RM2CE46JX–. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . EDITED BYA. H. MALAN. I 0 & I COMPTON WYNYATES LEVENS HALL NAWORTH CASTLE COTEHELE LONGLEAT GLAMIS
RM2CE43G3–. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . e con-taining wall became ruinous, and an accident chanced to revealit. Besides the entrance up in the chimney, the back of the openhearth was made to be removable and again replaceable, in casea few kegs needed to be stored away hastily. And the onlyobjection one saw to the place, as a refuge, was the fact that itmust have been most uncomfortably warm when the adjacentoven was in full heat. The secret place at Cotehele was not at the side of, butrather above, the great oven. It was discovered and openedsome years ago, and nothing but a
RM2CF09W4–. Highways and byways in Devon and Cornwall. scape to hisown mother wit; and years after when the wrongs of Lancasterhad long since been avenged on Bosworth Field, and SirRichard had risen to high office in the household of the TudorPrince, he built this chapel as a lasting memorial of gratitudeto heaven for the help sent him in an hour of great peril. Here at Cotehele, early in the last century, a lady of thehouse of Edgcumbe fell ill, was pronounced to have died, andwas laid in the family vault. That night the greedy sexton whoknew she had been buried with rings of great value on her hands,w
RM2CE44J0–. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . PORCH OF THE GUARD TOWER. 65 66 Cotcbele illustrious owner of Cotehele to have to lly from some neigh-bouring squire, he would find it extremely difficult in his ownwoods to secure cover enough to screen him. Gravel pathswind downwards on either side of the ravine, past old ponds anda circular dovecot, until a palisade stretching across, whose gatesmust needs be locked, seems to bar farther progress in thatdirection. For the fortress above would otherwise be by no means im-pregnable against the attacks of hordes of trippers from Ply-mout
RM2CE3RT0–. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . e things : a colossal Cairngorm brooch given by thecounty to Sir Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde, and by him left to theDuke ; a wooden drinking-cup of the Marquis of Argyll, very sim-ilar to one at Cotehele ; two Celtic gold cloak-fasteners, and anarmlet; and a strip, with flowers outlined on it in what would nowbe called crewel-stitch, from the blanket used by the ninth Earl inGlasgow prison, before he was removed to Edinburgh. That un-fortunate Earl fought for the King at Worcester and Dunbar ;then submitted himself to Cromwell ; but was s
RM2CE442A–. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . 7i. THE HALL, COTEHELE, SHOWING FIREPLACE 73 Cotebcle 75 The Chapel had never been successfully photographed ; and itwas desired to bring out the detail in the east window (much ofthis is lost in the reproduction) and the work on the altar-cloth.The difficulty in the way of obtaining a good photograph wasthis :—Except for the east window, the Chapel is lighted only by atiny west window, and the opened south door; and it was over-come thus. A huge tarpaulin, suspended by a yard, was hungoutside the east window, completely darkening both i
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