Category: History - British
HOLLAND HOUSE MIDDLESEX From a Drawing by _C. J. Richardson, F.S.A._ HOLLAND HOUSE, INTERIOR ---- ---- _C. J. Richardson, F.S.A._ BLICKLING HALL NORFOLK ---- _J. D. Harding._ BURGHLEY HOUSE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ---- _T. Allom._ CASTLE ASHBY ---- ---- _F. W. Hulme._ KIRBY HALL ----...
The effigy may be considered as one of the finest works of this class executed during the middle ages, and it derives additional interest from the fact of the original contract...
13. Part 13In the earliest records belonging to the family, or to be found in the Tower of London, the place is spelt Broham and Bruham; and this, singularly enough, while it differs from...
6. Part 6Ingestre Hall is pleasantly situated on a gentle declivity, sloping towards the river Trent, in a large and richly wooded park, which contains some remarkably fine beech and oth...
4. Part 4Wollatton Hall, the seat of the Right Hon. Digby Willoughby, the seventh Baron Middleton, is situate three miles west of Nottingham, in the centre of a finely wooded park, remar...
17. Part 17[56] Richard de Beauchamp was born on the 28th of January. 1381, and succeeded his father in the Earldom of Warwick in 1401. At the coronation of Henry IV., he was created a Kni...
10. Part 10Aston Hall, the residence of James Watt, Esq.--whose name has been rendered “famous for all time” by the genius and enterprise of his great father--is situate about two miles fr...
15. Part 15Fountains Abbey[72] ranks among the most picturesque and interesting of the monastic ruins of England. It was founded early in the twelfth century for monks of the Cistercian Or...
16. Part 16[30] The fertility and other natural advantages of “the vale,” and, we may believe, its picturesque beauties also, in remote times, determined the ancient nobility of Staffordsh...
12. Part 12The monastery having been thus founded, its power was augmented by various other “pious and bountiful gifts;” among the rest, in the time of Henry II., the Earl of Leicester bec...
2. Part 2“Also a voluminous MS. collection of the proceedings in Cortes, from the earliest period, copied from the archives of the King of Spain. The original correspondence of Don Pedro...
3. Part 3The gorgeous Ball-room succeeds, fifty feet in length, twenty-eight in width, and twenty-six in height. The walls are painted with historical and other subjects by Laguerre. The...
14. Part 14Charlton House, the seat of the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, stands in the centre of a spacious park, a short distance from the ancient town of Malmesbury. The manor in “old t...
5. Part 5Montacute House, and the estates adjoining, have been for several centuries the property of the family of Phelips; who originally “came over” with the Conqueror, and in consider...
7. Part 7Trentham, the home or settlement on the Trent, has been a village since the days of the Saxons, who adopted this fertile nook on the banks of a beautiful stream as a fit abode f...
8. Part 8From these interesting documents we learn also that the Mansion at Hengrave was furnished with all necessaries from sources within its own boundaries--a mill, a forge, and a far...
1. Part 1HOLLAND HOUSE MIDDLESEX From a Drawing by _C. J. Richardson, F.S.A._ HOLLAND HOUSE, INTERIOR ---- ---- _C. J. Richardson, F.S.A._ BLICKLING HALL NORFOLK ---- _J. D. Harding._ BU...
9. Part 9“The Manor of Loseley,” according to Mr. Kempe, in his introduction to “The Loseley Manuscripts,”[47] “bore its present appellation from the Saxon times.” Osmond gave it to King...