Sketches of leafy Warwickshire, rural and urban . tens their effect. The absolute hoariness of the house is awe-inspiring. View-ing the building from outside, it might well be imagined by thebeholder that it gave lodging to-day to a Tudor family. And the inside of the house is as eloquent of Tudor daysas the outside. There is a King Hals chamber, where thevisitor can walk in the footsteps of the Merrie Monarch; itis also certain that Good Queen Bess haunted the rooms ofthis mansion when visiting Elizabeth Spencer, the Canonburyheiress, who had eloped from Islington with Lord WilliamCompton, an
Sketches of leafy Warwickshire, rural and urban . tens their effect. The absolute hoariness of the house is awe-inspiring. View-ing the building from outside, it might well be imagined by thebeholder that it gave lodging to-day to a Tudor family. And the inside of the house is as eloquent of Tudor daysas the outside. There is a King Hals chamber, where thevisitor can walk in the footsteps of the Merrie Monarch; itis also certain that Good Queen Bess haunted the rooms ofthis mansion when visiting Elizabeth Spencer, the Canonburyheiress, who had eloped from Islington with Lord WilliamCompton, and married him. Inside and out, the house is redolent of romantic and war-like memories. It has a close connection with the battle ofEdge Hill. A room is shown in which King Charles slepton the night preceding the fateful battle. Troops were alsogarrisoned in a portion of the building; and these facts in itshistory give it a martial air. There is no more curious mansion in ** Leafy Warwick-shire than Compton Wynniates. It is more than a link with. Ill I-< zoI-a oo Compton-in-the-Hole 157 the past; it is almost a chain. It speaks of revelry, romance,priestcraft, and bloodshed ; and its out-of-the-world situation isnot its least charm. No rambler in this classic land with aneye for the quaint, the ancient, and historic, should omit tobend his steps towards Compton-in-the-Hole—a veritable War-wickshire Sleepy Hollow.
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