Stately Homes
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共 58 段- The present peer, the noble owner of princely Alton, of Inge
- “‘Study wisdom and make thy heart joyful.’
- “‘Dear Sir—It is with deep sorrow that I venture to inform y
- The grand staircase conducts, first to the Portrait Gallery,
- Lady Emma’s cottage—Lady Emma being the first Countess of Mo
- The bed-rooms—“the white room,” the “red room,” the “best ro
- After several years the fortified honours and estates of the
- The two sons of the first duke (as we have seen) bore the sa
- Its park and grounds are among the most perfect in the kingd
- Lord George Henry Cavendish, brother to the Duke of Devonshi
- Elizabeth Hardwick was, it will have been seen, one of the c
- Thus lived Hobbes, whether at Hardwick or at Chatsworth, and
- One of the first objects that will be noticed by the visitor
- That brilliant nobleman—whose principal crimes were his weal
- We cannot do better than ask our readers to accompany Mr. Pa
- Three days later, he was created DUKE of Warwick, with prece
- Intimately connected with Warwick Castle and its former lord
- His son, or grandson, Sir Henry Vernon, was made governor to
- Against one of the pillars is a massive circular Norman font
- Ascending the STEPS, of which we give an engraving, the visi
- This Sir Robert was returned in the seventeenth year of Edwa
- The part of Bakewell Church, however, with which we have now
- It does not appear that after her accession to the throne Qu
- Of the house and its gardens, Evelyn, on the 16th April, 168
- At the time of the Domesday Survey of William the Conqueror,
- The family of Cavendish, to whose noble head Chatsworth belo
- The STATE DRESSING-ROOM, the coved ceiling of which is beaut
- The BALL-ROOM, or BANQUETING-ROOM, as it is sometimes called
- The GREAT CONSERVATORY, one of the wonders of Chatsworth, be
- Arms, Earl of Shrewsbury, 9 to 14, 16, 17;
- Dying without issue he was succeeded by his brother, Thomas
- “When the devil perceived the inficious disposition of this
- The Mausoleum is situated on the summit of an eminence on th
- and at the base, “In memoriam Matris,” the following:—“This
- In the fifth year of King John, Baldwin de Betune gave the m
- The Dining-room contains the portraits of men made famous by
- _En route_ to the house, we pass, to the left, in a hollow a
- Sir Nathaniel Curzon died in 1758, and was succeeded by his
- In the Curzon Chapel, south transept, are fine old monuments
- [Illustration: _The Garden._]
- The present noble peer, William Alleyne Cecil, third Marquis
- In 1745 Hever Castle was purchased by Timothy Waldo, of Lond
- The Drawing-room opens from the Saloon, and is over the Libr
- The pretty little Church of Hampton Lovett—one of the burial
- The present noble owner of Melbourne Hall and its surroundin
- Edmund Anguish, second son of Alice Allin, and her husband,
- WE do not refer to the earlier families who held the title o
- “The church is raised on a terrace with a noble flight of st
- In 1659 he was, in Pepys’s own words, “this day voted out of
- The Kitchen, though it has a certain air of rudeness, and ha
- The ancient arms of the Grosvenors, settled in the famous Sc
- This reckless act coloured all his subsequent life: it led t
- The Drawing-room, opposite the Library, is a lovely apartmen
- The family of Pelham, which, with that of Clinton, is repres
- We have just alluded to Sir Charles Cavendish, and this lead
- The Duke of Portland’s seats are—Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamsh
- Welbeck formerly had its share of royal visits, and of these
- [12] The grounds are on Mondays freely open to all comers; b