Calders, heard of this, and, determined to get\\nback their heiress, set out in pursuit, and before they had gone\\nfar came up with the Campbells. Inverliver, seeing he was\\noutnumbered, sent Muriel on with a small escort, while he faced\\nround to stop the Calders. The fight was sharp, and eight of\\nInverliver s sons were killed but finally, when they thought\\nthe child had got out of the reach of her uncles, the Campbells\\nretired, leaving in the hands of the Calders what, during the\\nfight, they had fondly believed to be Muriel, but which they\\nfound to be only a sheaf of corn dressed in some of her clothes.\\nIt is said that in the skirmish Inverliver cried out in Gaelic,\\nS fhada glaodh o Lochow Tis a far cry to Lochawe\\nwhich has since become a proverb.\\nThe marriage of John Campbell and Muriel Calder is com-\\nmemorated by the stone mantelpiece in the room which is now\\nused as the dining-room. This mantelpiece, which is one of\\nthe features of Cawdor, bears the arms of the Campbells and\\nCalders quarterly, with their motto, Be mindful. Below is\\nthe inscription, Ceri mani memoneris Mane, which puzzles\\nLatin scholars to translate, and the date, 1516.\\nOn each side of the arms the mantelpiece is ornamented with\\nthe most grotesque, carved figures: a mermaid plays on the harp\\nthe small ancient Scottish harp, very similar to ancient Irish\\nexamples, a monkey on the flute, a cat on the fiddle, a bird with\\nan enormous beak sits upon a leaf, while a sportsman with horse\\nand hound pursues the timid hare and a fox, undismayed by\\nthese strange sights and sounds, contentedly smokes a pipe, to\\nthe lasting confusion of archccologists who remember that tobacco\\nwas only introduced into the country some thirty years after the\\nmantelpiece was executed", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "THE DINING-ROOM, CAWDOR CASTLE\\nFROM A PHOTOGFIAPH BY VALENTINE, DUNDEE\\nl8l", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "1 82 Cawt)or Castle\\nThe Dining-room, and the Sitting-room beyond it, are hung\\nwith tapestry. The larger pieces depict scenes from Don Quix-\\note, while the smaller ones were worked by the Lady Henrietta\\nStuart, a daughter of James, third Earl of Moray, who married Sir\\nHugh Campbell in 1662, and of whom we shall hear more. It is\\nsaid that when she had finished her work she determined that her\\nneedle should never be used again so she took it into the wood\\nand threw it into the Achniem burn, and it fell on its end and\\nstones collected round it forming the strange needle-shaped pin-\\nnacle of conglomerate rock which still stands in the burn some\\nlittle way above the Castle, and is called Lady Henrietta s Needle.\\nAbove the Needle the burn flows through a gorge so narrow,\\nand with such deep pools, that no one has yet been able to make\\nhis way up it, though the attempt has been made more than once.\\nThe burn has gradually cut down through the conglomerate rock,\\nand it is interesting to notice the places where, at the corners, the\\nwaters have in former years cut out circular hollows in the rock\\nby their eddies, though the burn now flows many feet below\\nthem. Two bridges cross the Achniem burn over a hundred\\nfeet above the water and from them, and from a promontory\\ncalled the Hermitage, which juts out into the middle of the ra-\\nvine, very fine views can be seen up and down the glen.\\nThe Achendoun burn is also very beautiful, though the glen\\nis not so narrow nor so wild, and the two join at the Lady s Pool,\\njust above the Castle.\\nBetween the burns stretch the Cawdor woods, which, Toeing\\ncrossed in every direction by narrow footpaths, provide delightful\\nwalks on summer evenings, and endless opportunities for the\\nstranger to lose his way. These woods are a feature of the place,\\nand it would be difficult to find in Scotland more beautiful or\\nvaried woodland scenery than they afford. Oak and beech and\\nholly grow near the Castle and then as you plunge farther into", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "t.\\nLADY HENRIETTA S NEEDLE IN ACHNIEM BURN, CAWDOR WOODS\\nFROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY VALENTINE, DUNDEE\\n183", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "1 84 Cawbor Castle\\nthe woods the scene changes, and you wander on among the\\ngraceful birch trees, where if your eyes are sharp you may catch\\na glimpse of a roe bounding off among the bracken, or of a wood-\\ncock gliding along with noiseless wings between the juniper\\nbushes then again, as you draw nearer the hills you pass\\nthrough dark and silent fir woods, till you emerge on the edge of\\nthe moors, where, on a summer evening, the old cock grouse\\nloves to sit on a hillock and chuckle and crow as he tells his ad-\\nmiring friends of the wiles by which he has succeeded once\\nmore in eluding the setter or avoiding the deadly line of butts.\\nThe moors stretch for some five miles without a break, and\\nthen we reach the Findhorn, the narrow valley of which shelters\\nseveral farms, which in winter are sometimes cut off from the\\nouter world by snow for six weeks at a time here also, on the\\nvery bank of the river, stands Drynachan, which, from little more\\nthan a cottage, has gradually grown into a comfortable shooting\\nlodge much beloved of sportsmen, whether they be in pursuit of\\ngrouse or trout or salmon.\\nAt this point the river has a shingly bed but some four miles\\nlower down, at Banchor, its character suddenly alters, and it\\ndashes down among rocks under the narrow footbridge into the\\ndark depths of the Grave Pool, foams through the White Stream\\non through Douglas till the lovely rocky glen fringed with birch\\ntrees is passed, and, flowing through the narrow throat, it spreads\\nitself out once more, resting, as it were, in the calm and placid\\nCow Pool before it begins its rough-and-tumble fight again with\\nthe rocks of Glenfurness and Darnaway.\\nBut we must not linger by the Findhorn, though it is the\\nmost beautiful of Highland streams, but turn back to Cawdor\\nonce again.\\nShortly after his marriage, Sir John received a Crown charter\\nuniting all the possessions of Cawdor into one thanage in his", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "Cawbor Castle\\n185\\nfavour, and thus did the line of succession pass from the Calders\\nto the Campbells.\\nThe new thane, having received bonds of friendship and\\nmanrent from his neighbours in the north, occupied himself\\nwith his estates in the\\nwest, and lived in Ar-\\ngyllshire and it is\\nonly fourteen years\\nafter his marriage that\\nwe find him taking\\nup his residence per-\\nmanently at Cawdor.\\nHe came north some-\\nwhat under a cloud.\\nHis sister, the Lady\\nElizabeth, had mar-\\nried McLean of Duart,\\nwho in a freak of\\ntemper took her out\\nto sea, and left her i^\\nto perish on a rock\\nwhich was covered at\\nhigh tide, and from\\nwhich she was saved\\nby a mere chance by\\na passing boat. This\\nrock is still called the Lady s Rock. At this act Sir John was\\nnaturally furious, and as it was useless to trust to the law in\\nthose days to redress just grievances, he laid waste the lands of\\nColonsay, which belonged to his undesirable brother-in-law, and\\nthen, following him to Edinburgh, slew him in his bed under\\nsilence of nicht. For taking the law into his hands in this\\nAT THE HERMITAGE\\nFROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY VALENTINE, DUNDEE", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "1 86\\nCawdor Castle\\nmanner he was pardoned by the King (James V.), but found\\nit better to make his visits to Argyllshire less frequent, and so\\nCawdor became his home.\\nIn those days life and property in the Highlands were far\\nfrom secure; and Andrew Calder, Muriel s uncle, who had op-\\nposed her succession, robbed and murdered his neighbours,\\nwhile she was away in the west, to such an extent that he be-\\ncame a terror to the country; but though, according to a name-\\nless chronicler, they sent for the swiftest persons they could\\nfind from other quarters, they could not catch him, as he was so\\nswift that he could run two miles for their one, so he was out-\\nlawed, and a reward offered for him alive or dead. In the\\ncourse of his rounds, we are told, he came down the hill by\\nthe Castle of Rait, and concealed himself behind a large stone;\\nbut a man saw him, and having a loaded gun, shot him in the\\nforehead hence the stone is called Calder s Stone to this day.\\nSir John added considerably to his possessions both in Nairn-\\nshire and Argyllshire, and died in 1456. The Lady Muriel, how-\\never, survived him and their son, and lived long enough to see\\nher grandson Thane of Cawdor. One of the earliest letters\\nwhich is preserved in the Charter-room shows that this thane\\ndid not get on very well with his wife, as his law agent at\\nEdinburgh writes: Your ladie findes great fault that ye ar\\nnocht so cairful off your dewitie towart hir as ye aucht to be,\\nlykas, I understand, she has vretin to you. Ye haw newir\\nvretin ane letter this sax oikkes to hir. Some of the signatures\\nof these letters are very odd, the oddest perhaps being that\\nused by John Bishop of the Isles, who signs J. B. of Thylis\\nvery few gentlemen of the day seem to have known how to\\nwrite, but though they had to put their signatures to docu-\\nments by the aid of the notary, they were not reduced to Bill\\nSykes s method of merely putting their mark. Thus the", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "Cawt)or Castle\\n187\\nchief of the MacGregors signs his bond of manrent E wine\\nMakgrigour with my hand at the pen led by Jhone Dinguell.\\nBesides these let- r\\nters, a large number\\nof old accounts are\\nkept in the Charter-\\nroom they are very\\ninteresting, and throw\\nmuch light on the\\ncustoms of the times,\\nbut are too long to\\nquote in full here.^\\nTogether with all the\\nmost interesting old\\ndocuments, they have\\nbeen published in the\\nbook of the Thanes of\\nCawdor, which was\\nprinted in 1858 for the\\nmembers of the Spal-\\ndingClub. As a speci-\\nmen of quaint spelling\\nand wording may\\nbe taken the Purs-\\nmaister s account for the xxvi of September being Sonday.\\nItem giffen to yourself in the morning in the Kirkhaird to\\nput in your nepiking end to the puire. ii. s.\\nItem your coUatoun [dinner] that evin upon Sonday in\\nthe same house ane point of wyne Sak. x. s.\\nIt is curious to note that though there are many detailed accounts of the expenses of house-\\ntceeping and of clothing, there is no mention of tartans and where the word plaid is used it is found to\\nmean a blanket. Tartans were, of course, in use, but in Nairnshire, at all events up to 1 700, no great\\ninterest seems to have been attached to them, or any distinctions made as to the different patterns.\\nFrom an article on Cawdor, by Lord Emlyn s cousin, Mr. C. Tumor, in Architecture, vol. i., No. 10.\\nDRYNACHAN", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "1 88 (rawt)or Castle\\nItem ane quart aill. ii. s.\\nItem ane queyt braid, viii. d.\\nThis thane, John, was guardian of Argyll and his influence\\nwith the young man brought on him the jealousy of one Camp-\\nbell of Ardkinlas, who murdered him, and though he confessed\\nthe crime was let off, proving how thoroughly bad the govern-\\nment of Scotland was in the years immediately preceding James s\\naccession to the English throne.\\nThe next thane was another Sir John, and a man of an am-\\nbitious turn of mind, who had set his heart on gaining possession\\nof the island of Isla, which was erroneously supposed to be a\\nmine of wealth. The Macdonalds of the Isles were in a state\\nof revolt, and Sir John received authority and assistance from the\\nGovernment to reduce their stronghold of Dunyveg and take\\npossession of the island. He succeeded in the undertaking, but\\nthe island did not turn out the gold mine he had expected, and\\nthe expense of the expedition, and of having to appear at the\\nEnglish Court with a retinue befitting the lord of the island,\\nseems to have brought him within measurable distance of the\\nbankruptcy court, had such an institution been invented in the\\ngood days of old. He sold and raised money on his estates in\\nthe north, and got rid of a good deal of plate and things got into\\nsuch a bad way that his relations all sat in conclave to decide\\nhow to administer the estate to the best advantage, while his\\nbrother Colin wrote him a very sensible letter of advice as to his\\naffairs, the postscript of which about his son s education is worth\\nquoting. He writes\\nI heir that ye mynd to put your sone to the college again.\\nSir, the best leasone that he may leirne now is to govern a brokin\\nesteat, and the schoner that such a capabili youth leirnes it he\\nwill be the moir perfyt of it.\\nThe capabili youth, however, when he grew up, did not", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "CAWDOR CASTLE FROM THE BURN\\nFROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY WILSON, ABERDEEN", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "190\\nCawdor Castle\\nfulfil the promise of his childhood and though his brothers\\nmanaged the property well, it remained for Sir Hugh, his nephew,\\n-J whose wife, Lady Hen-\\nrietta, has been already\\nmentioned, to bring it\\nto a thriving condition\\nagain.\\nSir Hugh took great\\ninterest in the church\\nand in education, and\\nhis wife shared his\\ntastes, and must have\\nbeen a learned lady if\\nshe had thoroughly\\nmastered the contents\\nof her library of books,\\na list of which she left\\nbehind her. They\\nseem to have been of a\\nseverely dry order, and\\nI altogether an odd col-\\nlection. The names of\\nGATEWAY FROM THE MIDDLE TO THE LOWER COURT\\na few of her books may give an idea of the works a Scotch lady\\ntreasured in the year 1700 Balm ofGilead, Sighs from Hell, Bun-\\nyan s Pilgrim s Progress, Brown s Swan s Song, Hodder s Arithme-\\ntic, Rules of Civility, Raleigh s Remains, Ruthven s Ladies Cabinet\\nEnlarged, Speed s Husbandry, and The Whole Duty of Man.\\nSir Hugh and his wife, in the intervals of reading and writing\\non religion and education, seem to have found time and money\\nto make considerable alterations and additions to the Castle, and\\ntheir coat of arms is engraved over the front door. They altered\\nthe Great Hall, which is now used as the Drawing-room, and", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "THE DRAWING-ROOM, CAWDOR CASTLE\\nFROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY WILSON, ABERDEEN\\n191", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "192 Cawbor Castle\\nmade it as it is now a long narrow room with a fiddler s loft\\nat one end and a very large fireplace at the other. The win-\\ndows look out towards the lodge, and the walls are hung with\\ntapestry, while the uncovered beams and rafters form the ceiling.\\nThey also made the wide stone staircase which leads up from the\\nground floor to the rooms above the Drawing-room. On this\\nfloor there is another sitting-room, which contains a second\\ncuriously carved chimneypiece, with the date 1667 and the in-\\nscription Fear the Lord. It is called the Blue Room, and from\\nit, at the corner of the outer wall, a room little larger than a cup-\\nboard is built out, overhanging the dry moat this is supposed\\nto have been used by the ladies when they retired to adorn their\\nfair faces with powder. In the same passage is the State Bed-\\nroom, the rough plaster walls of which are hung with old Flemish\\ntapestry which Lady Henrietta bought. The colours and figures\\nare grotesque, and the scenes represented are taken from the\\nBible one subject is Moses Striking the Rock, another is the\\nCrossing of the Red Sea, another represents Abraham, and a\\nfourth the Cities of the Plain. The bill for this tapestry is still\\nin existence ft cost /^36y, and the freight from Flanders was no\\nless than another /116.\\nAnother place of interest in the Castle is the Kitchen it is\\nbelow the Dining-room, and with its thick walls and narrow\\nwindows looks as if it were intended for a second dungeon.\\nThe pretty old Upper Garden, with its apple trees, old-\\nfashioned flowers, and gooseberry bushes, the delight of the\\nrising generation, we owe also to Sir Hugh, who inclosed it with\\nThe style of his additions may be crude or capricious, but they lend a charm to the buildings,\\nand look in keeping whereas, in many cases, were tiie details more finely executed, they would clash\\nwith the exceeding roughness of the surrounding walls. A chimneypiece of this period shows the first\\nfruits of the Renaissance in Scotland a term which, as to secular buildings in Scotland, does not imply\\na reawakening to tiie beauty of a former art, but rather the first awakening to the possibility of building\\nanything for artistic effect and not solely for purposes of defence. Sir Hugh s work is that tine dormer\\nwindow in the Corbie stepped gablet an ornate feature gaining additional value from the immense\\nspread of plain-wall-surface below. C. Turnor.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "Cawbor Caetle 195\\ninterest in all that was going on in Nairnshire, as is proved by\\nhis correspondence with his agent, Valentine White.\\nFor about a century and a half Cawdor was practically\\ndeserted, but after that time the family returned there and found\\neverything just as Sir Hugh had left it and so it has remained\\never since, unchanged and unspoiled. The tower still stands\\nover the hawthorn tree, the drawbridge hangs as it has hung\\nfor centuries the stones of the Castle may be greyer and the\\ntrees round it older and more stag-headed, but no impious hand\\nhas been allowed to touch them and so Cawdor remains a\\nperfect specimen of an old Highland Castle, and is very dearly\\nloved by everyone privileged to call it home.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0224.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "Battle Hbbe^\\n197", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0225.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0226.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "THE GATEWAY\\nBATTLE ABBEY\\nBY C. L. W. CLEVELAND\\nTHE great Benedictine Abbey of La Bataille the token\\nand pledge of the Royal crown was founded by\\nWilliam the Conqueror, soon after his accession, in ful-\\nfilment of a vow. When, on his march from Hastings, he first\\ncaught sight, from the crest of Telham Hill, of the Saxon army\\nentrenched on the opposite heights, he raised his hand to heaven,\\nand swore that if God granted him victory, he would there raise\\na splendid chantry for the souls of the slain. The battlefield^\\nwas then a rough, wild common, surrounded by forests and\\nmorasses, and only accessible by the narrow ridge of sound\\nOrderic calls it the thyme-clad field of Senlac in the Saxon Chronicle it is only designated\\nby the hoar apple-tree.\\n199", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0227.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "200 Battle Ubbc^\\nground still followed by the modern road. It has been generally\\nadmitted that Harold, thoroughly as he knew the country, could\\nhave selected no finer military position than this steep project-\\ning spur of the North Downs, so easy to defend and so difficult\\nto approach. Had the Saxons remained within their lines, and\\nnot abandoned this vantage ground, the fortunes of the day\\nmight have been far different. In the centre floated the great\\nDragon of Wessex, with the Royal Standard of the Fighting\\nMan by its side and here, amid his own House-carls the\\nflower of his army Harold took his stand,^ surrounded by his\\nthanes and nobles, with three generations of the House of\\nGodwin the aged Archbishop Elfwig his brothers Gyrth and\\nLeofwyn and young Hakon, the son of Sweyn. He had been\\nriding round the lines, but now dismounted, for it was the\\ncustom of English kings to fight on foot, in token that when\\nthey fought there was no retreat, and this was the key of the\\nposition, the special post of honour and of danger, to be de-\\nfended at all hazards to the last. Here was to be held, in the\\nwords of the old chronicler, the great assize of God s judg-\\nment upon earth, and the Crown of England lost and won.\\nAnd here, accordingly, the battle raged most fiercely, and the\\nlast and most desperate struggle of that hard-fought day took\\nplace. The defenders did their duty nobly, and held their ground\\nas long as the breath was in their bodies. Not until Harold\\nand both his brave brothers lay dead at its foot was the stand-\\nard won and, like the Scottish king at Flodden,\\nHe was keeping\\nRoyal state and semblance still,\\nsurrounded, in death as in life, by the nobles of his court. None\\nMatthew of Westminster, speaking of the early battles of this country, says, The King s\\nplace was between the Dragon and the standard. Among the ensigns borne at Cressy was a burning\\ndragon, to show that the French were to receive little mercy. M. C. Lower.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0228.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "201", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0229.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "202 Battle abbe^\\nhad failed him, or deserted their post and all had sold their\\nlives dearly. Here the last spark of resistance was trampled\\nout, and the Conqueror, before putting off his armour, knelt\\ndown on the bloody field and returned thanks to God. Then\\nhe ordered his tent to be pitched where the standard had stood,\\nand supped and slept among the heaps of slain.\\nEntre li mor^ mainga e hut, says Wace a striking in-\\nstance of the savage temper of the times\\nThis spot, so memorable in English history, was carefully\\nmarked out by the Duke s orders as the future site of the high\\naltar of his Abbey church. He was mindful of his vow on the\\nbattlefield, for one of his first acts was to found and endow\\nthe monastery that was to be the thank-offering for his victory\\nand the token and pledge of the crown he had gained. It\\nwas dedicated to the patron of soldiers, St. Martin, and, in the\\nwords of its foundation charter, the one great chantry for\\nthe souls health of those who helped to win by toil and aid\\nthe kingdom for him, and especially of those who died in the\\nbattle. Its endowment was as splendid as the achievement\\nit was to commemorate. Besides the lenga (a circuit of about\\nthree miles in diameter measured out by the line over which\\nits jurisdiction extended), the Conqueror bestowed upon it the\\nroyal manor of Wye, considered by Lambarde to comprise a\\nfifth part of the county of Kent, with all its liberties and royal\\ncustoms, as freely as a King could give them Alciston in\\nSussex, where the Abbots afterwards had a manor-house Hou\\nin Essex, Brightwalton in Berkshire, and Crowmarsh in Oxford-\\nshire. Within his own territory the Abbot was sole sovereign,\\nand tolerated no interference. He alone took cognisance of\\nall trespasses, held a court of justice, appointed the coroner\\nof the liberty, and punished criminals. The old hangman s\\npost, once in use, may still be seen projecting over the\\n1\\nI", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0230.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "Battle Hbbe^ 203\\nso-called prison door in the Gate-house. Nothing could be done\\nor attempted without his permission no business transacted,\\nno trade carried on\u00e2\u0080\u0094 no hunting, no hawking, or sport of any\\nkind. No plea could be maintained without his licence. His\\ntenants owed suit and service to none but himself; and his\\nweekly market at La Bataille was quit for ever from all exac-\\ntion. The Abbey was an inviolable sanctuary. No one who\\nhad ever set foot within its threshold could be touched by the\\narm of the law, whatever his crime might have been. More\\nthan this: if the Abbot throughout the realm of England\\nchanced to meet any condemned criminal, he had the power\\nof pardoning and releasing him. Walsingham mentions a case\\nwhen this happened in 1363, and a felon being taken to Mar-\\nshalsea was released by the Abbot of La Bataille. Nor was he\\nsubject to any spiritual jurisdiction, for the Conqueror had de-\\nclared that the Abbot was to be as supreme as the Primate\\nof Canterbury, and the monastery as free and exempt from all\\nepiscopal authorities and levies as his own royal chapel. This\\nwas the privilege most valued by the monks, and always stoutly\\ncontested by the Bishops of Chichester. Of all the quarrels,\\nheart-burnings, bickerings and lawsuits to which it gave rise,\\nvolumes might be, and in fact have been, written. Further-\\nmore, the Abbot wore a mitre, carried a bishop s crosier, gave\\nthe episcopal benediction, and sat in Parliament as a Baron.\\nAn inn, or town house, was provided for him both in London\\nand Winchester the former was in St. Olave s, Southwark,\\nnear Battle Bridge, where Tooley Street now stands, and Bat-\\ntle Bridge Stairs still preserve the name.\\nThe Abbey was to be under Benedictine rule, and four monks\\nof Marmoutier, headed by William Faber, came over to super-\\nintend the building. But they were disgusted on finding that its\\nappointed site was a steep wind-swept hill, and migrated across", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0231.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "204 Battle abbep\\nthe western shoulder of Senlac into a sunny, sheltered hollow\\nbelow, called Hurst. Here they proposed to settle but one day,\\nthe King happening to inquire into the progress of the work, they\\nhad to confess they had found the hill with a parched soil,\\nbarren, and destitute of water, altogether unsuitable as a site,\\nand been forced to choose another. The King was very wroth,\\nand commanded them to return forthwith, and lay the founda-\\ntions in all haste in the place he had appointed if there was\\nno water, they should, if God spared his life, have more wine than\\nthere was water in any other abbey. Then they pleaded want\\nof building material the ground was wooded for miles and miles\\naround, and how were they to build without stone The King\\nreplied that he would send ships to bring stone from Caen the\\nprecious white stone of which our Norman kings were so chary\\nand defray the costs out of his own treasury. And so, perforce,\\nthe building was commenced in April 1067 ^nd soon after, a\\nquarry was discovered close at hand. There is a legend that the\\nKing had been told in a dream to build a minster as many feet\\nlong as he desired years of royalty for his posterity. After this\\ncheering vision, which left the length of his dynasty to his own\\nchoice, the King rose at sunrise, and had the ground duly\\nmeasured and staked out for a church five hundred feet long.\\nBut in the night invisible hands reduced the boundaries to three\\nhundred and fifteen they were replaced, and twice again re-\\nmoved then the King gave way, and accepted the prescribed\\ndimensions. Thus the great Abbey Minster was only three hun-\\ndred and fifteen feet long, and yet one of the largest churches in\\nEngland longer than Rochester Cathedral or Ripon longer than\\nBath Abbey Church, Sherborne Minster, or Christchurch in\\nHampshire longer than Southwell, Manchester, or Romsey.\\nBut I am grieved to add no change of dynasty occurred at the\\ndate thus obtained 1381.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0232.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "Battle abbe^ 205\\nThe building, once commenced, dragged on very slowly\\nthe first Abbot was not appointed till 1076 and the Conqueror\\ndid not live to dedicate his Abbey himself. On his deathbed\\nhe bequeathed to it several parting gifts, and spoke some sor-\\nrowful words, which lead us to understand how strongly he\\nhad been moved by the hope of expiation in erecting this great\\nchantry, where unceasing prayer was to be made for the dead.\\nFrom earliest youth I have been trained to the use of arms,\\nand I am stained with blood. No one can tell the evils 1 have\\ncaused during the sixty years I have passed in this world of\\nbitterness. I go now to account for them before the Eternal\\nJudge.\\nThe Conqueror s bequest to La Bataille was a fresh grant of\\nland, his pallium or coronation robe, enriched with gold and\\ncostly gems, and loaded with three hundred gold and silver\\namulets, containing relics of the saints, and a portable altar, also\\nfull of relics, used for celebrating mass during his expedition.\\nThis must have been the same altar in form of a feretory on\\nwhich Harold is represented in the Bayeux Tapestry as taking\\nhis fatal oath. With these Rufus sent, as is believed, his father s\\nsword, to be preserved in the church for ever. There, too, hung\\nthe bede-roll of the knights and nobles that had fought with him\\nin the great battle, and for whom their foundation charter en-\\njoined the monks to pray. These names were probably solemnly\\nread out on St. Celict s Day, the anniversary of the victory. But\\nthis famous Roll of Battle was afterwards much interpolated by\\nthe monks, who added names that the time in every age\\nfavoured, generations after the Conquest.\\nThe Abbey was dedicated with great pomp in 1095 by\\nWilliam Rufus. He happened to be then at Hastings, waiting\\nfor a fair wind to cross to Normandy and coming over the day\\nafter Candlemas with a splendid retinue, was received by Anselm,", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0233.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "206\\nBattle Bbbe^\\nArchbishop of Canterbury, and a great concourse of the clergy.\\nOn this occasion the great rood of the nave of the Minster is\\nmentioned: the choir had been ready in 1076; and in 1 124 the\\nnorth arm of the transept was finished but the building was\\nprobably not entirely completed till long after that.\\nThe first of the thirty Abbots of La Bataille died shortly\\nafter its dedication. Of his successors there is a minute account\\ntill about 1200, when the monkish chronicle abruptly comes to\\nan end. They were, apparently, litigious and troublesome neigh-\\nbours, and keenly set on upholding their privileges. Walter\\nde Lucy, the fifth Abbot (a brother of the famous Justiciar),\\nboldly said to Henry 1. If thou destroyest ever so small a\\nright of our Abbey, may God grant thou no longer wear the\\ncrown of England His great contest with his hereditary foe-\\nman, the Bishop of Chichester, is amusingly described by the\\nchr6nicler. We read how the Bishop told the King roundly he\\nhad no right to interfere in spiritual matters how the King,\\nprovoked past all bearing, rapped out some words carefully\\nerased in the manuscript conjectured to have been gross Nor-\\nman oaths how the Chancellor, Thomas a Becket, interfered\\nto check the prelate with the words, Your Prudence must be\\ncareful and how the latter finally told one falsehood so as-\\ntounding that the Archbishop of Canterbury, knowing how\\nmatters really stood, marked himself with the cross in token\\nof astonishment. The Abbot pleaded his cause eloquently his\\nbrother, Richard de Lucy, stood by him manfully and in the\\nend the Bishop had to disclaim all authority over him, and the\\nparties gave each other the kiss of peace, at the Archbishop s\\nrequest. The King declared that he was ready to kiss the\\nBishop, not only once, but a hundred times, perhaps as\\nsome compensation to him for his defeat.\\nThe most celebrated of the abbots was Wafter s successor.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0234.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "Battle at be^ 207\\nOdo, a man renowned far and wide for his eloquence and learn-\\ning, the friend of the famous John of Salisbury and Thomas a\\nBecket, and a pattern in word and deed of a holy life to all.\\nAfter his death, the people regarded him as a saint. He was\\nfond of literary work, and some of his writings (one an Essay\\non the Spiritual IVings and Feathers of the Cherubim), remained\\nin the library in Leland s time.\\nHamo de Offington, the nineteenth Abbot, was the hero\\nof the local proverb,\\nWare the Abbot of Battel\\nWhen the Prior of Lewes is taken prisoner\\nand Fuller calls him the Saviour of Sussex and all England.\\nIn 1377, the French having taken the Isle of Wight, and car-\\nried off the Prior of Lewes, coasted towards Winchilsea and\\nHamo, raising his vassals, hastened to the defence of the town,\\nand successfully repulsed a vigorous and prolonged assault.\\nMany royal visits were recorded during this period. King\\nJohn came four times, and disappointed expectation in regard\\nto liberality Henry 111. twice before and after the battle of\\nLewes Edward I. and Edward II. both once.\\nThe Abbey had existed close upon five hundred years when\\nit met its doom, on May 27, 1538, and passed, with all its pos-\\nsessions, into the hands of Henry Vlll. s commissioners. The\\ndissolution of the smaller monasteries, two years before, had\\nwarned the monks of the impending spoliation, and they had\\nwarily disposed of all their valuables. So beggarly a house I\\nnever se, writes Dr. Layton (one of the authors of the Black\\nBook, and the most active and obnoxious of the monastic\\ninquisitors): nor so filthy stuffe the vestments so\\nbaysse, worn, ragged, and torne as your lordshippe would not\\nthinke. The monks were all pensioned: of sixty (their", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0235.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "208\\nBattle abbe^\\noriginal number) sixteen only then remained; and the Abbot\\nreceived the largest income ever granted to heads of houses\\n/loo a year a beggarly pittance to modern ideas but a penny\\nwas then, by Froude s computation, of the same value as a\\nshilling is now, and the usual stipend of a parish priest only\\nfrom ^4 to \u00c2\u00a3S a year. According to the usual practice, the\\nchapter-house, dormitory, sacristy, and cloisters were razed to\\nthe ground, and all the other buildings unroofed and disman-\\ntled the Abbot s house alone being left in a habitable state.\\nThe great minster, with its campanile, was pulled down for\\nlucre of the leade, tymber, etc., and the materials sold.\\nChurch work, says old Fuller, is a cripple in going up,\\nbut rides fast in going down and the beautiful Basilica,\\nthat had been so long in building, was so rapidly and utterly\\ndemolished, that the new owner planted his garden on its site.\\nThis was Sir Anthony Browne, Master of the Horse to\\nHenry Vlll., who, three months after the surrender, received\\na grant of Battle Abbey and all its lands in Sussex and Kent,\\nwith the sole exception of one manor, reserved for the Chief\\nCommissioner, Sir John Gage. He was of high lineage, repre-\\nsenting a branch of the old Norman house of La Ferte, and the\\nson of one of the four great Montagu heiresses, Lucy, Count-\\ness of Southampton an able and sagacious man, who had spent\\nall his life at court, and, as the well-guided ship that could\\ngo with the tide, always remained high in favour. The King\\nappointed him one of the executors of his will, and guardian of\\nhis younger children, the Princess Elizabeth being placed under\\nhis special care. It was intended she should take up her abode\\nat Battle Abbey, and he began to build a wing to the Abbot s\\nhouse for her reception but he did not live to complete it, and\\nshe never came. His effigy with that of his first wife, Alice\\nGage, remains on the altar tomb in Battle Church that he is", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0236.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "3BattIe abbe^ 209\\nsupposed to have erected himself, as the dates of his death and\\nof his second marriage are both wanting. As a widower of\\nthe mature age of sixty-five, he had espoused a Court beauty\\nof fifteen, Lady Elizabeth FitzGerald, Surrey s peerless Gerald-\\nine. In 1542, he had inherited from his half-brother, William,\\nEarl of Southampton, Cowdray and a great estate in West Sus-\\nsex, with the spoils of four other religious houses, Eastbourne\\nPriory, Waverley Abbey, Bayham, and Caluto. Although he\\nprofessed himself through life a Roman Catholic, he seems to\\nhave had no qualms of conscience in assimilating Church prop-\\nerty. Yet he was denounced for sacrilege on the very day\\nwhen, with much festivity and rejoicing, he held his house-\\nwarming at Battle Abbey. As he sat in the Abbot s chair, in\\nthe Abbot s hall, presiding over his guests, a monk suddenly\\nstood before him, and solemnly pronounced the Church s male-\\ndiction upon her spoliators. Unless they rendered up the\\npossessions of which she had been robbed, this terrible anath-\\nema doomed them to every curse with which God Almighty\\nhas cursed those who have said, Let us possess by inheritance\\nthe sanctuary of God, a long and truly formidable list. But\\nthe monk foretold still another and more special calamity. By\\nfire and water, he declared, thy line shall come to its end\\nand perish out of the land. This prophecy, which appears to\\nhave been always remembered and often quoted in the country,\\nwas fulfilled to the very letter, but not until two hundred and\\nfifty years afterwards, when Battle Abbey had long since passed\\ninto other hands.\\nSir Anthony s son was created Viscount Montagu by Queen\\nMary, and built himself a stately mansion on what is believed\\nto have been the site of the former Guest-house of the Monas-\\ntery. But his chief residence was at Cowdray, where he enter-\\ntained Queen Elizabeth right royally for a week in 1591 and", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0237.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "2IO Battle Hbbe^\\nhis successors lived there almost entirely. Battle Abbey was occa-\\nsionally used as a dower-house, but, as time went on, it was more\\nand more neglected and abandoned, and latterly became, in its\\ndeserted condition, the haunt of smugglers, who stored their\\ngoods in the vaults. The third Viscount, who had suffered\\nheavily in the Civil War, disparked the Great Park his son\\npulled down the enormous monastic kitchen (which had been\\nretained for use as a barn), realising a large sum by the ma-\\nterials and finally, in 17 19, the sixth Lord sold the place to\\nSir Thomas Webster.\\nThe next Lord Montagu, who married a Methodist of Lady\\nHuntingdon s school, was the first of the family who left the\\nChurch of Rome, and it was on his only son that the monk s\\ncurse lighted. This young man, and his friend, Mr. Sedley\\nBurdett, while on a boating excursion on the Rhine, made a\\nfoolhardy attempt to shoot the falls of Laufenberg. The authori-\\nties, knowing the risk, did their best to prevent it, but in vain\\nthey heeded neither warning, remonstrance, nor prohibition.\\nEven at the last moment, Lord Montagu s servant took hold of\\nhis coat, crying, My lord my lord the curse of water but\\nhe wrenched himself away, and sprang into the boat. It was\\nupset at the second wave of the Laufen, and both he and his\\nfriend were drowned nor, though often searched for, were\\ntheir bodies ever recovered.\\nThe messenger carrying home the sad tidings crossed another\\nbringing word to the poor young Viscount that his splendid house\\nat Cowdray had been burnt to the ground. All its contents\\nsome very valuable were destroyed and among them perished\\nthe Conqueror s sword and coronation robe (long since despoiled\\nof its gold and gems), and the Battle Abbey Roll, which, accord-\\ning to family Iradftion, had been brought there at the time of the\\nsale.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0238.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "Battle W)\\\\)c^ 211\\nThe curse of water had, however, not yet done its work.\\nLord Montagu s only sister and heiress married Mr. Poyntz of\\nMidgham, and was the mother of two sons and three daughters.\\nOne summer that they were staying at Worthing, Mr. Poyntz\\ntook his two boys, and two Miss Parrys who were on a visit to\\nthem, out in a boat. It was a very fme, calm day but Mrs.\\nPoyntz, who is said to have had a horror of the water, refused to\\ngo and as the time of their return approached was sitting at the\\nwindow watching the boat. It was already close in shore, when\\na sudden squall caught the sail and capsized it, and the wretched\\nmother saw her two sons drowned literally before her eyes. Of\\nall the party, Mr. Poyntz and the boatmen s boy alone were\\nsaved. None of the daughters had joined it Lady Clinton, the\\neldest, was not with them and the two others, afterwards Lady\\nExeter and Lady Spencer, had, fortunately, not been ready in\\ntime to go. The property was divided between them and, by\\na singular fatality, one of Lady Exeter s younger sons was also\\ndrowned a few years ago.\\nSir Thomas Webster, citizen and cloth-worker of London,\\nthe purchaser of Battle Abbey, was a very wealthy man, who\\nhad received a baronetcy from Queen Anne, in 1703. He not\\nonly repaired and restored the moribund buildings, but added\\nsome adjacent estates to the property and transmitted it to five\\ngenerations of descendants. One of them was the first husband\\nof the well-known Lady Holland. When she married, she found\\nshe was not to live at the Abbey, as a Dowager, who held it for\\nlife, was in possession and this old lady she made it her business\\nto turn out. It suddenly became a haunted house, full of ghosts\\nof the most aggressive kind furniture was thrown about chains\\nrattled in the gallery horrible groans and yells pursued the Dow-\\nager wherever she went and goblin voices spoke at her very\\nelbow. But she was not to be daunted. She turned and", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0239.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "212 Battle Ubbc^\\nconfronted her invisible persecutors. I know well enough\\nwhat you want, she told them but I sha n t go and she did\\nnot. Perhaps it might have been better if she had, for she lived\\nto be nearly a centenarian, and during her thirty-one years ten-\\nancy had spent next to nothing in repairs, leaving the Abbey\\nin a most ruinous condition. The roof was in such a state that\\nthe passages were flooded after a heavy rainfall, and the old\\nlady had to proceed to her room on pattens\\nShe died in 1810, and was succeeded by Lady Holland s son,\\nSir Godfrey, who had then just come of age. He entirely refitted\\nand repaired the Abbey, re-roofed the Abbot s Hall, and added\\nseveral new rooms, a kitchen, and some outhouses. Would he\\nhad done no more But he next conceived what I must call\\nthe nefarious design of using the Refectory as a stable and\\ndemolished the Holy Well as an eyesore The entrance to the\\nAbbey was then, singularly enough, iwt through the gateway,\\nbut on the east side, across the present flower garden, by a\\ndoor opposite the church. Some years later, when this was\\nchanged, the Refectory stables were found inconvenient, and he\\nbuilt the present stables and coachhouses. Even here he did\\nmischief, for he cut off a great angle of Sir Anthony Browne s\\ngarden (a square old-fashioned pleasaunce enclosed with yew\\nhedges) to make room for them.\\nMeanwhile he had involved himself so deeply in debt that in\\n18 19 he was forced to shut up the place and go abroad. The\\nusual dreary, oft-told tale of ruin and devastation followed.\\nMuch of the land was sold, and all the trees were cut down the\\npark, that boasted of some of the grandest oaks in the county,\\nwas laid bare, and the fine woods destroyed. The timber is said to\\nhave realised nearly 100,000. Even the muniments were sold,\\nand sold for an old song, though the Abbey chartulary is said to\\nbe one of the most complete in England. The Abbey was let for", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0240.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "CO\\nir\\n111\\nf-\\nui\\nX\\nz\\nu\\nIT\\nC3\\nz\\nO\\nX\\nCO\\nm\\nm\\n1-\\nCO\\nl-~\\nz\\no\\nUJ\\nQ\\nIE\\n213", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0241.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0242.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "Battle Hbbei? 215\\nmany years, and in 1857 sold to the Duke of Cleveland then\\nLord Harry Vane.\\nWe found it had again lapsed into a forlorn and dilapidated\\nstate. When the sale was first proposed I went to see it on one\\nof the public days, and met there Dean Milman. We went over\\nthe house together, and 1 well remember the emphasis with\\nwhich he exclaimed, What a miserable habitation! It cer-\\ntainly did not wear an encouraging aspect bare, gloomy, empty,\\nuncared for, and altogether cheerless. In the hall hung a gigantic\\npicture of the Battle of Hastings, painted with an heroic disregard\\nof the costume of the period for the Conqueror (a likeness, it\\nwas said, of Sir Godfrey, who was a very good-looking man)\\nfigured as an ancient Roman, in a loose white tunic, with his\\narms and legs bare. There used to be, I was told, a stuffed horse\\nover the fireplace, which was shown to guileless visitors as\\nWilliam the Conqueror s horse.\\nEverything, it appeared, required to be done to the place, and\\nthe work of restoration was an arduous undertaking. But the\\nDuke not only restored and refitted the house from top to bot-\\ntom, re-roofing nearly the whole, but made numerous improve-\\nments, built four new rooms, added new windows to the Abbot s\\nHall, and completed and nearly rebuilt Queen Elizabeth s wing,\\nthat had so long remained unfinished.\\nThe gateway, by far the most beautiful part of the Abbey,\\nalone remained untouched (the defective stonework of one win-\\ndow excepted). It was built by Abbot Retlynge in the time of\\nEdward III., when, according to Somer, a military /^rof seems\\nto have prevailed among the ecclesiastics, somewhat in the style\\nof St. Augustine s at Canterbury and having had the rare good\\nfortune never to be tampered with, is a very perfect specimen of\\nthe Late Decorated period. Standing on higher ground, at the\\nend of the little town, it rises in feudal stateliness above all its", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0243.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "2i6 Battle Ebbe^\\nsurroundings: a situation, says Walpole, noble beyond the\\nlevel of abbeys. On the open space in front, the old bull-\\nring, still fixed in the ground, marks where the favourite Sussex\\nsport of bull-baiting yearly went on in Whitsun week. To the\\nwest it is joined to a much older building, which retains one of\\nits original Norman windows on the farther side to the east is a\\nwing added by Lord Montagu as a Market House and Court Hall,\\nprobably in 1566, when he obtained an Act of Parliament for\\nchanging the weekly market from Sunday to Thursday. Its roof\\nno doubt long neglected fell in during a great storm in 1 764,\\nand it is now a mere shell. The gateway contains a fine central\\nhall, reached by a carefully guarded staircase, that had not only a\\nportcullis, but open spaces in its ribbed vaulting, for pouring\\ndown boiling oil or melted lead on unwelcome visitors. There is\\na good view from the roof of the country round, and the several\\nlocalities of the battlefield.\\nTo the right, as you pass through, the hangman s post, jut-\\nting out from the wall, proclaims the Abbot s droit de haute jus-\\ntice: under it is the door of a dark vault that is called, but\\ncertainly never was, the prison. The half-effaced corbel-heads\\nsupporting the hood-mould of the inner archway are believed to\\nrepresent Edward 111. (who granted licence to castellate in\\n1338) and his Queen.\\nThe present entrance to the Abbey is not that originally in\\nuse, which was on the north side, where the offices now are, but\\nleads through a porch into the Abbot s Hall, the scene of the\\nmonk s curse. It is of noble proportions, measuring fifty-seven\\nfeet both in height and in length, and thirty-one feet wide with\\na fine timber roof, which, though modern, is a faithful copy of\\nthe ancient one taken down in 181 2, and is of walnut wood\\ngrown in the park. All the oak wainscotting and carved work,\\nNote The only Norman masonry that now survives.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0244.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "Battle Hbbe^ 217\\nas well as the great fireplace, were added by Sir Godfrey at the\\nsame time. The old windows, alas are no more those we\\nfound were churchwarden Gothic, filled with kaleidoscopic\\nglass not even wind and weather-tight, and had necessarily to\\nbe replaced. This was accordingly done in 1874: the great\\nsouth window being copied from one in Strasburg Cathedral,\\nand the three looking west taken from the Percy chapel at Pet-\\nworth. The stained glass is all heraldic the south window\\nshowing the Duke s coats-of-arms, and some of the Paulet^\\nquarterings, continued in the next the two others, twenty-\\nfour descents and intermarriages of the Vanes. Between the\\nwindows are ranged the shields and banners of the chief lead-\\ners in the Conqueror s army the men whose swords won the\\nkingdom\\nCunquise I unt cum chevaliers\\nAu fer tranchant e al acier,\\na proud array of great names, for the most part, unhappily,\\nextinct, but unforgotten and here, of all places in the world, to\\nbe honoured and remembered. Over the fireplace, two shields\\nbear the arms of England and of the Abbey and two banners dis-\\nplay, one the two lions or leopards of Normandy, the other the\\ngold cross on a silver field (figured in the Bayeux tapestry) of the\\nconsecrated banner sent to Duke William by the Pope, and in\\nafter times, with the addition of four cross crosslets, the arms of\\nthe Kings of Jerusalem. The coat and quarterings of the Vis-\\ncounts Montagu are over the music gallery and in the centre of\\nthe mantelpiece, and again on the chimney-back of wrought\\nSussex iron, the arms of the Websters. The two suits of armour\\nare not genuine, nor are the trophies on the walls but the tapes-\\ntry is good old arras, representing scenes from the Gerusalemme\\nLiber ata. The pattern of the tile flooring I brought from the\\nIn 1 864 the Duke had taken the name and arms of his grandfather, the last Duke of Bolton.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0245.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "2i8 ^Battle abbei?\\nancient sacristy of Burgos Cathedral. The pictures are chiefly\\nfamily portraits there are, besides, a full-length by Lefevre, of\\nNapoleon I., in his absurd coronation robes, bought from one of\\nhis Marshals the altar-piece of the church at Savona, signed by\\nBoccacini, and two Zurbarans of white-robed friars, from Louis\\nPhilippe s collection. The smaller one represents St. Peter\\nNolasco, the founder of the Order of Our Lady of Mercy for the\\nredemption of Christian slaves, with its badge, the shield of King\\nJayme el Conquistador, on his breast.\\nTwo ancient rooms open into this hall. One, rather low-\\npitched, is of graceful Early English groining, divided into a\\ndouble alley by three central pillars and is conjectured to have\\nbeen the Locutory, or Parlour of the monastery. What are\\nnow windows were then doors leading into a room beyond\\nand there were three windows looking north, of which one\\nstill remains. It is now fitted up as a drawing-room, with\\ntapestry hangings but in the last century it was partitioned,\\npart being used for storing faggots, and the rest tenanted by\\nan old servant named Isaac Ingall, who, according to his epi-\\ntaph, was a hundred and twenty years old. Ninety of these\\nyears had been spent in the Webster household yet when,\\nshortly before his death, his mistress found fault with him for\\nbeing dirty, he was so nettled that he forthwith gave warning,\\nleft her service, and started off (on foot) to Hastings, to inquire\\nfor another situation\\nThe other, far smaller room, is supposed to have been the\\nAbbot s parlour, and to have communicated with a curious tri-\\nangular projection in the outer building, that was his oratory. It\\nmust have been very lofty, for half its original window lights the\\nbedroom above. Now it has lapsed from its high estate into a\\nlow, panelled, cosy den, chiefly used by me, and hung with\\nwater-colour copies of pictures 1 have made abroad.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0246.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "THE DRAWING-ROOM, BATTLE ABBEY\\nSUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN THE LOCUTORY OF THE MONASTERY\\n219", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0247.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "2 20 Battle Ubbc^\\nQueen Elizabeth s wing, left incomplete by Sir Anthony\\nBrowne, is now occupied by a long and very handsome room,\\nlighted by five great Tudor windows, three of them bays. Look-\\ning south and west, it is so flooded with sunshine, that we had to\\nguard it in the summer by outer Venetian blinds. It is entered\\nfrom the hall through an ante-room built by the Duke, and con-\\ntains the great library that he had been all his life collecting. He\\ndelighted in his books, and many of them are, 1 believe, very\\nvaluable it was not, however, his object to seek out curiosities\\nand rarities, but rather works for everyday use, and as a library\\ndesigned for study and reference it is, by all accounts, very com-\\nplete. The family pictures over the bookcases are almost all\\ncopies there is, however, a portrait of the Duke that is one of\\nFrank Holl s finest works, and another of his father, by Romney.\\nAmong the copies is a half-length of the loyal Marquis of Win-\\nchester, who defended Basing House for two whole years against\\nthe Parliament and on a paper weight on one of the tables are\\nsome bullets found in its ruins, that were cast from the coffins of\\nthe Duke s ancestors. The rebels had installed themselves in the\\nHoly Ghost Chapel at Basingstoke, the burial-place of the Paulets,\\nand furnished themselves with ammunition by completely clear-\\ning out the family vault. This room also contains a full-sized\\ncoloured copy of the Bayeux tapestry.\\nThere are some pictures in the ante-room, but the best are in\\nthe Dining-room, which dates from Lord Montagu s time, but is\\nnot otherwise noteworthy. Here we find Vandermeulen s Siege\\nof Dunkirk, with portraits of Louis XIV., Conde, Turenne, etc. a\\nLawyer, by Domenichino, painted with a halter round his\\nneck a very pretty Greuze and, over the chimneypiece, the\\noriginal sketch of the famous Gloria di Tiziano, which was held\\nup before Charles V. s dying eyes at Yuste. This belonged to the\\npoet Rogers.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0248.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "15attle Bb\\\\)e^ 221\\nOn the wall of the staircase hangs a full length, by\\nGainsborough, of James Quin, the actor, whose epitaph Garrick\\nwrote. It is a dark picture, and unfortunately in a very bad\\nlight. One or two stray waifs from the chartulary are also here,\\nwith drawings, old prints, and plans of the Abbey.\\nSome other remaining portions of the monastic buildings\\nhave been unfortunately degraded into offices. One very fine\\nvaulted room, like the one already described but of far grander\\nproportions, has been ruthlessly cut up into five parts. Its great\\nportal, now half destroyed, was probably once the principal\\nentrance. Another, now the servants hall, has been little\\ntampered with and, though disfigured by three hideous mod-\\nern windows, is still beautiful it communicated by a newel\\nstair with what is conjectured to have been the dormitory\\nabove, long since destroyed.^ A small flagged hall, called the\\nBeggars Hall, because, it is said, the twelve poor men whose\\nfeet the monks washed on Maundy Thursday there waited for\\nadmission, opens on the former Cloister Garth. Of this, only\\nthe internal arcading of the west alley remains along the front\\nof the house all else is gone, and its site is now a garden.\\nHere, inclosed in a square of masonry seven feet high, once\\nstood the Holy Well (from which Ordericus probably named\\nthe place Senlac), where, in Queen Elizabeth s time, the village\\ngirls used to come on Sundays, like a young pilgrimage,\\nsinging litanies and bringing flowers. Alas it was taken down\\nas unsightly, and the water transferred to a pump\\nOn the south side of the Cloister Garth a magnificent room\\nperhaps the Chapter-house stretched out eastwards: its\\ninner wall now forms the outer wall of our dining-room, and\\nits exquisite cornice and cinquefoiled arcading have been cruelly\\nmauled in making our present windows. The jamb of one of\\nThe King s Commissioners expressly enjoined the demolition of all dorters.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0249.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "222 Battle abbe^\\nthe original windows of very great size remains in the\\nbroken south wall.\\nTo the north and east it was bounded by the nave and tran-\\nsept of the minster and part of the ruined wall of the former is\\nall that now remains above ground of the once splendid church.\\nEven this poor remnant was excavated by Sir Godfrey, when he\\ndestroyed part of the old pleasaunce to build his stables. On\\nthe inner side (now the wood yard) an empty tomb, fondly\\nbelieved to be that of Abbot Odo, has been brought to light.\\nMany bones were, 1 am told, dug up, and thrown away in a\\nheap in a corner of the yard it never occurred to any one\\nto give them burial, and they gradually disappeared, in the\\npockets of the visitors The crypt under the chancel had been\\ndiscovered a year or two before, in what was then the Abbey\\norchard. There had always been a persistent tradition, handed\\ndown from father to son, as to the place where King Harold\\nwas killed, and one particular spot on the turf was faithfully\\npointed out to sight-seers. At that time no one even guessed\\nwhere the church had stood generation after generation had\\npassed away since its demolition and if the waves of the sea\\nhad closed over it, it could scarcely have been more utterly\\nlost. There were no indications of any kind to guide the ex-\\nplorer but Sir Godfrey, wishing to test the truth of the tradi-\\ntion, had the ground dug up, and there, on the very spot it\\nhad indicated, he found the high aftar of the crypt, corre-\\nsponding with that once in the chancel above No historic\\nlocality could, I suppose, be better ascertained or authenticated\\nthan this, marked out, immediately after the battle, by order of\\nthe Conqueror. This crypt consists of three converging chapels,\\nclustered together like the leaves of a trefoil, and each forming a\\npentagon the caps from which the low vaulting sprang are still\\ndiscernible, and on either side are the winding stairs that led to", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0250.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "223", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0251.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "2 24 Battle U\\\\)bc^\\nthe church above. In the central chapel stands the high altar,\\nlittle damaged, and surrounded by its original pavement. We\\nfound the whole place choked with reeds, and half full of water\\na dark and reedy pool, as Sir Francis Palgrave describes it.\\nA11 forlorn and shattered, amidst stagnant water, stands the\\nhigh altar stone of Battle Abbey, in the pathetic words of Lord\\nLytton. The crypt has now been efficiently drained. No res-\\ntoration has ever been attempted in any part of this noble build-\\ning the crypts remain as they were when first built.\\nTo the south rises the great building known as the Refec-\\ntory, that once adjoined the south transept of the church, and\\nwas spared from demolition in 1538, to be used as a barn or\\ngranary. Now it has been banked up at one end to admit Sir\\nGodfrey s horses and it will be seen that they were magnifi-\\ncently lodged, for this great hall measures one hundred and fifty\\nfeet by thirty feet. It is lighted by a double range of Early Eng-\\nlish windows tall, graceful lancets, crossed by transoms, with\\nslender pillars and mouldings of Caen stone. Many have, I am\\nsorry to say, been wantonly injured some have lost their shafts,\\nand others have been closed and converted into stalls. There\\nwere several small fireplaces, and of these two still remain. For\\nmany long years it has been roofless and a flooring of asphalt,\\nlaid under the turf, protects the three crypts beneath from the\\nweather. These so-called crypts were never in reality under-\\nground but soil and rubbish have accumulated round them in\\nthe course of years to an almost inconceivable extent. Eight\\nfeet of earth had to be cleared away from one of the lower\\ndoors As the Refectory was built on the slope of a steep hill,\\nthese crypts stand on very different levels, and vary greatly in\\nheight but all have the same beautiful early vaulting, said to\\nhave been first suggested by a forest of stone pines and there\\ncan be little doubt that the blending of these graceful and", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0252.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "Battle abbe^ 225\\nharmonious lines have much in common with their habit of\\ngrowth. The upper, and therefore lowest of the three, is fifty-six\\nfeet long and thirty-four wide, divided by a double range of pil-\\nlars, and has six windows, which I found half closed with ma-\\nsonry, as it had been made into an icehouse. One antiquary\\nchristened it the Day Room used by the monks but there is no\\nfireplace and though I for one am fully convinced that men in\\nthose days were not the chilly mortals they are now, still the\\nstone bench running round the wall would have been rather a\\npenitential seat in cold weather. All the columns here, as else-\\nwhere, are of Purbeck marble one has been partly re-polished\\nby the busy fingers of the visitors. At the north end of the\\ncentre aisle, looking towards the minster, a large cross of white\\nstone and of rather unusual form is inserted in the wall.\\nThe next crypt, divided by a passage, is small and narrow,\\nthough, of course, loftier, and again unwarmed. From this a\\nstair in the thickness of the wall leads down to the lowest,\\nand incomparably the finest of the three, supposed to have been\\nthe Scriptorium or library of the monastery. Here the archi-\\ntect, no longer cramped as to height, at last had full play, and\\nmight frame his proportions on a more ambitious scale. Here\\nhe could raise his groining twenty-three feet above the floor-\\nlevel, and launch forth into a bolder and wider style, with three\\nlofty and very massive columns supporting his roof Here, too,\\nhe built a fireplace of grandiose dimensions, that would comfort\\nthe heart of even a nineteenth-century shiverer, and introduced\\na very beautiful window of rather later date than the rest, which\\nare all purely Early English. I think it may, however, be a\\nsubsequent addition. At the south-east angle a stair communi-\\ncated with another very large building to the east, of which\\nonly the wall and two arches are left. This noble Scriptorium,\\nagain, was degraded into a stable, and terribly misused the", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0253.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "226 Battle Hbbei?\\npavement was broken up, and one of the doors destroyed, as\\ntoo low and narrow for the horses a broad, square opening\\nwas made for them, and, for some purpose or other, a deep niche\\nwas cut in the wall.\\nTo do full justice to the great size and importance of the\\nRefectory, it should be seen from the south side, by descending\\nto the level of the Lower Terrace. The great gable, towering\\nmajestically aloft, here asserts its pride of place, and stands out\\ngrandly against the blue sky, which relieves the warm mellow\\ntone of its colouring and shines through the eyeless lancet\\nwindows.\\nThis Lower Terrace very dear to us as our sun-trap and\\nwinter walk faces due south, and extends westwards along a\\nheavily buttressed building that formed part of the monastery.\\nIt contains a range of eight barrel-roofed vaults that are conjec-\\ntured to have been store-rooms, each exactly like the other, and\\neach lighted by a narrow lancet window. One of these has been\\nbroken through to make the present entrance. It is this vault\\nthat contains the only fireplace, which a former guide always\\nused to point out as the place where the poor nun was walled\\nup.\\nOn this superstructure Lord Montagu built his manor-house,\\nof which the two stair-towers only are left standing. All we\\nknow of it is from the print in Buck s Antiquities (dated 174^),\\nthat shows a stately Elizabethan frontage, with a broad window\\nbetween each buttress, lighting, as is said, a gallery one hun-\\ndred and sixty-two feet long. It met Queen Elizabeth s wing\\nat a right angle, and at its east end joined a tower dating from\\nthe time of the monks. The Websters never occupied it the\\nMontagus had deserted it long before for Cowdray and hav-\\ning been so long uninhabited, it had fallen utterly out of repair.\\nIts restoration would have proved very costly, and a thrifty Sir", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0254.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "Battle Ubbc 227\\nWhistler Webster pulled it down about the middle of the last\\ncentury, converting the site into a terrace. We found it in a\\ndeplorable state littered and dilapidated, with a yawning rift\\nin the centre, through which one might peer down into the\\nvault beneath. Now these vaults have been protected from rain\\nand snow, and the Upper Terrace affords a dry and pleasant, if\\nrather breezy walk and a capital point of vantage for survey-\\ning the battlefield. We here stand on the very crest of the hill\\nheld by the Saxons which, now cut up into terraces, then fell\\naway steeply to the lower ground below. The topography is\\nrather confused by the wooded mounds (often mistaken for\\nancient earthworks) thrown up by Sir Godfrey in making the\\ngreat pond in front and the three stew-ponds are the work of\\nthe monks. But the principal features of the country are, of\\ncourse, unchangeable. It was over yonder high hill to the left,\\ncrossed by the present road to Hastings, that the Conqueror\\ncame. There, he vowed to build his Abbey, and told off his\\narmy in the three divisions that were to make the attack\\nwhence, it is said, is derived its name of Telham Hill. The\\nright wing, commanded by Roger de Montgomeri, afterwards\\nEarl of Shrewsbury, Chichester, and Arundel, and the founder\\nof a great English house, was composed chiefly of soldeiers\\n(mercenaries) from Picardy, Boulogne, and Poix, and charged\\nup the steepest part of the hill, where the houses of the Lower\\nLake now stand, and the road leads down to the station. The\\nleft wing, formed by the men of Brittany, and led by the son of\\ntheir Count, Alain le Roux, the future Earl of Richmond, attacked\\nfarther away to the west, where the slope is easier, and the little\\nstream of the Asten, rising near the gateway, falls into a deep\\ngorge on the farther side of the hill. The centre, under the\\nDuke himself, comprised the flower and pride of the invading\\narmy. There, under Neel de St. Sauveur, were arrayed the men", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0255.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "228 Battle abbe^\\nof the Cotentin, descended from the Danes of Harold Blaatand\\nwith the archers of Evreux and Louviers the Danes of Bayeux\\nand the great company of vavassors of Normandy, who to save\\ntheir lord would have put their own bodies between him and\\nthe enemie s blows. He directed the assault against the centre\\nof Harold s position and it must have been over the ground\\nimmediately below us that he led his men, and that ensued the\\nfierce melee where he w^as twice unhorsed, and the ominous cry,\\nThe Duke is down! the Duke is down! sounded over the\\nbattlefield. He was here confronted by the vanguard of the\\nSaxon army, where the men of Kent\\nA merveille se combattaient\\nclaiming the post of honour as their birthright, for whenever\\nthe King goes to battle, the first blow belongs to them. They\\nbore on their banner then, as now, the Pale Charger, or White\\nHorse of Hengist but their proud motto of Invicta was not\\nearned on that day.\\nTo the right, but hidden by the trees, a mound on some\\nrising ground in the park marks the outpost, so obstinately de-\\nfended by the Saxons, that the Bretons there wavered and gave\\nway and the hillside beyond was so hotly contested, that the\\nravine of the Asten was completely choked and bridged over\\nwith the dead. It was from this point that the position they\\nhad failed to storm was successfully turned, and the Normans\\nentered the Saxon lines.\\nOn the north side of the town, crowning the highest point\\nof the hill, stands the Watch Oak, from whence, it is said, Harold\\nlooked out, day after day, for the coming of the invaders. The\\npresent tree can, however, only be its successor and representa-\\ntive, as it is by no means old.\\nThe famous Malfosse, or deep swamp, partly concealed by", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0256.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "3BattIe Hbbe^\\n229\\nbrambles, into which so many Norman horsemen plunged and\\nlost their lives in their headlong pursuit of the enemy, lies\\nbehind the parish church, but is no longer a swamp.\\nI think I have now fully and conscientiously discharged my\\nduties as cicerone. No one can complain that 1 have been too\\nbrief; nor have 1, I fear, earned the well-deserved praise be-\\nstowed upon a professional guide who used to show the place.\\nThe visitors think a good deal of me, my lady, he assured\\nme. They say 1 tell them a great many things they have\\nnever heard before.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0257.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0258.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "Cbatswortb\\n231", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0259.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0260.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "CHATSWORTH FROM THE PARK\\nCHATSWORTH\\nBY A. H. MALAN\\nPROBABLY at some time the reader has formed one of\\nthose eighty-four thousand people computed to visit\\nChatsworth annually, and therefore may be presumed\\nto be fairly familiar with the portion of the interior open to\\nthe public. But, unfortunately, those parties which, every day\\nthroughout the year except Sundays, await their turn of admit-\\ntance have neither time nor opportunity to scrutinise very closely\\nany of the manifold treasures of what is at once a palace and a\\nmuseum. A leisurely survey is essential for any real acquaint-\\nance with the contents, the different departments, of sculpture,\\npaintings, sketches, etc., all deserving to be carefully gone\\n233", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0261.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "234 Cbatswortb\\nthrough and that, moreover, with the assistance of catalogues\\nwhich appear to be as yet unwritten.\\nAs one sees it, Chatsworth is the creation of the first Duke\\nof Devonshire, with additions and embellishments by the sixth.\\nNot a trace now remains of that house with which Mary Stuart\\nbecame so familiar, except a turned staircase in the north-east\\ncorner even the two rooms till recently called after her are\\ngone not that that is matter for any particular regret, consider-\\ning that, at the time of their absorption, all their contents were\\na century later than the Scottish queen s day, even to the state\\nbed on which she was supposed to have slept, but which be-\\nlied the supposition by displaying ducal coronets on its feet.\\nOut in the park, by the Derwent bridge, there is, of course,\\nthat moated, high-walled inclosure known as Mary s Bower\\nand that may be judged to be contemporary with the older\\nhouse, since, however hard it be to think such a solid affair\\nwould be constructed for just one state prisoner, it is still harder\\nto imagine any other reason for which it would be built. But\\nas for the house itself as it was in George Talbot s day, we are\\nleft to a representation of it in a frame of needlework upstairs\\nfor noticing which, when we come to it, there is this additional\\nreason, that it is almost the only piece of old work to be seen\\nexcept the cloth of state, hailing from Hardwick, still retain-\\ning, though restored, enough of the original embroidery to\\nshow that the fingers that elaborated it were neither those of\\nthe Countess nor of Mary Stuart, but rather of Christian\\nBruce.\\nNot having been guide-conducted, I scarcely know by what\\nroute visitors are taken round but from having encountered\\ngroups at sundry points, their course appears to be somewhat\\nas follows. The vestibule entered, and a few steps mounted,\\nyou cross a corridor paved with ancient marble and if you", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0262.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "235", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0263.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "4\\n2 36 Cbatswortb\\nare pleased to admire its smooth, variegated surface, instead of\\ntoo curiously looking ahead, you will be fulfilling the very pur-\\npose for which it was laid down an unavoidable but unob-\\ntrusive irregularity of lines, consequent on structural alterations,\\nhaving been the cause of this novel method of beguiling the\\neye being here employed. Then into the Painted Hall, whose\\nwarm colouring, above and around, amply entitles it to its name\\nwhere the mass of colour, spared from all gaudy glare, through\\nthe none-too-many windows opening only into the court, is\\nsaved from a too-religious dimness, thanks to the light, bright\\nface of the polished marble pavement. Near the windows, on\\nthat pavement, you observe the caique, a Sultan s gift, that,\\nhaving once had its home on the Bosphorus, has spurned all\\nmeaner waters since.\\nThe next move will be round to the South Corridor, pass-\\ning, on your left, outside of some private sitting-rooms, including\\none pillared and panelled with dark carved oak, in all proba-\\nbility made in Germany, since it came from a German mon-\\nastery. The effect may be somewhat heavy by day, because\\nthe stone balustrade outside cuts off so much of the light but\\nwhat matters that? A smoking-room it was predestined to\\nbecome when the learned Parr, in 1813 with all outrageous-\\nness, then demanded some room to smoke in a smoking-\\nroom it is and with a big fire and lamps the old oak lights up\\nwell, especially with the help of the bits of colour in Carmi-\\nchael s pictures. Just beyond this room is the Chapel: the\\nleast altered part of Chatsworth painted by Verrio, carved by\\nGibbons, what could be left for Sir Jeffry Wyatville to do\\nYou may perhaps notice that Verrio s masterpiece, over the\\nwestern altar, seems cleverly painted to suit its position the\\nlighting of the composition, diagonally downwards .from left to\\nright, coinciding with, but not being wholly due to, the slant-", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0264.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0265.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "238 Cbatewortb\\ning light from the end window, an effect, however, more\\nnoticeable from the gallery above.\\nIf we now retraced our steps to gain the next floor, at the\\nhead of the main staircase we should find a Derbyshire marble\\ndoorway, through which are reached two drawing-rooms, a\\nmusic-room, billiard-room, and the chapel gallery and if we\\nentered, in the course of our progress we should see Canova s\\nHebe, and, among other large paintings, Mary Stuart (Zuc-\\nchero), Henry VIll. (Holbein), and that face which seldom\\nwore and never met a frown, the beautiful Duchess (by\\nSir Joshua), of which a faithful but more highly coloured copy,\\nby Sir Thomas Lawrence, hangs in the gallery at Windsor Cas-\\ntle also Luca Giordano s Venus Rising out of the Sea,\\nRembrandt s Jewish Rabbi, and a portrait of the seventh\\nDuke.\\nAnd if we remained here between the hours of eleven and\\nfour we should surely appreciate the excessive indulgence ac-\\ncorded the public, in being granted access to the house at all\\nwhen the Duke and Duchess are in residence. For overhead\\nhappen to be the state rooms and the proximity of the said\\npublic is made most convincing by the tramping of heels, first\\np., then cresc. on to/ and subsiding back to^., like the ani-\\nmating measures of Michaelis s Turkish Patrol to hear which\\nperformance repeated about every half-hour becomes a rather\\nwearisome thing, if not a strain on the nerves beneath.\\nOr if, instead of lingering here, we were allowed to pro-\\nceed northwards out of the first drawing-room, we should make\\nacquaintance with that Library which contains, amongst its rari-\\nties, the Liher Veritatis of Claude Lorraine, the Benedictionale\\nof S. Ethelwold, Henry VII. s Missal, a beautifully illumined\\nPetrarch, and such a store of reference works as scholars\\nalone are competent to appreciate though, at the same time,", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0266.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "ENTRANCE GATEWAY TO CHATSWORTH\\n239", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0267.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "240 Cbatswortb\\nthose who are content with scanning the names of books as\\nthey stand on a library shelf, without any desire to look into\\ntheir interiors, have their curiosity amply gratified by a liberal\\nassortment of such taking titles as Howe s Answer to Watt,\\nGodolphin on Flying Fish, and Brunei s Whole Duty of Man.\\nBut all of these rooms being private, you omit them by\\npassing along the Picture Gallery outside, where your atten-\\ntion is requested, by a well-versed attendant, to a collection\\nnearly all brought from Devonshire House, including two beau-\\ntiful Watteaus, two Salvator Rosas, The Virgin in the Tem-\\nple, by Bernardin von Orley, and the earliest known dated\\npicture by Van Eyck (142 1), The Consecration of Thomas a\\nBecket. And it may be allowable to remark that the percep-\\ntion of their merits will very largely depend upon that degree of\\nskill with which you can manage to dodge those tiresome\\nreflections from the opposite windows.\\nAt the end of this corridor, however, is a room requiring no\\nsuch precautions, and decked with several conspicuous works in a\\nsmall compass to wit, the Red Velvet Room. Here are quickly\\nrecognised the originals of two familiar engravings, Laying\\ndown the Law, and Bolton Abbey. Besides these, portraits,\\nabout the same size, of Lady Betty Foster and the beautiful Duch-\\ness, the former, perhaps, looking more bewitching than the\\nlatter, though the picture is rather faded also a highly finished\\ngroup, by Landseer, of Mr. R. Cavendish with greyhound and\\ngoshawk. As to this, it is evident that, contrary to the prac-\\ntice of all English falconry, the hawk is taking wing from the\\nright instead of the left fist and, besides being held by a most\\nunusual scope, it is equipped with a leash whose swivel is mani-\\nfestly at the wrong end but it would be too presumptuous to\\nmaintain therefrom that the great painter did not transcribe the\\ndetails as he saw them before him. For, on being asked his opin-", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0268.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "QEORQIANA, DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE AND CHILD (LADY CARLISLE)\\nAFTER SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS\\n241", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0269.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "242 Cbatswortb\\nion on the matter, that practical falconer, the late Lord Lilford,\\nreplied: I know a curious incident in connection with another\\nof Landseer s pictures, which shows his general minute attention\\nto detail. In the picture to which I refer, a falcon is represented\\nas binding on to a heron, with the swivel attached to her jesses.\\nI was mentioning this to my old Gamaliel in falconry, the late E.\\nG. Newcome, who told me he was present when Landseer made\\nthe sketch, and that in this case the falcon was actually unhooded\\nat the heron with the swivel attached to the jesses. 1 should\\nguess that this was a unique instance of such carelessness.\\nAnother staircase mounted, you reach the parquet-floor of\\nthe state rooms those lofty apartments, so sumptuous and pala-\\ntial, and withal so devoid of usefulness and comfort. It is here,\\nmore especially, that\\non ceilings you devoutly stare,\\nWhere sprawl the works of Verrio and Laguerre,\\nand where, in less strained attitude, and probably with keener\\ndelight, you note those marvellous examples of carving in lime-\\ntree, representing dead game, etc., attesting the infinite skill of\\na master s hand, be that master Grinling Gibbons, Lobb, or Wat-\\nson for Gibbons is said never to have put his name on his work\\nand the architect, Talman, employed Lobb and Watson so that\\nit is now difficult to distinguish. Let us suppose we enter the\\nState Dining-room first. Over the mantelpiece are the very\\nchoicest specimens of this bird-carving, limned with marvellous\\nfidelity to nature. One rather wonders whether Verrio showed\\nequal fidelity to his model when, as a Fury cutting the thread of\\nFate, a certain aggravating person, with whom he was brought in\\ncontact, was here depicted one would prefer to say immortal-\\nised, did not these ceilings already show the wasting hand of\\nTime. That rosary on the central table (resting on a piece of", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0270.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "THE CHAPEL AT CHATSWORTH\\n243", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0271.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0272.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "Cbat0wortb\\n245\\nQEORQIANA, DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE\\nwork done by Queen Adelaide) once belonged to Henry VIII.;\\nin finding its way here it is said to have cost as much as all the\\noak in the oak parlour below. Those\\nmalachite tables, and that clock with\\nthe very impossible boat, are some\\nof the many gifts of the Tsar Nicho-\\nlas to the sixth Duke.\\nIn the contiguous room is a\\nportrait of the first Duke, and some\\ntapestry (old) from Raffael s car-\\ntoons in the next one, from out\\nthe doorway in the cuir repousse,\\npeeps that fiddle which Verrio, so\\nt is said, painted to deceive Gib-\\nbons, as Gibbons pen was carved\\nto deceive Verrio. The dragons on the vases in this room are\\nvery observable, since they have five claws. Still passing on,\\nyou are probably so taken up with inspecting, at a respectable\\ndistance, the cloth of state and the stamped leather and the bril-\\nliant ceiling, as not to notice on the window-sill, just at your\\nelbow, the plaster model of a monument at Hildelbank, with\\nits striking conception of the rending of the tomb. In the end\\nroom of this suite, the lace-cravat, carved out of a single piece,\\nis supposed to be Gibbons parting gift.\\nAnd then one would like to stop in the Sketch-gallery, to ex-\\namine that extremely valuable series of original sketches than\\nwhich few things at Chatsworth are more admired it was\\nbrought together entirely by the second Duke, and since then has\\nbeen classified according to the several schools and hung here\\nbehind protecting blinds. But perhaps this gallery is not open\\nto visitors and if it be, no explanatory catalogue seems avail-\\nable and so down you go again, through a bewildering course of", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0273.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "246\\nCbatswortb\\ncorridor and staircase, to find yourself landed at last at the thres-\\nhold of that chamber of imagery, the Sculpture Gallery. The\\nlustreless sandstone-backing shows off the statuary to great ad-\\nvantage in any light but the very best time for coming here,\\nalbeit in uncanonical hours, is about nine on a summer morning\\nfor then the diffused sunshine flowing in through the clerestory\\nwindows imparts a beautiful bloom and tender half-tone to the\\nsculpture, to be met with at no other time of day, though the\\nelectric light may perhaps be an effective substitute.\\nOrdinary epithets and comments seem too feeble for the\\nbeautiful objects that meet the eye at this point let just one\\nor two notes suffice, culled from the notebook of that great pa-\\ntron of art who, in satisfying his own artistic longings by the\\nacquisition of these things, provided at the same time a source\\nof pleasure for others, more lasting than brass\\nThe Wounded Venus\\nwas made by Pietro Tenerani,\\na pupil of Thorwaldsen.\\nThe Pedestal of Kessel s\\nDiscobolus contains a tour de\\nforce of the Swedish porphyry\\ncutters, to show how minutely\\nthey could work these hard\\nmaterials. Campbell took four-\\nteen years to complete the\\nstatue of the Princess Pauline\\nBorghese; she sat repeatedly to\\nhim for the bust, and gave him\\nsix casts of her hand, foot, and\\nnose. Inserted in the pedestal of this are twenty-six\\nmedallions, cast of the iron ore of Elba by the order of Na-\\npoleon during his residence there they accompanied him to\\nLADY ELIZABETH FOSTER", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0274.jp2"}, "275": {"fulltext": "CARVED CHIMNEY-PIECE, STATE DINING-ROOM, CHATSWORTH\\n247", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0275.jp2"}, "276": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0276.jp2"}, "277": {"fulltext": "249", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0277.jp2"}, "278": {"fulltext": "250\\ndbatewortb\\nSt. Helena, and were left by him to his sister, who bequeathed\\nthem to me.\\nCanova kept the large bust of Napoleon in his bedroom\\ntill his dying day he finished it from the study of the colossal\\nstatue now in the pos-\\nsession of the Duke of\\nWellington. 1 know no\\nother authentic bust of\\nNapoleon by Canova.\\nThe Lions give\\nbut a faint idea of the\\nastonishing nature and\\neffect of Canova s by\\nthe tomb of Clement\\nXIV., in St. Peter s: the\\nsleeping one is by Ri-\\nnaldi, the other by\\nFrancesca Benaglia.\\nSchadow s Fila-\\ntrice was often\\nrepeated; the untouched\\nsurface of the column on\\nwhich it is placed came\\nfrom Trajan s Forum.\\nMadame Mere,\\nfirst acquired treasure, next to Endymion the most valued\\nCanova made no repetition of it. Lord H found the\\nsingle word (on the pedestal), that expresses so much, in the\\nIliad dvffapiffro Heia, unfortuuate mother of the greatest of\\nmen.\\nThorwaldsen s Venus arrived broken in three\\npieces a bracelet, hiding the fracture in the arm, is one that\\nRENDING THE TOMB", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0278.jp2"}, "279": {"fulltext": "PORTRAIT OF FIRST DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE\\n251", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0279.jp2"}, "280": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0280.jp2"}, "281": {"fulltext": "Cbatswortb 253\\nthe Princess Pauline procured when she went into mourn-\\ning on the death of Napoleon, and she gave it to me for this\\nobject.\\nThe rocchio of pale verde antico was found by Elizabeth,\\nDuchess of Devonshire, in her excavations that brought to light\\nthe pedestal and history of the column of Phocas and the sur-\\nrounding pavement in the Roman Forum. She allowed herself\\nto ask for this.\\nEndymion was finished by Canova. The quality of the\\nmarble was so fine, so hard, so crystalline, that Canova would\\nnot change it on account of the stain in the arm that on the\\ncheek he liked, and thought it represented the sunburnt hunt-\\ner s hue.\\nThe wounded Achilles is by Albacini the granite tazza\\nwas made at Berlin from a pebble from the sands of Brandenburg.\\nThence through the orangery out into the open and having\\ngained an offmg towards the French garden, it is well to look\\nback and observe what an excellent finish the temple attic\\nmakes to the wing we have just left, and how the swifts,\\ndashing in and out between the Corinthian columns, keenly\\nappreciate a situation just suited to their nestling requirements.\\nTheir screams are full of hilarity, and it is so fitting that they\\nshould enjoy themselves and show the poetry of motion just\\nhere for beneath the open colonnade is the ball-room that\\nsplendid room with stage, gallery, etc., all complete, but with\\nits provoking inaccessibility to the house. It was the intention\\nat one time to make a covered way from the orangery, or near\\nthere^ right up to the stables, and that is almost an accom-\\nplished fact but it does not seem to have occurred to make\\ndirect communication between the main block and the ball-room\\nat the level of the sculpture gallery roof, though it should not be\\nvery hard to effect this.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0281.jp2"}, "282": {"fulltext": "254\\nCbatswortb\\nVery cool and refreshing looks the Temple Cascade, if you\\nare lucky enough to find it in action if not, then you pass\\non to the Weeping Willow, and that surprisingly natural rock-\\nwork which Sir\\nJoseph Paxton in-\\ntroduced as one of\\nhis bold features\\nin landscape gar-\\ndening. He had\\nboundless en-\\nthusiasm for the\\nbeautiful and mar-\\nvellous in nature,\\ncontrolled by a\\njudgment faultless\\nin execution, and a\\ntaste as refined as\\nit was enterpris-\\nHe came to Chatsworth in 1826 in 1829, took the man-\\nagement of the woods in 1832, started the arboretum in 1836,\\ninvented and began the large conservatory, and finished it in\\n1840. It had already, at the latter date, become occupied,\\nBaron Ludwig having stripped his garden at the Cape of the\\nrarest produce of Africa.\\nPresently, winding down and round, you come to the great\\nfountain in the pond opposite the south front. A fountain is a\\nfountain, says the cynic, and not much enthusiasm is to be felt\\nabout water coming out of a pipe which depends much upon\\nthe size of the pipe and the velocity of the outflow. If it is good\\nto behold anything the best of its kind like the Times among\\nthe world s newspapers, or the last new cutter among the massed\\nyachts at Cowes, or some splendid creature, magnificently\\nLORD PEMBROKE AND SISTER\\nAFTER VAN DYOK\\ning", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0282.jp2"}, "283": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0283.jp2"}, "284": {"fulltext": "256\\nCbatswortb\\napparelled, among a throng of ordinary mortals, then it is an\\nimpressive thing to stand near the great fountain and behold a\\ncolumn two hundred\\nand sixty feet high issu-\\ning from a sixteen-inch\\npipe at a hundred miles\\nan hour, with the impe-\\ntus of a four-hundred-\\nfeet fall from the lake\\nabove.\\nA difficult subject to\\nhandle photographically,\\nfor want of contrast be-\\ntween cloud and col-\\numn if everything were\\nfavourable, the moment\\nfor exposure would be\\nwhen the spherical\\nspurts of imprisoned\\nwater shoot out from\\nthe summit and come tumbling down like the finale of a\\nrocket, to disperse in clouds of spray.\\nThis fountain, by the way, though the connection seems\\nremote, reminds one of those twelve great oak butts down in\\nthe cellar presented to the first Duke by William III. But the\\nconnection is this. The beer used to be brewed above the\\nstables, and was conveyed to the cellars by a pipe underground,\\na thousand and fifty-nine feet long, of three-inch bore and the\\nidea presented itself, not unnaturally, to make, on some great\\noccasion, a fountain of the beverage. That could obviously have\\nbeen done, at no great cost and with hardly any waste of beer\\nbut supposing the fountain were shown off in late summer, it\\nWELLINGTON ROCK", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0284.jp2"}, "285": {"fulltext": "257", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0285.jp2"}, "286": {"fulltext": "258 Cbatswortb\\nmay be imagined that the wasps and flies would have had such\\na good, or bad, time, as to impart a somewhat acrid flavour\\nto the brew.\\nThat noble line of limes, feathering to the ground, and known\\nby the name of Dr. Johnson s Walk since that sage sat under\\ntheir shade in 1784, terminates at the point where you descend\\nto the Royal trees an oak planted by H.R.H. Princess Victoria,\\n1832 a Spanish chestnut planted by H.R.H. Duchess of Kent,\\n1832 a sycamore planted by H.R.H. Prince Albert, 1843. Thence\\nit is but a few steps back to the entrance gates. And when one\\nsees the array of cabs, waggonettes and char-d-bancs, with a\\ncoach or two thrown in, drawn up outside, you begin to realise\\nof what very great benefit such a show-place must be to the\\ndistrict, and to wonder whether that advantage is adequately\\nappreciated. But the muster of such equipages at ordinary times\\nis as nothing to what occurs on a Bank Holiday. Then the\\nexcursionists range from four to five thousand light pens or\\nfolds being arranged at the gates to break up the multitude into\\nfifties, to be admitted in sequence every few minutes and taken\\nround the rooms, strictly on the block system. And, what is\\nmore, all comers are admitted, even children of sizes and infants\\nof days a veritable exuberance of even ducal good-nature and\\nphilanthropy. Possibly, when some fractious child has tum-\\nbled down and cracked its crown, or an article of even more\\nvalue than that; or when some mother with a baby in arms\\nhas signally come to grief on one of those slippery, polished\\nfloors, the porter may find his duties suddenly augmented by\\nall children, too young to appreciate Chatsworth s glories,\\nbeing required to be left in his careful charge, along with the\\nsticks and umbrellas, while their natural custodians perambu-\\nlate within.\\nBe that as it may, if you would perambulate without, there", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0286.jp2"}, "287": {"fulltext": "259", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0287.jp2"}, "288": {"fulltext": "26o Cbats worth\\nis that stiff but pretty walk up to the Hunting Tower, where\\nthe view repays the climb, provided the atmosphere is not too\\nthick with Sheffield smoke, or what not or if you stroll across\\nto Edensor, of uncertain pronunciation, you will surely seek out\\nand reverently look upon that simple, turf-clad mound, where a\\nplain headstone carries the sufficient words Frederick Charles\\nCavendish, May 6, 1882 and then perhaps you will proceed by\\nthe kitchen gardens to Baslow or you may make a point of\\nseeing Haddon, which is not far off.\\nA delightful tramp, if permission were granted, would be\\npast Paxton s great glass house, by way of the arboretum, up\\ninto the old park. In the arboretum certain black wooden labels,\\nstuck in the grass in front of the trees, once moved a lady of\\ntender sympathies, who wished to say just the right thing, to\\nexclaim to her companion and host, Ah! que c est touchant\\nCe sont, sans doute, les tombeaux des plantes But where\\nthey remain, such labels have use even beyond that of identifica-\\ntion of species, as, for example, some idea of the age of these\\nstately cedars can be gained from the fact of one of them, just\\nabove the Saracenic summer-house by no means the largest, and\\napparently not yet at maturity being labelled 1676: doubtless\\nthe date of its planting. How well those silver firs, which might\\nbe more numerous, stand out amid the lighter foliage of mag-\\nnificent Spanish chestnuts, beeches, elms, and larches, rivalling\\none another in straightness of stem as in symmetry of spread\\nand how plainly the ubiquitous rhododendrons sometimes attest\\nthe biting bitterness of a May or June frost by their long black-\\nened shoots of new wood The higher one gets in this en-\\nchanting ramble, the less become the variety and size of the\\ntrees, until, up by the Duke s seat, the ridge is decked with\\nlittle save oaks. But picturesque specimens some are, growing\\ninto and out from the joints in the sandstone, and clasping the", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0288.jp2"}, "289": {"fulltext": "Cbatswortb\\n261\\nprotruding rocks with all manner of strange device to secure a\\nfoothold or push a way for expansion\\nBut where are the birds Are such woodlands only for\\npheasants and a few woodcocks Doubtless, when the leaves\\nare off, as they come rocketing down over the slope, the longtails\\nacquit themselves admirably, and the longbills tax the skill of the\\nguns posted to stop them but this happens to be summer-time.\\nWEST FRONT OF CHATSWORTH\\nand where are those brown owls, jays, hobbies, woodpeckers,\\nand nightjars, which should delight in all this thick leafage, oaken\\nglade, and wilderness of bracken Well in keeping would it be\\nwith a palace where all classes of people are welcome, and the\\ngilded gates are shut to none, if all birds were granted like free-\\ndom to the woods, and no class distinction recognised among\\nthem if it were a standing decree that, out of the shooting\\nseason, every bird should be held harmless and sacred, save\\nonly that dashing corsair, the sparrowhawk, and that ignoble\\nthief, the crow.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0289.jp2"}, "290": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0290.jp2"}, "291": {"fulltext": "%^mc\\n263", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0291.jp2"}, "292": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0292.jp2"}, "293": {"fulltext": "Wm^\\njutu: J\\ni|Si~i\u00c2\u00ab\u00e2\u0080\u0094 StSHI\\nir \u00e2\u0096\u00a0aarfiirr\\nI ll-- 1**^\\nNORTH FRONT OF LYME\\nLYME\\nBY THE DOWAGER LADY NEWTON\\nTHIS old home of the Leghs of Lyme is situated in the\\ncounty of Cheshire, and stands upon a spur of land\\neight hundred and fifty feet above the level of the sea,\\nalmost in the middle of the park, which is large and undulating,\\nabout nine miles in circumference. This park, which is really\\nthe beginning of the Peak range, Derbyshire, although nomi-\\nnally in Cheshire, has always preserved its bold and romantic\\ncharacter, and was long celebrated for the herd of wild cattle\\nwhich were indigenous to the place, like those of Chillingham,\\nof which they were the exact counterpart, being white, with\\nlarge spreading horns, and red inside the ears. When the pres-\\nent owner was a boy he remembers a herd of from thirty to\\n265", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0293.jp2"}, "294": {"fulltext": "266 %^mc\\nforty, and when he succeeded his uncle in 1857 there were still\\nabout fifteen or sixteen but from having been allowed to breed\\nin-and-in, and from other causes, they were very much deterio-\\nrated, and in spite of all the efforts made to restore them to\\ntheir ancient form they gradually became extinct, and for several\\nyears there have been none in the park. There is, however,\\na fine herd of red deer, as well as fallow. The former have al-\\nways been famous for their size and wild nature. Many anec-\\ndotes are told of them, which have been handed down to the\\npresent time and that they were renowned in the sixteenth\\ncentury is shown by the following curious extract from the\\njournal of Wilson, the historian, relative to what happened to\\nhimself when attending the Earl of Essex in a visit to Sir Peter\\nLegh at Lyme, in the county of Cheshire, 1590. It is tran-\\nscribed from its original authority. Peck s Desid. Car., lib. xii.\\n10, edit. 1732,\\nSir Peter Lee of Lime, Co. Cheshire, invited my Lord one\\nsummer to hunt the stagg. And having a great stagg in chase,\\nand many gentlemen in the pursuite the stagg took soyle and\\ndivers (whereof I was one) alighted and stood with swords\\ndrawn to have a cut at him at his coming out of the water.\\nThe staggs there being wonderful fierce and dangerous made\\nus youthes more eager to be at him. And it was my misfortune\\nto be hindered of my coming near him, the way being sliperie\\nby a fall, which gave occasion to some one who did not know\\nme, to speake as if 1 had fallen for feare. Which being told\\nme, I left the stagg, and followed the gentleman who had first\\nspake it. But 1 found him of that cold temper, that it seems\\nhis words made an escape from him as by his denial and re-\\npentance it appeared. But this made me more violent in pur-\\nsuit of the stagg to recover my reputation. And 1 happened\\nto be the only horseman in when the dogs sat him up at baye,", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0294.jp2"}, "295": {"fulltext": "267", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0295.jp2"}, "296": {"fulltext": "268 %^mc\\nand approaching near him on horseback, he broke through the\\ndogs and run at me, and tore my horse s side with his horns\\nclose by my thigh. Then I quitted my horse and grew more\\ncunning, for the dogs had set him up again, stealing behind\\nhim with my sword, and cut his hamstrings, and then got\\nupon his back and cut his throat which, as I was doing, the\\ncompany came in and blamed my rashness for running such a\\nhazard. This anecdote is quoted by Sir Walter Scott in his\\nnotes to the Lady of the Lake, canto first, note iii.\\nOn the west side is a terrace, from which the ground falls\\nabout forty feet, forming a picturesque Italian garden having a\\nfountain in the centre.\\nThe architecture of this ancient house is of several different\\ndates, which, though in one sense adding to its interest, as show-\\ning the tastes as well as the alterations made by successive mem-\\nbers of the Legh family, is in another sense unfortunate, as it\\nmakes it very difficult, in the absence of documentary evidence,\\nto determine by whom, or exactly at what time, it was first be-\\ngun. It is thought that the north front (which is the principal\\nentrance) was, if not built, at any rate designed, by John of\\nPadua, who is known to have visited England by desire of Henry\\nVIII., and to have furnished designs for some country houses,\\namong them, perhaps, Longleat, to which Lyme bears a certain\\nresemblance. A view is given showing the north facade, of\\nwhich the centre portion remains intact, with the exception of\\nthe windows. These, like those of the rest of the house\\n(originally mullioned), were altered when Leoni, the architect\\nof Chatsworth (who died in 1746), Italianised the whole\\nexterior.\\nThere is an old bas-relief in coloured plaster in one of the\\nrooms, called the Stag Parlour, in which these mullioned win-\\ndows are clearly shown.\\nm", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0296.jp2"}, "297": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00bbe!r?r.T- -s^\u00c2\u00ab5r \u00c2\u00bb*-5\u00c2\u00abii? -t\\nTHE SOUTH FRONT OF LYME\\n269", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0297.jp2"}, "298": {"fulltext": "2 70 Xpme\\nThe house is built of a very hard stone from quarries in the\\npark, and is of an oblong form, standing as near as possible north,\\nsouth, east, and west, with a courtyard in the centre, which is\\npaved with red and white marble. It was originally much larger,\\nbut Leoni added a covered gallery reaching to the second floor\\nonly. This forms a corridor giving access to the rooms on the\\nfirst floor, which before opened one into the other only, and af-\\nfording protection to those on the ground floor. The lower\\nportion of the gallery (with unglazed arches), and the whole of\\nthe lower part of the exterior of the house, is of rusticated stone,\\nafter the manner of the Strozzi at Florence and other Italian\\npalaces.\\nThe south front, the great feature of which is a fine portico\\nprojecting ten feet, reaching to the top of the house, is purely\\nItalian in design. The roof of this portico rests on six columns\\nof stone springing from a balcony on the first floor surrounded by\\na massive stone balustrade, while its lower part is supported by\\narches of rusticated stone.\\nThe house is ornamented by old leaden figures, which were\\noften employed by Leoni to decorate his work, but which are\\nnow seldom to be met with, as in the early part of this century\\nmany were taken down and melted into bullets, when the fear of\\nan invasion by Napoleon Bonaparte filled men s minds. There\\nare three rather over life-size on this south front the centre one,\\non the point of the pediment, represents Neptune with his tri-\\ndent, and on either side are Venus with her cestus floating in the\\nair and Pan with his pipes. The founding of lead garden statues\\nseems to have been a special industry in the eighteenth century\\nand the original figure-yard for this kind of statue stood in Picca-\\ndilly (now 102), and was kept by John van Nort, who came to\\nEngland with William III. Besides this yard there were others\\nviz., Dickinson s, Manning s, and Carpenter s in high vogue\\ni", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0298.jp2"}, "299": {"fulltext": "271", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0299.jp2"}, "300": {"fulltext": "2 72 Xi?me\\nabout 1740. There has been no leaden figure manufactory since\\n1787, when one Cheere died. Another reason why so few are\\nnow to be seen is because many of the leaden figures in this\\ncountry were exported to America during the American War of\\nIndependence, to become bullets, because the lead escaped the\\nCustoms as works of art.\\nA further addition was made about 18 18 by Wyatt, who built\\nthe Dining-room, on the east side of the house. On this side\\nthere are two more of the leaden figures Diana with arrow and\\nbow, her stag by her side, and Act^eon with his dog. From the\\ngood taste and excellent workmanship displayed in Wyatf s work\\nat Lyme, it is thought that he must have been the J. Wyatt after-\\nwards knighted by George IV., and made Sir Jeffrey Wyattville in\\n1828, the ville being added to distinguish him from the J.\\nWyatt who is proverbially said to have spoilt more country\\nhouses than any architect in England, and is better known as\\nThe execrable James.\\nA square tower, containing bedrooms, was also built by\\nWyatt, and replaced an ancient lantern of stone, which was\\nbuilt up after its removal on some rising ground where fir trees\\nwere planted, and which is called The Lantern Wood. This\\nlantern figures in the bas-relief of the house already alluded to\\nas being over the chimneypiece of the Stag Parlour.\\nA double flight of steps, in a purely Italian style, leads from\\nthe east end of the courtyard into the Entrance Hall, a large and\\nlofty square room with pillars and high dado of oak. Above the\\ndado hang family portraits and ancient armour. In this hall are\\ntwo full-length portraits of the Black Prince and Edward III., at\\nopposite ends. The portrait of the Black Prince is made to open\\noutward at pleasure, and discloses the drawing-room, which pro-\\nduces a curious and picturesque effect. The illustrations which fol-\\nlow show the opening from the Hall and from the Drawing-room.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0300.jp2"}, "301": {"fulltext": "X^me\\n273\\nThe portraits of the Black Prince and of Edward III. are\\nspecially interesting to the Legh family, because the former gave\\na grant of forty marks a\\nyear to Sir Perkyn Legh\\nafter the battle of Crecy,\\nto continue until he\\nshould provide him with\\nan estate. The estate\\nwas given by his son,\\nRichard II., about fifty\\nyears afterwards, and is\\na slice of the royal forest\\nof Macclesfield. Lyme is\\nthe old English word for\\nborder, the estate being\\non the borders of Derby-\\nshire, Lancashire, and\\nCheshire.\\nRichard II. appears\\nto have had more fol-\\nlowers and adherents in\\nCheshire than in any other part of England, and was evidently\\non terms of great friendship with Sir Perkyn Legh, of Lyme.\\nThe following extracts from the Kenilworth Manuscripts are\\ngiven in the ArchcBologia, or Miscellaneous Tracts relating to\\nAntiquity, and in the publications of the Cheetham Society\\nCheshire abounded with bold and rapacious maintainers,\\nmany of whom were among the celebrated bowmen of the King s\\nGuard. The men of this county were preferred for their known at-\\ntachment to him. They made their appearance in London at that\\ntime (1397), and that it produced a strong impression is evident\\nfrom the way in which they are spoken of by the early writers.\\nTHE LANTERN", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0301.jp2"}, "302": {"fulltext": "2 74 %^mc\\nLike all his other favourites, they obtained a complete\\nascendency over him, and indulged in great freedom of speech\\ntowards him, a specimen of which the Chronicle of Kenil-\\nworth gives in the original dialect.\\nIn tantum familiaritatem domino regi annectebantur, ut\\nidem in materna lingua audacter confabularentur Dycon, slep\\nsicury quile we wake, and dread nougt quile we lyve seftow\\nffor zif thow haddest weddet Perky n, daughter of Lye, thow\\nmun halde alone day with any man in Chesterschire in ffaith\\nThis provincial discourse being turned into pure modern Eng-\\nlish may stand thus Richard, sleep soundly while we watch,\\nand fear nothing while we lie beside thee for if thou hadst\\nmarried the daughter of Perkyn of Lye (Sir Piers Legh of Lyme,\\nnear Macclesfield, beheaded by the Duke of Lancaster), thou\\nmightest have kept Hallowtide with any man in Cheshire.\\nKeep Hallowtide, e. Be as good and substantial a man\\nas any in Cheshire.\\nThe head of poor Sir Perkyn (commonly called Perkyn a\\nLegh) was ordered by Henry IV. to be set upon one of the\\nloftiest towers of Chester.\\nThe Drawing-room is on the first floor, and is an Eliza-\\nbethan room with a bay window to the east filled with painted\\nglass, very old and fine in colour, and interesting. Much of it\\nconsists of the arms of the Earl of Chester; other parts contain\\nthe names and arms of the different estates acquired at various\\ntimes by the Leghs, some of which have unfortunately departed\\nfrom the family. There is also a symbolical series of paintings\\nof the months of the year, and one or two are portraits of the\\nmembers of the family. There are three other windows look-\\ning to the north, also containing good old painted glass. This\\nroom is panelled to within four feet of the ceiling with oak\\ninlaid with satin-wood. There is a frieze in plaster, of a very", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0302.jp2"}, "303": {"fulltext": "THE DRAWINQ-ROOM, LYME,\\nSHOWING THE CHIMNEYPIECE BEARING THE ARMS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH\\n275", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0303.jp2"}, "304": {"fulltext": "276 X^me\\nelaborate pattern, running round the top, divided into panels,\\neach one being of a different design. The ceiling is of plaster\\nstrap-work, with bosses and pendants. The chimneypiece is\\nof stone and plaster, and reaches from the floor to the ceiling.\\nIt is coloured, and is of very elaborate design, having the arms\\nof Queen Elizabeth (the dragon instead of the unicorn, as used\\nbefore the Union) in the centre, supported by caryatides of a\\nquaint form. The fireplace itself is a large open one, and con-\\ntains a very beautiful grate a basket of cut steel, with fire-\\nirons and fender to match. The doors and window-shutters\\nare of delicate workmanship in inlaid oak.\\nOn the south side is the curious opening spoken of before.\\nA part of the panelling opens at the back of the portrait of the\\nBlack Prince, and discloses a recess from which the Hall can\\nbe seen below when the picture is drawn back on the other\\nside. No one would know of its existence unless they were\\ntold and this curious feature was noticed and made use of by\\nSir Walter Scott when he wrote IVoodstock. He visited Lyme\\non his way to the Peak before writing Peveril of the Peak.\\nThe portraits in this room one Kitcat, and the two of\\nLord Derby and his wife (Charlotte de la Tremouille, celebrated\\nfor her defence of Lathom House, 1651), are replicas of those at\\nKnowsley, except that they are not full-lengths. There are also\\nportraits of Prince Rupert, Sir Steynsham, and Lady Master\\n(Elizabeth Legh), Lady Arderne (Margaret Legh), Bertram Ash-\\nburnham, and a portrait said by some to be Nell Gwynne, but\\ntraditionally a Miss Legh. In this room is an old settle, several\\ninteresting chairs of the period of Elizabeth, and a settee (cov-\\nered with old embroidery) for two people, identical with one at\\nHam (Lord Dysart s place near Richmond). There is also in\\nthis room a curious red lacquer clock with brass mounts, of very\\nearly English workmanship, which plays a tune every three", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0304.jp2"}, "305": {"fulltext": "THE DRAWING-ROOM, WITH THE PICTURE-PANEL OPEN SHOWING THE ENTRANCE HALL\\n277", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0305.jp2"}, "306": {"fulltext": "n", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0306.jp2"}, "307": {"fulltext": "%^mc\\n279\\nhours. The different barrels of tunes are in a very massive old\\nbox, and are not conspicuous for the beauty of the airs. They\\ndate from the time of the Stuarts, and as the names may be in-\\nteresting to connoisseurs of old music, they are given: Gigue\\nLelebolu, Joy to Great Caesar, The Eunuch s Song,\\nTrumpet Tune and Trumpet March, Gavot Nameless\\n(spelt Gaut), The Grenadiers March.\\nHere are also some curious specimens of old Jacobite wine-\\nglasses, of those known as fiat glasses. No doubt there was\\nonce a large number\\nbut now, alas only\\nsix remain to testify\\nto the loyalty of the\\nfamily. They are of\\na very graceful shape,\\nand have the white\\nrose engraved on one\\nside and the word\\nFiat on the other,\\nwhich by a liberal in-\\nterpretation may be\\ntaken to mean, Let\\nit be. When it was\\nforbidden to drink\\nCharles Edward s\\nhealth in public,\\nthese glasses were\\nmanufactured for the\\nJacobites, and the\\ntoast was drunk in silence. On the foot of one of these\\nglasses the Prince of Wales s feathers are engraved. There are\\nThis air Lilibulero is well known in the north of Ireland as Protestant Boys. Ed.\\nTHE HALL, WITH PICTURE-PANEL OPEN", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0307.jp2"}, "308": {"fulltext": "28o %^mc\\nlikewise several of the old heel-tap glasses with toasts en-\\ngraved round the rim, and the finger glasses to correspond\\nwith them, on which toasts are also engraved. Some of these\\nare political, some refer to the family, but the greater number\\nare sporting. One is decidedly amusing, having on it Mrs.\\nLegh s Delight. Let us hope she took her pleasures with mod-\\neration Some of the toasts are given, and one or two may\\nperhaps be explained by my readers. They have always hitherto\\nbaffled the intelligence of the family. One is Daming and\\nSinking, the other Maria and the Otters Potter. The politics\\nof the Leghs may be inferred from May Aristocracy rise on the\\nashes of Democracy, The Standing Forces of Britain, and\\nBlood over the Face of the Earth (a fine jingo sentiment\\nwhile Long Life to the House of Lime, A Cellar well filled\\nand a House full of Friends, Long Life and Long Corks, A\\nFlatt Decanter and a Sprightly Landlord, Any Toast but a Dry\\nOne, show at any rate a cheerful hospitality and an appreciation\\nof the good things of life The sporting ones comprise all kinds,\\nfrom The Stagg Well Rouzed, Bull Baiting, Bear Bait-\\ning, Falconry, The Vermin Blood, down to The Merry\\nHarriers.\\nIn connection with the Drawing-room may also be mentioned\\nsome fine silver guipure lace, still fresh and well preserved, which\\nwas found by the writer, about twenty-five years ago, in an old\\nchest, bordering two coverlets of rose-coloured satin, both very\\nyellow and discoloured by age. These coverlets were of oblong\\nshape, one much smaller than the other, and the lace was about\\nten inches wide on the larger one and eight inches on the other.\\nIt appears it was the custom to use them on the bed of the\\nmother and the cradle of the child when caudle-cup was given to\\nthe friends and gossips in the bed-chamber, after an interesting\\nevent and no doubt these coverlets had assisted at many a", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0308.jp2"}, "309": {"fulltext": "THE STAG PARLOUR, LYME, SO-CALLED FROM THE BAS-RELIEF RUNNING AROUND\\nTHE TOP REPRESENTING VARIOUS SCENES OF THE CHASE\\n281", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0309.jp2"}, "310": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0310.jp2"}, "311": {"fulltext": "X^mc 283\\ncheerful scene, and adorned the beds of many grandmothers and\\ngreat-grandmothers of the Legh family. This lace was made in\\nthe reign of Elizabeth, who got Flemish lace-workers over to\\nteach the art of both thread, and gold and silver, lace-making.\\nThere is also some lace of gold and silver mixed, but it is in a\\ndilapidated condition.\\nIn the bay window of this room are six curious little oval\\npictures very well painted on panel, unframed, and fastened to\\nthe oak panelling. They represent the heads of Charles I.,\\nCharles II., James I., Anne of Denmark, William 111., and Queen\\nAnne.\\nThe Stag Parlour communicates with the Drawing-room, and\\nis so called from an ancient coloured bas-relief in plaster running\\nround the top of the room representing the hunting of the stag,\\nfrom finding him in his lair down to his death, and even his pre-\\nparation for the pot There is an oak chimneypiece, in the\\ncentre panel of which is the bas-relief of the house already\\nmentioned, just as it was before Leoni altered it. There are stags\\nand horsemen represented here also, which are slightly comic, as\\nthe stags are about the same size as the house. The portraits in\\nthis room are, a life-size one of Charles I., seated, and wearing a\\nlarge hat and the order of the Garter Henrietta Maria, Charles\\nII., and Charles Edward. In this Stag Parlour some relics are\\npreserved. A pair of embroidered gloves belonging to Charles I.,\\nalso a dagger of his with Carolus on it, an old miniature in\\noils of Sir Peter Legh, an Agnus Dei in coloured wax, in a needle-\\nwork frame worked by Mary, Queen of Scots, and presented by\\nher when she stayed at Lyme. When she was a captive at\\nFotheringay, she went to Buxton for her health and from there\\npaid a visit of some duration to Lyme. There is also a farthing\\nof the first copper coinage (which was in the reign of Charles\\nII.), and which was found quite lately in the chapel of the house.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0311.jp2"}, "312": {"fulltext": "284 X^me\\nwhen a part of the flooring was taken up. It is marked Caro-\\nlus a Carolo. There are six chairs in the room made by\\nChippendale, and covered with old needlework which once\\nformed the cloak of Charles 1., and the shape of which may\\nbe plainly seen. The monogram of the King, C. R. crossed\\n(Carolus Rex), forms the back, and they are very good speci-\\nmens of Chippendale work, and were no doubt thought a much\\ngreater ornament than the cloak of the poor king which was\\ncut up to cover them.\\nOn the other side of the Drawing-room are three rooms filled\\nwith tapestry, and which are known as the Yellow State-rooms.\\nThe middle one has a bed thirteen feet high,^ in which James II.\\nslept when he visited Lyme as Duke of York. Over the fireplace\\nin this room is a good portrait by Jansen of the second wife of\\nSir Peter Legh, nee Dorothy Egerton of Ridley, and widow of Sir\\nRichard Brereton.\\nAnother room (the most delightful in the house) is called the\\nSaloon. It was built by Leoni, faces due south, and opens on the\\nbeautiful Portico. The walls are entirely panelled with oak, hav-\\ning very delicate and beautifully arranged carving by Grinling\\nGibbons. There are six large and two small panels. The six\\nlarge contain emblematic carvings of the Four Seasons, and of\\nMusic and Painting. Of the two small ones, one has the ram s\\nhead with an olive branch in its mouth rising from a ducal coro-\\nnet (the crest of the Leghs) the other has a group of flowers.\\nThis room has a very fine ceiling of Italian design in white and\\ngold, and has four shields at the four corners, with the hand and\\nbanner and seven stars (argent on a sable field), a shield of\\npretence given to the Leghs after the battle of Agincourt. The\\ncarvings are in pear-wood on a background of oak. This is\\nHigh as this bed is, it is considerably second in altitude to one at Belton House, which is eighteen\\nfeet.\u00e2\u0080\u0094", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0312.jp2"}, "313": {"fulltext": "THE LONQ GALLERY, LYME, SHOWING CHIMNEYPIECE WITH THE ARMS\\nOF QUEEN ELIZABETH\\n285", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0313.jp2"}, "314": {"fulltext": "286 X^me\\nthe only house, it is said, in England in which the carvings of\\nGrinling Gibbons are treated as large trophies in the centre, oc-\\ncupying the entire panel. In all other instances his work forms\\nborders and festoons only. There are Louis XV. mirrors and\\nconsoles of fine workmanship, and buhl cabinets, furniture of\\nold Florentine mosaic, and many interesting drawings and other\\nworks of art in this room, which the writer uses as her own\\nsitting-room.\\nThe Long Gallery (which is generally a feature of an Eliza-\\nbethan house) is on the second floor, and is approached by a\\nbroad oak staircase leading from the Library. This gallery is\\none hundred and twenty feet long and eighteen feet wide, and\\nhas a bay window at each end looking east. It is panelled\\nfrom fioor to ceiling, and there is a fine oak chimneypiece at\\nthe south end. From these windows both south and east there\\nare views of the terraced garden, and the park beyond, which\\nrises to thirteen hundred feet above the sea, and is of a very\\nmoorland character. In the middle of the Long Gallery on its\\neast side is a large stone-and-plaster mantelpiece, very like the\\none in the Drawing-room, and reaching to the ceiling. It is\\npainted, and has the arms of Queen Elizabeth in the centre.\\nThe north windows at the farther end look on the entrance\\ngates, from which there is a widely extended view of the Vale\\nof Cheshire, as the ground slopes from the house to the north-\\nwest. On some rising ground to the right may also be seen a\\ntower of stone (not the original one) built as this was by Leoni,\\nknown as Lyme Cage, and which may be seen from almost\\nevery part of the county, and is marked in all the oldest maps.\\nWhy it was so named is not known, but it is thought that\\nperhaps, as Lyme was part of a Royal Forest, this may have\\nbeen a place of detention for deer stealers till they could be\\nsent to Chester to be tried.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0314.jp2"}, "315": {"fulltext": "X^me\\n287\\nParallel with the Long Gallery are bedrooms, in two of\\nwhich are old plaster-and-stone chimneypieces built into the\\nwall and each filled with coats-of-arms. One of these bed-\\nrooms, which used to\\nbe called the Ghost\\nRoom, has a large\\ncupboard with a trap-\\ndoor which on being\\nlifted shows a stair-\\ncase leading to a\\nroom below between\\nthe floors called a\\nPriest s Hole, in\\nwhich the priest was\\nhidden in persecuting\\ndays. In this was\\nfound long ago a\\nskeleton, which has\\ngiven the name of\\nGhost Room.\\nThere is another\\nroom on the ground\\nfloor panelled nearly\\nto the ceiling, called\\nthe Stone Parlour, and\\nthis has for its chim-\\nA CORNER OF THE SALOON\\nneypiece almost the finest one in the house. It reaches to\\nthe ceiling also, is of stone-and-plaster, coloured, and has the\\narms and quarterings of the Molyneux family.\\nOn the first floor is the Library, which contains for the\\ngreater part books of but little interest to the ordinary reader,\\nbut curious, and no doubt valuable, to the connoisseur of old", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0315.jp2"}, "316": {"fulltext": "288\\n%^me\\nGLOVES OF KING CHARLES I.\\nand apparently musty volumes. A Caxton of very early date\\nhas been lately discovered here.\\nThere is a great deal of panelling in the house, and tw^o\\nrooms are rather interesting, as they are panelled from floor to\\nceiling with Span-\\nish mahogany.\\nThere are many\\ninteresting family\\nand historical por-\\ntraits, amongst\\nthem a full-length\\npicture of an old\\nkeeper, with the\\nfollowing inscrip-\\ntion\\nJoseph Watson, who in the 26th year of his age Anno\\nDomini 1674 commenced keeper of Lime Park, in whose service\\nhe continued 70 years, and a. d. 1750, in the 102nd year of his\\nage, he hunted a buck a chase near six hours long, at which\\none Gentleman was present whose ancestors he had hunted\\nwith for 4 generations before, he being the 5th generation he\\nhad hunted with.\\nWith him is associated this story, which is told in the words\\nof the chronicler\\nIn the reign of Queen Anne, Squire Legh was at Maccles-\\nfield with a company of gentlemen among whom was Sir Roger\\nMason, then one of the members for the County of Cheshire.\\nThey being merry and free. Squire Legh said his keeper should\\ndrive 12 brace of stags to Windsor as a present to the Queen.\\nSir Roger opposed this with a wager of 500 guineas that\\nneither his keeper nor any other person could drive 12 brace\\nof stags to Windsor on any occasion. Squire Legh accepted\\nJ", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0316.jp2"}, "317": {"fulltext": "289", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0317.jp2"}, "318": {"fulltext": "290\\nXpme\\nthe wager from Sir Roger, and immediately sent a messenger\\nfor his keeper, who directly came to his master, who told him\\nhe must immediately prepare himself to drive 12 brace of stags\\nto Windsor Forest for a wager of soo guineas. So he gave his\\nmaster this answer, that he would at his command drive him\\n12 brace of stags to Windsor, or any other part of the kingdom\\nby his worship s directions, or he would lose his life and for-\\ntune. He accordingly undertook and accomplished this most\\nA LYME MASTIFF\\nAFTER THE PAINTING BY J. T. NETTLE8HIP\\nastounding performance, which is in the annals of history. This\\nkeeper (Joseph Watson) was a man of low stature, not bulky,\\nof a fresh and pleasant countenance, and he believed he had\\ndrunk a gallon of malt liquour one day with another for about\\n60 years of his time and at the latter end of his life he still\\ndrank plentifully, which was agreeable to his constitution and\\nagreeable to himself. He was allowed by all who knew him\\nto be as fine a keeper as any in England.\\nAs this Joseph Watson lived to the age of 104, and hunted\\nand killed a buck in his 103d year, we must conclude that the", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0318.jp2"}, "319": {"fulltext": "X^me\\n291\\nblue ribbon is not the only passport to longevity. He is buried\\nin Disley churchyard, with a long epitaph on his tombstone.\\nThere is an old en-\\ngraving called A View\\nof Lyme Park, with that\\nextraordinary custom of\\ndriving the Stags, the\\nproperty of Peter Legh,\\nEsq., 1745. The picture\\nshows the stags swim-\\nming through a pond\\nsome already through\\nare fighting with their\\nfront feet (the horns be-\\ning still in velvet), while\\nladies (in hoops) on their\\nhorses and gentlemen in\\ncourt dress are looking\\non. The pond was al-\\nways known as the\\nStag Pond, and was only done away with in 1863, when\\nLord Newton built new stables near it.\\nThere is a fine picture painted for Lord Newton by Mr. Net-\\ntleship of a Lyme mastiff, a breed peculiar to the place. In\\nStow s Annals is to be found a reference to them which shows\\nthat they were then sufficiently highly prized to be considered\\nworthy of forming part of a royal gift sent by James in 1604, to\\nPhilip 111. of Spain. The incident related by Stow is as follows\\n(with spelling modernised)\\nOn the 28th March, 1604, Charles, Earl of Nottingham,\\nLord High Admiral of England, being accompanied and attended\\nwith one Earl, three Barons, 30 Knights, etc., etc.\\nIN THE COURT", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0319.jp2"}, "320": {"fulltext": "292 X^me\\n(Here follows a long and particular account of the embassy,\\nwhich consisted of six hundred persons besides horses and\\ncoaches, and of their reception in the various towns until the\\nmonth of May, when they reached Valladolid, where the Court\\nwas and then the chronicler proceeds.)\\nAt the delivery of the presents by Thomas Knoll Esq., the\\nKing and Queen came in person to view and receive them with a\\nvery kind and princely acceptation. The presents were 6 stately\\nhorses with saddles and saddlecloths very richly and curiously\\nembroidered, that is to say, 3 for the King and 3 for the\\nQueen 2 Crossbows with sheaves of arrows, 4 fowling pieces\\nwith their furniture very richly garnished and inlaid with plates\\nof gold, and a couple of Lyme hounds of singular qualities.\\nThese were all the presents.\\nHere may also be mentioned some early Greek sculptures\\nbrought back from Greece by the late Mr. Legh (the uncle and\\npredecessor of Lord Newton), and some ancient bronzes of Greek\\nand Etruscan workmanship in the Library. There is also in the\\nBright Gallery a bas-relief of the Phygalion marbles in plaster,\\nwhich was given to Mr. Legh by the British Museum as a mark\\nof gratitude for the help he gave the authorities in discovering\\nand bringing them to England. The original bas-relief is in the\\nBritish Museum.\\nThis imperfect history of an ancient house shows how much\\nremains to be known and appreciated in the ancestral homes of\\nEngland, and may perhaps induce others to look more closely\\ninto their own dwellings, and so make discoveries not only in-\\nteresting to themselves but perhaps important to the world at\\nlarge. There is an old story, in a book known but little now,\\ncalled Eyes or No Eyes, where the same walk taken by two\\nboys resulted in the return of the one with his pockets full of\\ntreasures, and of the other bored and fatigued by having seen", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0320.jp2"}, "321": {"fulltext": "X^me 293\\nnothing to amuse or interest him. If the readers of this article\\nimitate the boy with eyes and look at the relics of the past\\naround them, they will find a new charm in their lives, perhaps a\\ntreasure hitherto undreamt of in their family records, and most\\ncertainly an interest which will go on increasing with every fresh\\nresearch.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0321.jp2"}, "322": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0322.jp2"}, "323": {"fulltext": "Ipensburst anb its flDemones\\n295", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0323.jp2"}, "324": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0324.jp2"}, "325": {"fulltext": "PENSHURST FROM THE GARDENS\\nPENSHURST AND ITS MEMORIES\\nBY LADY DE L ISLE AND DUDLEY\\nPENSHURST How many ancient memories are called\\nforth by the name What visions are conjured up,\\nwhat fascinating dreams of brave men and fair women,\\nof noble dames and mail-clad warriors, of courtiers, poets,\\nstatesmen, heroes\\nAs we gaze up at the old grey walls, or wander in the\\nyew-hedged gardens, we can almost fancy we see them passing\\nbefore us in a long and brilliant pageant. If only those walls\\ncould speak and tell us something of the lives they have wit-\\nnessed, of the generations past and gone of how they lived\\nand laughed, worked and played, loved and wept The se-\\ncrets of that great past hold for us a strange fascination. But\\nthe walls only look down gravely upon us, just as they did\\nwell-nigh five centuries ago and so we turn from them and\\ntheir silence to hunt for such information as we can find in\\nthe comparatively few records which are left to us.\\n297", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0325.jp2"}, "326": {"fulltext": "298\\nIpensburst ant) Its flDemoriee\\nA considerable portion of Penshurst, as it now stands, was\\nbuilt towards the end of the fourteenth century by Sir John de\\nPoulteney. He had married the heiress of the De Penchesters,\\nwho for two hundred years had occupied a fortified house on\\nthis site. \\\\n 1341, he received from the Crown permission to\\ncrenellate e., embattle and thus we have in Penshurst\\na nearly perfect example of the house of a wealthy gentleman\\nin the time of Edward III. The chief feature of the house is\\nthe great hall, sixty-four feet in height, which remains unaltered\\nto this day. The hearth in the centre is piled with huge logs\\nfor burning. On either side run the long tables, and the high\\ntable stands on a dais at the upper end. Facing this is the\\nminstrels gallery, supported by a smoke-blackened oaken screen,\\na portion of which is as old as the hall itself.\\nThe hall is so little changed that we are enabled, as we\\npass through it and wend our way up the stone staircase to\\nthe solar or principal chamber (now called the ball-room),\\nto realise almost exactly what life must have been like in those\\nfar-off days.^ Many were the festivities held there, and frequent\\nvisitors came and went. It has often been conjectured that\\namong these were Edward the Black Prince and his wife Joan,\\nthe Fair Maid of Kent.\\nSir John Poulteney dying without male heirs, Penshurst\\npassed to Sir John Devereux, Constable of Dover and Warden\\nof the Cinque Ports, who began adding a long wing to the\\nhouse in the time of Richard II. (afterwards finished by the Duke\\nof Buckingham). After changing hands frequently, and being\\nsuccessively owned by John, Duke of Bedford, and Humphrey-\\nStafford, Duke of Buckingham, and his successors, Penshurst\\nIt would seem that the central hearth must have involved a hole in the roof, for exit of the smoke.\\nBut though there was some sort of contrivance in this direction which had to he taken down in 1840,\\nthat was apparently not earlier than 1700, and those best qualified to judge maintain that there never\\nwas any hole originally. Ed.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0326.jp2"}, "327": {"fulltext": "THE GREAT HALL, PENSHURST, SHOWING ANCIENT CENTRAL HEARTH\\n299", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0327.jp2"}, "328": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0328.jp2"}, "329": {"fulltext": "301", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0329.jp2"}, "330": {"fulltext": "302 ipensburst ant) its HDemories\\nreverted to the Crown in the reign of Henry VIII. on the at-\\ntainder of Edward, Duke of Buckingham. It came into the pos-\\nsession of the present owner s family in 1552, when Edward\\nVI. bestowed the manor, park, and palace (now shortened\\ninto place of Penshurst, with the adjoining lands, mead-\\nows and pastures, woods and trees, on his well-beloved knight\\nSir William Sidney, in reward of services done to him in his\\nfather s lifetime. The services of which he speaks were ren-\\ndered to Edward VI. from babyhood by the whole family.\\nSir William himself had been appointed by Henry VIII. to be\\nchamberlain and tutor to his young son Lady Sidney was his\\ngoverness, and a sister his nurse, while their son Henry was\\nhis constant companion and valued friend. When, on July 7,\\n1553, the young king s short life was ended at Greenwich, he\\ndied in Henry Sidney s arms.\\nSir Henry s wife was Lady Mary Dudley, eldest daughter\\nof John, Earl of Warwick and Viscount Lisle, afterwards Duke\\nof Northumberland. Later on, at the death of her brother Rob-\\nert, Earl of Leicester (Queen Elizabeth s favourite), Lady Mary\\nbecame the only representative of the Dudleys, and in her were\\nunited the houses of Berkeley, Beauchamp, De I lsle, Grey and\\nTalbot. It was she who brought the bear and ragged staff into\\nthe family arms, and through her came the patronage of Lord\\nLeicester s Hospital at Warwick.\\nOn his father s death Sir Henry became owner of Pens-\\nhurst, and retired there with his young wife, thus escaping,\\nfortunately for his own head, all suspicion of conspiracy in her\\nfather-in-law s plot for placing Lady Jane Grey on the throne.\\nMany of Lady Mary s relations had to pay the penalty on\\nTower Hill, and her second brother, John, Earl of Warwick,\\nafter being released from the Tower, returned to his sister s\\nhome at Penshurst, only to die there in a few weeks.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0330.jp2"}, "331": {"fulltext": "303", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0331.jp2"}, "332": {"fulltext": "304\\npensbnrst ant) its fiDemories\\nIt was during this sad and anxious time that a son was\\nborn to them at Penshurst, and christened Philip, after Queen\\nMary s consort Philip Sidney was to become celebrated\\nthrough all ages as the type of a perfect knight and gentleman.\\n1\\n1\\nIII\\nH|\\n^^H^HHsBIIIIBBHBjK ^^wr ^^H^H^I^^^B^^^II^^l\\n1\\nBH^HB\\nSIR PHILIP SIDNEY\\nAFTER ZUCCHERO\\nPenshurst was his cradle, and it was here that he spent his\\nearly childhood, roaming the woods and pleasant glades in\\ncompany with his little sister Mary. There can be no doubt\\nthat it was the fair scenery of his Kentish home which im-\\npressed his poetical mind and inspired him later on to write\\nthe Arcadia.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0332.jp2"}, "333": {"fulltext": "A CORNER IN THE CHINA CLOSET, PENSHURST\\n305", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0333.jp2"}, "334": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0334.jp2"}, "335": {"fulltext": "peneburst anb its fIDemorles\\n307\\nIn 1558, Sir Henry was appointed by Queen Elizabeth to be\\nLord President of the Marches in Wales, and later to be Deputy\\nof Ireland. But though he laboured long and faithfully in her\\nservice, he was ill\\nrewarded and badly\\npaid. The saying,\\nOut of sight, out of\\nmind, seems to have\\nbeen peculiarly ap-\\nplicable to this fickle\\nsovereign, who was\\napt to forget those\\nat a distance giving\\ntheir best years to her\\nservice, and listened\\ntoo readily to evil\\ntongues. In 1574,\\nhis appointment of\\nDeputy was taken\\nfrom him. By this\\ntime he was broken\\nin health and fortune,\\nand Lady Mary had\\nnever recovered her\\nOLD CLOCK IN DINING-ROOM\\nstrength after an at-\\ntack of small-pox,\\ncaught while nursing the Queen through this deadly disease. By\\nway of compensation for her treatment, Elizabeth offered them\\na peerage, which, however, they were too poor to accept, as\\nwe find from a letter written by Lady Mary Sidney at this\\ntime, entreating that such a calamity might be averted from\\nthem in their ruinated state 1", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0335.jp2"}, "336": {"fulltext": "3o8 ipeneburst anb its fIDemones\\nDuring this period of darkness and difficulty their son\\nPhilip must have been a great comfort to them. He had just\\nreturned from travelling abroad, and on his appearing at Court\\nhe was beloved by all who came in contact with him, and\\ngrew in high favour with the Queen, who subsequently spoke\\nof him as the brightest jewel of her crown. But no better\\ntestimony can be found as to his goodness in private and do-\\nmestic life than that contained in a letter from Sir Henry Sidney\\nto his second son Robin. Imitate his virtues, studies,\\nexercises and actions. He is the rare ornament of this age.\\nHe hath the most rare virtues that ever I found in\\nany man.\\nThe history of the hero of Zutphen has often been written,\\nand is too well known to need more than a passing word.\\nIt is a curious fact that early in life he held Church prefer-\\nment, for among the papers at Penshurst we find the follow-\\ning documents\\n(1564) 6 Eliz. May 7. Original Institution by the Bishop of\\nSt. Asaph, under his seal, of Philip Sydney, Scholar, to the\\nchurch of Whyteford.\\n(1564) June 4. Copy of Indenture between Thomas,\\nBishop of St. Asaph, and Philip Sydney, clerk, son of Sir\\nHenrie Sydney, Kt., and William Mostyn, of Mostyn (as\\nsurety).\\nPhilip was then ten years old. At the age of eighteen he\\nwas sent to Paris in the train of the English Ambassador, where\\nhe was made a Baron of France by Charles IX. Thence he\\npassed on to Frankfort, where he made the acquaintance of\\nHubert Languet, with whom he formed the lifelong friendship\\nwhich greatly influenced his subsequent career. From there he\\nwent to Vienna and to Venice, returning to England in is 7s, after\\nthree years of foreign travel. It was while on a- visit, with the", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0336.jp2"}, "337": {"fulltext": "LADY DOROTHY SIDNEY\\nSACHARISSA. AFTER VAN DYCK\\n309", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0337.jp2"}, "338": {"fulltext": "o\\nlo ipensburst an^ its flDemones\\nX\\nQueen, to Lord Essex at Chartley Castle that Philip first saw and\\nloved the beautiful Penelope Devereux, and it is to his romantic\\npassion for her that we owe the sonnets of Astrophel and\\nStella. On her marriage with another and a richer suitor, Sid-\\nney retired to Wilton, the home of his sister Mary, Countess of\\nPembroke there he wrote the Arcadia, and, together with his\\nsister, translated the Psalms into English rhyme. In 1583, he was\\nknighted by the Queen, and in the same year married Frances,\\ndaughter of his father s old friend Sir Francis Walsingham, by\\nwhom he left an only child, Elizabeth, afterwards Countess of\\nRutland. At his death, at the battle of Zutphen, in is86, Pens-\\nhurst (which he had inherited a few months before) passed to his\\nbrother Robert the Robin of his early letters created Vis-\\ncount Lisle, Baron Sidney of Penshurst, and (in 16 18) Earl of\\nLeicester. Robert married a Welsh heiress Barbara Gamage\\nwhose portrait, surrounded by six of her children in the quaint\\ndress of the period, is at Penshurst. One of her sons was made\\na Knight of the Bath by Charles, Prince of Wales, and was after-\\nwards the second Earl of Leicester. Clarendon tells us that he\\nwas a man of great parts, very conversant in books, and much\\naddicted to the mathematics. In 1632, he went as Ambassador\\nto Denmark, and four years later filled the same high office at the\\nCourt of France. He married Lady Dorothy Percy, daughter of\\nthe Earl of Northumberland, the lady whose excellent house-\\nwifery Ben Jonson praises during an unexpected visit which\\nJames 1., paid to Penshurst while hunting in the neighbour-\\nhood. Their eldest daughter, Dorothy, so celebrated for her\\nbeauty and goodness, was born at Sion House in 16 17. This\\nfair lady is perhaps better known as the Sacharissa of\\nWaller s verse. To her he addressed many of his finest poems,\\none of the best examples of which we quote it is entitled\\nThe Banished Self.\\nI", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0338.jp2"}, "339": {"fulltext": "OLD SPINET AT PENSHURST\\n311", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0339.jp2"}, "340": {"fulltext": "312 pensburet an^ its flDemories\\nIt is not that I love you less\\nThan when before your feet 1 lay;\\nBut to prevent the sad increase\\nOf hopeless love, I keep away.\\nIn vain, alas, for everything\\nWhich I have known belong to you\\nYour form does to my fancy bring\\nAnd makes my old wounds bleed anew.\\nBut vow d I have, and never must\\nYour banisht servant trouble you\\nFor if I break, you may mistrust\\nThe vow I made to love you too.\\nThe best-known of all these poems is the exquisite and oft-sung\\nGo, Lovely Rose. But the poet s plaintive verse had no effect\\nupon the hard heart of my Lady Dorothy, who was wooed by\\nmany suitors in vain. However, she was won at length by\\nHenry, Lord Spencer, afterwards Earl of Sunderland. There is a\\ncharming portrait of her at Penshurst, painted probably before her\\nmarriage, which took place at Penshurst in 1639. There still\\nexists a very witty letter, written, on the occasion of her mar-\\nriage, by Dorothy s old admirer. Waller, to her sister, Lady\\nLucy Sidney.\\nLady Sunderland s happy married life lasted but four years,\\nfor in 1643 Sunderland fell at the battle of Newbury, and the same\\nday perished two spirits as brave as himself\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Carnarvon and Falk-\\nland. The young widow left to mourn his loss was well nigh\\nbroken-hearted, as we can tell from the tender letters of consola-\\ntion written to her by her father at this sad time.\\nShe retired with her three children to Afthorp, and after nine\\nyears of widowhood contracted a second alliance with Sir Robert\\nSmythe, of Boundes Park, in the neighbourhood of Penshurst,", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0340.jp2"}, "341": {"fulltext": "THE BALL ROOM, PENSHURST\\n313", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0341.jp2"}, "342": {"fulltext": "314 Ipensburet anb its flDemoriee\\nwhom she survived several years. She lived on to charm all\\nwho approached her by her cleverness and brilliant wit, but more\\nthan all by her kindly and ever-ready sympathy. Lady Sunder-\\nland died at the age of sixty-seven, and lies buried at Brington,\\nin Northamptonshire, the burial-place of the Spencers.\\nThere are two pictures at Penshurst which attract special\\nattention one of a sweet-faced girl leading a spaniel, the other\\nof a handsome lad in armour they are the Princess Elizabeth and\\nthe Duke of Gloucester, children of Charles who were entrusted\\nto Lord Leicester by order of the Parliament. It is interesting to\\nknow that they remained at Penshurst for more than a year, and\\nwere only removed to Carisbrook Castle because it was thought\\nthey were treated with too much respect and attention.\\nOf Dorothy s second brother Algernon, the patriot, there are\\nfour portraits. In one, by Dobson, we see him a grave-looking\\nboy, painted with his brothers, Philip, Lord Lisle, and Robert.\\nAnother shows him later on in life, and was painted for his father\\nwhile in exile at Brussels. In it he is resting his arm on a vol-\\nume, on which we can trace the word Libertas, while in the\\nbackground is a view of Tower Hill, put in after his execution.\\nEarly in life he joined the Parliamentary forces, and was wounded\\nat the battle of Marston Moor. But he opposed the policy of\\nCromwell, and fought only for liberty. At the Restoration,\\nafter the execution on Tower Hill of his friend and comrade Sir\\nHarry Vane, he renounced the joys of home and country, and\\nbecame a wanderer on the face of the earth. How much he\\nloved that home, and how he yearned for it when in exile, we\\nknow from his letters to Lady Sunderland, in one of which he\\nlongs only for a few months quiet at Penshurst. But at the\\nsame time he preferred to stand firmly by the principles which\\nguided his life, and from which he never for one moment\\nswerved, it will, probably, always be a matter of opinion", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0342.jp2"}, "343": {"fulltext": "THE VESTIBULE, PENSHURST\\n315", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0343.jp2"}, "344": {"fulltext": "3i6 pensburet anb its flDemoriee\\nwhether Algernon Sidney was merely obstinate in error or con-\\nsistently honourable in precept, but there can be no doubt as to\\nhis wonderful courage, resolution and high principle.\\nA man with his opinions, and possessing the full courage of\\nthem, was considered in those days far too dangerous a subject,\\nand so he suffered seventeen weary years of banishment from all\\nhe held most dear. It was only on the serious illness of his\\nfather in 1667 that an assurance of safety was granted him\\nthrough his nephew, Lord Sunderland and he returned home to\\nPenshurst just in time to bid the old Earl a last farewell.\\nFor some time he remained in the seclusion of his boyhood s\\nhome but a life of inaction was not for him, and he was per-\\nsuaded by his old friend Penn to stand for Parliament. He stood\\nfirst for Guilford and afterwards for the Rape of Bramber, but in\\nboth cases means were taken to prevent his election. This so\\nmuch disgusted Sidney and Penn that, giving up all hope of\\nfurthering the good of their own country, they turned their\\nthoughts to the New World across the sea, and began to make\\nplans for what could be done there. So the two friends set\\nabout drawing up a system of administration at Worminghurst,\\nPenn s place in Sussex. This was revised by Sidney at Pens-\\nhurst. Thus we see that Pennsylvania owes something to Pens-\\nhurst In 1652, when Penn set sail in the Welcome, he and\\nAlgernon parted never to meet again.\\nThe following year a conspiracy to murder the King, called\\nthe Rye House Plot, was discovered, and Algernon Sidney was\\narrested. He was given no opportunity to defend himself during\\nhis trial by Judge Jeffreys, and was thrown into prison, where he\\nlanguished for many months. On a cold December morning in\\n1683 this great man s life was brought to an end on Tower Hill.\\nAre you ready, sir cried the headsman. Will you rise\\nagain", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0344.jp2"}, "345": {"fulltext": "31", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0345.jp2"}, "346": {"fulltext": "3i8\\npeneburst ant) its flDemoriee\\nNot till the general resurrection. Strike on, was the\\nreply.\\nAnother brother of Lady Dorothy s, of whom there are sev-\\neral portraits, is Henry Sidney the youngest. His good looks\\nand charming manners were such that De Grammont tells us he\\nwent by the name of le beau Sidney. He was many years\\nyounger than his brothers and sisters, being born the same year\\nas Lady Sunderland s own eldest son. He was vain and pleas-\\nure-loving. His sister Dorothy, however, was warmly attached\\nto him, and indeed he seems to have been a favourite with al-\\nmost everyone. Though he was once banished from Court\\nfor his intrigue with the Duchess of York, he again found favour\\nwith Charles II., who made him minister in Holland, and Wil-\\nliam 111. afterwards created him Earl of Romney. We find him\\nat the coronation of King James II., in attendance on the King as\\nMaster of the Robes. The crown being somewhat too large for\\nhim, Mr. Sidney put forth his hands to support it, pleasantly re-\\nmarking to the King, as he did so, This is not the first time\\nour family have supported the crown It is recorded that\\nHenry, Earl of Romney, died of small-pox at his house in St.\\nJames s Square, now called York House. He died unmarried,\\nand left his large fortune to his great-nephew John, who .in his\\nturn became the sixth Earl of Leicester, and a man of some note\\nin his day. He was Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, and was\\ncreated a Knight of the Bath in 1725. He was succeeded by his\\nbrother Jocelin, seventh and last of the Sidneys, Earls of Leices-\\nter, who died in 1742, leaving no son to succeed him. Pens-\\nhurst passed to the daughter of his elder brother, in the hands\\nof whose descendants it still remains.\\nIn addition to the portraits already mentioned there are\\nmany more of interest, and whichever way we turn we meet\\nthe gaze of departed Sidneys. First comes Sir William, who", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0346.jp2"}, "347": {"fulltext": "THE PANEL ROOM, SHOWING ALGERNON SIDNEY S BOOTS\\n319", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0347.jp2"}, "348": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0348.jp2"}, "349": {"fulltext": "SWORD OF ROBERT DUDLEY, EARL OF LEICESTER\\n321", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0349.jp2"}, "350": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0350.jp2"}, "351": {"fulltext": "pensburst ant) its fIDemories\\n323\\ncommanded the right wing of the army at Flodden Field, and\\nto whom Penshurst was granted by Edward VI. Next we see\\nSir Henry and his wife, Lady Mary Dudley. Sir Philip appears\\nas a boy of fourteen with his brother Robert, afterwards Earl of\\nLeicester. These are in Queen Elizabeth s room, which is full\\nof interesting relics of that period. We have here the card-table\\nsaid to have been worked with her own hands, and the tapestry\\nDIANA S BATH\\non the walls placed there by Sir Henry Sidney on the occasion\\nof one of her visits to Penshurst. In this room also stands an\\nebony cabinet of seventeenth-century work, ornamented with\\noil paintings by eminent Dutch masters, and two landscapes by\\nBerghem a present from James 1. to the second Lord Leicester\\nand a beautiful set of carved ivory and ebony furniture of\\nthe same date.\\nLeading from Queen Elizabeth s room is the tapestry room,\\nwhere hang the crystal chandeliers given by Elizabeth to her", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0351.jp2"}, "352": {"fulltext": "324 peneburet anb its fiDemories\\nfavourite, Leicester also some fifteenth-century tapestry, a\\ncurious specimen of Spanish work. Here, too, are a carved\\nebony cabinet with silver mounts, supposed to have belonged\\nto Cardinal Wolsey, and a fine equestrian portrait of Charles 1.\\nby old Stone. We next pass into the china closet, containing\\na collection of Oriental china.\\nIn the picture gallery beyond is a portrait of Queen Eliza-\\nbeth by Zucchero, in all the glory of lace and ruffles, and holding\\na jewelled fan a recent bequest from Lady Strangford. Then\\nthere are pictures of Sir Philip, of his sister Mary, Countess of\\nPembroke, and of Languet, his friend and tutor and here are\\npreserved a pair of jack boots, once the property of Algernon\\nSidney. Turning back, we come through the ball-room, where\\nhang the portraits of many generations of Sidneys, In this\\nroom is a bushel measure of the time of Queen Elizabeth, bear-\\ning the date of 1601, and a table of Henry Vlll. s time.\\nBelow, in the entrance corridor, are the remains of a valu-\\nable collection of armour, consisting of several complete suits\\nof different periods. Besides these there are some muskets,\\ndated 1591, probably the first made and used in England,\\nAmong other curiosities are a tilting helmet belonging to Sir\\nWilliam Sidney, bearing the original crest of the porcupine, and\\na two handed sword belonging to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leices-\\nter, which is mentioned in the inventory of his wardroppe\\nstuffe, hanginges and other furniture, made, in 1583, at Kenil-\\nworth, and carefully preserved at Penshurst.\\nIn this part of the house are a number of pictures by old\\nDutch and Italian masters and in a frame in the drawing-room\\nis a collection of locks of hair belonging to Sir Philip and Al-\\ngernon Sidney and other members of the family. There, too,\\nwe see an inlaid writing-table, which is said to have once been\\nthe property of the peerless Sacharissa herself", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0352.jp2"}, "353": {"fulltext": "v-\\nSUNDIAL IN THE GARDEN, PENSHURST\\n325", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0353.jp2"}, "354": {"fulltext": "326\\npensburst ant) its flDemoiiee\\nOut of doors we are again reminded of this fair lady as we\\nwalk in the park under an avenue of noble limes, still called\\nSacharissa s walk. She herself must often have passed by\\nthe Sidney oak, planted to commemorate the birth of her famous\\nkinsman, and celebrated in Ben Jonson s verse as\\nThat taller tree, which of a nut was set\\nAt his great birth, where all the Muses met.\\nThe gardens, with their well-trimmed yew hedges and\\ngrass-grown walks, are entirely in keeping with the character\\nof the house. And when the apple trees are in bloom, and\\nthe limes bursting into leaf, there is no fairer spot in all the\\nKentish land than the ancient home of the Sidneys.\\nIt may be added, as showing how much admirable landscape gardening can be accomplished in a\\ncomparatively short time, that the beautiful grounds have been practically created since iSso. Any\\ngardens there might have been had ceased to be, through a period of absolute neglect. The yew hedges\\nand Diana s Bath, that look so venerable and courtier-esque to the visitor to-day, did not exist at the\\ndate mentioned. Ed.\\nIN THE GARDENS", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0354.jp2"}, "355": {"fulltext": "MarwicI? Castle\\n327\\ni", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0355.jp2"}, "356": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0356.jp2"}, "357": {"fulltext": "WARWICK CASTLE\\nWARWICK CASTLE\\nBY THE COUNTESS OF WARWICK\\nTHE character of ancient buildings, the various styles of\\narchitecture which they present to us, their beauties as\\nwell as their blemishes, enable any one whose darkness\\nmay be lightened by the diviner radiance of a happy power of\\nimagination to recall the persons and the events with which\\nthese buildings have been associated. The gloomy feudal for-\\ntress carries the mind back to the Middle Ages the abbey,\\nwith its cloisters and windows and all the surroundings of a\\ndim religious light, reminds us of days when the Head of the\\nChurch was indeed Christ s Vicar here upon earth while the\\npalace suggests, side by side with its stories of games played\\nat that great game in which men are but as pawns, pictures of\\n329", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0357.jp2"}, "358": {"fulltext": "330 TMarwick Caetle\\ngallant gentlemen and fair ladies who, though being dead, yet\\nlive before us. England is not so rich in these varied combina-\\ntions of palace, abbey, and tower as is France, for instance,\\nand particularly Touraine. Many of our most famous medieval\\ncastles have been suffered to fall into decay, or, worse still,\\nhave been improved into modern shape by the rash hand of\\nidle innovators.\\nThere is one among our castles, however, which neither\\nTime s defacing fingers nor man s innovating hand has de-\\nspoiled Warwick Castle.\\nPossibly there is no place of this sort so well known the\\nwhole English world over, situated, as it is, within that Shakes-\\npeare country from which proceeded those melodious sounds\\nwhich yet fill the world. It has always been the Mecca of the\\nbest and noblest of literary pilgrims from America. Nearly half\\na century ago Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote for an American\\nmagazine a series of sketches, in one of which, entitled About\\nWarwick, he tells us how through the vista of willows that\\ndroop on either side into the water we behold the grey mag-\\nnificence of Warwick Castle uplifting itself among stately trees\\nand rearing its turrets high above their loftiest branche-s. We\\ncan scarcely think the scene real, so completely do its machi-\\ncolated towers, the long line of battlements, the massive but-\\ntresses, the high-windowed walls, shape out our indistinct ideas\\nof the antique time.\\nForty years ago one who has been well described as the\\nmaster of American prose wrote\\nWarwick Castle! England, and all who speak its lan-\\nguage, owe the successive inheritors of this great living pile of\\nbuildings more than they have ever acknowledged. It did not\\nput on the armour of nature to help out its own. It did\\nnot take advantage of perpendicular rocks on river sides, like", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0358.jp2"}, "359": {"fulltext": "TKnarwicft Castle\\n33^\\nStirling, or Edinburgh, or Chepstow. Now, in these sunny\\ndays of peace, with its venerable mane of cedar trees, it looks\\nlike a grand old lion\\nlying down, with its\\npaw tenderly placed\\nover a tired lamb.\\nInside out, from end\\nto end, it is the har-\\nmonious growth of\\nmany ages, and\\nregisters each age in\\ndistinctive illus-\\ntrations. It shows\\nwhat can be done by\\na dozen generations\\nof wealthy men, in-\\nheriting an estate to\\nwhich every man s laudable ambition is to add something to\\nwhat his forefathers set there. All who have possessed the\\ntitle added each to what he found, both to building and its\\nadormnent.\\nAfter all, a castle, even so famous a one as Warwick, is not\\nso interesting in itself as the scenes which it has witnessed and\\nthe people who have lived in it or visited it. The history of\\nWarwick Castle, for the last three hundred and fifty years at\\nleast, has been no small part of the history of England. Per-\\nsonal and local history in England does not so much begin with\\nthe Reformation as it does in other countries but this one thing\\nis certain, that between the pre-Reformation world and ourselves\\nthere is a great gulf fixed which the historian has tried in vain\\nto bridge. Not that the place before that could have been de-\\nvoid of interest no castle in the stormy times of the Wars of\\nGUY S TOWER", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0359.jp2"}, "360": {"fulltext": "332 TKHarwich Castle\\nthe Roses could have enjoyed the happiness of having no his-\\ntory and surely, if any did, Warwick was not one of them.\\nIts very position, situated in the heart of England, must, from\\nthe time when the Great Alfred s daughter built the keep\\nthe monument of the wisdom and energy of the mighty\\nEthelfleda have been such that, in all the numerous brawls\\nand butcheries dignified by the name of civil war, the posses-\\nsion of it must have been a matter of supreme importance.\\nAnd so it was nearly four centuries before the outbreak of the\\nWars of the Roses that William the Conqueror had made War-\\nwick the base of his operations for his campaign in the North.\\nThe fortress he built there has gone not one stone left upon\\nanother, and so utterly perished that the very site of it is\\npure guess-work.\\nThe legendary Guy and all his feats may be dismissed from\\nany account which makes any pretence to be historical. There is\\na curious account of the garrison of Warwick Castle in the time\\nof Henry 11., when all his legitimate sons were in arms against\\nhim, and the two illegitimate sons of Fair Rosamond alone re-\\nmained faithful. It was occupied for the King and the sheriff s\\naccount rendered for the victualling of the place was this xi.\\nIt. xiii. s. iiii. d. for 20 quarters of Bread Corn xx. s. for 20 quar-\\nters of Malt c. s. for 50 Biefs salted up xxx. s. for 90 cheeses\\nand XX. 5. for salt then laid in for the victualling thereof.\\nOf the importance of Warwick Castle in the Middle Ages we\\ncan well form an idea from Dugdale s statement\\nOf what great regard it was in those times may be dis-\\ncerned by the King s precept to the Archbishop of York, for re-\\nquiring good security of Margery, sister and heir to Thomas, then\\nEarl of Warwick, that she should not take to husband any per-\\nson whatsoever in whom the said King could not repose trust as\\nin his own self: the chief reason being given in these words,", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0360.jp2"}, "361": {"fulltext": "333", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0361.jp2"}, "362": {"fulltext": "334 Maiwick Castle\\nBecause she has a Castle of immense strength, and situated\\ntowards the Marches.\\nNo mention of Warwick Castle would be complete if it left\\nout the famous Earl the King-Maker and the Last of the\\nBarons. Never was the Bear and Ragged Staff held in such\\nhigh esteem as between 1455 and 1470. And when, a few years\\nafter the King-Maker s death, the avaricious Henry VII. annexed\\nhis various manors to the Crown, he got possession of over a\\nhundred of them, to say nothing of the whole of the Channel\\nIslands. A contemporary tells us that at the Earl s house in\\nLondon six oxen were usually eaten at breakfast, and every\\ntavern was full of his meat, for he that had any acquaintance in\\nhis family should have as much sodden i.e. boiled as he could\\ncarry on a long dagger.\\nThe Castle had remained for a very considerable period in\\nthe possession of the successive earls. It next passed to the ill-\\nstarred George, Duke of Clarence, and upon his death, being\\nseized into the King s hands, it continued in the Crown a great\\nwhile.\\nWhen the fam.ous John Dudley became Earl of Warwick,\\nthe Castle was granted to him, as well as divers lands which had\\nbelonged to former earls. Of his fate in connection with the\\nunhappy Lady Jane Grey there is no need to speak here. The\\nCastle and all his estates, upon his attainder, escheated to the\\nCrown. Thanks to the favour with which Robert Dudley, better\\nknown as the Earl of Leicester, was regarded by Queen Elizabeth,\\nhis brother Ambrose received from that Queen a grant of War-\\nwick Castle, together with the dignities of Earl of Warwick and\\nBaron de I lsle, in 1561. Three years later his brother Robert\\nbecame Earl of Leicester.\\nThere were other subjects beside Lord Burghley who groaned\\ninwardly under the extraordinary chardg in Enterteynment of", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0362.jp2"}, "363": {"fulltext": "MarwicI? Castle\\n335\\nthe Queen. Elizabeth had more than the ordinary passion of\\nthe time for rich shews, pleasant devices and all manner\\nof sports that could be devised. Notwithstanding the extent\\nof her various pro-\\ngresses east and west\\nand north and south,\\nthere seemed to be\\nalways something\\nfreshly arranged for\\nher entertainment.\\nIn 1572, on her way\\nto Kenilworth, she\\nstayed at Warwick,\\nand visited the Earl\\nof Warwick at the\\nCastle she had grant-\\ned him eleven years\\nbefore. She came to\\nWarwick on the\\n12th day of August, after dinner, about three of the clock, with\\nthe Countess in the same coach. The Recorder, who appears\\nto have been elected that very day, delivered an oration of por-\\ntentous length even for those times, and the scene that followed\\nis best described in the Black Book, as it is called, belonging to\\nthe Corporation of Warwick\\nThis Oracion ended, Robart Philippes, Bailiff, rising out of\\nthe place where he knelid, approached near to the coche or chari-\\nott wherein her Majestie satt, and coming to the side thereof,\\nkneeling doune, offered unto her Majestie a purse very fair\\nwrought, and in the purse twenty pounds all in sovereigns,\\nwhich her Majestie putting forth her hand received, showing\\nwithall a very benign and gracious countenance, and, smyling,\\nTHE GATEWAY", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0363.jp2"}, "364": {"fulltext": ")36\\nTKHarwick Castle\\nsaid to the Erie of Leycester, My Lord, this is contrary to your\\npromise.\\nHer Majesty made the usual gracious reply, and there-\\nwithal offered her hand to the Bailiff to kiss, who kissed it, and\\nthen she delivered to him again his mace, which she kept in her\\nlappe all the tyme of the Oracion. And after the mace delivered,\\nshe called Mr. Aglionby (the newly elected Recorder) to her,\\nand offered her hand to him to kiss, withall smyling, said, Come\\nhither, little Recorder. It was told me that youe would be afraid\\nto look upon me or to speak boldly, but youe were not so fraid\\nof me as 1 was of youe and 1 now thank you for puttyng me in\\nmynd of my duety, and that should be in me.\\nMr. Griffin, the preacher, approached with a view to present-\\ning a paper, it turned out to be a Latin acrostic advising the\\nQueen to marry. She, evidently not without some suspicion,\\nsaid to him If it be any matter to be answered, we will look\\nupon it and give you answer at my Lord of Warwick s house,\\nand so was desirous to be going as indeed she well might be\\nafter the little Recorder s long Oracion. So they went to\\nthe Castle, the Bailiff, the Recorder, and principal burgesses, with\\ntheir attendants riding two and two together before the Queen,\\nand thus were they marshalled by the heralds and gentlemen\\nushers\\nFirst, the Attendants or Assistants to the Bailief to the\\nnomber of thirty, two and two together in coats of puke (a sort\\nof grey) laid on with lace then the Twelve principal burgesses,\\nin gownes of puke, lyned with satten and damask upon foot\\nclothes then two Bishoppes then the Lords of the Counsail\\nthen next before the Queene s Majestic was placed the Bailief in\\na gowne of scarlet, on the right hand of the Lord Compton who\\nthen was High Shiref of this shire, who therefore would have\\ncarried up his rod into the Toune which was forbidden him by", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0364.jp2"}, "365": {"fulltext": "THE GREAT HALL, WARWICK CASTLE\\n337", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0365.jp2"}, "366": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0366.jp2"}, "367": {"fulltext": "MarvpicF? Castle 339\\nthe Heralds and Gentlemen Ushers, who therefore had placed the\\nBailief on the right hand with his mace.\\nQuestions of precedence were then more frequently to be\\nsettled than now. All seems to have been arranged amicably.\\nArriving at the Castle gate, the burgesses and the attendants\\nformed a lane through which the Queen passed, accompanied by\\nthe Bailiff, still carrieng his mace. That Monday night and\\nTuesday she stayed at the Castle, but on Wednesday was off\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nleaving her household and trayne still at Warwick to Kenil-\\nworth and Lord Leicester. With him she stayed, and on Satur-\\nday night, very late, returned to Warwick. The Puritans\\nwere not yet very troublesome indeed, they never were very\\ntroublesome to her. One is therefore not surprised to hear that\\non the Sunday afternoon the country people, resorting to see\\nher, daunced in the Court of the Castell which thing, as it\\npleased well the country people, so it seemed her Majesty was\\nmuch delighted. It was the Sunday next before St. Bartholo-\\nmew s Day.\\nIn the time of Elizabeth, even as in our days, entertainments\\nended with a display of fireworks and on that Sunday evening\\nAugust 18, 1572, the last day of her visit to Warwick Castle,\\nsupper being over, a showe of fireworks, prepared for that pur-\\npose in the Temple fields, was sett abroche. It represented a\\nmimic siege, in which the Erie of Oxford and his soldiers to the\\nnumber of two hundred, with qualivers and harquebuyces gave\\ndyvers assaults, they in the fort shooting again and casting out\\ndivers fyers terrible to those that had not been in like experiences,\\nvaliant to such as delighted therein, and indeed straunge to them\\nthat understood it not.\\nExhibitions of fireworks in those days seemed more dan-\\ngerous than they are now. The display at the Castle, in\\nwhich the Queen s Majesty took great pleasure, seems to", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0367.jp2"}, "368": {"fulltext": "340 Marwick Caatle\\nhave gone on regardless of the comfate or safety of the\\nToLine, and this mimic siege seems to have been a very for-\\nmidable affair.\\nA ball of fyre fell on a house at the end of the bridge, and\\nset fyre on the same house, the man and wief being both in bed\\nand asleep, which burned so as before any reskue could be, the\\nhouse and all things in it utterly perished, with much ado to save\\nthe man and woman.\\nOther houses caught fire, but were saved through the efforts\\nof the Earl of Oxford, Sir Fulke Greville (father then, though\\nhe did not know it, of the future Lord of Warwick Castle), and\\nother Gentlemen and Tounesmen. If all shows of fireworks\\nwere like this at Warwick Castle they must have been a fear-\\nful joy to the neighbours.\\nNo marvaile it was so little harme was done, for the fire\\nballs and squibbes cast upp did so flye quite over the Castell\\nand into the myddle of the Toune, to the great perill or else\\ngreat feare of the inhabitants of this Borough, and so as, by\\nwhat means is not yet known, foure houses in the Toune\\nwere on fire at once, whereof one had a ball come through\\nboth sides and made a hole as big as a man s head, and\\n(naively adds the MS.) did no more harm.\\nIt would seem that the inhabitants of the Borough may not\\nhave been sorry to get free from the fire balls and squibbes\\ncast upp for the Queen s delight. Any way, on the Monday\\nher Majesty taking that pleasure in the sport she had at Ken-\\nilworth would thither again. One likes to know that she sent\\nfor the old couple who had been burnt out of house and home,\\nand by her Grace s bounty there was given towards their\\nlosses that had been hurt, ^25. 12. 8. (equal in value to over\\n/200 of our money). And so ended her first and last visit to\\nWarwick Castle.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0368.jp2"}, "369": {"fulltext": "MarwicF? Caetle\\n3^1\\nThis Ambrose Dudley, Earl of Warwick, who had enter-\\ntained Elizabeth with the fireworks in 1572, had been struck\\nwith a poisoned bullet at the siege of Havre, and was always\\nafter more or less of an invalid. Although he was married\\nthree times, he had had only one son, who died during his\\nfather s lifetime. Consequently, when the Good Lord War-\\nwick, as he was popularly known, died early in 1590, after\\nA CORNER OF THE HALL\\nthe amputation of his leg, the Castle and almost all his prop-\\nerty reverted to the Crown, with which it rested until the\\nsecond year of James 1.\\nThe connection of the present Earls of Warwick (the Gre-\\nvilles) with Warwick Castle begins with the year 1605, when\\nJames granted Sir Fulke Greville the ruined Castle in fee, at\\nwhich time, as Dugdale wrote\\nIt was a very ruinous thing, the strongest and securest\\nparts thereof being only made use of for the Common Gaol of\\nthe County but he. Sir Fulke, bestowing more than ;^2o,ooo\\ncost, as I have heard, made it a place not only of great strength", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0369.jp2"}, "370": {"fulltext": "342 TKHarwicf? Castle\\nbut of extraordinary delight, with most pleasant gardens, walks,\\nand thickets, such as this part of England can hardly parallel,\\nso that now it is the most princely seat that is within these\\nmidland parts of the Realm.\\nThe Grevilles had long been settled at Milcote in Warwick-\\nshire, but had not enjoyed more consideration than any other\\nof the country gentry till a love match of a younger son of the\\nGrevilles with the greatest heiress of the day raised them to\\nthe front rank. There is at Warwick Castle an account of this\\nmarriage in manuscript, written in 1644. In fhe days of King\\nHenry VIII. I read of Sir Edmund Grevil of Milcote, who had\\nthe wardenship of Elizabeth, one of the daughters of the Lord\\nBrookes son. The Knight made a motion to his ward to be\\nmarried to John, his eldest son but she refused, saying that\\nshe did like better of Fulke, his second son. He told her that\\nhe had no estate of land to maintain her, and that he was in\\nthe King s service of warre beyond the seas and therefore his\\nreturn was very doubtful. She replied and said that she had\\nan estate sufficient both for him and for herself, and that she\\nwould pray for his safeties and wait for his coming. Upon his\\nreturn home, for the worthy services he had performed he was,\\nby King Henry, honoured with Knighthood, and then married\\nElizabeth the daughter of the Lord Brookes son.\\nIt was the grandson of this noble-hearted Elizabeth (Sir\\nFulke Greville) who got from James I. Warwick Castle in 160s,\\nand a peerage in 1621. This Fulke Greville, from all we know\\nof his life, was just the man to expend /20,ooo (a sum equiva-\\nlent to something like 160,000 now) upon restoring his ruined\\ncastle. Born in 1554, he entered Shrewsbury School the same\\nday as Philip Sidney, with whom he formed a close friendship,\\nwhich only ended with Zutphen. He was one of Queen Eliza-\\nbeth s young men, and at once attracted her favour, and", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0370.jp2"}, "371": {"fulltext": "Marwicl^ Caetle 343\\nhad the longest lease and the smoothest time without rub\\nof any of her favourites and such was her attachment to him\\nthat, although she allowed Sidney to go to the war, she refused\\nGreville permission. His body was buried in St. Mary s Church,\\nWarwick, and the epitaph, which he had himself composed,\\nwas engraved upon the monument he had erected during his\\nlifetime. It runs thus\\nFULKE GREVILLE\\nServant to Queen Elizabeth\\nCounsellor to King James\\nAND Friend TO Sir Philip Sidney.\\nWarwick Castle and its owner, Robert, second Lord Brooke,\\nwere destined to play a prominent part in the approaching Civil\\nWar. The first ten years of his possession of the title practically\\ncoincided with what has been called the Stuart dynasty. By\\neducation and connection his only sister was married to Sir\\nArthur Haselrigge, one of the Five Members and by dispo-\\nsition he was strongly attached to the popular party. Soon\\nafter his accession he formed, with Lord Saye and Sele, the de-\\nsign of emigrating to New England, and the colony of Saye-\\nbrooke was founded under a commission from them. But his\\nfate lay not there he was imprisoned for refusing to subscribe\\nto the protestation of fidelity to Charles on his Scottish expe-\\ndition of 1639; and in May, 1640, his house was entered, his\\npapers seized, and he himself again imprisoned. At the com-\\nmencement of the Civil War, as Lord-Lieutenant of Militia for\\nthe counties of Warwick and Stafford, he garrisoned Warwick\\nCastle for the Parliament, and mustered train bands and volun-\\nteers. In one of the earliest skirmishes he defeated the Earl of\\nNorthampton at Kineton, near Banbury. The defeated Earl im-\\nmediately proceeded to lay siege to Warwick Castle but Sir", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0371.jp2"}, "372": {"fulltext": "344 Marwick Castle\\nEdward Peto, who was in command, held out till Lord Brooke\\nrelieved him, after a siege which had lasted three weeks. Un-\\nder Essex, Warwick Castle became the centre and depot of\\nmilitary forces in the West Midlands, and Brooke was made\\ncommander-in-chief of the associated counties. But he did not\\nhold his office long while attacking the Close at Lichfield, he\\nwas struck in the eye by a bullet and killed on the spot. The\\ncurious in such matters observed that the day of his death\\n(March 2d) was St. Chad s St. Chad being the saint to whom\\nLichfield Cathedral is dedicated. The death of this Lord of\\nWarwick Castle brought out a crop of elegies Milton described\\nhim as a right noble and pious lord and Harington\\npraised him as a saint and a martyr in An Elegy upon the\\nMirour of Magnanimitie. The two first in many respects\\nthe two foremost peers of the Greville line thus died though\\nin a different way, each had a violent death.\\nThe second Lord Brooke died in the thirty-sixth year of\\nhis age, having had the satisfaction of freeing his Castle from\\nthe besieging Royalists. Of that siege a quaint account is\\ngiven in a contemporary pamphlet entitled A Letter from a\\nGentleman of Warwick to his friend in London. The follow-\\ning are the most interesting points in it\\nThis day seavennight in the morning, my Lord of North-\\nampton came to Banbury where the Ordnance was delivered, and\\nfrom thence with all speed they went to war to my Lord Brook s\\nCastle. They were confident the Toun would be delivered up\\npresently, but there they found a man of courage, that brave man\\nSir Edward Peto-Peyton, who upon the first message sent the\\nLords an absolute answer he would not deliver the Castle. They\\ngave him 2 hours time and sent again. Sir Edward sent an angry\\nanswer that they might have taken his word at first. The Lords\\nplanted their ordnance against the Castle and discharged one.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0372.jp2"}, "373": {"fulltext": "IKIlarwicFi Castle\\n345\\nSir Edward in requitall discharged 2 and bid them as they liked\\nthat shoot again then Sir Edward made proclamation that all\\nhis friends should\\ndepart the toun, and\\nfor the rest bid them\\nlook to themselves.\\nHe hung out of the\\nCastle a bloody flag\\nand a flag with a\\ncross upon it in defi-\\nance of the Papists,\\nand now shoots night\\nand day with double\\nmus-kets that kill\\n20 score. He shot\\nthrough the house\\nwhere the Lord\\nCompton lay, which\\nmade him remove his\\nlodging. The Lord\\nCompton being planting ordnance upon the Tower of the\\nChurch, Sir Edward discharged an ordnance from the Castle\\nv/hich took off a pinnacle of the Tower and made the Cavaliers\\nstir. Neverthelesse they discharged the ordnance, being one\\nthey took from Banbury, which broke all in pieces, whereupon\\nthey suspect all the ordnance that came from Banbury to be\\npoisoned. A fellow of my Lord of North s going over the street\\nwith a shoulder of mutton in his hand held it up and said\\nLook here, you roundheads, you would be glad of a bit,\\npresently fell down dead, being shot from the Castle. There\\nare not many yet slain the Castle stands untouched and Sir\\nEdward now hangs out his winding sheet and Bible. Our\\nGUY S PORRIDGE-POT", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0373.jp2"}, "374": {"fulltext": "346 TimarvoicR Caetle\\nPapists begin to stir, they disarm private men, and take their\\narms out of their houses. They have taken Sir Edward s\\nhorses out of the stable, 8 for the saddle, they kill my Lord\\nBrooke s Deer. We expect my Lord S. (Say and Sele) or some\\nof our Parliament men to countenance us, for we are almost\\nborne down with great ones.\\nUpon the death of this Lord Brooke, the Parliament, by an\\nordinance, settled the wardship of the young Lord Brooke, his\\nson, upon Catherine, Lady Brooke, widow of the lord who was\\nkilled at Lichfield. With the battle of Edge Hill any close con-\\nnection between the Civil War and Warwick Castle seems to\\nhave ceased. Lady Brooke doubtless remained here in retire-\\nment, looking after her five boys, three of whom ultimately suc-\\nceeded their father in the peerage. A few years after Lord\\nBrooke s death, the Commons, on a message from the Lords,\\nvoted /5ooofor the use of his youngest son a not inconsiderable\\nportion in those days.\\nThe next important event for us in connection with Warwick\\nCastle is a visit which John Evelyn paid, in August 1654. He\\ngives his impression of it in these words\\nWe passed next through Warwick and saw the Castle, the\\ndwelling-house of Lord Brooke and the furniture noble. It is\\nbuilt on an eminent rock which gives prospect into a most goodly\\ngreen, a woody and plentifully watered country the river run-\\nning so delightfully under it that it may pass for one of the most\\nsurprising seats one should meet with. The gardens are prettily\\ndisposed, but might be much improved. Here they show us Sir\\nGuy s great two-handed sword, staff, horse-arms, pot, and other\\nrelics. Hence to Sir Guy s grot, where they say he did his\\npenances and died, it is a squalid den made in the rock,\\ncrowned yet with venerable oaks and looking on a goodly\\nstream, so as were it improved as it might be it were capable of", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0374.jp2"}, "375": {"fulltext": "Umarwicfi Castle\\n347\\nbeing made a most romantic and pleasant place. Near this we\\nwere showed his chapel and gigantic statue hewn out of the solid\\nrock, out of which there were likewise divers other caves cut.\\nEvelyn, as the\\nauthor of Silva well\\nmight do, did not\\nthink much of the\\ngardens in 1654. To\\nbring them to perfec-\\ntion was reserved for\\nthat most luckless of\\nthe heads of the Gre-\\nvilles, George, the\\nsecond Baron, who\\nplanned the park by\\nhis taste and planted\\nthe trees with his\\nhand. The second\\nson, Robert, who became the fourth Lord Brooke, was one of\\nthe six lords sent by the House of Peers, together with twelve\\nof the members of the House of Commons, to present to\\nCharles 11. at the Hague the humble invitation and suppli-\\ncation of the Parliament That His Majesty would be pleased\\nto return and take the government of the Kingdom into his\\nown hands. He was made Recorder of Warwick, and being\\na great traveller, added much to the embellishment of the Castle.\\nIt was to him that the fitting up of the state apartments is due,\\nand he worthily continued to follow in the footsteps of his pre-\\ndecessor in the title. His successors from one generation to\\nanother took pride above everything else in the adornment and\\nbeautification of their castle. In 1746, the eighth Baron was\\ncreated Earl Brooke, and in the last year of the reign of George\\nOLIVER CROMWELL S HELMET", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0375.jp2"}, "376": {"fulltext": "348 Marwick Castle\\nII. the earldom of Warwick, which had been conferred in 1618\\non the family of Rich, becoming extinct, devolved upon Lord\\nBrooke. The son of this first Earl of Warwick was one of the\\nmost reckless of all connoisseurs, and Warwick Castle is in-\\ndebted to him for many valuable gems which his uncle. Sir\\nWilliam Hamilton, collected. Many of the finest specimens of\\nartistic work at Warwick bear testimony to his taste, but the\\nenlargement and improvement of the grounds about the Castle\\nare his special work, and he expended over 100,000 in beauti-\\nfying the interior of his home.\\nThe entrance to the Castle consists of a plain embattled gate-\\nway, leading to a picturesque winding roadway, cut, for upwards\\nof a hundred yards, through the solid rock, and overhung with\\nshrubs, creepers, and trees. This roadway conducts to the outer\\ncourt, where a grand view of the outer walls suddenly bursts\\nupon the visitor, the main features of which are Guy s Tower on\\nthe right, the Gateway in the middle, and Cesar s Tower on the\\nleft.\\nGuy s Tower, so named in honour of the legendary warrior,\\nwas built by the second Thomas de Beauchamp in the reign of\\nRichard II., being completed in 1394. It is twelve-sided, thirty\\nfeet in diameter at the base, with walls ten feet thick, and rises\\nto a height of a hundred and twenty-eight feet. This tower con-\\ntains five floors, each floor having a groined roof and being sub-\\ndivided into one large and two small rooms, the sides of which\\nare pierced with numerous loopholes, commanding in various\\ndirections the curtains which the tower was intended to protect.\\nA staircase of a hundred and thirty-three steps leads to the sum-\\nmit, which is crowned by a machicolated parapet. The vault\\nbeneath has been constructed of great strength, apparently for\\nthe purpose of supporting on the roof some ponderous and\\npowerful engine, calculated to annihilate anything which could", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0376.jp2"}, "377": {"fulltext": "IKIlarwicIi Castle\\n349\\nbe brought against it. The details of the Castle can be best ob-\\nserved from this tower, and it commands a fine view of the sur-\\nrounding countr}^, extending for many miles. The second-floor\\nchamber, now used as a muniment room, was the place of con-\\nfinement of the Earl of Lindsey, who, with his father, was taken\\nprisoner at the battle of Edge Hill.\\nCaesar s Tower was erected between 1350 and 1370 by the\\nfirst Thomas de Beauchamp, and it is a marvel of constructive\\nskill. It is an irregalar polygon, a hundred and forty-seven feet\\nin height, containing four stories, each with a groined roof, and\\nQUEEN ELIZABETH S VIOLIN\\nis crowned by a boldly projecting machicolation. The part\\nfacing outwards forms three segments of a circle, the general\\nconstruction being such as to constitute it a fortress of the\\nmost formidable character. It is built on the solid rock, and\\nwas therefore impervious to the miner. The loopholes through-\\nout are most scientifically contrived, not being cut in the centre\\nof the merlons in each instance, but being pierced in positions\\ncommanding the most advantageous situations, and being made\\navailable either for the long or cross bow. The lower edges of\\nthe loopholes are also sloped at the exact angle requisite to clear\\nthe gallery below. The archers were securely protected by\\nwooden screens, termed mantlets, and by leather curtains, as\\nwell as by the roofs above them. The sloping base of the tower\\nconstituted another formidable medium for launching missiles", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0377.jp2"}, "378": {"fulltext": "350 Marwicft Castle\\nagainst the enemy, being so constructed that a stone or metal\\nprojectile, launched from the machicolation above, would re-\\nbound with a point-blank aim into the breasts of the attacking\\nforce beneath.\\nThe Gateway was constructed in the fourteenth century,\\nand was in ancient times approached by a drawbridge, which\\nformerly spanned the moat, but is now replaced by a stone\\narch. On the inner side of this is the Barbican, projecting some\\nfifty feet from the wall, and rising two stories in height above\\nthe archway. It is flanked by two octagonal turrets, loop-\\nholed for the purpose of defending the bridge and its ap-\\nproaches. Within the drawbridge is a portcullis, and behind\\nthe portcullis are four holes overhead, through which blazing\\npitch, hot lead, or other scarifying compounds could be poured\\non the heads of the assailants. Beyond the portcullis again\\nwere the doors, and passing through the archway is a small\\ncourt, twenty-four feet long by eleven feet wide, into which,\\nif the assailants penetrated, they would fmd themselves en-\\ntirely at the mercy of the defenders above. From a gallery\\nover the archway, on the inner side of the barbican, and from\\nthe walls and towers on all sides, a murderous discharge of\\nmissile could be maintained, the slope of the ground upwards\\nbeing an additional disadvantage to the assailants. At the up-\\nper end of this court is the Gatehouse, with a groined arch-\\nway, which was again defended by a portcullis, loopholes, and\\ndoors, like the barbican. It is flanked by towers, the summits\\nof which are connected by a bridge, enabling the defenders to\\nconcentrate the largest amount of destructive power on the\\ncourt beneath. The outer portcullis is worked by a windlass,\\nwhich still exists in the lower chamber of the south-east turret.\\nThe spacious Inner Court is nearly two acres in extent. In\\nfront stands the Mound, or Keep, studded with trees and", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0378.jp2"}, "379": {"fulltext": "Marwicf? Caetle\\n351\\nQUEEN ELIZABETH S SADDLE\\nshrubs, and crossed by the fortifications, in which the Northern\\nTower forms a prominent object. On the right, connected by\\nwalls of enormous\\nstrength, are two\\nincomplete towers,\\ntermed the Bear and\\nClarence Towers, the\\nformer begun by\\nRichard III., and the\\nlatter probably by\\nhis brother, George,\\nDuke of Clarence.\\nOn the left, extend-\\ning to the Hill Tow-\\ner at the base of the Mound, is the inhabited part of the\\nCastle, altered and enlarged at various times since it was first\\nbuilt, but with so much skill as to be in perfect keeping with\\nthe general aspect of the whole.\\nA fortress is said to have existed here in Roman times\\nand Ethelfleda, daughter of Alfred the Great, is stated to have\\nerected a keep, or dungeon, on the Mound in the year 915.\\nThe Mound is, like many others in England and in other coun-\\ntries, prehistoric. It represents the first idea of a fortress a\\ntruncated cone. The flat top gave space to which large num-\\nbers could flee for safety, while the steep sides were easily\\ndefended. The Saxons did not make earthworks\u00e2\u0080\u0094 they built\\nin stone and what Ethelfleda probably did was to build a keep\\non the top of the Mound, which was destroyed when the Cas-\\ntle was dismantled in the eleventh century. In all probability\\nthe Mound was there in the time of the Romans, as some\\nmarble tablets now in the Castle were dug out of the foot of it\\nabout the end of the last century.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0379.jp2"}, "380": {"fulltext": "352 Marwich Caetle\\nThe Great Hall is sixty-two feet long, thirty-five feet broad,\\nand nearly forty feet high. It is lighted by three large re-\\ncessed windows, and is panelled with oak to a height of nearly\\nnine feet. The floor is composed of red and white marble in\\nlozenge-shaped squares, brought from the neighbourhood of\\nVerona, and the fine hooded mantelpiece of carved stone came\\nfrom Rome. The length of the suite of apartments visible\\nfrom the hall is three hundred and thirty feet, and through the\\ndoorway leading to the chapel a good view used to be obtained\\nof the fine equestrian portrait of Charles 1., by Van Dyck (now\\nin the State Dining-room), in which the King is represented in\\narmour, mounted on a grey horse, and attended by his equerry,\\neither the Chevalier d Epernon or M. de St. Antoine. In the re-\\ncess of the centre window is a remarkably tine cauldron of\\nbell-metal, popularly, though erroneously, styled Guy s Por-\\nridge Pot. It holds about one hundred and twenty gallons,\\nand is in reality a garrison cooking pot, used for seething tlesh\\nrations. It was probably originally made for Sir John Talbot of\\nSwanington, who died in 1365. There is an old couplet relat-\\ning to it, quoted in Nichols s History of Leicestershire, which\\nruns thus\\nThere s nothing left of Talbot s name\\nBut Talbot s pot and Talbot s lane.\\nIt possibly came to Warwick Castle through the marriage of\\nMargaret, daughter of Richard de Beauchamp, with John Talbot,\\nEarl of Shrewsbury, from whom descended the Dudleys, Vis-\\ncounts De L IsIe, afterwards Earls of Warwick. Notwithstand-\\ning that the existence of the redoubtable Guy must be\\nrelegated to the region of myths, a suit of armour seems to\\nhave been appropriated to him at a comparatively early period,\\nas, in the reign of Henry VIII., William Hoggeson, one of the", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0380.jp2"}, "381": {"fulltext": "CXHarwicf? Caetle\\n353\\nyeomen of the King s buttery, was granted the custody of\\nthe sword, with a fee of twopence per diem.\\nThere is here an interesting collection of arms and ar-\\nmour, including a knight in German-fluted armour, on a horse\\nin English armour of\\nthe fifteenth century\\na fine tilting suit, with\\ndouble plates suit of\\nRobert Dudley, Earl\\nof Leicester suit of\\nCharles Graham,\\nMarquis of Montrose\\nbreastplate and mori-\\non of Lord Brooke,\\nkilled at the siege of\\nLichfield, 1643 hel-\\nmet of a Crusader\\nhelmet of Sir Rich-\\nard Wallace Italian\\nDamascene helmet\\nItalian steel helmet\\nhelmet of Oliver\\nCromwell and an-\\nother Puritan helmet;\\na square painted\\nshield of the reign of Edward IV. a pair of large two-handed\\nswords several Claymores a swivel arquebuse, taken from a\\nFrench privateer off the west coast of Ireland in the last cen-\\ntury. An Italian trousseau chest, and a richly carved oak\\nbench, beautifully undercut, stand here. There is also a suit of\\narmour with a curious shaped helmet which belonged to one\\nof the Knights of Ravenna, an order of knighthood instituted\\nIN THE ARMOURY", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0381.jp2"}, "382": {"fulltext": "354 Marwich Castle\\nby a Pope Gregory for the suppression of piracy in the Levant\\nand there are many more interesting pieces of armour which\\nspace forbids describing.\\nThis Great Hall witnessed, in June, 13 12, the grim and im-\\npressive trial by torchlight of Piers Gaveston, when the Earls\\nof Lancaster, Gloucester, Hereford, Arundel, Warwick, and\\nothers imposed sentence of death on the once haughty and in-\\nsolent favourite of Edward 11., who cowered before them with\\nvain entreaties for his life. From the centre window, the view\\nlooking up the river, which flows at a depth of a hundred feet\\nbelow, is replete with charms. Immediately above are the ruins\\nof the old mill, bounded on the right by the timber framework\\nand the buttress wall of the wheel beyond which the Avon,\\ngliding swiftly over the weir, churns up its pale amber waters\\ninto creaming eddies, which speed gaily away to yield up\\ntheir ephemeral existence. Higher up, the old bridge, with its\\nruined arches covered with ivy and tangled plants, throws\\nits shadows into the placid water, picturesquely intensified\\nby a background of tall Scotch firs, ivied to their topmost\\nbranches. Beyond this, the noble arch of the bridge above\\nserves as a framework to complete an unmistakably beautiful\\npicture.\\nThe Red Drawing-room contains the following portraits\\nThomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, in Armour (died 1646), by\\nRubens; Dutch Burgomaster, by Rembrandt; Wife of Sny-\\nders, in close cap, ruff, and embroidered bodice, by Van Dyck\\nAssumption of the Virgin, by Raffael Ambrogio, Marquis\\nde Spinola, in half armour with ruff, by Rubens. This room\\ncontains some fine specimens of Buhl, and a good cabinet of\\ntortoise-shell and ebony, inlaid with ivory, formerly belonging\\nto the Spinola family also three ebony cabinets, containing\\nsome rare and excellent specimens of Limoges enamel, a very", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0382.jp2"}, "383": {"fulltext": "TKIlavwick Castle 355\\nhandsome table of Lavoro di Commesso, inlaid with flower\\npatterns, and formerly belonging to Marie AiTtoinette.\\nThe Cedar Drawing-room is panelled and bordered with\\ncedar, elaborately carved, and the pictures are as follows\\nPauline Adorne, Marchesa di Brignola, and her Son, by\\nVan Dyck Duke of Newcastle, copied from Van Dyck\\nJames Graham, Marquis of Montrose (1612-50), by Van\\nDyck; Queen Henrietta Maria (full length), the bust by\\nVan Dyck, the rest of the picture completed by Sir Joshua\\nReynolds; Charles I. (half length), by Van Dyck; Robert\\nRich, Earl of Warwick (died 1658), by Old Stone; Beatrice\\nCosantia, Princess di Santa Croce, by Van Dyck. In the\\ncentre of the room is a fine Florentine mosaic table. On each\\nside of the fireplace are busts of Henry, Earl of Warwick (died\\n1853), by Nollekens, and Sarah, Countess of Warwick (died\\n185 1), by Bonelli also a bust of Charles I., attributed to Ber-\\nnini, a bust of Proserpine, by Hiram Power, and a bust\\nfrom the Giustiniani Minerva.\\nThe Gilt Drawing-room contains the three oval portraits in\\npanels, Francis (died 1643), Robert (died 1676), and\\nFulke (died 1710), sons of Robert, Lord Brooke (killed 1643),\\nwho followed him in succession; Algernon Percy, Earl of\\nNorthumberland, in armour (half length) (died 1668), by Dob-\\nson Earl of Strafford, in armour (half length) (1593-1641),\\nby Van Dyck; A Warrior, in black velvet doublet with wide\\nsleeves, by Moroni; Marquis of Huntley (died 1649), by\\nVan Dyck; Charles 11. Charles I., in a slashed robe and\\nlaced collar, copied from Van Dyck; A Cavalier, in armour,\\nwith a red scarf and baton, by Van Dyck; Queen Henrietta\\nMaria, copied from Van Dyck; Ignatius Loyola (1491-\\n1556), founder of the order of Jesuits (full length), by Rubens.\\nThis splendid example of the great Flemish painter was painted", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0383.jp2"}, "384": {"fulltext": "356 MarwicF? Caetle\\nfor the Jesuits College at Antwerp, and brought to England at\\nthe time of the French Revolution, when it was bought by\\nGeorge, second Earl of Warwick. Robert Bertie, Earl of Lind-\\nsey, by Cornelius Janssens. The Earl commanded the Royal\\nforces at Edge Hill, where he was wounded and taken prisoner,\\ndying while being conveyed from the field of battle to War-\\nwick Castle. Marquis D Avila, by Van Dyck William,\\nLord Brooke (1694-1727), by Dahl Mary, Lady Brooke,\\nby Dahl Portrait of a boy, by Van Dyck Prince Rupert\\n(half length), by Van Dyck; The Baptism of St John,\\npainted on root of amethyst. In the centre of the room is an\\nexquisite table in pietra dura, from the Grimani Palace at Venice.\\nThe surface is composed of hard and precious stones, such as\\nagate, cornelian, chalcedony, jasper, and lapis lazuli, inlaid on a\\nslab of marble the arms of the Grimani family, ensigned with\\nbadges representing the honours they attained, appear on shields\\nat each corner. On the north side of the room are two beau-\\ntiful early Italian marriage chests, the upper panels of which\\nare delicately painted. There is also a charming statuette of\\nVenus, modelled in wax, by John of Bologna. The wainscot\\nmasks a secret descending staircase.\\nThe State Bedroom opens ofl the Gilt Drawing-room, and\\nfrom the windows of this room the views in each direction are\\nlovely in the extreme. Above, the cascade rippling over the\\nweir amidst picturesque surroundings serves to animate the syl-\\nvan beauties of the scene while beneath, the vast cedar trees\\nspread out their feathery foliage in unruffled and tranquil mag-\\nnificence. In front, the twin streams of the Avon wind grace-\\nfully along, glittering among old elms, in the boughs of which\\nsquirrels frisk about, while rooks caw in their topmost branches.\\nThe bed is of salmon-coloured damask, with coverlets and coun-\\nterpanes of satin, richly embroidered with crimson velvet.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0384.jp2"}, "385": {"fulltext": "I\\nI\\nI", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0385.jp2"}, "386": {"fulltext": "358 MarwicJi Caetle\\nThis, with the furniture in this room, was presented to George,\\nsecond Earl of Warwick, by George III., and formerly belonged\\nto Queen Anne. On the north wall is some fine Brussels tap-\\nestry, manufactured in 1604, and illustrating a garden attached\\nto some mediaeval palace, probably the park at Brussels. The\\nchimneypiece, executed by Westmacott, is of white marble\\nand verd-antique. The room also contains a splendid Buhl\\nwardrobe, a marquetry cabinet, a table inlaid with copper,\\nbrass, and steel and, in the window, a travelling trunk cov-\\nered with leather, formerly belonging to Queen Anne, and\\nbearing her initials, A. R., surmounted by a crown. A picture\\nby Kneller shows Queen Anne in a brocade dress with a collar\\nand jewel of the Order of the Garter.\\nThe Boudoir stands at the end of the state apartments.\\nThe walls are panelled in white and gold, with pale-blue bro-\\ncade, on which hang the following pictures: Henry Vlll.\\n(knee piece), by Hans Holbein the younger a characteristic\\nportrait of great power and vivid delineation, probably painted\\nabout 1540; Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, by Lely\\nBoar Hunt, by Rubens; A Duel, by Huchtenburgh\\nWilliam Russell, First Duke of Bedford (died 1700); St.\\nStephen, by Lorenzo di Credi St. John, by Lorenzo di\\nCredi Two Pictures of Saints, by Andrea del Sarto Anne,\\nFirst Duchess of Bedford, daughter and sole heiress of Robert\\nCarr, Earl of Somerset Pieta, or Dead Christ, by L. Car-\\nracci A Reformer (Miles Coverdale by Willem van\\nMieris Henry IV. of France, in plain black dress (small full-\\nlength copy), by W. Patoun Head of Henry Vlll. when a\\nBoy, by Van Dyck St. Sebastian, by Van Dyck Old\\nWoman eating Pottage by Lamplight, by Gerhard Douw\\nHead of St. Jerome, by Rubens; Card Players, by Teniers;\\nMadonna and Child, by Baroccio Anne Boleyn (small", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0386.jp2"}, "387": {"fulltext": "Marwicf? Castle\\n359\\nhalf-length) and Mary Boleyn, by Hans Holbein the younger;\\nSketch of the Four Evangelists, by Rubens; Two Land-\\nscapes, by Salvator\\nRosa. This room also\\ncontains a curious and\\nhighly finished clock,\\nwith the twelve princi-\\npal events in the life of\\nthe Saviour, enamelled\\nin silver and the head\\nof a Faun in white mar-\\nble, which belonged to\\nthe late Sir Charles\\nGreville.\\nHence, a door in\\nthe wainscot leads to\\nthe Armoury Passage,\\nwhere the pictures are\\nas follows George\\nVilliers, Duke of Buck-\\ningham, and his broth-\\ner Francis, as boys,\\nby Van Dyck Sir\\nC. J. Greville and the\\nDuke of York, by Sir G. Hayter Prince Rupert, and a\\nnumber of miscellaneous portraits. The objects of interest are\\na cast of Oliver Cromwell s face after death a fine collection\\nof mediaeval arms, comprising battle-axes, cross-bows, calivers,\\npikes, arquebuses, daggers, swords, etc. a suit of chain mail,\\na suit of Puritan armour, a Turkish beheading knife, and an\\nintricate lock of exquisite workmanship from a convent.\\nThe Compass-room contains several interesting pictures\\nLADY WARWICK S BOUDOIR", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0387.jp2"}, "388": {"fulltext": "36o MarwicI^ Castle\\nHead of an Old Man, by Rubens St. Paul Lighting a Fire,\\nIsle of Melita, and St. Paul Shaking off the Viper, by Ru-\\nbens; Napoleon I., by David; Landscape, by Salvator\\nRosa; Maximilian Emperor of Germany (1459-1519), and\\nhis Sister, by Lucas Cranach A Storm and Wreck and A\\nSea-piece, by Willem Van de Velde the younger; St. John\\nSt. Peter in Prison and St. Peter Released from Prison,\\nby Peter Neefs the younger Bacchanalian Group, by Rubens;\\nEcce Agnus Dei, by Tiepolo Laughing Boy, by Murillo\\nScene from the Merry Wives of Windsor/ by Stoddart\\nHead of an Old Man, by Rubens; Small Coast Scene, by\\nWillem Van de Velde the younger.\\nIn the Chapel Passage the pictures are: Mother of Ru-\\nbens, by Rubens; David Ryckaert (the painter), by Van\\nDyck Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva (1508-82),\\nby Van Dyck; Still Life, by Schaef; Sarah, Countess of\\nWarwick (died 1851), by Sir G. Hayter Duns Scotus, by\\nAbraham Janssens Diego Sarmiento de Acuna, Conde di Gon-\\ndomar (Spanish Ambassador at the Court of James I.), by Van\\nDyck. Here are also a cleverly executed wood carving of the\\nBattle of the Amazons, after the painting by Rubens at Mu-\\nnich and a fme bust of Edward the Black Prince (1330-76), by\\nChantrey.\\nThe Chapel contains a window of old painted glass, pre-\\nsented by the Earl of Essex in 1759 in the west window is a\\nheadless statuette of a palmer, supposed to represent Guy, Earl\\nof Warwick, in pilgrim s garb.\\nThe Great Dining-room was built by Francis, first Earl of\\nWarwick, about the year 1770; it is gorgeous in carving and\\ngilding in the taste of that period, and is lighted by a Genoese\\ncrystal chandelier. Pictures Large Equestrian Portrait of\\nCharles I., by Van Dyck; Lions, by Rubens; Augusta", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0388.jp2"}, "389": {"fulltext": "Marwicl? Castle 361\\nof Saxe-Coburg, Princess of Wales (1719-72), with the hifant\\nPrince, afterwards George III, by Philips Frederick Louis,\\nPrince of Wales (1707-51), by Richardson. The frames of\\nthese two portraits are very fine, and said to be carved by\\nGrinling Gibbons.\\nThe Billiard-room. Pictures: Joanna, Queen of Naples,\\nascribed by some to L da Vinci, but more probably by Giulio\\nRomano a fine picture View of the Doge s Palace at Venice,\\nwith State Barges in the Foreground, by Canaletto Staircase\\nin the Doge s Palace, by Canaletto Battle Piece, by Jacopo\\nCortese (11 Borgognone) Views by Canaletto; The Castle\\nfrom the River, looking upwards towards the Bridge Barbi-\\ncan, with Guy s and Caesar s Towers, part of the town visible\\non the right Barbican and Towers, from the Courtyard\\nResidential Portion of the Castle The Castle from the\\nPark. The room also contains two fine Portuguese cabinets,\\nand, standing on a buffet, a beautiful collection of red lustre\\nware i.e., a stone ware on the surface of which a lustre is\\nbrought out by burnt metallic oxides of brilliant colours. The\\nbilliard-table has representations of the Wars of the Roses\\ncarved on its panels.\\nRed Sitting-room. Pictures: Fruit, by Scheff; Portrait\\nof a Man, with the inscription y^tatis suce 24 fortimce, by\\nPorbus Duke of Buckingham Duke de Ferrara, by Dosso\\nDossi Two Heads of Old Men, by Rubens The late Earl\\nof Warwick, by Watts; Study of a Head of a Female\\n(Saint), by Luini Don Garcias de Medici, who, at the age of\\nfourteen, is said to have killed his brother, Giovanni, and to have\\nbeen in turn stabbed to death, as an act of retribution, by his\\nfather, Cosimo de Medici, in the year 1562; Madonna and\\nChild, on panel (unknown); Margaret, Duchess of Parma,\\nby Paolo Veronese Boy and Dog, by Romney.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0389.jp2"}, "390": {"fulltext": "362 Marwicft Castle\\nLord Warwick s Room. Interior of a Church, by De\\nrOrme; Pictures of Saints, by Taddeo Gaddi; The Saviour,\\nin tapestry. In the chimneypiece in this room are marble me-\\ndallions of considerable artistic merit.\\nInner Room.^ Louis XIV. of France on a Piebald Horse,\\nby A. F. Van der Meulen French Man-of-War, by Backhuy-\\nsen Head of a Cow, by Berghem A Shipwreck, by Wil-\\nlem Van de Velde the younger; Small Sea-piece, by Brook-\\ning; Interior of a Church, by Emanuel de Witte On the\\nWay to Market, by Jan Breughel (Velvet Breughel) Guard-\\nroom, by Teniers Boy in Armour, by Schalken Martin\\nLuther, by Hans Holbein the younger; Tritons and Sea-\\nhorses, by Van Dyck. The mantelpiece is Italian, of fine\\nworkmanship.\\nThe Cedar Lobby. Pictures: Francis, Earl Brooke,\\nSchoolboy, by Sir J. Reynolds; Two Portraits Boy\\nholding a Fish in one Hand and a Book in the other, by Rom-\\nney Charles I. on Horseback (small), by Van Dyck; Cu-\\npids at Play, by Rubens.\\nThe Library was destroyed by the fire of 1871, and has since\\nbeen restored. The ceiling is panelled and gilt, and the book-\\nshelves are divided by nineteen pilasters, each of a different\\ndesign, in the Renaissance style the principal ornamentation\\nbeing medallions of very artistic execution. The sides of the\\ndoors are of exquisite Italian work, and the hooded marble chim-\\nneypiece, from Venice, is of most graceful design. There is a\\nsmall picture of Dudley, Earl of Leicester, by Van Dyck.\\nThe Shakespeare Room adjoins Cassar s Tower, and contains\\nthe following pictures Queen Elizabeth, by Quillim Stretes\\nAnne Russell, Eldest Daughter of Francis, Second Earl of Bed-\\nford, and Third Wife of Ambrose Dudley, Earl of Warwick\\nRobert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex (1567\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1601);", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0390.jp2"}, "391": {"fulltext": "xraiarwici? Caetle\\n363\\nShakespeare Writing at a Lattice Window John Locke\\n(1632 1704), by Kneller Oliver Cromwell (1599\u00e2\u0080\u00941658), by\\nWalker; Robert, Second Lord Brooke, attributed to Dobson\\nFulke Greville, First\\nLord Brooke (copied\\nfrom the original at\\nCompton Verney), by\\nCousen Sir Philip\\nSidney (1554-86);\\nShakespeare, at-\\ntributed to Cornells\\nJanssens Lady and\\nChild, supposed to\\nbe Mary, Queen of\\nScots and James I.\\nMrs. Siddons with\\nthe Mask of Tragedy,\\nby Sir Joshua Rey-\\nnolds.\\nThe basement\\nstory of the Castle,\\nwhich retains its mas-\\nsive early architecture, is occupied by the domestic offices,\\nof which, perhaps, the Great Servants Hall is the most pic-\\nturesque and interesting.\\nAmong the artistic treasures which the private apartments of\\nthe Castle contain is a unique collection of Shakesperean memo-\\nrials, the most important of which are the only known manu-\\nscripts of Shakespeare s plays, written before the close of the\\nseventeenth century, and were collected by the Earl of Warwick.\\nThe first of these, understood to have been written in the year\\n1 6 10, is the History of King Henry IV. (the two parts condensed\\nJh^j.\\nA CORNER IN LADY WARWICK S ROOM", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0391.jp2"}, "392": {"fulltext": "364 IMHarwicFi Castle\\ninto one), consisting of fifty-tive sheets and a fly-leaf. It is be-\\nlieved to be in the handwriting of Sir Edward Dering, of Sur-\\nrenden, in Kent, and to have been transcribed from some other\\nmanuscript, as no printed copy is known to contain its various\\ncorrections and alterations. The next is a volume of manuscript\\npoetical miscellanies, including a manuscript copy of the tragedy\\nof Julius CcBsar, transcribed in the reign of Charles II. From the\\nvery numerous variations in the manuscript from all the printed\\neditions, it is clearly transcribed from some independent version\\nand, judging from a technical direction regarding the descent of\\nPindarus in Act V., most probably from an ancient play-house\\ncopy. Among the rich collection of the poet s plays and works,\\nthe following are the most prominently noteworthy\\nShakespeare Memorials a fine copy of the Folio Edition of\\n1623; Hamlet, 1607, 1637, 1676; The Whole Contention be-\\ntween the two Famous Houses, Lancaster and Yorke, etc., 161Q\\n(second part of King Henry VI.), King Lear, 1708 Macbeth, ex-\\ntracted from the second folio edition (with manuscript alterations\\nof the text in a very old hand) Merchant of Venice, 1600 Romeo\\nand Juliet, 1599, with autograph of George Stevens. There is\\nalso a most interesting collection of wardrobe and property bills,\\nfor the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, from 171 3 to 17 16, certified\\nfor payment by Cibber, Wilks and Booth.\\nOne of the most interesting places to visit is the lowest stage\\nof Caesar s Tower. A descent of eight steps from the inner court\\nleads to the doorway, and from this sixteen more conduct to the\\nfioor of the dungeon, which is four or five feet below the general\\nbasement. It is a strong stone-vaulted chamber, seventeen feet\\nfour inches long, thirteen feet three inches wide, and fourteen\\nfeet six inches high. The roof is groined in two bays. On the\\nsouth side is a plain semicircular-headed opening, admitting light\\nfrom a deeply splayed window, six inches wide on the exterior.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0392.jp2"}, "393": {"fulltext": "Marwick Castle 365\\nOn the north is a small square aperture to the inner court. On\\nthe south side also is a passage, separated from the prison by iron\\nbars, so as to prevent access. On the walls near the window\\nand door are rudely scratched letters, drawings of bows, cruci-\\nfixes, escutcheons, etc., now nearly obliterated by damp, and the\\nfollowing inscriptions\\nMaster John Smyth Gvner to his Majestye highnes was a\\nprisner in this place and lay here from 1642 tell\\nWilliam Sidiate rote this same, and if my pen had bin bet-\\nter for his sake 1 would have mended every letter.\\nWarwick Castle still stands almost by itself amongst Eng-\\nlish castles. It not only brings before us the people whom it had\\nwitnessed itself, from William the Conqueror down to Queen\\nVictoria, but it enables us to represent what the baronial castles\\nKenilworth and a host of others, which have fallen into decay\\nonce were by it we can reconstruct their halls and their bowers,\\ntheir chapels and their dungeons, and reproduce them to our-\\nselves as they were when great kings and dukes and lords, who\\nhave long since crumbled into dust, filled them with their sound\\nand fury, which now signify nothing we can see the Beau-\\nchamps and the Nevills and the Plantagenets, and those that\\nwent before them and those that came after them, pass through\\nits galleries in knightly procession we can be present there with\\nQueen Elizabeth and Lord Leicester when all was revelry and\\nmirth or with the stout old Sir Edmund Peto, in that dark hour\\nwhen he hung out a cross with a flag upon it in defiance of the\\nPapists. As we walk from gallery to gallery, and from apartment\\nto apartment, we can see, as in some splendid and stately\\nmuseum, everything which has beautified and adorned the lives\\nof seven centuries of English nobles. Over and above all this,\\nwe can see in Warwick Castle the continuity of English life, ever\\nchanging but yet ever the same and as we view objects which\\nAwii", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0393.jp2"}, "394": {"fulltext": "366 Marwicft Castle\\nillustrate the arts and fashions and tastes and fancies of a bygone\\nworld, we can feel conscious of the debt we owe to those who,\\nmindful of the responsibility bequeathed to them, have not been\\nbackward in amassing treasures to be an everlasting possession,\\nnot a sight to be seen and then forgotten.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0394.jp2"}, "395": {"fulltext": "Hlnwick Castle\\n367", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0395.jp2"}, "396": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0396.jp2"}, "397": {"fulltext": "THE KEEP FROM BARNISIDE\\nALNWICK CASTLE^\\nBY A. H. MALAN\\nFOR two centuries after leaving Normandy, the Percies had\\nno property at Alnwick. The first of the stock to take\\nroot in English soil was William de Perci, who ac-\\ncompanied the Conqueror s nephew, the year after Hastings.\\nWhether that was his first visit is uncertain, unshaven as a\\nSaxon, he seems to have been already known among his trim\\ncompatriots by the nickname of Als Gernon at any rate, he\\nreceived from the Conqueror, in 1067, the lands of Emma de\\nPort, who was lady of Semer beside Skarburgh afore the\\nConquest making her his wife, however, without delay, in\\norder to square his conscience. After Gospatrick s rebellion,\\nin such favour was Perci as to get thirty-eight grants in Lin-\\ncolnshire and eighty-six in Yorkshire among the latter being\\nthe lordship of Whitby, where he subsequently built the Abbey,\\non the site of St. Hilda s Priory.\\nCopyright 1899 by William Waldorf Astor.\\n369", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0397.jp2"}, "398": {"fulltext": "370 ainwicK Castle\\nIn the troublous times of Stephen, the Northern chieftains\\nwere in their element levying forces, imposing taxes, and fili-\\nbustering to their hearts content and it seems to have been\\nthe son of that fourth Percy who took Stephen s side and helped\\nto rout the Scots at Northallerton, in 1137, who presently, with\\ntwo other barons, violated the sanctuary of Saint Hilda s chapel\\nby rushing in after a wounded boar and slaying the protesting\\npriest in expiation of which outrage, later on, Whitby s nuns\\nexulting told, how to their house three barons bold must menial\\nservice do, by annually bringing faggots on their backs, to mend\\nthe pier. Other generations succeeded to the northern property,\\nuntil, by the marriage of Agnes de Perci with Jocelyn de Lou-\\nvaine, there came Petworth, as a wedding present from Jocelyn s\\nhalf-sister (Henry the First s second wife), offering an alternative\\nresidence in the south. Subsequently, when the tenth baron\\nnearly killed the Lord Justiciary in Westminster Hall, for giving\\nan adverse judgment, (for which pleasantry he had to pay to\\nthe tune of ten thousand marks,) the Percy of the period gave\\nproof of that fiery, belligerent spirit, which was to be so emi-\\nnently serviceable to his descendants in the turbulent life of\\nthe Border.\\nFor the connection of the Percies with Alnwick began at the\\ncommencement of that protracted strife between the northern\\nand southern kingdoms, lasting from the end of the thirteenth\\nto the end of the fifteenth century, which served to make the\\nmarches a savage and wylde country, full of desartes, and a\\nryghte pore country of everything, saving of beestis. Edward s\\nvassal John Baliol might call himself, but the Scots would have\\nnone of such suzerainty and Sir Henry Percy, proving himself\\none of Edward s ablest assistants, was given custodianship of\\nthe Border fortresses, and made Commissioner for the submis-\\nsion of the Border chiefs. Then vowing, at Karlaverock, to\\nm\\nI", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0398.jp2"}, "399": {"fulltext": "ainwicli Castle 373\\nride roughshod over the Scots, the Knight so well kept his\\nvow (though finding his match in Wallace) as to be recom-\\npensed with the lordship of Alnwick at which time the Castle\\nis believed to have covered its present area.\\nThe oldest existing portions of Alnwick were built by Eus-\\ntace Fitzjohn, husband of Beatrix, heiress of Yvo de Vesci and\\nthe Castle was so far completed by him that, as early as 1135, it\\nis spoken of as being strongly fortified. It remained in that fam-\\nily until William de Vesci, failing legitimate heirs, assigned it, in\\nPRUDHOE TOWER, CHAPEL, ETC.\\ntrust for his natural son, to Beke, Bishop of Durham, by whom\\nit was sold to Sir Henry Percy.\\nIn his brief five years occupation, the new owner managed\\nto reconstruct the stronghold almost throughout and as you\\napproach the Castle from Narrowgate you are at once confronted\\nby his work. For here stands the Barbican, blackened and\\nweathered with centuries of smoke and storm, with its two\\nturrets and archway as it was when he built it. As it was,\\nalso, when, in 1388, Hotspur and his knights sallied out under\\nthe Lion of Louvaine, to meet and fight the Douglas, (but surely\\nnot to slay him, since Hotspur was captured,) at Otterbourn\\nand, again, when, in 1402, he went forth to Homildon and\\ndecimated the Scots, and then, enraged at not being allowed", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0399.jp2"}, "400": {"fulltext": "374 ainwicF? Castle\\nto ransom his prisoners according to custom, drew his rapier\\nat his liege; passing on to purge the country of its oppres-\\nsor, as he thought, but to meet his own fate at Shrewsbury\\nthe first of a race predestined to have their heads impaled on\\nstakes for some generations to come. Outside the Barbican, or,\\nas some say, between it and the Gatehouse, was a drawbridge\\nand portcullis. Within the Gatehouse, let us pause a moment,\\nto get a general idea of things before proceeding.\\nTo the extreme left, the Abbot s Tower, and well to the\\nright, the Auditor s Tower, are both of first Percy date {c. 1310),\\nBetween these points, the Falconer s Tower is modern, but on\\nan old base in fact, the curtains, garrets and bartizans of both\\nCourts have ubiquitous indications of early fourteenth-century\\nmasonry distributed throughout them. Facing us, and too close\\nfor a good effect, is the massive Prudhoe Tower, then the Chapel,\\nthen state-bedrooms, then private apartments and though most\\nof the ashlar work of this undulating outline may be modern, the\\nwhole fafade is much the same as of yore an ancient ground-\\nplan showing the grouping of towers to have been almost identi-\\ncal indeed, with one exception, the lower courses of them all\\nare probably ancient. Yonder second Gatehouse, also, is of the\\nsame era between it and the Auditor s Tower there is a patch\\nof one thousand one hundred and fifty curtain. What is so\\ncompletely changed is, not the general arrangement of the\\nCourts and Keep, but the life within.\\nFor three centuries Border life was one long story of burn-\\ning, rapine, plunder. My lord of Northumberland hath in-\\ndented with the King for the keeping out of the Scots and\\nwarring upon them, formed the terms on which the Warden\\nof the Marches held his lands of the Crown and as the mer-\\ncenaries cost a good deal to the English Exchequer, they were\\nnot to lie still, but be occupied as often as may be, to the", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0400.jp2"}, "401": {"fulltext": "THE BARBICAN, ALNWICK CASTLE\\n375", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0401.jp2"}, "402": {"fulltext": "376 ainwlcl? Castle\\ndamage of the enemy. Here are a few items: At Dunbar,\\ntwenty thousand Scots were accounted for by Sir Henry Percy\\nand Sir Hugh Spenser. In 1438, the second Earl of Northum-\\nberland (Hotspur s son) enclosed and fortified the town of Aln-\\nwick thirteen years later came the Scots and laid the town in\\nashes. In 1528, a Warden s Court was held at Alnwick, when\\nnine were beheaded and five hanged for march-treason and\\nfelony, in 1570, the Scots having been extra-vexatious, Eliza-\\nbeth s troops ravaged Teviot-dale and the neighbourhood, and\\nboasted not only of having levelled fifty castles, but of having\\nburnt five hundred villages. And in this internecine warfare\\nthere was not a pin to choose between Scots and English\\nboth were like wilde wolfis in furiositie the stronger pack\\nfor the time being, naturally getting the best of it.\\nAll then was bustle and animation within the ramparts.\\nThis Baly would resound with the bellowing of cattle hurriedly\\ndriven in for safety, if not reved from a raid with the neighing\\nof the hoblars ponies, or the tramp of the troopers at drill.\\nOutside, too, every man was perforce a fighter. When the\\nScots were on the warpath, the cursed thieves of the Tin-\\ndale were abroad, Armstrongs had left their earths, or the\\nLiddesdale outlaws were up, then Pele would answer Pele, and\\nbeacon beacon and as, in response, the Castle guard rushed\\nout to the fray, it could count on the country-side, since any\\nlaggard, who rallied not to the Azure Lion and the slogan\\nEsperance Percy, well knew he stood the best chance, after-\\nwards, of having his possessions forfeited, as a warning to\\nother cravens.\\nAlways a refuge, and barracks over three thousand men,\\nbesides horses, for example, were maintained within the walls\\nthroughout 13 14, during all which year the Scots were pressing\\nthe gates at times the Castle would be the headquarters of the", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0402.jp2"}, "403": {"fulltext": "ainwicF? Castle\\nZ11\\nChief and his staff and since Northumbria acknowledged no\\nPrince but a Percy, and the Percy s retinue must be as the Court\\nof a Prince, the coming and going of Northumberland Heralds,\\nBannerets and their\\npennon-bearers, Offi-\\ncers of arms. Esquires,\\nand archers some\\nin velvett, others in\\ndamaske and cham-\\nlett would make the\\nwhole place bright and\\nlively enough.\\nBut in these ultra-\\nprosaic days of ours,\\nwhen such camp-life\\nhas all passed, and the\\ngarrison at full strength\\nmusters but one police-\\nman and a watchman,\\nsome strong set-off is\\nneeded to the solemn\\nDRAW-WELL AND NORMAN ARCH IN KEEP COURT\\nquietude of the colour-\\nless enceinte; and that is seductively supplied by the interior.\\nBefore making its acquaintance, however, we must go\\nthrough the farther gateway, to the two octagonal towers in\\nthe inner Baly, erected by the second Percy (1350), whose\\nprowess at Neville s Cross formed the theme of many a ballad.\\nBeneath the string-course in the upper stage of these towers\\nare shields of Bohun, Lancaster, Arundel, Neville, etc.; above\\nthem the old figures in stone are carved with considerable\\nspirit and vigour one lifts some missile to the level of his\\nhead, another strings his cross-bow with foot and hand, a third", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0403.jp2"}, "404": {"fulltext": "2 7^ ainwicK Castle\\npresents his shield, a fourth hurls down a rock. These figures\\nare part and parcel of the merlons, not affixed to them.\\nAt the foot of these towers was another drawbridge and in\\nthe basement of the right-hand one is a prison, with a square hole\\nin the floor, admitting to a dungeon beneath. Let us trust the lat-\\nter was used only for the solitary confinement of contumacious\\nprisoners, and never with the ulterior purpose of an oubliette.\\nHistory records one instance, at least, when this prison would\\nhave been used namely when, in 1527, Sir William Lisle and his\\nmerry men burnt, pillaged, robbed, reved, and heried but at\\nlength, worn out with being hunted down by hound and horn,\\nsurrendered to the Earl of Northumberland meeting him, as he\\nwrites, as I came from mass, in ther shertes with halters\\nabowtes ther nekkes whych persons I stryghtway comytted\\ninto prisons within my pouer Castell of Alnewyk.\\nReleased from prison by special grace of the Constable, we\\nmay now enter the Keep under De Vesci s Norman archway,\\npass the ancient necessary draw-well, and cross the Keep-court,\\ndismissing all ideas of Border-warfare, preparatory to being shown\\nround the rooms.\\nPeople sometimes wonder that the kernel of Alnwick should\\nnot be in keeping with the shell. But what would they It\\nwas never a private residence till modern times. A Warden of\\nthe Marches had to sojourn in whichever of his fortresses circum-\\nstances might dictate, carrying his household goods and gods\\nalong with him. Even under the regime of Henry Algernon,\\nthe magnificent, Hume politely calls him a Tartar chief,\\nwho, when conducting Princess Margaret to the Border, what\\nfor the ryches of his cote, being goldsmyth s worke garnyshed\\nwith perle and stone, and what for the gallant trappings of his\\nhenxmen, was esteemed more like a prince than a subject,\\neven under this fifth Earl, only two of the Percy castles were at", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0404.jp2"}, "405": {"fulltext": "ainwicft Castle ^79\\nall furnished all domestic apparatus going to and fro, in the\\nlord s equipage, from place to place. In fact, so little was\\nAlnwick a family dwelling-place, that sixty years later we find\\nthe surveyor advising _\\nthat, in consequence of\\nthe violence of the east\\nwinds they certainly\\nare bad at Alnwick the\\ncasements should be\\ntaken out during the f\\nlord s absence, to be put\\nin again at his return.\\nSo that when the fourth\\nTHE RAVINE TOWER, FROM THE BATTLEMENTS\\nDuke determined to do\\nup the inside, he was not hampered by many interesting old\\nfittings which ought to be preserved on the contrary, such\\nGeorgian Gothic decoration as had recently been introduced\\nwas far better away. Thus, in providing himself with a ducal\\nresidence, the restorer had a perfectly free hand and the style\\nhe chose was that of an Italian palace of the sixteenth century.\\nThe key to the situation is the Guard-room, approached from\\nthe State-entrance by a broad staircase, wainscotted with white\\nmarble relieved by red granite panels. The floor is of that\\nmosaic known as Venetian pavement, made by taking fragments\\nof marble, assorted as to tint, but of no particular shape, em-\\nbedding them according to design, and then, when the uneven\\nsurface is ground smooth, colouring the cement to match the\\npieces. On the walls are statues, in Sicilian marble, of Britannia\\nand Justice with a frieze by Gotzenberg, depicting four scenes\\nfrom the ballad of Chevy Chace, some of the incidents of which\\nmay well have happened, what time Hotspur s men poached\\nDouglas s deer, or vice versa, and retaliation followed.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0405.jp2"}, "406": {"fulltext": "38o ainwicn Castle\\nThen comes the ante-room, where is especially observable\\nan oak cabinet, made in the Castle studio, from some of the piles\\nof Hadrian s Bridge duly ebonised by seventeen centuries of\\nbrackish Tyne silt. Unfortunately, among the pretty things on\\nits trays, is neither that rynge of gold enamel brought to the\\nEarl of Northumberland from Mary Stuart, at Clifford moor,\\nrequyring him to remember his promise nor that thorn from\\nthe Saviour s Crown, also her gift, which he wore on his neck in\\na gold cross. This cabinet well testifies to the consummate skill\\nof the Alnwick wood-carvers, who seem equally at home on the\\nboldest design, for massive picture-frame or ceiling in soft wood,\\nas upon the minutest detail that tool can grave or hard wood\\ntake. For the Restorer resolved to have all carvings done locally,\\nupon finding how cleverly his men caught on to the Italian style,\\nand how quickly the late Mr. John Brown, after acquiring all that a\\nBuletti could teach, became able (along with his assistants) to put\\ninto execution the most intricate quinque-cento pattern that a\\nMontirolli could design the results of their labours are here\\neverywhere visible, in shutters, doors, dados, picture-frames,\\nfurniture, and ceilings.\\nOne such ceiling is in the Library, adjoining. It is fashioned\\nof yellow pine painted and gilded, and is constructed in four com-\\npartments, with octagonal devices representing History, Poetry,\\nPainting, and Physical Sciences. We can take for granted the\\nfifteen thousand volumes on the shelves, but must stop to have a\\nlook at the huge Missal of Sherborne Abbey. The parchment\\nleaves are twenty and one-half inches by fourteen inches the\\nletters are half an inch long the lettering is arranged in double\\ncolumn July i8th is marked as Dedioacio Ecdesiae Sancte Ma He\\nSchyrh there are portraits of some of the Bishops with their\\nnames the date of the work being between 1396 and 1407. In-\\nteresting to students of the Prayer-book,, as containing some", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0406.jp2"}, "407": {"fulltext": "ainwic?i Castle\\n381\\nvariations from the Sarum Use, it is in other respects not to\\nbe compared with the smaller missals in the case beneath.\\nOne of these was\\nmade for Margaret,\\nQueen of Scotland;\\nand her effigies,\\nwith the autograph\\nof her father, Hen-\\nry VII., appears on\\nthe frontispiece.\\nAnother was illu-\\nmined for William\\nCotton, temp.\\nHenry VI. Anoth-\\ner served for Anne\\nBoleyn s devotion-\\nal exercises hav-\\ning the text of\\nEcclesiastes in\\nFrench, with anno-\\ntations in English.\\nNothing could be\\nmore exquisite\\nthan the colouring\\nof, say, the butterflies in these missals, and one might linger a\\nlong while without wearying of the beauty and delicacy of the\\nilluminations.\\nAcross the ante-room is the Saloon than which there are\\nfiner rooms, but none more pleasing. The play of light streaming\\ninto the deep bay through those lunette-headed windows, and\\nthrowing the walnut carving on the shutters into strongest relief\\nthe general shape and size of the room the elaborate, highly\\nTHE LIBRARY", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0407.jp2"}, "408": {"fulltext": "o\\n82 Hlnwick Castle\\ncoloured ceiling, by its reflexion in the mirror supported by\\nNucci s Dacian slaves, showing how symmetrical are its sections\\nwith the area it has to cover; the warm frieze, and gold satin\\ndamask hangings all combine to make this music-room alto-\\ngether lovely. It is here that the large mural fresco, Salutation\\nof the Virgin, outlined by Michael Angelo and filled in by\\nSebastian del Piombo, is to be found, in two portions also Pope\\nPaul 111., by Titian and a perishing Ferrara.\\nThe Drawing-room, next door, is a very similar state-room,\\nbut on a larger scale crimson and gold being the dominant\\ncolours. It contains, The Gods enjoying the Fruits of the\\nEarth, of which the figures are by Gian Bellini, and the landscape\\nby his pupil, Titian also parts of a diptych by Raffael, and a\\nSunset of Claude, as met with in Volume I., of his Liber\\nVeritatis.\\nNext comes the Dining-room, occupying the site of the first\\nPercy banquet-hall, but in other respects modern. In this ceiling\\nneither the carvings of pine nor the grounds of cedar are coloured\\nin any way but such wood-work in its natural, uncoloured state\\nhas this merit, as viewed from below, that the tone tends to grow\\nwarmer and mellower with age. The pictures here are all family\\nportraits. The place of honour, over the chimneypiece by Tac-\\ncalozzi (ornamentation), and Nucci and Strazza (statuary), is\\ngiven to the first Duke and his Duchess. The latter in all her\\nrobes and grandeur can scarcely be imagined writing to her\\nmother in this prim, school-girl style I shall proceed to tell\\nyou that Sir Hugh Smithson the other day asked me to let him\\nspeak to me, which was to inform me that he designed proposing\\nhimself to my Pappa. You will easily guess how much I was\\nsurprised and confounded at so extraordinary a compliment.\\nSuch maiden modesty was the more remarkable, considering she\\nwas the granddaughter of that Proud Duke of Somerset, who", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0408.jp2"}, "409": {"fulltext": "ainwici? Castle\\n383\\ncarried his pride so far, they say, as to protest, when his second\\nwife tapped him on the shoulder, that his first Duchess, though a\\nPercy, never took\\nsuch a liberty as\\nthat! (That first\\nDuchess was the\\nLady Elizabeth\\nPercy, previously\\nwedded to Henry,\\nEarl of Ogle, and to\\nThomas Thynne.^\\nThen there is\\na portrait of the\\nseventh Earl, who\\nsided with Mary\\nStuart, and, along\\nwith Lord West-\\nmorland, drifted\\nfrom conspiracy\\ninto rebellion\\nurged on to some\\nextent by the Pope,\\nbut more particu-\\nlarly by the captive Duke of Norfolk s sister. Lady Westmor-\\nland, who, when her husband and his ally hung back, braste\\nout against them with great curses so that eventually they\\nmarched on Durham, expelled the Bishop, had mass in the Ca-\\nthedral, and bonfired the Protestant prayer-books. Whereupon\\nElizabeth caused Northumberland s creste, disappor, helme,\\nand mantle to be spurned out of the Chapel and uttermost\\ngates of Windsor, proclaimed the two Earls traitors, and\\nSee Haidwick, and Longleat. Ed.\\nTHE DRAWINQ-ROOM", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0409.jp2"}, "410": {"fulltext": "384 ainwick Castle\\ndespatched a force to the North. Alnwick Castle was seized\\nand spoiled Percy, seeking refuge among the fastnesses of Lid-\\ndesdale, was at length trapped by Hector Armstrong, handed\\nover to the Regent, and in the end beheaded at York.\\nAnother picture represents the ninth Earl, who was supposed\\nto be betrothed to Arabella Stuart. He lived much in London\\nwent in for clairvoyance in a speculative glass was present\\nwith Raleigh, as a volunteer, at the siege of Ostend under Sir F.\\nVere then espoused the cause of James, to unite the two King-\\ndoms and stop Border warfare. Unjustly suspected of com-\\nplicity in the Gunpowder Plot, he was lodged as a State prisoner\\nin the Tower where his incarceration was made very bearable,\\nwhat with his books, his play with Raleigh, his researches in the\\noccult, and the company of those wise men who came to visit him,\\nand who, no doubt, appreciated his Muscatel and Hypocras, not\\nless than his learning. His crystal-gazing in no way interfered\\nwith his shrewd good sense, much of which he embodied in his\\nInstructions to my Son (as if sons did not know more than their\\nfathers) one of his maxims being that you understand your\\nestate generally better than any of your officers another, that\\nthe way to secure the necessary obedience, awe, and contented-\\nness of servants is to left them fynd that ye nede them nott,\\nand that yf one be gone to-day ye can make another do your\\nbusiness to-morrow. With a supercilious contempt for women,\\nhe considered them incapable of making progress in any learn-\\ning, save love, craft, and thriftiness, and blames them for their\\ndefective spelling All that wives are fit for, he affirmed, is to\\nbring up their children in their long-cote age, to obey their hus-\\nbands, and have a care, when great personages visit them, to sit\\nat the end of a table and carve handsomely not but what he\\nwould allow them a littell wasting of sleeve-silk, so perhaps,\\nin two or three ages, a Bed embroidered with slippes may be", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0410.jp2"}, "411": {"fulltext": "385", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0411.jp2"}, "412": {"fulltext": "386 ainwick Castle\\nfinished, or in some lesse time a Purse, or a paire of Hangers.\\nProbably the Wizard Earl was far too canny to air these senti-\\nments before his wife, though such a lofty tone might do for his\\nson while, to belie his words, there was a very near relative of\\nhis, Lady Carlisle, at that moment swaying the Council of\\nKings with a smile, and defeating the machinations of statesmen\\nwith an epigram, as an instance of what could be and was\\nbeing done by a clever and fascinating woman.\\nAt the farther end of the Dining-room is a portrait of the\\nRestorer; and in a corridor leading back to the Guard-room,\\namongst pictures which include Landseer s Return from Deer-\\nstalking, and Canaletto s view of the Castle, there is hung\\nLucy s Chasing the French Fleet into Toulon in which\\naction the fourth Duke served under Admiral Lord Exmouth.\\nClose to the Guard-room is the Chapel. It has a vaulted\\nand groined stone roof; also a wide Alexandrine mosaic frieze,\\nof which the component pieces, of porphyry, serpentine, giallo,\\nand other hard stones, are faced with such extreme nicety and\\nfinish that- not a vestige of cement is to be detected between\\nthe tight joints. We are now in the other half of the Keep\\nand after passing two state bedrooms reach the Duchess s Bou-\\ndoir, there to be absolutely enchanted by the chimneypiece.\\nIn this beautiful piece of work, devices of roses and fruit, with\\nhigh light, half-tone, and shade exquisitely rendered in selected\\nmarbles, are let into panels of lapis lazuli, the brilliant blue of\\nwhich contrasts with the snowy Carrara slabs in which these\\npanels are themselves set and this admirable composition is,\\nas it were, accentuated by Raffael s Madonna del Garofani and\\nSalvati s Holy Family, each in a boxwood frame made in\\nAlnwick, of equal merit as to craftsmanship, though in another\\nbranch of art.\\nOmitting other rooms, a corridor, forming a second library,", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0412.jp2"}, "413": {"fulltext": "ainwick Caetle\\n387\\nconducts to the Auditor s Tower, where are kept the Percy\\nPapers, the Household Book, temp. Henry VIII., and, among\\nother things, that vol-\\nume known in the\\nShakespeare-Bacon con-\\ntroversy as the North-\\numberland House MS.\\ni.e. Bacon s Conference\\nof Pleasure. This is pre-\\nceded by a front leaf\\nwhich originally formed\\nthe wrapper of a parcel\\nthen containing not\\nonly this Conference,\\nBy Francis Bacon (as\\nit affirms), but also the\\nplays Richard II. and\\nRichard III. which\\nplays had vanished be-\\nfore the volume was bound. The curious feature is the name\\nWilliam Shakespeare scribbled several times on the front page\\nnot in the hand that wrote out the contents of the parcel, but\\nto all appearance the same hand that wrote the manuscript which\\nfollows while, besides this, there occurs also the word Honori-\\nficaUlitudino supposed to be an anagram embodying the fact\\nthat Bacon wrote the plays within the wrapper i.e., ab initio\\nhi ludi F. Bacono.\\nThe Castle Museums are in the towers of the inner Baly.\\nIn the lower storey of the Postern Tower, given up to inscribed\\nstones, is a broken slab, with characteristic interlaced work,\\ncommemorating /Edulf, who in the eighth century besieged\\nBerchtfrid, Osred s guardian, in royal Bamburgh some blocks\\nRAFFAEL S MADONNA DEL QAROFANI", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0413.jp2"}, "414": {"fulltext": "388 ainwicF; Caetle\\nwith rock-markings some altars (mostly focus-less) and tomb-\\nstones, from stations along the Roman wall and among the\\ntombstones the pathetic inscription y^miUanus annorum X may\\ndenote one of many victims to the inclement climate of the\\nNorth. In the storey above is a silver copy of the Roman Lanx.\\nThe Lanx itself was found at Corbridge in 1735, and weighs one\\nhundred and forty-nine ounces the material is silver, and the\\ndesign Apollo, Minerva, and Diana, interviewing the Pythian\\npriestess, is in low relief, partly embossed, partly finished with\\nthe graver. The miscellaneous collection, mostly from the local-\\nity, comprises Roman, Celtic, and Saxon objects there are some\\nCeltic brooches, and a few of these Saxon fib idee in which Lord\\nBraybrook s museum at Audley End is so rich. That the small,\\nmuch thought of, Roman Caistor-bowl has on it a Labarum, is,\\npace the erudite Catalogue, most questionable though the two\\nSwastikas on an altar downstairs are obvious enough.\\nMore interesting, perhaps, to some considerably more valu-\\nable as a collection are the Egyptian antiquities in the Ravine\\nTower, got together by the fourth Duke who, in having a\\nBritish frigate at his disposal for some years in Egyptian waters,\\nand in being a personal friend of the Khedive, had quite a unique\\nopportunity of collecting. Rings, amulets, small images of the\\ngods as deposited in tombs, mummified cats, etc., are here in\\nabundance and, conspicuous among the large objects, is an\\nobelisk set up by Harmachis, son of the Sun, presented to\\nLord Prudhoe by Mohammed Ali, Pasha.\\nWe might perhaps leave the precincts by the sally-port, and\\nso get down to that Lion Bridge so often seen in photographs of-\\nthe Castle but the more usual way out is back by the Barbican\\ninto the town. And singularly fortunate are the townsfolk in\\nhaving so close at hand such a splendid recreation-ground as\\nHulne Park.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0414.jp2"}, "415": {"fulltext": "CANALETTO S VIEW OF THE EAST FRONT OF ALNWICK CASTLE\\n389", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0415.jp2"}, "416": {"fulltext": "390\\nainwicFi Castle\\nWhat could be more delightful than the breezy drive up to\\nBrislee, and the view from the menhir when you get there or\\nbetter still the panorama from the tower top? Westward, the\\nwooded crown descends\\nrapidly to stretches of\\nundulating moors which\\nrise in receding ridges\\nand hollows till they\\nculminate in the Cheviot\\nrange northward, more\\nwild scenery, a loch, and\\nthe Aln winding through\\nthe vale eastward, the\\nbetter part of the North-\\numberland coast, from\\nthe Fame Islands down\\nto Warkworth, or be-\\nyond.\\nIf the view were\\nvery beautiful on one of\\nthose east-windy days\\nin April when the very\\npines were protesting in sullen moan, what must it be of a\\nstill August evening, when the sunset brushes beech and birch\\nand fir with a golden glamour; and after that the far-extending\\nslopes become purpled with the mystic glow of heather, and\\nthe nightjar s soothing rattle alone breaks the dewy hush of\\ntwilight\\nWinding round and down, and through covers where wood-\\ncocks breed, the drive lands you eventually at Hulne Abbey.\\nOne of the towers was erected by the fourth Earl of Northum-\\nberland, who was murdered at Topcliff, apparently for the sole\\nTHE CASTLE FROM THE DAIRY GROUND", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0416.jp2"}, "417": {"fulltext": "ainwicli Castle\\n391\\ncrime of not diplomatically watering down the reply of Henry\\nof Richmond to the men of Yorkshire and Durham, on their\\nasking to be let off some taxes the reply being that the\\nKing s decrees are not to\\nbe vilipended by his rude\\nand rusticall people.\\nUnable to get rid of either\\nthe taxes or the King, the\\nrusticall people got rid\\nof the Earl instead the\\nKing promptly ordering\\na public funeral on a\\nscale of unprecedented\\nmagnificence, the cost\\nof which he thought the\\nfamily should feel hon-\\noured in defraying! On\\nthe tower in question is\\nthis inscription\\nIn the year Crist\\nIhu, MCCCC wi VIII.\\nThis Tow r was bilded by Sir Henry Percy, the fourthe Erie of\\nNorthumberland, of gret hon and worth, that espoused Maud\\ny\u00c2\u00ab good lady full of v tew and bewt daughter to Sir Wilm.\\nHarbirt, right noble and hardy Erie of Pembrock, whose soulis\\nGod save and with his grace co sarve y^ bilder of this Tow r.\\nThe site for the Abbey is said to have been chosen by John\\nde Vesci in 1265, from its resemblance to what he had seen in\\nthe Holy Land and whether or not the eminence opposite be\\nlike Carmel, or the Aln like that ancient Kishon, the view is\\ncertainly extremely pleasing so pleasing, that the plateau in\\nfront is annually used for a certain picnic from Alnwick when,\\nGARRET ON BATTLEMENTS OF KEEP", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0417.jp2"}, "418": {"fulltext": "392 ainwicti Castle\\nlittle though the scene needs improving, a pretty frock or two\\nmay give just that Turneresque dash of colour in the foreground\\nv^^hich arrests the eye and completes the picture.\\nDescending to the riverside, we soon pass a limpid basin\\nstyled the Lady s Well where surely that altar in the Museum\\ndedicated to the nymphs worthy to be worshipped should\\nhave come from shortly after are observed some good silver firs\\nby the roadside farther on is a fine larch by the Duchess s bridge;\\nand, at a little distance beyond that, we come to Alnwick Abbey\\nGateway. Founded in 1147 by Eustace Fitzjohn, for a colony of\\nwhite canons, the buildings once covered a large space, as may\\nbe well seen from the opposite bank of the river. For recent\\nexcavations resulted in laying bare the foundations of the Abbey\\nitself, with its chapels and chapter-house, and also the founda-\\ntions of the Prater, calefactorium, etc., and the position of these\\nhas now been permanently recorded by lines of clinkers being\\naccurately laid down flush with the turf, after the earth was\\nagain filled in. From this point to the Lion Bridge the ornamen-\\ntal trees bespeak pleasure-grounds rather than a Park and the\\nriver, here broadened out and of smooth current, is enlivened by\\nwild-duck and geese of various sorts badly ballasted Chinese,\\ndown by the bows noisy Canadians, that ought to fly high in\\nair up the reach or right away, but do not quaint New Hollands,\\nlike lesser bustards in build elegant little Brents and pugna-\\ncious, cinnamon-tailed Egyptians, humping their backs, just as\\nthey are drawn on a cartouche.\\nDid we follow the river a few miles down, we should arrive\\nat Alnwick s little watering-place, Al-ne-mooth, or Ailmouth, as\\nyou may think fit to pronounce it a station or so beyond, by\\nrail, is Warkworth. Warkworth Hermitage the visitor would\\nbe well advised to try and see. It is a small chapel situated\\non the brink of the lordly Coquet, singularly complete in all its", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0418.jp2"}, "419": {"fulltext": "ainwtck Castle\\n09.\\nA VIEW IN THE DAIRY GROUND\\ndetails, but quite invisible from the river-walk, except as to its\\nwindow, being excavated in the heart of the sandstone rock.\\nFrom the tracery,\\netc., it is conjec-\\ntured to have been\\nfabricated by re-\\nmoval of the sand-\\nstone piecemeal\\nin the time of the\\nthird Baron Percy,\\n{p. 1350) as a chan-\\ntry where masses\\nshould be held for\\nhis departed wife,\\nwhose recumbent\\neffigy lies south of the altar, with her husband s figure at its\\nfeet, in bacinet, hauberk and pourpoint.\\nIn 1531, the then Earl of Northumberland assigned twenty\\nmarks annually to Sir George Lancaster for masses, granting him\\nmyn armytage bilded in a rock of stone and certain later\\nwalling, in front of the face of the rock, is probably of the latter\\ndate.\\nOf Warkworth Castle I am unable to say anything, though\\nmaking the expedition on purpose to see it. For being taken\\noff from the Hermitage, in the cause of Northumbrian archae-\\nology, to photograph some rock-markings they proved, by the\\nway, to be quite an exception to the usual kind of scribings,\\nbeing spirals, and not concentric circles the afternoon was so\\nfar advanced on our return that it was a question of Castle, or\\ntea. None will doubt which choice we made for, in spite of\\nhis pretensions, the average antiquarian s zeal is altogether a\\nthing of nought when his creature comforts are at stake.", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0419.jp2"}, "420": {"fulltext": "lhJe 08\\ny", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0420.jp2"}, "421": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0421.jp2"}, "422": {"fulltext": "1", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0422.jp2"}, "423": {"fulltext": "I", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0423.jp2"}, "424": {"fulltext": "I\\nI\\nm", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0424.jp2"}, "425": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0425.jp2"}, "426": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY\\n..y \u00e2\u0096\u00a0\\\\r\\\\y^:^^:f^,mm\\n.-^^^^V^", "height": "3853", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "famoushomesofgre00mala_0426.jp2"}}