. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . r ranged at its base, stood four great beasts, cognisances of DeVaux, Greystock, and Dacre, that still carry their pennons as ofyore. The large, light-coloured hangings, a wedding presentfrom Henry IV. to Marie de Medicis, are some of the earliest ex-amples of the kind done in France. Among the pictures is a Van Dyck of Charles L, and severalfamily portraits, including full-lengths of Lord William and hiswife (copies from the originals, by Janssen, at Castle Howard) ;also one that looks like a Queen Elizabeth, but from the crucifixand ta
. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . r ranged at its base, stood four great beasts, cognisances of DeVaux, Greystock, and Dacre, that still carry their pennons as ofyore. The large, light-coloured hangings, a wedding presentfrom Henry IV. to Marie de Medicis, are some of the earliest ex-amples of the kind done in France. Among the pictures is a Van Dyck of Charles L, and severalfamily portraits, including full-lengths of Lord William and hiswife (copies from the originals, by Janssen, at Castle Howard) ;also one that looks like a Queen Elizabeth, but from the crucifixand taper in the hands has been thought to be that grave andvirtuous matron, Lady Elizabeth Howard, daughter and co-heiress of William Lord Dacre, from whom the Carlisle branch ofthe Howard family is descended. Beneath the picture in question,but with a full-length of Queen Henrietta Maria intervening, thearmour worn by Lord William proves the knight to have been sixfeet high, and withal sufficiently stalwart to bear the onerousduties that fate assigned INTERIOR OF COURT, NAWORTH CASTLE 28q 2qo IRawcutfo Castle Westward from the Hall are some rooms, with lots of thingsto look at, and lovely peeps down the glen from their latticedwindows ; but our way must be in the usual track of the commonexcursionist, northward into the Drawing-room, a room morethan usually blest with sunshine ; a deep bay looking east, anda large mullioned window looking west, through which may beobserved that wild and winsome jessamine tree, which sostirred the poetic fancy of the seventh Earl. At the fireplace endare portraits of Colonel Philip Howard (slain at Rowton Heath),Thomas, Duke of Norfolk (after Holbein), Viscount Falkland, SirGeorge Lisle, and some early Howard miniatures : at the oppositeend is an oval of Sir George Charles Howard (great-grandson ofLord William), Colonel of Cromwells Lifeguard, one of hisCommissioners for the North, and created, after the Restoration,Earl of Carlisle. But the p
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