Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . executed. These gifts,to various churches Duchess Dudley left on condition that hername should be mentioned in the sermon preached on WhitSunday, a custom which to this day is faithfully observed by thevicar of Stoneleigh. This good old ladys funeral must havegiven universal satisfaction, for she directed that her body shouldbe taken from London to Stoneleigh for burial, and bequeathedto fourscore and ten Widows (according to the Number of theYears she lived) to each one a Gown and fair white Kerchiefto attend the Hearse wherein her Body
Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . executed. These gifts,to various churches Duchess Dudley left on condition that hername should be mentioned in the sermon preached on WhitSunday, a custom which to this day is faithfully observed by thevicar of Stoneleigh. This good old ladys funeral must havegiven universal satisfaction, for she directed that her body shouldbe taken from London to Stoneleigh for burial, and bequeathedto fourscore and ten Widows (according to the Number of theYears she lived) to each one a Gown and fair white Kerchiefto attend the Hearse wherein her Body was carried, and oneshilling a piece for their Dinner after that Solemnity was per-formed, which was on the sixteenth day of March, i668. She ap-pointed five pounds to be given to every Place or Town where herCorps should rest.— She ordered that sixpence should be givento every poor body that should meet her Corps on the road. Dr. Boreham, the Rector of St. Giless, published a list ofher charities in a little panegyric entitled, A Mirrour of Christ-. I^M STARE BRIDGE, STONELEIQH DEER PARK 263 264 StonclciGb ant) its flDcmories ianity and a Miracle of Charity, or a true and exact Narrativeof the Life and Death of the most virtuous Lady Alice DutchessDuddeley. A marble monument in Stoneleigh Church to DuchessDudley and her unmarried daughter Alice was the work ofNicholas Stone, master-mason to Charles 1., who engaged him —^—...,^^-. ^Q^ ^|-,g building and reparation of t Windsor Castle, at the fee of twelve pence a day. A few of the largest rooms inthe old Abbey have little innerchambers, supposed to have beenused as powdering closets,when the monks of Stoneleighgave place to fair women andbrave men. The visitors inter-est is also aroused by a curiousfigure painted on a wooden is known as the pretty house-maid. The legend tells how abeautiful housemaid of long agohad clad herself in fair array, in apale plum-coloured laced bodice,blue skirt, lace cap and ruffl
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