New Castle, historic and picturesque . -; but now itseems a pleasing and surprising coincidence that the house shouldbear the name of the first recorded inn-keeper of New the consent of the reader and the public, therefore, I 76 XEW CASTLE hereby cancel ray grounds for christening Wentworth Hotel, anddo now declare it was in lionor and memory of Samuel Went-worth, the earliest inn-keeper of Kew Castle. And hereafter thearras of Wentworth Hotel raay raost appropriately be a Dolphin;and let it be that swiftly-swiraraing, brilliantly-colored corypheuethat carried Arion to The
New Castle, historic and picturesque . -; but now itseems a pleasing and surprising coincidence that the house shouldbear the name of the first recorded inn-keeper of New the consent of the reader and the public, therefore, I 76 XEW CASTLE hereby cancel ray grounds for christening Wentworth Hotel, anddo now declare it was in lionor and memory of Samuel Went-worth, the earliest inn-keeper of Kew Castle. And hereafter thearras of Wentworth Hotel raay raost appropriately be a Dolphin;and let it be that swiftly-swiraraing, brilliantly-colored corypheuethat carried Arion to The ramifications of the Wentworth blood are endless, both inthis country and England. Its annals are full of pictorial andliterary material, which it is a wonder have not been more was a race of no common anatomy. Among them, I remembera real Romeo and Juliet; a pair of nineteen-year-old and desper-ately unfortunate lovers, who divided a phial of poison, drank anddied. Browning has indeed written into tragedy the history ofone Wentworth, the Earl of Strafford; and that title, as well asanother belonging to the family, Rockingham, are perpetuated inthe names of two New Hampshire counties. The Wentworthgenealogies have been compiled in three volumes by Hon. JohnWentworth of Chicago, in the most minute manner, through alltheir windings. If anyone should suppose himself to be athorough-going plebeian, let him hunt these books, and perhapshe will be as astonished as the writer of these pages, to find somematernal great-grandmother was a Wentworth, and that he hascrept into the hou
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